Gaurav Yadav

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Erich Fromm
“Nationalism, originally a progressive movement, replaced the bonds of feudalism and absolutism. The average man today obtains his sense of identity from his belonging to a nation, rather than from his being a "Son of Man." His objectivity, that is, his reason, is warped by this fixation. He judges the "stranger" with different criteria than the members of his own clan. His feelings toward the stranger are equally warped. Those who are not "familiar" by bonds of blood and soil (expressed a common language, customs, food, song, etc.) are looked upon with suspicion, and paranoid delusions about them can spring up at the slightest provocation. This incestuous fixation not only poisons the relationship of the individual to the stranger, but to the members of his own clan and to himself. The person who has not freed himself from the ties to blood and soil is not yet fully born as a human being; his capacity for love and reason are crippled; he does not experience himself nor his fellow man in their-and his own-human reality.”
Eric Fromm

B.R. Ambedkar
“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean,
man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.
Man's life is independent.
He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self too.”
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

Martin Heidegger
“He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.”
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

Lao Tzu
“Love is a decision - not an emotion!”
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Arthur Schopenhauer
“If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

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