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"Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live....!"

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

A country which gets monetary alms from the US and China to sustain its army, a country which lives only to avenge the humiliation by Indian officers in Kashmir, a country which basically has nothing to do, other than religious fanaticism - is believed to be "discovering" facts and contradicting international media? This country should be "trusted"?-- I don't know!

"If you like me, raise your hands; if you don't like me, raise your standards."

"It is not special to be special; it is special to be ordinary."

Time to recognize within us what the world recognizes from without. Time to look up to the sky and our ultimate destination.

Time to present outside the image of a rapidly developing nation.

Time to cherish the soon to be abolished label of a Third World Nation.

Time to get our own house in order. Time to value our countrymen and their contributions, from North and South and East and West.

Time to demonstrate to the rest of the World that when 1.2 billion will hold hands and simply breathe out in unison, they could blow away any assault on our integrity and standing.

There is no time for hatred and violence and parochialism. It is time to widen our eyes, stretch out our chests, open out our arms as wide as we can and envelpoe all the goodness within us.

Time to stop the idiotic practice of self destruction. Time to hold hands within to fight the enemy without. Time to shut out internal petty prejudices.

Time to look up to the sky and our ultimate destination.

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."- Martin Luther King, Junior.

"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

"He who angers you conquers you."- Elizabeth Kenny.

"Whoever kills another one without justifiable cause, surely he is killing all of humanity. And whoever saves the life of another one, surely he saves the lives of all of humanity." - The Holy Koran

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."- Blaise Pascal.

"The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles."- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

"The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes."- Salman Rushdie

"A characteristic of religious fundamentalism is to perceive the world as an arena of continuous battle and to nourish it with anger and the desire for revenge."- Ilter Turkeman

"It [The Islamist political movement, Islamic fundamentalism, or Islamism] is partly a reaction to the severe crises of modernity converging with the rise of charismatic prophetic leaders. It is both a religious reform movement and a political ideology that includes a social element of protest by have-nots against an oppressive order, as well as a counter-attack on secularism, which has reduced the power of religion in recent decades."- David Zeidan.

"If you like me, raise your hands; if you don't like me, raise your standards."