The scientist, Albert Einstein, who was not known to exaggerate and had a considerable reputation for seeking the truth, commented after Gandhi's death: "Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked this earth." The main ...
Briefly speaking, I thought to myself and foresaw that I shall be totally ruined, and the only thing I could expect from the people would be nothing but hatred and that I shall have lost all my honour, even more valuable than my life, if I were to kill Gandhiji. But at the same t...
There was huge hatred among both religions, but Gandhi wasn't in support when he died. Jawahar Lal Nehru became a national hero and favorite Politian. He used his power and Gandhi's death to stop the conflicts taking place in the entire country. He linked Gandhi's death to politics and ...
“Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.” 0 “What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.” 0 “Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by...
Known as the Angel of Death, Mengele served from May 1943 to January 1945 as doctor at the concentration camp in Auschwitz, where the Nazis killed a million Jews as part of the Holocaust along with other groups. Mengele selected inmates for extermination and also performed gruesome human ...
“This (process and death of Socrates) is a historical event, that is, an event that actually occurred. We pray to God, and want our readers also to pray, that they, and we too, may have the moral strength which enabled Socrates to follow virtue to the end and to embrace death as ...
In the years since Gandhi’s death, his name has beeninvokedby the organizers of numerous demonstrations and movements. However, with a few outstanding exceptions—such as those of hisdisciplethe land reformerVinoba Bhavein India and of thecivil rightsleaderMartin Luther King, Jr., in the United...
the manner of his death was a later illustration of this, for a public man who attached any value to his own skin would have been more adequately guarded. Again, he seems to have been quite free from that maniacal suspiciousness which, as E. M. Forster rightly says in A Passage to In...
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other. ~ Mahatma Gandhi (1869-10-02 1948-01-30 age:78)...
some form of independence was inevitable. No meetings took place in Vienna today, however, and the process was postponed till mid-February. The reason for this was the death of Ibrahim Rugova, longtime leader of the separatist-minded Kosovo Albanians and "president" of the province under the ...