"Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indiansâ€”or the Pakistanis."

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Source : Khushwant Singh (2009). “Train to Pakistan”, p.52, Penguin Books India

Khushwant Singh

#People Quotes #Slave Quotes #Educated Quotes

“A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.”
“A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.”
“If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.”
“A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.”

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“In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.”
“I am the worst judge of my books.”
“Congress is not a party which fades when not in power”
“The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever design a capital system that reaches only the "right" cases, without dragging in the wrong cases, cases of innocence or cases where death is not proportionate punishment. Slowly, even reluctantly, I have realized the answer to that question is no- we will never get it right.”

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