Words worth keeping
67 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
War is what happens when language fails.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not.
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.