Swami Vivekananda Quotes
We are all born cowards.
Vivekananda, Swami. The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Vol. 8, Advaita Ashrama, 1951, p. 132.
Attila the Hun. If countries formed alliances against him, he took it as a sign of weakness and allies were cowards because they were afraid to fight alone.
Ernest Hemmingway was one of the first writers to observe this problem which would be felt by so many as the pace of change in politics, science & technology, economics and warfare would end centuries of people feeling that humans had control over the world.
Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta (Bengali: [nɔrendronatʰ dɔto]), was an Indian Hindu monk. He was a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a major force in the contemporary Hindu reform movements in India, and contributed to the concept of nationalism in colonial India. Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission. He is perhaps best known for his speech which began with the words "Sisters and brothers of America ...," in which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893.
