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Swami Vivekananda
Asked 5 times in UPSC Mains · first asked 2020 · last asked 2025 · 50 total marks
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"The strength of a society is not in its laws, but in the morality of its people." – Swami Vivekananda
2025GS-410 marks
"The strength of a society is not in its laws, but in the morality of its people." – Swami Vivekananda
"Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others." — Swami Vivekananda
2024GS-410 marks
"Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others." — Swami Vivekananda
Do not hate anybody, because that hatred that comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle." – Swami Vivekanand.
2023GS-410 marks
Do not hate anybody, because that hatred that comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle." – Swami Vivekanand.
"Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later" – Swami Vivekananda
2021GS-410 marks
"Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later" – Swami Vivekananda
"Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand do so. If not fold your hands, bless your brothers and let them go their own way." – Swami Vivekanand
2020GS-410 marks
"Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand do so. If not fold your hands, bless your brothers and let them go their own way." – Swami Vivekanand