"I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Religious Quotes #Antiques Quotes #Superstitions Quotes

“When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.”
“It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.”
“Surrender. That's an interesting term. We tend to see all forms of surrender as negative--war, sports, highway on-ramps. You'd never hear us describing a relationship as a type of surrender. But maybe we should. Is it wrong to cede the solo to the duet. Surrender doesn't mean you lose, only that you no longer wish to fight.”

Source : Franz Wisner (2009). “How the World Makes Love: . . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groom”, p.74, Macmillan
“I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.”
“For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.”

Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.147, Penguin
“If it's not hard, you're not dreaming big enough!”
“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”

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