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This document provides a collection of quotes on various topics for use in UPSC essays, including education, science and religion, democracy, materialism/consumerism, peace/justice, Mahatma Gandhi, women empowerment, and freedom of speech/liberty. It notes that three quotes from this list could be used in the first essay, but that no quotes were used for the second essay. It also provides links to additional resources on UPSC preparation.

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How To Begin UPSC Preparation How To Choose Optional Subject Download UPSC Syllabus PDF How To Improve Accuracy in UPSC Prelim Is Using Quotes in UPSC Essay Compulsory?

This document provides a collection of quotes on various topics for use in UPSC essays, including education, science and religion, democracy, materialism/consumerism, peace/justice, Mahatma Gandhi, women empowerment, and freedom of speech/liberty. It notes that three quotes from this list could be used in the first essay, but that no quotes were used for the second essay. It also provides links to additional resources on UPSC preparation.

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Topicwise Quotes for UPSC Essay Paper by IAS34.com


Important Links:

• How to Begin UPSC Preparation


• How to Choose Optional Subject
• Download UPSC Syllabus PDF
• How to Improve Accuracy in UPSC Prelim
• Is using Quotes in UPSC Essay Compulsory?

Quotations on Education

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

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• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live
forever.” Mahatma Gandhi

• “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Margaret


Mead

• “I have never let my schooling interfere with my Education.” Mark


Twain

• “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learnt
in school.” Einstein

• “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought


without accepting it.” Aristotle

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


Vivekananda

Quotations on Science and Religion

• “All thinking men are atheists.” Ernst Hemingway 

• “Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind…” Issac Newton

• “The notion that Science and Spirituality are somehow mutually


exclusive does a disservice to both.” Carl Sagan

• “Science without Religion is lame and Religion without Science is


blind” Einstein

• “What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without


evidence.” Christopher Hitchens

Quotes on Democracy

• “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation


with the average voter.” Churchill

• “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

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• “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” Abraham Lincoln

• “There cannot be daily democracy without daily citizenship.” Ralph


Nader

• ” I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same


chance as the strong.” Mahatma Gandhi

• “Democracy is not law of the majority but protection of the


minority.” Albert Camus

• “In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power, but
carries the ultimate responsibility.” Norman Cousins

Quotes on Materialism/Consumerism

• “A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is


not even worth conversing with.” Confucius

• “To live fully, we must use things and love people, not love things and
use people.” Powell John

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• “The world has enough for everyone’s need but not enough for
everyone’s greed.” Mahatma Gandhi

• “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then


there would be peace.” John Lennon

Quotations on Peace/Justice

• “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will
know peace.” William Gladstone

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

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

Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

• “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of


others.”

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

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

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

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

• “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from


indomitable will.”

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

• “Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of


a true democratic spirit.”

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

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• “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means


getting along with people.”

• “There are people in the world, so hungry, that God cannot appear to
them except in the form of bread.”

• “Violent means will give violent freedom.”

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

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

• “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he


becomes.”

Quotes on Women Empowerment

• “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done,
ask a woman” Margaret Thatcher

• “There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment


of women.” Kofi Annan

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• “Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and
you educate a family.” A. Cripps

• “I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far
superior and always have been.” William Golding

• “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach
them the same things.” Plato

• “Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the


world.” Hillary Clinton

• “There is no hope for that family or country where there is no estimation


of women, where they live in sadness. For this reason, they have to be
raised first.” Swami Vivekananda

Quotes on Freedom of Speech, Liberty

• “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom


of thought which they seldom use.” Soren Kierkegaard

• “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary


safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin

• “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what
they do not want to hear.” George Orwell

• “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” George


B. Shaw

• “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people
fear the government, there is tyranny.” Thomas Jefferson

By no means this is any exhaustive list. But I also need to tell you two things.
One is that I could use 3 quotations from this list in the first essay. Second, I
didn’t use any quote for the second essay.

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