Ashoka famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.
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It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
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Social entrepreneurs don’t want to help. They want to change the world
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When an unconquered country is conquered, people are killed... . That the beloved of the Gods finds very pitiful and grievous. ... If anyone does him wrong, it will be forgiven as far as it can be forgiven... . The beloved of the Gods considers that the greatest of all victories is the victory of righteousness.
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Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others.
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May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.
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He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his own sect, by such conduct inflicts the severest injury on his own sect.
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
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Fear is stronger than arms.
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When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.
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