Five-year Plans of India/first Five-year Plan 1951-1956

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    “There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets ours norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    “One who winks the eyes plans perverse things; one who compresses the lips brings evil to pass.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 16:30.

    “There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.”
    —Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)

    “To choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing sweeter in the world.”
    —Josef Stalin (1879–1953)