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41 " When a civil servant or politician acts out of self-interest, it's called corruption, but when a citizen does it, it's called public interest. "
― Abhijit Naskar , Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
42 " A leader must, not should, but must, act as a liberated human being, a being beyond labels in order to bring real harmonious progress in a nation. "
43 " It doesn't matter how many scriptures you have memorized - it doesn't matter how many academic publications you have studied - it doesn't matter how many pilgrimages you have visited - what matters is are you wise and conscientious enough to bring your understanding in the service of the people around you. "
44 " The best path is to have no path. "
45 " Dependency on drugs is quite easily proclaimed by the so-called intellectual society as lethal, while that very society has been ever-lastingly dependent upon varied forms of ideologies, be it religious, atheistic, political or any other. They say, “don’t do drugs for it’s dangerous for you”, but they never say, “don’t do ideology for it’s dangerous for your society”. "
46 " See past all arguments - all thesis and anti-thesis - all opposites, and only then true productive insight of a phenomenon or a situation would manifest in your mind. "
47 " We'd still be living in caves if a few crazy individuals didn't push things forward - change is scary but it's necessary for the progress of a species. "
48 " Världen är vår familj och vår familj är vårt ansvar. "
49 " Be like the elephant my friend - with a strong character and a gentle soul. "
50 " A thinking human must practice thinking. "
51 " Taking care of your own family is good, taking care of your neighbor's family is better and taking care of all the families in your neighborhood is the best. "
52 " Humanity begins with the individual human. "
53 " Most humans think - "we are living our life, the world is not our business." And that's precisely where not only everything gets messed up, but more importantly, that's where humanity loses the right to be called human, for being human requires possessing a sense of responsibility towards the society we live in, without which we might as well be living in the jungle with our fellow animals. "
54 " Individual progress must contribute to the collective progress of a people, otherwise, it's of no consequence in the vast ocean of space and motion. "
55 " The masses are existentially entitled to talk nonsense and advocate for prejudices, but when an authority of the masses begins to talk nonsense and advocate for prejudice and bigotry, it is an existential crisis for not just those masses but all humans around the world, with implications of catastrophic proportions. "
56 " I give you today this simple principle of social progress - adopt a neighborhood, make the problems of that neighborhood your own problems and work to solve them in any manner possible. See your neighborhood as your very own family and act upon that sense of responsibility and eventually the whole world will have enough individuals to take care of all the problems of all the neighborhoods in the world. "
57 " Delusions must be treated with wisdom, prejudices must be treated with acceptance, bigotry must be treated with responsibility. "
58 " The sign of wisdom is to have more questions than answers. "
59 " More than money, fame and even truth, give me people. "
60 " My religion is the best - my nation is the best - my language is the best - my skin color is the best - and so on. One may feel proud saying all these things, but that very pride ends up becoming the cause of all interhuman conflicts in the human society. "