"Actually, Ive been a fanatical health nut for five years."

“If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja”

“A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.”

“I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.”

“We're thrilled to join Google. With their support, Nest will be even better placed to build simple, thoughtful devices that make life easier at home, and that have a positive impact on the world.”

“I don't really look at celebrities as role models - I just don't see them like that. I guess it's because I'm in that world so I know that no one is perfect.”

“What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically dominates, though ... there are times in which the territorial logic comes to the fore. But this then poses a crucial question: how can the territorial logics of power, which tend to be awkwardly fixed in space, respond to the open spatial dynamics of endless capital accumulation? And what does endless capital accumulation imply for the territorial logics of power?”

Source : David Harvey (2003). “The New Imperialism”, p.33, OUP Oxford

“The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.”

“One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.”

Source : Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.62, University of Chicago Press