Important Quotes for Current Affairs
 

[B][I][CENTER][SIZE="5"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Important Quotes for Current Affairs[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/I][/B]


[B][SIZE="4"][CENTER]Arab Spring[/CENTER][/SIZE][/B]

[CENTER]*“We must educate our children to become like young Egyptian people.”
[B]Barak Obama, US President[/B]



*“We must consider teaching the Egyptian revolution in schools.”
[B]David Cameron, British Prime Minister[/B]



*“There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.”
[B] Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy[/B]



*“The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be Egyptian.”
[B] Heinz Fischer,*Austrian President[/B]



*“Today we are all Egyptians.” *
[B] Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway[/B][/CENTER]

[B][I][CENTER][SIZE="5"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Water Crisis[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/I][/B]


[CENTER]"Civilization has been a permanent dialogue between human beings and water."
[B]Paolo Lugari,[/B]


"Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel Prizes - one for Peace and one for Science". (the one that I quoted)
[B]John F. Kennedy[/B]

"The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics"
[B]Boutros Boutros[/B]

'Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.'
[B]Gil Scott-Heron[/B][/CENTER]


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[B]Corruption[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/FONT]

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"power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
[B]John Delberg Edward[/B]

“To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.”
[B]G. Edward Griffin[/B]

'I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.'
[B]Gandhi[/B]

'Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.'
[B]John Steinbeck[/B][/CENTER]



[B][CENTER][SIZE="5"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]China[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/B]


[CENTER]China - The leading Fragon of World's Economy
[B]Dawn Newspaper[/B]

"There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman."
[B]Andre Malraux[/B][/CENTER]


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Climate Change[/SIZE][/COLOR][/CENTER][/B]


[CENTER]"The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries."
[B]Nancy Pelosi[/B]

"I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.'
[B]Andrew Cuomo[/B]

“Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.”
[B]Bill Gates[/B][/CENTER]



[B][CENTER][COLOR="RoyalBlue"][SIZE="5"]Quotations on Democracy[/SIZE][/COLOR][/CENTER][/B]

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[B][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]1. Democracy by Ancient Philosophers (Aristotle/Plato)[/COLOR][/B]


In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
[B](Aristotle)[/B]

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. [B](Aristotle)[/B]


[COLOR="RoyalBlue"][B]2. Quaid's vision of democracy (Specially when this question is asked in Pak Affairs Paper)[/B][/COLOR]

[LIST][*]There are no people in the world who are more democratic even in their religion than the Muslamans.[*]Today, they are as applicable in actual life as they were 1,300 years ago. Islam and its idealism have taught us democracy.[*]You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.[/LIST]

[B][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]3. Abraham Lincoln Definition of Democracy (very important)[/COLOR][/B]


Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.


[B][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]4. UN Vision of Democracy[/COLOR][/B]

[url]https://www.un.org/en/globalissues/d...n_rights.shtml[/url]


[B][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]5. Then all other world famous personalities (Anyone you like or you remember) but above four are very important.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
[B]Karl Marx[/B]


The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. John [B]F. Kennedy[/B]


Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we [B]deserve. Bernard Shaw[/B][/CENTER]

[B][CENTER][SIZE="5"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Quotations for International Relations[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/B]

[CENTER]“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
[B]Adolf Hitler[/B]



“If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.”
[B]Noam Chomsky[/B]



“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
[B]Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations [/B]



“...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.”
[B]Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World [/B]



“He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act”
[B]Plato[/B]



“International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power”
[B]Hans J. Morgenthau[/B]



Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.”
[B]Arundhati Roy[/B]



“If the UN has not failed in maintaining world peace or bilateral relations between nations, it has definitely not succeeded either.”
[B]Sharad Vivek Sagar[/B]
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[B][I][CENTER][SIZE="5"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Foreign Policy[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/I][/B]



[CENTER]“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests”
[B]― Henry Kissinger[/B]



“A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security”
[B]― Henry Kissinger[/B]



“The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.”
[B]― James Barrett Reston[/B]



“The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.”
[B]― Rory Stewart[/B]



“Investing in foreign aid would also help achieve China's strategic objectives, since aid could become a powerful tool in the expansaion of China's influence.”
[B]― Wang Yizhou[/B]



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[B][I][CENTER][SIZE="5"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Nuclear War[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/I][/B]

[CENTER]"Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do."
[B][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT]Stephen Hawking[/B]
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Water Crisis
 

[B][I][CENTER][SIZE="3"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]"Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel Prizes - one for Peace and one for Science". [/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/I][/B]

[B][I][SIZE="2"][CENTER][INDENT]John F. Kennedy[/INDENT][/CENTER][/SIZE][/I][/B]

[B][I][CENTER][SIZE="5"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
― Adolf Hitler[/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER][/I][/B]