Quotes for UPSC Practice Exam Test.
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice" - CORRECT ANSWER
Martin Luther King
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere - CORRECT ANSWER Martin Luther King Jr.
"A just society is a society where the ascending sense of reverence and the descending sense of
contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society" . . . . . . - CORRECT ANSWER Dr.
Ambedka
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" - CORRECT ANSWER Edmund
Burke
"The world is a dangerous place not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on
and do nothing" - CORRECT ANSWER Albert Einstein
"I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another" -
CORRECT ANSWER Amartya Sen
"Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the
opulent" - CORRECT ANSWER Amartya Sen
"Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already halfway towards
solving it" - CORRECT ANSWER Amartya Sen
"All nations have attained greatness by paying proper respect to women. That country and that nation
which do not respect women have never become great, nor will ever be in future" - CORRECT ANSWER
Swami Vivekanand
"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved" -
CORRECT ANSWER B. R. Ambedkar
, 'If you educate a man, you educate an individual. But if you educate a woman, you educate a nation" -
CORRECT ANSWER A proverb
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." - CORRECT ANSWER
cHILDREN
"The inability to see potential in others is the greatest disability" - CORRECT ANSWER DISABILITY
(You cannot compromise freedom for the sake of development...)
"Freedom is not just the end state of development, but also one of its principal means" - CORRECT
ANSWER Amartya sen
"The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society
enjoy" - CORRECT ANSWER Amartya Sen
**Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development
idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which
human beings live, which is only a part of it - CORRECT ANSWER
"Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical" -
CORRECT ANSWER Amartya Sen
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil" - CORRECT
ANSWER CS Lewis
Quality & Content of Education :
"We must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of
education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison,
rather than being a passport to the wide world - CORRECT ANSWER Amartya Sen
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. The right defense
against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments."" - CORRECT ANSWER C.S. Lewis
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice" - CORRECT ANSWER
Martin Luther King
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere - CORRECT ANSWER Martin Luther King Jr.
"A just society is a society where the ascending sense of reverence and the descending sense of
contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society" . . . . . . - CORRECT ANSWER Dr.
Ambedka
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" - CORRECT ANSWER Edmund
Burke
"The world is a dangerous place not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on
and do nothing" - CORRECT ANSWER Albert Einstein
"I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another" -
CORRECT ANSWER Amartya Sen
"Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the
opulent" - CORRECT ANSWER Amartya Sen
"Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already halfway towards
solving it" - CORRECT ANSWER Amartya Sen
"All nations have attained greatness by paying proper respect to women. That country and that nation
which do not respect women have never become great, nor will ever be in future" - CORRECT ANSWER
Swami Vivekanand
"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved" -
CORRECT ANSWER B. R. Ambedkar
, 'If you educate a man, you educate an individual. But if you educate a woman, you educate a nation" -
CORRECT ANSWER A proverb
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." - CORRECT ANSWER
cHILDREN
"The inability to see potential in others is the greatest disability" - CORRECT ANSWER DISABILITY
(You cannot compromise freedom for the sake of development...)
"Freedom is not just the end state of development, but also one of its principal means" - CORRECT
ANSWER Amartya sen
"The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society
enjoy" - CORRECT ANSWER Amartya Sen
**Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development
idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which
human beings live, which is only a part of it - CORRECT ANSWER
"Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical" -
CORRECT ANSWER Amartya Sen
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil" - CORRECT
ANSWER CS Lewis
Quality & Content of Education :
"We must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of
education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison,
rather than being a passport to the wide world - CORRECT ANSWER Amartya Sen
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. The right defense
against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments."" - CORRECT ANSWER C.S. Lewis
