India believes that the world is a family, and the best means of resolution is shared discourse. A family is shaped by love and is not transactional; a family is nurtured by consideration, not greed; a family believes in harmony not jealousy.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the idea of global unity and the importance of love and harmony in relationships.
Sushma Swaraj's quote reflects India's cultural belief in 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam', which means 'the world is one family'. It suggests that like a family, relationships between nations and individuals should be founded on love, consideration, and harmony, rather than on greed, jealousy, or transactional exchanges. This perspective advocates for communication and shared understanding as the primary means of resolving conflicts.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a speech promoting global peace during an international conference.
People often ask us what we get by our frequent travel to countries. I want to tell them we do not travel to have fun; we travel to build our relationship with other countries, and it is because of our ties with these countries that we were able to rescue 7,000 people from Yemen.
I view everything in the context of Lord Krishna's will, and for me, it is fine if things go in my favour or against.
My husband is an opposition MP. Our political alliance may have fallen through, but our matrimonial alliance is intact.
Just as 'Islam' literally means 'peace,' none of the 99 names of Allah mean violence. Similarly, every religion in the world stands for peace, compassion, and brotherhood.
Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.
How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so I've come to believe.
For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.
I've always had a really developed sense of justice. As a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses for fear that they might come alive at midnight and one of them would always have the best dress on. Whatever it was that made me worry about my dolls I suppose has paid off in my career because, really, an actor is all about empathy and imagination. And those are the cornerstones of activism.
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.
Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
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