Quotes for UPSC Essay and Answer writing

Corruption 

 

1. Gandhi - "As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in remaking the world but in

remaking ourselves"

2. Confucius - "Righteousness is the foundation stone of peace and good governance".

3. Buddha - "Dharma is the foundation stone of good governance". 

Caste 

 

1. "The caste system is opposed to the religion of the Vedanta. Caste is a social custom,

and all our great preachers have tried to break it down" - Swami Vivekananda

Democracy

1. "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the

average voter". Churchill

2. "The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so much dangerous to the public

welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy". Montesquieu

3. "The ballot is stronger than the bullet". Abraham Lincoln

4. "There cannot be daily democracy without daily citizenship". Ralph Nader

5. "I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the

strong". Mahatma Gandhi

6. "Democracy is not law of the majority but protection of the minority". Albert Camus

7. "In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power, but carries the

ultimate responsibility". Norman Cousins

Education

1. "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world". Nelson

Mandela

2. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever".  Mahatma

Gandhi

3. "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." Margaret Mead

4. "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learnt in school".

Einstein

5. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it". Aristotle

Environment

1. "The world has enough for everyone’s need but not enough for everyone’s greed". 

Mahatma Gandhi

Free Speech 

 

1. "Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear".

2. "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say

it". – Voltaire

3. "Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where knowledge is free".

Mahatma Gandhi

1. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

2. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.”

3. “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

4. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”

5. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”

6. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will.”

7. “The good man is the friend of all living things.”

8. “Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true

democratic spirit.”

9. “The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

10. “Violent means will give violent freedom.”

11. “There is higher courts than courts of justice and that is conscience.”

12. “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonesty.”

13. “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”

Hunger 

 

1. "Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of

victims each year."

2. "There are people in the world, so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in

the form of bread."

Judiciary 

 

1. "Yatho Dharma Thatho Jayaha: Where there is justice, there is victory."

Peace/Justice

1. “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

William Gladstone

2. “Peace and Justice are two sides of the same coin.” Eisenhower

3. “Poverty is the worst form of violence.” Mahatma Gandhi

Privacy 

 

1. “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve

neither liberty nor safety.”

Science and Religion

1. “All thinking men are atheists.” Ernest Hemingway

2. “The notion that Science and Spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a

disservice to both.” Carl Sagan

3. “Science without Religion is lame and Religion without Science is blind” Einstein

4. “What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”

Christopher Hitchens

5. “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and

misguided men.” - Martin Luther King

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