"Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the people. The human factor is of supreme value in development."

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Source : Rajiv Gandhi (1987). “Selected speeches and writings”

Rajiv Gandhi

#Spiritual Quotes #Goal Quotes #People Quotes

“To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.”

Source : "Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images". Book by Michael Collopy, 2000.
“If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.”

Source : David J. Lieberman (2007). “You Can Read Anyone: Never be Fooled, Lied To, Or Taken Advantage of Again”, p.109, David Lieberman
“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.”
“The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.”
“If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?”
“The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.”

Source : "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall". Book by Ian Bremmer, 2006.
“The main thing is to make history, not to write it.”
“I can't wait to have more kids. I love being pregnant. I have such an incredible connection with myself and with my body that I've never had before.”

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