"The pens sharpen â€“ Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same â€“ Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies."

-- Polly Toynbee

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“In the days of Ram Mohan Roy when English education was introduced in this country, the Mahomedans did not accept it... They did not accept English education and at the same time they were divorced from the culture which their fathers had advanced. The result was that whereas the Hindus got on in life, got into government employment, got many things which people value in life, the Mahomedans were left without it and gradually there came to be a sort of estrangement between the two nationalities at the time of the Swadeshi movement.”

Source : "Collected Works of Deshbandhu" by Manindra Dutta, 1917.
“Education is the only solution for peace.”
“For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.”

Source : "Laughing Ann". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1925.
“For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course in nature, and how, under wisdom and knowledge, it may be intertwined with human destiny, instead of careering headlong to the ocean, are a study at least as pregnant with consequences to life as any lesson taught by the long unscientific history of man.”
“It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.”
“A stranger's rose is but a thorn.”
“O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush'd and smooth!”
“Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.”

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