1 Role of and the home that all the greatest virtues … family are created, strengthened and maintained - Winston Churchill Education is the premise of progress in every family, in every society - Kofi Annan Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world - Nelson Mandela The highest education is that which does not merely give us information, but makes our life 2 Role of in harmony with all existence - Rabindranath education Tagore Learning gives creativity. Creativity leads to thinking. Thinking provides knowledge. Knowledge makes you great - APJ Abdul Kalam - LCTK Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil - CS Lewis What is honoured in a country, is cultivated there - Plato Role of The ethics of every profession will be found … society in to be not much higher and not much lower 3 inculcatin than the general decency of the nation as a g values whole - Finer Justice in the life and conduct of the state is possible only as it first resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens - Plato In just about every area of society, there’s nothing more important than ethics - Henry Paulson Ethics is about how we meet the challenge of 4 Ethics doing the right thing, when that will cost more than we want to pay - Josephson Institute of Ethics, USA When there is adherence to right action, there (alone) lies victory AKA Yato Dharmasthato Jaya - SC Motto
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed - Gandhi We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment - Wangari Maathai The choices that we make today will define our collective future - PM Modi 5 Environme We are the first generation to feel the sting of nt climate change, and we are the last generation that can do something about it - Jay Inslee The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved - Richard Rogers The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it - Robert Swan 6 Values Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value - Einstein Ends justify the means - Machiavelli The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means - Georges Bernanos They say, “means are, after all, means”. I would Means - say, “means are, after all, everything”. As the 7 Ends means, so the end. There is no wall of separation between means and ends - Gandhi The means may be likened to a seed, the end to a tree; and there is just the same inviolable connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree - Gandhi SURBHI GOYAL AIR 78 Do whatever produces the greatest good for the greatest number - Utilitarianism Follow your highest sense of principles or follow only the principle that you want 8 Theories everyone else to follow - Kant Do unto others what you would like them to do to you - Golden rule On matters of style, swim with the current; on matters of principle, stand like a rock - Thomas Jefferson Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony - Gandhi Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no 9 Integrity one is watching - CS Lewis One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised - Chinua Achebe (Nigerian novelist) Efficient civil service is “sine qua non of sound administration under a democratic 10 Civil service regime” - Sardar Vallabhai Patel ICS was considered the most efficient civil services in the world in 20th century 11 Impartialit y Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice. - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (Polish poet)
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others - Gandhi Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile - Einstein There is no higher religion than Dedication human service. To work for the common 12 to public good is the greatest creed - Woodrow Wilson service (former US President) Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has - Margaret Mead Seva Parmo Dharma - Service is the ultimate duty Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and 13 Empathy connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives - Oprah Winfrey
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There is nothing greater than tolerance in this world - Thiruvalluvar Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather, it condemns the oppression and persecution of others - John F Kennedy We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools - Martin Luther King Jr An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity - Martin Luther King Tolerance/ Jr 14 Diversity/ It's coexistence or no existence - Bertrand Inclusion Russell (can be used in context of vaccine nationalism) Diversity is a strength, not a weakness - Antonio Guterres Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without - WS Coffin Jr We may have different religions, different languages, different coloured skin, but we all belong to one human race - Kofi Annan Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the perfect present for the test of our civilisation - Gandhi
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One of the secrets of inner peace is the practise of compassion - Dalai Lama No matter who we are, no matter how successful, no matter what our situation 15 Compassi on compassion is something we all need to receive and give - Catherine Pulsifer True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it - Daniel Goleman The greatest leader is not necessarily the one 16 Leadershi p who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. - Ronald Reagan No responsibility of government is Ethics in more fundamental than the responsibility of 17 public maintaining the highest standard of ethical admn behaviour for those who conduct the public business - John F Kennedy In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place - Gandhi There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience - Mahatma Gandhi 18 Conscienc e The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure - BC Forbes There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right - Martin Luther King Jr SURBHI GOYAL AIR 78 Ordinance of reason for the common good - Thomas Aquinas Never forget that everything Hitler did 19 Law in Germany was legal - Martin Luther King The law exists to serve the needs of the society which is governed by it - Justice DP Madon As the society changes, the law cannot remain immutable. In a civilised life, law floats in a sea of ethics - Earl Warren Ethics is doing more than the law requires and 20 Law and ethics less than the law allows - Michael Josephson Law only decides the direction which a society should take, the actual direction of the society is decided by its culture - Andre Beteille 21 Accounta bility It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts - Gandhi
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Government shall govern “so long as they can protect the interest of the people or the trust the people have placed in them” - John Locke Administration is a moral act and administrator is a moral agent - Ordway Tead Every duty is holy and devotion to duty is highest form of worship - Vivekananda In the happiness of the subjects lies the Good happiness of the king; in their welfare, his 22 governanc welfare - Kautilya e "Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as by people" - Narendra Modi "Government is the most potent and omnipresent teacher that teaches the whole people by its example" - Justice Brande, US SC Righteousness is the foundation stone of peace and good governance - Confucius Dharma is the foundation stone of good governance - Buddha
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Justice delayed is justice denied Not only must justice be done; it must also be seen to be done - Justice RV Sussex He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it - Plato True measure of society's commitment to 23 Justice justice cannot be measured by how it treats its powerful, but by how it treats its poor and disfavoured - Bryan Stevenson {w/o quotes} Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all - DeRay McKesson (American Civil rights activist) When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative - Harold Kushner Live your life as though your every act were 24 Ethical dilemma to become a universal law - Kant Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him - Gandhi Talisman 25 Intelligenc e I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing - Socrates As much as 80% of adult success comes Emotional from emotional quotient - Daniel Goleman 26 intelligenc Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into e your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind - Bruce Lee SURBHI GOYAL AIR 78 Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned - 27 Anger Buddha Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding - Gandhi All my best ideas were born of anger - Kailash Satyarthi 28 Understan ding “To understand all is to forgive all” - Voltaire 29 Attitude Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference - Winston Churchill The unexamined life is not worth living - Socrates 30 Life related Worthless people live only to eat and drink, people of worth eat and drink only to live - Socrates A system of morality which is based on 31 Morality relative emotional values is a mere illusion - Socrates The greatest wealth is to live content with little Wealth/ - Plato 32 Contentm He is a happy man who doesn't grieve for the ent things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has - Epictetus
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For we choose happiness for itself; and never with a view to anything further - Aristotle Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look 34 Happiness back and realise they were the big things All unhappy families are unhappy in their own ways - Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) Innovative: Shows importance of community led local solutions for SDG17 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, 35 Hard work then, is not an act, but a habit - Aristotle Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached - Vivekananda Always recognise that human individuals are 36 Human rights ends, and do not use them as means to your end - Kant 37 Wrong and right A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation - Seneca In India, caste is the greatest obstruction in the 38 Caste system pathway of reform - Rabindranath Tagore Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers - BR Ambedkar Cleanliness is next to godliness - Gandhi 39 Cleanlines s Sanitation is more important than independence - Gandhi
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind - Gandhi Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light 40 Non violence can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - MLK Jr Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding - R.W Emerson Truth should be the very breath of our life - Gandhi If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything - Mark Twain 41 Honesty The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is - Winston Churchill Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving - James E. Faust If corruption is a disease, transparency is essential part of its treatment - Kofi Annan Where a society has chosen to accept democracy as its credal faith, it is elementary that citizens ought to know what 42 Transpare ncy their government is doing - Justice PN Bhagwati A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity - Dalai Lama Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else - Glenn Greenwald SURBHI GOYAL AIR 78 When there is corruption, human rights disappear - Olajobi Makinwa Corruption is paid by the poor - Pope Francis Corruption is a cancer: A cancer that eats 43 Corruption away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity - Joe Biden People’s indifference is the best breeding ground for corruption to grow - Delia Rubio 44 Technolog y/ internet
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Technology is neutral; it depends on how it’s used - Rick Smolan Cyber security will be "the pressing issue of this decade" - IBM Chairman Arvind Krishna I dream of a Digital India where knowledge is strength - and empowers the People - Narendra Modi Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master - Christian Lous Lange Internet "is a source for tremendous good and potentially dreadful evil, and we are only just beginning to witness its impact on world stage" - Eric Schmidt (Google executive chairman) The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow - Bill Gates Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world - Louis Pasteur Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men - Martin Luther King Jr Technology and social media have brought power back to the people - Mark McKinnon The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people - Jon Ronson Connectivity is a human right - Mark Zuckerberg Whoever controls the media, controls the mind - Jim Morrison The more social media we have, the more we think we’re connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other - JK Rowling Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities - Narendra Modi
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1. A Constitution to be living must be growing (42nd amendment) 2. Constituent Assembly of India was a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India - JLN 3. Parliament is temple of democracy - JLN 4. Purpose of democracy, not just to guarantee one person one vote, but one vote one value - Ambedkar 5. "The voice of people is the voice of God; the voice of the panchayat is the voice of the people" - Gandhi Polity / 6. I understand democracy as something that 45 Democrac gives the weak the same chance as the strong y - Gandhi 7. Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy - BR Ambedkar 8. Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority - Albert Camus 9. In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power, but carries the ultimate responsibility - Norman Cousins 10. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors - Thomas Jefferson 11. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men - Plato We... do not have government by the majority. 46 Elections We have government by the majority who participate - Thomas Jefferson (3rd US President) {increasing electoral participation} SURBHI GOYAL AIR 78 47 Nuclear war A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought - Ronald Reagan India today follows 'strategic autonomy' instead of NAM Meaning "alignment is issue based, and not ideological" The world must learn to work together, or 48 IR finally it will not work at all - Dwight Eisenhower If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it - Norman Cousins, American journalist Citizen No matter how good any idea is, it has no value 49 participati unless other people understand it, embrace it on as their own and help you implement it - NR Narayan Murthy in The Writing on the Wall 50 Women
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1. I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved - BR Ambedkar 2. To awaken the people, it is the woman who must be awakened. Once she is on the move, the family moves, the village moves, the nation moves. - JLN 3. You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. - Brigham Young 4. A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform. - Diane Marie Child (female author) 5. There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women - Kofi Annan 6. Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. - Kofi Annan 7. As women must be more empowered at work, men must be more empowered at home. - Sheryl Sandberg 8. The difference between a broken community and a thriving one is the presence of women who are valued - Michelle Obama 9. There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is not possible for the bird to fly on one wing - Vivekananda 10. Feminism isn't about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it's about changing the way the world perceives the strength - GD Anderson 11. Women's freedom is the sign of social freedom - Rosa Luxemburg 12. The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence - Gandhi 13. Justice will be served if gender diversity is found on the bench - Justice Indu Malhotra
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If a society cannot help the many that are 51 Social Welfare poor, it cannot save the few that are rich - John F Kennedy Means "advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live" - Amartya sen "Purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy and creative lives" - Mahbub al Haq Human "The test of progress is not whether we add 52 developm more to the abundance of those who have ent much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little" - Franklin D Roosevelt GDP Measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile - Robert F. Kennedy Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable and Unethical - Amartya Sen "Science and religion need not have a conflicting relationship. Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense" - Carl Sagan 53 Religion and Faith "Science and religion, with their distinctive approaches to understanding reality and their distinct domains of application can coexist, which will be fruitful for both" - Pope Francis Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind - Albert Einstein SURBHI GOYAL AIR 78 We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made - India's Albert Einstein 54 contributio If I were asked under what sky the human ns mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions ... I should point to India - Max Mueller History/ To know your future you must know your past 55 Indian - George Santayana culture You must not leave faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean, if few drops of the oceanare dirty, the ocean does not become 56 Society dirty - Mahatma Gandhi A society should never become a pond with stagnant water, without movement (Removal of social ills)
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Healthcare is a human right. No one should face bankruptcy or death because of lack of healthcare - Deb Haaland Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah, Sarve Santu Niramayah” - “May All become Happy, May All be Healthy” Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any 57 Healthcar e country can have - Winston Churchill When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied - Herophilus WASWI Health is a social good. A person should be termed healthy, if he is able to actively participate in a society - Amartya Sen There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children - Nelson Mandela 58 Children If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children - Mahatma Gandhi
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Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also byunfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities - Pope Francis Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities - APJ Abdul Kalam Poverty is the worst form of violence - 59 Inequality/ Poverty Mahatma Gandhi As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality exist in our world, none of us can truly rest - Nelson Mandela Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity, it is an act of justice - Nelson Mandela Poverty is not just lack of money; it is not having the capability to realise one's full potential as a human being - Amartya Sen Urbanisation is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernisation - Manmohan Singh Urbanisati The negative side to globalisation is that it 60 on/ Globalisati wipes out entire economic systems, and in doing so wipes outs the accompanying culture on - Peter L Berger One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation - Janez Drnovsek What the world needs is not mass production, 61 Cooperativ es but production by the masses - Mahatma Gandhi
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Be the change that you wish to see in the Self world - Mahatma Gandhi 62 improvem Each individual is capable of transforming his ent immediate environment by attempting a radical transformation inside him - J Krishnamurti All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary - Andrew Jackson 63 Judiciary The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment - Rose Bird (California CJI) At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst - Aristotle The accumulation of all powers, legislative, 64 Separation of powers executive, and judiciary, in the same hands ... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny - James Madison Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life - Bob Marley For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and 65 Freedom enhances the freedom of others - Nelson Mandela I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it – Voltaire SURBHI GOYAL AIR 78 If agriculture fails, everything else will fail - MS Swaminathan, Father of Green Revolution in India 66 Agriculture Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy – Gandhi What we need is an “Evergreen revolution” in Agriculture – APJ Abdul Kalam To live fully, we must use things and love 67 Consumeri sm people, not love things and use people - Powell John Neither the colourless vagueness of 68 Nationalis m cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history - Rabindranath Tagore Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind - John F. Kennedy When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace – William Gladstone Every gun that is made, every warship 69 Intnl Peace launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed – Eisenhower War is never a lasting solution to any problem - APJ Abdul Kalam Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu- Let the whole world be prosperous and peaceful 70 DM An ounce of preparation is worth a pound of cure - Benjamin Franklin SURBHI GOYAL AIR 78 Dreams/ The future belongs to those who believe in the 71 Hard work/ beauty of their dreams - E Roosevelt Success doesn't come from physical capacity, Success it comes from an indomitable will - Gandhi As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in remaking the world but in remaking Inspiring/ ourselves - Gandhi 72 Bringing Setting an example is not the main means of change influencing others; it is the only means - Einstein Arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice - Martin Luther King Jr As we express our gratitude, we must never 73 Gratitude forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them - JFK
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rights movement -> Montgomery bus boycott HELEN KELLER - American deaf, blind woman Inspiring political activist females MARIE CURIE - 1st woman to win Nobel prize for science of radioactivity TESSY THOMAS - Indian scientist and project director of Agni IV missile SURBHI GOYAL AIR 78 Railways is the lifeline of India. With its vast n/w across the length and breadth of India, it is not just a mere transporter of passengers and goods, but also a social welfare org. Opening Investments/ lines growth -> PM: India offers "returns with reliability, demand with democracy, stability with sustainability and growth with a green approach" From darkness to light = Tamaso ma jyotirgamaya 1. Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; 2. Where knowledge is free; 3. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls, 4. Where words come out from the depth of truth; Rabindran 5. Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards ath Tagore perfection; 6. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit, 7. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever- widening thought and action 8. Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake A Tale of Itit was was the best of times, it was the worst of times, Two Cities it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, (Charles it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, Dickens) it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, WBLH we had everything before us, we had nothing before us SURBHI GOYAL AIR78