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“India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.”
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“Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed prematurely from a knowledge of only certain parts of the world, has undergone a decisive transformation. This conception, however, is always decisive for the future course of research.”
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“I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. As far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.”
Source : "The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville; edited by Olivier Zunz and Alan S. Kahan, p. 229, 2002.
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“It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.”
Source : Charles Yu (2012). “Sorry Please Thank You: Stories”, p.42, Vintage
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“I've got thick skin and an elastic heart”
Source : "Song: 'Elastic Heart'". 2013.
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“All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.”
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“It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.”
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“This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of light and the atmosphere, as well as to every nuance of the season, which combine to create perfection.”