"If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter."

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Source : "River of Smoke". Book by Amitav Ghosh, 2011.

Amitav Ghosh

#Despair Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Slaughter Quotes

“In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.”
“A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want.”
“One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.”
“Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.”
“Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.”
“Between last night and this morning, I've been getting a lot of messages from overseas fans along the lines of 'There's an American comic ripping off Bleach!' I'm not that good at English, but I looked at the site and it seems it's a comic by Nick Simmons, the son of Gene Simmons. To be honest, I'm more bothered by the fact that Gene Simmons' son is a comic artist than whether or not it's a rip-off...”
“After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.”
“I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?”

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