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.
Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.
The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.
I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!
We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the Muslims - and not any deficiency in the teachings of Islam - that caused our present decay.
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