This is furtherance to our previous article on – Important quotes For MAINS !!!
Important quotes for Mains , can be used for GS and Essay paper.
Women
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.”
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?”
“Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them”
“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”- How ironic ?
Miscellaneous
Someone is praying for the things you take for granted.
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem
Do what is right, not what is easy.
“Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.”
Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget that we are also growing old.
“A free society is one where it’s safe to be unpopular, but then, freedom of speech also carries with it the freedom not to listen!”
“People think that strength is about lifting weights in the gym. It’s more about getting up when you’re knocked down by life.”
“A young musician asked Mozart, ‘Herr Mozart, it has been suggested to me that I write a symphony. Would you be good enough to tell me how to go about it?’ Mozart thought for a moment and gently suggested, ‘You are still too young to write symphonies. Why not try ballads first?’ ‘You wrote symphonies when you were ten years old,’ argued the young man indignantly. ‘Ah, yes, but I didn’t ask how,’ replied Mozart.”
“Sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.”
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”
“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.”
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
You can’t fall if you don’t climb, but there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.So Keep trying.
“Oh God,give me the patience to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can ,and the wisdom to know the difference”
Quotes From Movies
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
“The things you used to own, now they own you.” (On Materialist obsession)
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy things we don’t need.”
“Be Brave. Take Risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
Do or Don’t , there is no TRY
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
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Petrol in India is cheaper than in countries like Hong Kong, Germany and the UK but costlier than in China, Brazil, Japan, the US, Russia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, a Bank of Baroda Economics Research report showed.
Rising fuel prices in India have led to considerable debate on which government, state or central, should be lowering their taxes to keep prices under control.
The rise in fuel prices is mainly due to the global price of crude oil (raw material for making petrol and diesel) going up. Further, a stronger dollar has added to the cost of crude oil.
Amongst comparable countries (per capita wise), prices in India are higher than those in Vietnam, Kenya, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela. Countries that are major oil producers have much lower prices.
In the report, the Philippines has a comparable petrol price but has a per capita income higher than India by over 50 per cent.
Countries which have a lower per capita income like Kenya, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Venezuela have much lower prices of petrol and hence are impacted less than India.
“Therefore there is still a strong case for the government to consider lowering the taxes on fuel to protect the interest of the people,” the report argued.
India is the world’s third-biggest oil consuming and importing nation. It imports 85 per cent of its oil needs and so prices retail fuel at import parity rates.
With the global surge in energy prices, the cost of producing petrol, diesel and other petroleum products also went up for oil companies in India.
They raised petrol and diesel prices by Rs 10 a litre in just over a fortnight beginning March 22 but hit a pause button soon after as the move faced criticism and the opposition parties asked the government to cut taxes instead.
India imports most of its oil from a group of countries called the ‘OPEC +’ (i.e, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Russia, etc), which produces 40% of the world’s crude oil.
As they have the power to dictate fuel supply and prices, their decision of limiting the global supply reduces supply in India, thus raising prices
The government charges about 167% tax (excise) on petrol and 129% on diesel as compared to US (20%), UK (62%), Italy and Germany (65%).
The abominable excise duty is 2/3rd of the cost, and the base price, dealer commission and freight form the rest.
Here is an approximate break-up (in Rs):
a)Base Price | 39 |
b)Freight | 0.34 |
c) Price Charged to Dealers = (a+b) | 39.34 |
d) Excise Duty | 40.17 |
e) Dealer Commission | 4.68 |
f) VAT | 25.35 |
g) Retail Selling Price | 109.54 |
Looked closely, much of the cost of petrol and diesel is due to higher tax rate by govt, specifically excise duty.
So the question is why government is not reducing the prices ?
India, being a developing country, it does require gigantic amount of funding for its infrastructure projects as well as welfare schemes.
However, we as a society is yet to be tax-compliant. Many people evade the direct tax and that’s the reason why govt’s hands are tied. Govt. needs the money to fund various programs and at the same time it is not generating enough revenue from direct taxes.
That’s the reason why, govt is bumping up its revenue through higher indirect taxes such as GST or excise duty as in the case of petrol and diesel.
Direct taxes are progressive as it taxes according to an individuals’ income however indirect tax such as excise duty or GST are regressive in the sense that the poorest of the poor and richest of the rich have to pay the same amount.
Does not matter, if you are an auto-driver or owner of a Mercedes, end of the day both pay the same price for petrol/diesel-that’s why it is regressive in nature.
But unlike direct tax where tax evasion is rampant, indirect tax can not be evaded due to their very nature and as long as huge no of Indians keep evading direct taxes, indirect tax such as excise duty will be difficult for the govt to reduce, because it may reduce the revenue and hamper may programs of the govt.