"I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils"

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Source : "Kailash Satyarthi's crusade to save childhood continues; 60 mn still need him" by Kumkum Das Gupta, www.hindustantimes.com. October 10, 2014.

Kailash Satyarthi

#Thinking Quotes #Evil Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“Mary, I give you my heart. Always keep it yours. Jesus, Mary, always be my friends. I beg you, let me die rather than be so unfortunate as to commit a single sin.”
“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”
“Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.”
“Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.”
“My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.”
“I have never been much of a painter.”
“Many people who talk about the discovery method of teaching are really talking about arranging a lesson or an experiment so that students discover what they are supposed to discover. That is not an exploration. The whole tradition of exploration is being lost for entire generations.”
“My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.”

Source : George Sarton (1952). “A History of Science: Ancient science through the Golden Age of Greece”

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