Mainak Dhar > Quotes

“You take anything you fear and cannot understand and make it an object of hate. So much easier to hate and destroy than to seek to understand.”
― Mainak Dhar, Alice in Deadland

“I fight for the freedom that we all have as human beings. The freedom to live the way we want,the freedom to choose our leaders,the freedom my father and hundreds of others have died to protect.”
― Mainak Dhar, Alice in Deadland

“Man had proven to be the most jealous of lovers, preferring to destroy the Earth rather than give her up.”
― Mainak Dhar, Alice in Deadland

“Better dead than undead.”
― Mainak Dhar, Alice in Deadland

“Now, sitting among the Biters and getting a glimpse of what battle against humans looked like from their perspective, she began to see things a bit differently. Sure, up close they were formidable with their strength, seeming immunity to pain, and their single-minded dedication to biting human flesh. But in the open like this, against trained soldiers, they were cannon fodder. They could not use weapons, moved slower than humans, and did not seem to have enough intelligence for anything more than the most rudimentary tactics.”
― Mainak Dhar, Alice in Deadland

“yet it was vain and stupid to create our own vision of these gods and fight over whose vision was right.”
― Mainak Dhar, Alice In Deadland Trilogy

“Perhaps the true sign of being secure is when your children can still retain their innocence.”
― Mainak Dhar, 03:02

“When people are scared enough, they begin to accept any form of tyranny because unquestioning obedience to unknown masters is better than facing known dangers.”
― Mainak Dhar, Alice In Deadland Trilogy

“Justice without force is powerless, force without justice is tyrannical. - Blaise Pascal”
― Mainak Dhar, Line of Control

“There are things more important in life than numbers on a spreadsheet or the numbers in a bank account.”
― Mainak Dhar, 03:02

“In a country where the Army stays in the shadows, has no political ambitions, is strictly secular, and does not want the limelight, the irony is that our toughest warriors are sometimes the softest target for this media spectacle.”
― Mainak Dhar, Sniper's Eye

“All those anniversaries and birthdays missed for a spreadsheet, because when the job’s gone, that’s all it really was, wasn’t it? And all those titles we chased for years, all worth nothing more than the bloody cards they were printed on. Sometimes I wonder what really matters and whether we’ve lost touch with it in chasing our careers.’ With”
― Mainak Dhar, 03:02

“The statesman who, seeing war is inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country. - Karl Von Clausewitz”
― Mainak Dhar, Line of Control

“I still couldn’t make up my mind on whether to make him die at the end or not, but exercising such power of life and death, if only over a character who existed only in my mind, was one of the fringe benefits of being a writer, even an unpublished, aspiring wannabe like me.”
― Mainak Dhar, The Funda of Mix-ology: What Bartending Teaches that IIM Doesn't

“If you don’t step up to fight for yourself and your own, don’t expect others to do so for you. We”
― Mainak Dhar, 03:02

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do. - Eleanor Roosevelt”
― Mainak Dhar, Line of Control

“That general is skilled in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend. - Sun Tzu”
― Mainak Dhar, Line of Control

“If fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding. - Sun Tzu”
― Mainak Dhar, Line of Control

“Sometimes when we hate something too much, we are fated to become the very thing we hate.’ They”
― Mainak Dhar, Alice In Deadland Trilogy

“Once you are in a violent situation, adrenaline kicks in. It is a double-edged weapon. On the one hand, adrenaline can make you react and often take a lot of damage without realising it. On the other, it tends to narrow your focus too much, often coming in the way of rational thought, preventing you from thinking of other options.”
― Mainak Dhar, Sniper's Eye

“He will win, who prepared himself, takes the enemy unprepared. - Sun Tzu”
― Mainak Dhar, Line of Control

“we are not defined by the jobs we do. We are defined by how we react when those who matter to us are in danger. The only label that counts in the world is whether you are a coward or not.”
― Mainak Dhar, 03:02

“If we are the invaders, we may direct our attack against the Sovereign himself. - Sun Tzu”
― Mainak Dhar, Line of Control

“when you can never take life for granted, you shouldn’t leave anything unsaid or undone.”
― Mainak Dhar, Sniper's Eye

“If you can’t handle the heat, you shouldn’t be in the kitchen.”
― Mainak Dhar, The 1st Assassin

“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.” Percy Bysshe Shelley”
― Mainak Dhar, The 1st Assassin

“Let us not hear of generals who conquer without bloodshed. If a bloody slaughter is a horrible sight, then it is ground for paying more respect to war. - Karl Von Clausewitz”
― Mainak Dhar, Line of Control

“News is the first rough draft of history. - Ben Bradlee”
― Mainak Dhar, Line of Control

“What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying. - Nikita Khrushchev”
― Mainak Dhar, Line of Control

“What lights up the blackness is not just electricity but us keeping our hopes alive.”
― Mainak Dhar, 03:02