Kocheril Raman Narayanan citations

Kocheril Raman Narayanan, né le 3 février 1921 et mort le 9 novembre 2005, est un homme d'État indien, le premier dalit à devenir président de la République de l'Inde, du 25 juillet 1997 au 25 juillet 2002. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. octobre 1920 – 9. novembre 2005
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Kocheril Raman Narayanan: Citations en anglais

“If someone insults me, I only feel an infinite pity for him.”

Source: Gopalkrishna Gandhi "A remarkable life-story"

“[I was] not an executive President but a working President and working within the four corners of the Constitution.”

Source: The Hindu Editor A salute to Citizen Narayanan http://www.hindu.com/2005/11/10/stories/2005111005821000.htm, The Hindu, 10 November 2011

“The courts are no longer cathedrals. They are…casinos where the throw of the dice matters.”

Lina Gonsalves in: Women and Human Rights http://books.google.co.in/books?id=FBn_mCImoagC&pg=PA4, APH Publishing, 2001
At the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Supreme Court on the aspect of money and power getting precedence over justice.

“The applications of science are inevitable and unquotable for all countries and people today. But something more than its application is necessary. It is the scientific approach, the adventurous, and critical temper of science, the search for truth and new knowledge, the refusal to accept anything without testing and trial, the capacity to change previous conclusions in the face of new evidence, the reliance on observed fact and not on pre-conceived theory, the hard discipline of the mind – all this is necessary, not merely for the too many scientists today, who swear by science, forget all about it outside their particular sphere. The scientific approach and temper or should be a way of life, a process of thinking, a method of acting, associating, with our fellow men. That is a large order and undoubtedly very few if any at all can function in this way with even partial success. But his [Nehru] criticism applies in equal or even greater measure to all the injunctions which philosophy and religion have laid upon us. The scientific temper points out the way along which man should travel. It is the temper of a free man. We live in a scientific age, so we are told but there is little evidence of this temper in the people anywhere or even in their leaders.”

Quoted from his book “In Nehru and His Vision 1999" in: K.K. Sinha, Social And Cultural Ethos Of India http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Jb-fO2R1CQUC&pg=PA183, Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 1 January 2008, p. 183