Suresh Chandra > Suresh's Quotes

“War no longer exists.”
― Rupert Smith, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World

“Capability = Means × Way^2 × 3xWill”
― Rupert Smith, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World

“The ends for which we fight are changing from the hard objectives that decide a political outcome to those of establishing conditions in which the outcome may be decided.”
― Rupert Smith, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World

“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“What the hell makes you so smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you, " she answered. "Listen -- I wouldn't ask you." "That, "she replied "is what makes you stupid.”
― Erich Segal, Love Story

“I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.”
― Erich Segal, Love Story

“There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.”
― Erich Segal, Love Story

“The act of speaking out makes you alone.”
― Ravish Kumar, The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation

“To have faith is a good thing, no doubt. But that faith should rest on the foundation of facts, not emotions.”
― Ravish Kumar, The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation

“Honour killing is a cocktail made of prejudice, hate and misogyny to which the colour red is contributed by religion, caste, father or brother as the occasion may demand.”
― Ravish Kumar, The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation

“Religion and caste have always condemned us to a lifetime of fear. In a customary moment of love we may sing a note or two about taking wing like birds, but the truth is we continue to be trapped in the cage of religion and caste. The way things are in India, couples invariably find little love and far more hatred in the course of their love. That they still dare to love is worthy of our salutations.”
― Ravish Kumar, The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation

“Kobayashi Maru! Paul quipped delightedly. “If the test is rigged, change the conditions of the test!”
― J.M. Berger, Optimal

“Is that why zone six seems to be a police state?” Megumi asked. “Because it has terrorists?” “No,” Mira said. “You’ve got it backward. It has terrorists because it’s a police state.”
― J.M. Berger, Optimal

“In open organizations, a catalyst is the person who initiates a circle and then fades away into the background.”
― Ori Brafman, The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

“Ideology is the glue that holds decentralized organizations together.”
― Ori Brafman, The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

“Our system of education turns young people out of the schools able to read, but for the most part unable to weigh evidence or to form an independent opinion. They are then assailed, throughout the rest of their lives, by statements designed to make them believe all sorts of absurd propositions, such as that Blank’s pills cure all ills, that Spitzbergen is warm and fertile, and that Germans eat corpses.”
― Bertrand Russell, Free Thought and Official Propaganda

“It is clear that the most elementary condition, if thought is to be free, is the absence of legal penalties for the expression of opinions. No great country has yet reached to this level, although most of them think they have.”
― Bertrand Russell, Free Thought and Official Propaganda

“Education should have two objects: first, to give definite knowledge—reading and writing, languages and mathematics, and so on; secondly, to create those mental habits which will enable people to acquire knowledge and form sound judgments for themselves.”
― Bertrand Russell, Free Thought and Official Propaganda

“If there is to be toleration in the world, one of the things taught in schools must be the habit of weighing evidence, and the practice of not giving full assent to propositions which there is no reason to believe true. For example, the art of reading the newspapers should be taught. The schoolmaster should select some incident which happened a good many years ago, and roused political passions in its day. 41 He should then read to the school children what was said by the newspapers on one side, what was said by those on the other, and some impartial account of what really happened. He should show how, from the biased account of either side, a practised reader could infer what really happened, and he should make them understand that everything in newspapers is more or less untrue. The cynical scepticism which would result from this teaching would make the children in later life immune from those appeals to idealism by which decent people are induced to further the schemes of scoundrels”
― Bertrand Russell, Free Thought and Official Propaganda

“We may say that thought is free when it is exposed to free competition among beliefs—i.e., when all beliefs are able to state their case, and no legal or pecuniary advantages or disadvantages attach to beliefs. This is an ideal which, for various reasons, can never be fully attained. But it is possible to approach very much nearer to it than we do at present.”
― Bertrand Russell, Free Thought and Official Propaganda