QuoteQuest“Just as weak people struck by poverty can be gripped by epidemics, so the spread of famine in Europe is enabling Fascism and Communism to get a strong hold. Both are symptoms of unhealthiness. No sane person can regard the suppression of independent thinking as something beneficial to man... Man’s brutality to man makes me shudder.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Rabindranath Tagore
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- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Letter to Nitindranath Ganguli, 31 July 1931. Quoted in Andrew Robinson and Krishna Dutta (eds.) Selected letters of Rabindranath Tagore, Cambridge University Press, 1997. (p.403)
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Tagore, Rabindranath. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Rabindranath Tagore. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore
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