Quote#Politics & Power
Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of…
Quote byAurobindo Ghosh · 1872–1950
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: India's Rebirth, Bhawani Mandir, 1905.
English (original)
Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.
— Aurobindo Ghosh
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