I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. |
Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain. |
No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger |
Aadhaar is critical plumbing for the Indian state to leapfrog developed countries in creating a modern welfare state... and meet our tryst with destiny. |
Rather than the manufactured clash of civilisations, we need to concentrate on the slow working together of cultures that overlap, borrow from each other. |
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. |
We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy. |
In a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. |
Italians come to ruin mostly in three ways, women, gambling, farming. My family chose the slowest one. |
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow. |