Tapas Dasgupta > Tapas's Quotes

“Politicians are like warts on the body of society. And the only thing worse than warts are lawyers and lobbyists.
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― Jarod Kintz, Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life

“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
― Ronald Reagan

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
― Patrick Henry

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

“the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Sands of Time

“The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.”
― Huey P. Newton

“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
― Frederick Douglass

“হেঁয়ালি রেখো না কিছু মনে;
হৃদয় রয়েছে ব'লে চাতকের মতন আবেগ
হৃদয়ের সত্য উজ্জ্বল কথা নয়,-
যদিও জেগেছে তাতে জলভারানত কোনো মেঘ;
হে প্রেমিক, আত্মরতিমদির কি তুমি?
মেঘ;মেঘ, হৃদয়ঃ হৃদয়, আর মরুভূমি শুধু মরুভূমি..”
― Jibanananda Das