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Important Quotes for APSC Mains GS-IV Paper 

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Area: Gender Equality 

“A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves” — GLORIA STEINEM

“Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance” — KOFI ANNAN

“Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone’s responsibility” — BAN KI-MOON

“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved” — B. R. AMBEDKAR

 Area: Women 

“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world” — HILLARY CLINTON

“You educate a man, you educate a man. You educate a woman, you educate a generation” — BRIGHAM YOUNG

“To educate girls is to reduce poverty” — KOFI ANNAN

“Empower a woman – Empower a community” — KOFI ANNAN

“When women do better economies do better” — CHRISTINA LAGARDE

“There is no chance of the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is not possible for a bird to fly on one wing” — SWAMI VIVEKANAND

 Area: Poverty

“Poverty is like a punishment for a crime you didn’t commit.” — ELI KHAMAROV

Area: Health

“It is the health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver”— MAHATMA GANDHI

Area: Environment and Climate Change

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another” — MAHATMA GANDHI

“Climate change is simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family” — BAN KI MOON

Area: Sustainable Development

“There is no ‘Plan B’ because we do not have a ‘Planet B.’ We have to work and galvanize our action.”

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.” – Marshall McLuhan

“Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us.” – Henrik Tikkanen

“Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance”— BAN KI MOON

Area: Youth

“Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind” — KOFI ANNAN

Area: Education

“We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s own feet”— Swami Vivekananda

“Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.”– Swami Vivekananda

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” -Theodore Roosevelt

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”―Nelson Mandela

“By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in child and man-body, mind and spirit. Literacy is not the end of education or even the beginning.” – M. K. Gandhi

Area: Education

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” – Confucius

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of minds to think.”–Albert Einstein

“Education is the transmission of civilization.”  –Will Durant

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a cleverer devil.” ― C.S. Lewis

“What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.” – M. K. Gandhi

 “If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children.”– M. K. Gandhi

Area: Ethics

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in a harmony” — MAHATMA GANDHI

“We must become the change we want to see” — MAHATMA GANDHI

“To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest” — MAHATMA GANDHI

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean area dirty, the ocean does not become dirty” — MAHATMA GANDHI

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others” — MAHATMA GANDHI

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind”— MAHATMA GANDHI

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will”— MAHATMA GANDHI

“Peace is its own reward”— MAHATMA GANDHI

“The mind is everything. What you think, you become”— BUDDHA

“Be kind to all creatures; this is the true religion”— BUDDHA

“Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success, and, above all, love” — SWAMI VIVEKANAND

“Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls”— POPE FRANCIS

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power” — ABRAHAM LINCOLN

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” — MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

“Greed has poisoned man’s souls” — CHARLIE CHAPLIN

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all” — ARISTOTLE

“The best test of a man is authority.”— ANONYMOUS

“The test of progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; It is whether we provide enough for those who have little” — FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELTHEALTH

Area: Technology

“I fear the day when technology will suppress human interaction and the world will have a generation of idiots” — ALBERT EINSTEIN

“The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.” — JON RONSON

“The Internet is becoming the town square for the Global village of tomorrow” — BILL GATES

Area: Courage

“The best way out is always through.”―Robert Frost

Area: Character

 “Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain

“The great hope of society is individual character.”- William Ellery Channing

Area: Tolerance and Peace

 “The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”― MK Gandhi

“In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.”–Dalai Lama

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”–Helen Keller

“Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.”–Mahatma Gandhi

“Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.”–Emile Zola

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”–Martin Luther King, Jr.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.—  Franklin Roosevelt

Area: Change

 “Everything changes but change itself.”- John F. Kennedy

“Impermanence is the law of the universe.”- Carlene Hatcher Polite

“Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”- Rabindranath Tagore

“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.”- Benjamin Disraeli

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw

Area: Conscience

“Conscience is a man’s compass.”- Vincent van Gogh

“Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”- Albert Einstein

“There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.”- Sophocles

Area: Poverty

 “Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.”- Nelson Mandela

“Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.”— Kofi Annan

“Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn’t commit.”– Eli Khamarov

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”– Aristotle

 “As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality exist in the world, none of us can truly exist.”– Nelson Mandela

“A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“There’s enough on this planet for everyone’s needs but not for everyone’s greed.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“To a man with an empty stomach food is God”- Mahatma Gandhi

 “Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings..” – Nelson Mandela

“There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.” -Dalai Lama

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Area: Agriculture

 “Agriculture was the first occupation of man, and as it embraces the whole earth, it is the foundation of all other industries.” – E. W. Stewart

“No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”- Booker T. Washington

Area: Integrity

 “Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”- Samuel Johnson

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. – Oprah Winfrey

“Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.”- Brian Tracy