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Discipline is not revenge. The nation can only be built through commitment, discipline and elimination of corruption.

— Mahinda Rajapaksa

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I say: be fair. Be objective. Don't just come to conclusions based on one-sided "evidence."

If anyone who wants to complain about human rights violations in Sri Lanka, whether it's torture, whether it is rape, we have a system.

All international laws are made by big, powerful countries but applied only on weaker ones like ours.

Reflecting on the work of the UN, matters of a political nature have overridden the most basic issues, which affect the underprivileged and marginalized, who dominate world society.

If there is any violations, we will take actions against anybody, anybody. I am ready to do that.

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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

George Washington

The middle gear of any man is self-discipline.

John le Carré The Mission Song (2006)

Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy.

Claude Adrien Helvétius De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties (1758)

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