Quotes About Lal Bahadur Shastri

#1. The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#2. India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#3. We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#4. Why is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back? Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?

Neal Boortz

#5. A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

James Stockdale

#6. Success in science and scientific work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful selection of problems and objectives. Above all, what is required is hard sustained work and dedication.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#7. A drow and a dwarf, a dwarf and a drow, a hunnerd times better'n a fox and a cow! Bwahaha! Athrogate added with unbridled enthusiasm.

R.A. Salvatore

#8. The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#9. Those who govern must see how the people react to administration. Ultimately, the people are the final arbiters.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#10. My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

Jonathan Winters

#11. The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies - Poverty, unemployment.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#12. I am not as simple as I look.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#13. The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#14. The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.

Freeman Dyson

#15. Among the major tasks before us none is of greater importance for our strength and stability than the task of building up the unity and solidarity of our people.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#16. A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Mark Twain

#17. If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#18. I've always had a terrible weakness for beautiful but sad things.

Sylvain Reynard

#19. Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

Brene Brown

#20. We all have to work in our respective spheres with the same dedication, the same zeal and the same determination which inspired and motivated the warrior on the battle front. And this has to be shown not by mere words, but by actual deeds.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#21. We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#22. Fate refuses to stop at the pretty part of the tale; Fate insists on more tests of courage and wit, a terrible end, even if the heroine's heart be pure and her crime accidental.

Susann Cokal

#23. The most amazing mechanism in the known universe is the human brain; it takes in information all the time then uses it, all of which is happening, of course, without human knowledge. Typical ...

Amanda Dubin

#24. We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries ... I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#25. That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it in terms of what one receives.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#26. I have a little mantra: 'My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.'

Scilla Elworthy

#27. True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#28. I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

Elvis Presley

#29. Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.

Lal Bahadur Shastri