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.
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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.
If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.
Racism in Brazil is well hidden, subtle, and unspoken, underestimated by the media. It is nevertheless extremely violent.
Oh, am I a feminist? I usually say that I was an accidental feminist. Really, I was just being me.
I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.
The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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