"Independence is a very subjective assessment."

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Source : "Chidambaram: Poor Conditions ‘Dehumanize’ Police". Interview with Geeta Anand, blogs.wsj.com. February 7, 2012.

P. Chidambaram

#Assessment Quotes #Independence Quotes

“Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.”
“Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.”
“Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.
“My approach to violence is that if it's pertinent, if that's the kind of movie you're making, then it has a purposeI think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process. I like to think it's not violence for the sake of violence and in this particular film, it's actually violence for the annihilation of violence.”
“Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.”

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn; quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn - History - 2007, March 10, 1946.
“Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences.”
“Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.”
“I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.”

Source : Mary Hoffman (2010). “Stravaganza: City of Masks”, p.217, Bloomsbury Publishing

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