Baba Amte quotes - page 2

Compassion has no utopia, party or ideology. (Baba Amte)
Consider the honey-bee. Its treasure is nectar, obtained even from the chilly plant. It is not at the cost of the flower. In fact, its act of extracting honey contributes to the progress of the flowers. You need not learn from Kahlil Gibran, Marx or Gorbachev, not even from Gandhiji. Choose instead to learn your lesson from the honey bees as your silent partners: they will show you how to develop without destroying. View quote
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If you give the royalties from your book, I shall give the land. View quote
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The image of that dying leprosy patient was burning me like a branding iron and would not give me a moment's rest. From that moment on I was out to conquer fear....Where there is fear there is no love. Where there is no love there is no God. View quote
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I am upset I am very much disappointed when I see within myself a wrong image of myself.... A man can live without fingers, but he cannot live without self-respect....That is why I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others is a byproduct. But the fact is I did it to overcome fear. View quote
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The halo of Fr. Damian was before me,[he said] and I knew that Sadhana would nurse me. View quote
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You have come a long way to talk to me, but I have a surprise for you: I have worked out most of the details already.... View quote
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I haven't the arrogance to say I can carry the mighty load of His Cross, but I do try to walk in its shadow. He wants to carve your life like a crucifix. Every calamity is a crucifixion, crucifying your ambition, your lust. Each is a tiny lesson, and then the imprint of the crucifixion is on your life. What is your plan of sacrifice today? You and I, petty souls, sacrifice for our children. Christ sacrificed for tomorrow's whole world. Whenever I see slum-dwellers, with their hunger and poverty, that obscene poverty, I feel He is crucified like that. When I come across a person suffering from leprosy, foul smelling, ulcerous, I can see the imprint of His lips, His kiss. What did they not do to sufferers of leprosy in His time, yet the carpenter's son cared for them and touched them. That hand is an emblem for me, that hand which cared for the loneliest and the lost. The Christian is ... he who not only lights the darkest corner in the world but also the darkest corner in his own heart. View quote
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Our governance is by a gerontocracy. This cataract of history can only be removed by youth. In this common man's century, only the common man can change the profile of this country. View quote
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He came to be known as Baba not because he is a saint or any such thing, but because his parents addressed him by that name. View quote
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