Home › Authors › Baba Amte
Baba Amte Quotes
1914–2008 India
Dr Murlidhar Devidas Amte (December 26, 1914 – February 9, 2008) was a highly dedicated Indian social worker for the cause of rehabilitation and empowerment of poor people, particularly those suffering from leprosy. He gave up all his luxurious way of living.
Random Baba Amte quote
22 quotes
If you give the royalties from your book, I shall give the land.
Whenever God has pointed the way with his finger, he also cleared the way with his mighty palm.
I have to be cautious, but caution also has its own adventure.
When leprosy patients touched the soil, they transformed it into gold, but the politicians did that and made it into dirt.
Our governance is by a gerontocracy. This cataract of history can only be removed by youth. In this common man's century, only the common man can change the profile of this country.
I never had money. But that had never stopped me.
Those who do monumental work don't need monuments.
Compassion has no utopia, party or ideology.
The halo of Fr. Damian was before me,[he said] and I knew that Sadhana would nurse me.
A client would admit that he had committed rape, and I was expected to obtain an acquittal. And worse still, when I succeeded, I was expected to attend the celebration party.
Those who indulge in history cannot create new history. You cannot legislate national integration unless political work is done constructively and there is a lifestyle for life.
You have come a long way to talk to me, but I have a surprise for you: I have worked out most of the details already....
Joy is more infectious than leprosy.
I don't want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown.
The condition of the tribals is worse than those inflicted with leprosy. Purna swaraj can only be possible when the poorest of the poor is uplifted.
There is a certain callousness in families like mine. They put up strong barriers so as not to see the misery in the world outside and I rebelled against it.
I was charging fifty rupees for arguing for fifteen minutes while a labourer was getting only three-quarters of a Rupee for twelve hours of toil. That was what was eating into me.
I was tempted by Shankar bhagwan. He too has spondylitis but uses a cobra as a brace.
…richness of heart of the poor people [and to despise] the poverty of heart of the rich.
The common man, he is the uncommon man
Topics Baba Amte is quoted on