Quotable Quotes for CSS 2023

For Kashmir issue;

18. The Fifth of August is the blackest day of Indian democracy when its Parliament, like thieves, snatched away everything from the people of Jammu and Kashmir. ―Mehbooba Mufti, a former chief minister of IoJK
19. How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain’s festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international conflicts of today. ―Arundhati Roy
20. Jammu and Kashmir is more a part of Pakistan than it can ever be with India, with all her eloquence and all her extravagance with words. Jammu and Kashmir is part of Pakistan, in blood, in flesh, in culture, in history, in geography. In every way and in every form. ―Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
21. India is using troops in Kashmir but they are losing the battle of hearts and minds. It is like treating cancer with dispirin. ―Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan

For Islamophobia;

22. To historicise Islamophobia in its proper political context isto flush out the fullness of its violence. ― Stephen Sheehi, ‘Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims’
23. Until the rise of the Soviet Union in our own century, no polity or ideology posed such a challenge to the West as Islam. ― Karen Armstrong, ‘Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet’
24. It is unfortunate that [French President Emmanuel Macron] has chosen to encourage Islamophobia by attacking Islam rather than the terrorists who carry out violence. ―Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan
25. Deliberately insulting religion and religious beliefs provokes hatred, leading to further polarization and fragmentation of humanity. ― Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan

Political issues cannot be settled by force;

26. Grave political issues cannot be settled by the cult of the knife, or by gangsterism. There are parties and parties, but the difference between them cannot be resolved by attacks on Party leaders. Nor can political views be altered by the threats of violence. ― Quaid-e-Azam

Women’s Rights:

27. And for women are rights over men similar to those of men over women. ― Qur’an, 2: 228
28. No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women and side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. I do not mean that we should imitate the evils of the Western life. But let us try to raise the status of our women according to our own Islamic ideas and standards. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable conditions in which our women have to live. You should take your women along with you as comrades in every sphere of life, avoiding the corrupt practices of Western society.  ―Quaid-e-Azam
29. Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all. ―Hillary Rodham Clinton, Former US Secretary of State

For Gender Equality;

30. The word feminism has become synonymous with man-hating when in fact it has more to do with women than men. ― Aysha Taryam
31. Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. — Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary-General

For the personality of Quaid-e-Azam:

32. Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation state. Muhammad Ali Jinnah did all three. ―US historian Stanley Wolpert, in his 1984 book ‘Jinnah of Pakistan’
33. Although without Gandhi, Hindustan would still have gained independence and without Lenin and Mao, Russia and China would still have endured Communist revolution, without Jinnah there would have been no Pakistan in 1947. ― John Biggs-Davison, a Conservative Member of Parliament in the UK

For World War – III;

34. I don’t know with what weapons world war III will be fought, but world war IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ― Albert Einstein

For the US-China-Russia relations;

35. Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. ― George Orwell in his book ‘1984’

For Climate Change;

36. The world today is very fragile and it’s our duty to do everything to unite people and nations to remind them that we don’t have a planet B. — Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian hockey player
37. The sustainability train has left the station. Get on board or get left behind… Those who fail to bet on the green economy will be living in a grey future. ―António Guterres, UN Secretary-General
38. There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ―Marshall McLuhan
39. We are the last people who can prevent catastrophe on the planet. We have no excuse for failure. ―Amina J. Mohammed, UN Deputy-Secretary-General

For Water Crisis;

40. Although two· thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most peroasive, most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth. ―Vandana Shiva
41. There is enough water for everyone and water insufficiency is due to mismanagement, corruption, lack of appropriate institutions, bureaucratic inertia and shortage of investment in both human capacity and physical infrastructure. ―UN Report, 2006
42. Saving our planet; lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth … these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots, between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food / security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all. ―Ban Ki-moon, Former UN Secretary-General