If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira GandhiRead
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
Interpretation
Mankind can thrive when diversity is recognized and valued.
Indira Gandhi's quote emphasizes the importance of understanding and appreciating diversity as a key to human endurance and societal progress. By embracing different perspectives, cultures, and ideas, humanity can foster resilience and harmony, leading to a better world for all.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about cultural inclusivity and acceptance.
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself.
I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.
If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.
The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.
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