Asha for Education™: Sandeep Pandey wins 2002 Ramon Magsaysay Award: "There are six levels an individual can live by - yourself, your body, your family, society, nature, universe. The biggest challenge facing mankind is in bringing these levels into harmony. Only if both material and consiousness needs are satisfied will human beings be happy. From this one derives two principles of education - (i) self reliance (swawalamban) and (ii) human values (samajikta). Education has to provide/inculcate these two principles for a just social order. "

 
Why I Am An Atheist by Bhagat Singh: "As regards the origin of God my own idea is that having realized the limitations of man, his weaknesses and shortcoming having been taken into consideration, God was brought into imaginary existence to encourage man to face boldly all the trying circumstances, to meet all dangers manfully and to check and restrain his outbursts in prosperity and affluence."

 
19th Century Guide to Dishonest Argument: "A man may be objectively in the right, and nevertheless in the eyes of bystanders, and sometimes in his own, he may come off worst. For example, I may advance a proof of some assertion, and my adversary may refute the proof, and thus appear to have refuted the assertion, for which there may, nevertheless, be other proofs. In this case, of course, my adversary and I change places: he comes off best, although, as a matter of fact, he is in the wrong."