I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in the slightest way affected by any competitive loyalty whether that loyalty arises out of our religion, out of our culture or out of our language. I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one’s fatherland is to wish evil to one’s neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

Voltaire

Why must I cling to the customs and practices of a particular country forever, just because I happened to be born there? What does it matter if its distinctiveness is lost? Need we be so attached to it? What’s the harm if everyone on earth shares the same thoughts and feelings, if they stand under a single banner of laws and regulations? What if we can’t be recognized as Indians any more? Where’s the harm in that? No one can object if we declare ourselves to be citizens of the world. Is that any less glorious?

Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

Carl Sagan

I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.

Albert Einstein

Our true nationality is mankind

H.G. Wells

Sometimes stepping back is important to save others

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”

Alexander the Great

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Sydney J. Harris

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.-

Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Aristotle

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

Mark Twain

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

Virtue is the only true nobility

A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson