When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think it takes a very insensitive, tough person not to feel they need to do something.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the moral obligation to help those in extreme poverty.
Ratan Tata's quote speaks to the ethical responsibility that individuals with privilege have towards those who are less fortunate. It emphasizes that witnessing suffering, such as poverty and malnutrition, should evoke a sense of empathy and a desire to take action for change. It suggests that ignoring this call for compassion reflects a lack of sensitivity to the struggles of others.
In practice
In a charity event to raise awareness for hunger issues, this quote can be used to inspire donations.
I am proud of my country. But we need to unite to make a unified India, free of communalism and casteism. We need to build India into a land of equal opportunity for all. We can be a truly great nation if we set our sights high and deliver to the people the fruits of continued growth, prosperity and equal opportunity.
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive
If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.
I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.
I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.
I can tell you in all honesty that I am highly connected to my family, my wife, and my three children, though I don't get to spend dollops of hours with them.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Dear young people, listen within: Christ is knocking at the door of your heart.
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.
Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves the reader in peace, as much as possible, and moves the author towards him.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
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