Quotes About Ashoka

#1. Ashoka's dilemma is the dilemma of civilization itself. As society developed and weaponry became more deadly, the empire, founded on and maintained by violence, would paradoxically become the most effective means of keeping the peace.

Karen Armstrong

#2. It's a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy PM. - Shruti Ranjan

Tuhin A. Sinha

#3. To become truly human,one has to try an release oneself from the shackles of race,religion and nationality.The quantum of humanism one acquires is inevitably filtered when one limits oneself.-Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad(Kant Lecture,20090)

Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

#4. Ash. It's short for Ashoka."
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"A hero's name."
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"I'm not a hero."
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"Then we will make you one, Ashoka.

Sarwat Chadda

#5. Heaven is no permanent abode of morons even though they may gain entry by sheer virtuosity of their deeds.Ashoka Prasad(Hegelian Lecture)

Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

#6. I firmly believed that with the breadth of knowledge now makes it impossible for someone to be a polymath in the 20th century-until I met Dr.Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad.

Abdus Salam

#7. She leaned forward and put her warm, smooth lips against his. They lingered there and Ash felt a shiver run right through his body. In a good way. A very good way. He could get used to this.
"May the gods protect you, Ashoka Mistry," she whispered.

Sarwat Chadda

#8. We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.

Bill Drayton

#9. Society shall never make progress unless it changes its basic objective of making things easier;instead our main objective should be to make men stronger!I say "men" as women have always had and shall continue to have all the strength needed!!-Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad(Woods oration-2008)

Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

#10. Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others.

Ashoka

#11. Happiness is right in front of you.

Hafez

#12. It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

Ashoka

#13. The right to life of a woman should not be contingent on her obedience of social norms and traditions.A.Prasad(Venkat Seminar )

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#14. Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

Samuel Smiles

#15. Bitch: In praise of difficult women.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#16. It saddens me that she has to grow up and make friends with humans. I hear the future coming for her. Stomp, stomp, stomp.

Catherine Austen

#17. Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

Vanessa Carlton

#18. A lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

Damon Albarn

#20. The losing side is full of suspicion.

Publilius Syrus

#21. While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.

Nicholson Baker

#22. May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.

Ashoka

#23. O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient.

Umar

#24. He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his own sect, by such conduct inflicts the severest injury on his own sect.

Ashoka

#25. No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger!!

Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad