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Page 337 - WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens: JUSTICE, social, economic and political; LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation. IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY...
Page 73 - WE, THE PEOPLE of INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens : JUSTICE, social, economic and political; LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship ; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among- them all FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity of the Nation...
Page 217 - Organization for the purpose of advancing through the educational and scientific and cultural relations of the peoples of the world the objectives of international peace and of the common welfare of mankind for which the United Nations Organization was established and which its Charter proclaims.
Page 162 - It follows that that alone will be a true and living education which helps to bring out to full advantage, makes ready for the full purpose and scope of human life all that is in the individual man, and which at the same time helps him to enter into his right relation with the life, mind and soul of the people to which he belongs and with that great total life, mind and soul of humanity of which he himself is a unit and his people or nation a living, a separate and yet inseparable member.
Page 338 - ... Indians who are politically aware. Socialism has captured the emotive sense of good and distant goals: it is for Indians a welcome word suggesting growth and well-being and integrity in civil life. To many, socialism appears to lie implicit in the preamble of the Indian Constitution with its promise of social, economic and political justice and equality of status and of opportunity.
Page 2 - An international unit is defined as the amount of goods and services which one dollar would purchase in the USA over the average of the period 1925-1934.
Page 325 - At the danger of stressing the obvious, one may claim that an agricultural revolution — a marked rise in productivity per worker in agriculture — is a pre-condition of the industrial revolution...
Page 264 - The first, stated quite briefly, is that work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do.
Page 66 - Lastly, how are we to finance an ever increasing volume of trade and aid ? If our monetary arrangements are bad, or outmoded, we shall not succeed. We shall stagnate instead of expand. And Capitalism must expand or perish. Even Marx knew that. In the same address the importance of new and extended patterns of trade for the less industrialized countries has been stressed and a preference has been expressed for more trade rather than for greater aid.
Page 158 - It is not the welfare of humanity that we seek but the manifestation of the Divine. We are here to work out the Divine Will, more truly, to be worked upon by the Divine Will so that we may be its instruments for the progressive incorporation of the Supreme and the establishment of His reign upon earth.