Louis Fischer

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Louis Fischer I Talked with Gandhi (1949)

The growth we count other people by is how much money they have in the bank, how much more money they have this year than last year. And with Gandhi, as well as with a number of other people, we judge them by their increase in stature and by their loyalty to their principles. That's the way India judged Gandhi, and that’s the way the world is beginning to judge Gandhi.
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Louis Fischer I Talked with Gandhi (1949)

Doesn’t India really consider people of that character more valuable than men of wealth?
Fischer: Yes, yes, they stand in awe before wealth and strength, but they have reverence for the weak and the poor: for those who renounce the material things. And I think that Gandhi’s hold on the Indian mind is because he renounced wealth, and what is more important, he renounced power.
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