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“സംതൃപ്തമായ യുവത്വം നിഷ്ക്രിയമായ യുവത്വവും നിര്ജീവമായ ജീവിതവുമായിത്തീരും... യുവത്വത്തിന് അതിന്റെ അസ്വസ്ഥത നഷ്ടപ്പെടുമ്പോള് അതൊരു യന്ത്രം പോലെ സമര്ത്ഥവും നിര്ജീവവും വന്ധ്യവും ആയിത്തീരും. വന്ധ്യതയ്ക്ക് ഒന്നിനെയും സൃഷ്ടിക്കുവാന് കഴിയാത്തതുകൊണ്ട് പുതിയ ഒരു ലോകക്രമത്തെ നിര്മ്മിക്കുവാനും അതിന് കഴിയില്ല.”
― M.N. Vijayan

“because, in my life, fate has never been unwilling to lend a hand.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

“Normality in our part of the world is a bit like a boiled egg: its humdrum surface conceals at its heart a yolk of egregious violence.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“It was as if I’d found myself in a performance of some extravagant, complex drama, and I didn’t have a script.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“But repression, they say, breeds resistance in some men, and I was resisting the world with every minute of my life.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Ah, my dear friend, I cannot claim it as my own. It was Karla who said it to me the first time, and I have used it ever since. I am guilty of many crimes—of most crimes, to say the truth—but I have never claimed a cleverness that was not my own.’ ‘Admirable,’ I laughed.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Part of the solution to that problem was for one person, the chief, to exercise a monopoly on the right to use force.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel

“We thereby know that states arose around 3700 B.C. in Mesopotamia and around 300 B.C. in Mesoamerica, over 2,000 years ago in the Andes, China, and Southeast Asia, and over 1,000 years ago in West Africa.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel

“I am thus optimistic that historical studies of human societies can be pursued as scientifically as studies of dinosaurs—and with profit to our own society today, by teaching us what shaped the modern world, and what might shape our future.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel

“Very soon into the campaign, Indira Gandhi realized things were not going according to plan. As she told journalist Pran Sabharwal, a few days after she announced elections, ‘Jab se election announce hua hai, chaprasi theek se paani tak nahin pila rahe hain (From the moment I have announced the election, even the peons are cold-shouldering me).”
― Neerja Chowdhury, How Prime Ministers Decide

“When you stifle the flow of information to the people,’ Krishan Kant, the Congress’s one-time young Turk, had warned in parliament, ‘you are blocking the channel of information to yourself.”
― Neerja Chowdhury, How Prime Ministers Decide