People Quotes
Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Establish the law for educating the common people. This it is the business of the state to effect and on a general plan.
Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.
If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.
Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.
Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.
Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.
The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.
When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.
Once you clear the minds of the people of this misconception and enable them to realise that what they are told is religion is not religion, but that it is really law, you will be in a position to urge its amendment or abolition.
Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.
These will suffice to show that the emancipation of the mind and the soul is a necessary preliminary for the political expansion of the people.
Any Government which denied this elementary right of freedom of speech and freedom of action did not deserve allegiance from the people.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must live, to get them accepted by the people.
I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.
Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.
Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the people.
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