"What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion is the fact that the patron saint of modern liberalism, John Stuart Mill, thought that barbarian peoples like the Indians were unfit for self-rule."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Compassion Quotes #Self Quotes #Tolerance Quotes

“I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.”
“My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.”
“Some people like to garden, some people like motorcycle riding... my hobby is winning.”
“I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium.”
“Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.”

Source : "Peter Kropotkin : From Prince to Rebel". Book by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic, p. 407, 1990.
“I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.”
“Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.”
“I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.”

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