The World: Morarji Desai: The Ascetic Activist

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ON THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT. Ultimately, in a democracy all must work together. The Prime Minister will have to be the guiding factor . . . Human society must be human, not a mixture of animals, and we are 90% animals today, which is not a very pleasant thought but it is a fact. Passions belong only to animals, and if human material is superior, then we have to control passions, which should be used for proper purposes, just as steam has to be utilized for energy, not for scalding people. Government will have to set an example in its own actions. You see, to make people fearless is more a function of government than of anything else, because people are afraid of government more than any other agency. And you have to set them at rest that no honest man will ever have to suffer under that government. On the contrary, honest men will be supported and respected. Then you will create more honest men.

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