"I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed."

-- V. S. Naipaul

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Invasion Quotes

“The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.”

Source : "Dictionary of South African Quotations" by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, (p. 90), 1994.
“My current computer, in addition to 'DOS,' has 'Windows,' which is another invention of Bill Gates, designed as a security measure to thwart those users who are somehow able to get past DOS.”
“The industry now wants to be in charge of everything.”
“The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.”
“Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.”

Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2003). “Ten Great Economists”, p.77, Routledge
“Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.”
“That is definitely the biggest challenge, career and family, and learning how to balance.”

Source : Source: maroonweekly.com
“Well that's what I generally do with books - I read them.”

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