"The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans thinkâ€¦Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of murderous and self-destructive behaviors such as war.... The Gita is a dishonest bookÂ â€¦"

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Source : Philadelphia Inquirer, November 19, 2000.

Wendy Doniger

#War Quotes #Nice Quotes #Book Quotes

“Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.”
“I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for the domination of truly international finance and stock exchange capital.”
“They were willing to do anything to stop me.”
“We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.”
“Interestingly, what the bourgeois women's groups in India wanted to do in the nationalist period is to have the peasant women essentially follow them... They would be the leaders and the peasant women would be the masses.”

Source : "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.
“If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.”

Source : John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman
“I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.”
“Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.”

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