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K. R. Narayanan Quotes

1920–2005 India

Kocheril Raman Narayanan (October 27, 1920 – November 9, 2005) was the tenth President of India.

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

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

I see and understand both the symbolic as well as the substantive elements of my life. Sometimes I visualise it as a journey of an individual from a remote village on the sidelines of society to the hub of social standing. But at the same time I also realise that my life encapsulates the ability of the democratic system to accommodate and empower marginalised sections of society.

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

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: K. R. Narayanan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.