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“Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, 'what a navigator I am!' And then the wind blows you east.”
Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.16, Portobello Books
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“Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.”
Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.”
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“The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. ...they are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers.”
Source : "The Shame of the Climate-change Deniers". www.independent.co.uk. April 24, 2005. 
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“In my opinion, if most urban meat-eaters were to visit an industrial broiler house, to se how the birds are raised, and could see the birds being "harvested" and then being "processed" in a poultry processing plant, they would not be impressed and some, perhaps many of them would swear off eating chicken and perhaps all meat.”
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“The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.”
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“We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.”
Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.11, Anchor
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“What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.”
Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.9, Basic Books
