"I have a message for the world,..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda
I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.
More by Swami Vivekananda
“It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world.”
“When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.”
“Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.”
More on Reform
“Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.”
“It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.”
“Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.”
More on Vision
“The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.”
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.”
“You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows...and has always known...that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.”