The impact which one individual citizen makes on his own or the succeeding generations may be very small but some critics of the existing social order have so touched the minds or hearts of their fellow citizens or citizens of other times or other countries that they have helped to bring about great changes in the organization of government Plato and Aristotle still exercise profound influences on the thought of Western Europe and Rousseau and Marx are the beau ideal of millions of people beyond the frontiers of their own countries. Locke’s teachings had a deep impact on the Americans and the French the former seeking to justify their struggle for independence and freedom from foreign rule and the latter seeking to justify man’s right to revolt against the arbitrary rule which had plagued these countries for centuries together. Gandhi dedicated himself to uplift man and society simultaneously . He was out to moralise man and society and in his attempt to realize a better