Nikhil Okhade > Nikhil's Quotes

“To belittle, you have to be little.”
― Kahill Gibran, The Prophet

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.”
― Machiavelli Niccolo, The Prince

“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other mens at a distance.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone”
― Thomas Hobbes

“Leisure is the mother of Philosophy”
― Thomas Hobbes

“Life is nasty, brutish, and short”
― Thomas Hobbes

“The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. ”
― Thomas Hobbes

“या तो प्यार आदमी को बादलों की ऊँचाई तक उठा ले जाता है , या स्वर्ग से पाताल में फेंक देता है।लेकिन कुछ प्राणी हैं, जो न स्वर्ग के हैं न नरक के, वे दोनों लोकों के बीच में अंधकार की परतों में भटकते रहते हैं। वे किसी को प्यार नहीं करते, छायाओं को पकड़ने का प्रयास करते हैं, या शायद प्यार करते हैं या निरंतर नयी अनुभूतियों के पीछे दीवाने रहते हैं और प्यार बिलकुल करते ही नहीं ......... कपूर, मैं उसी अभागे लोक की एक प्यासी आत्मा थी।”
― धर्मवीर भारती [Dharamvir Bharati], गुनाहों का देवता

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“पिछले पच्चीस सालों से फ़िल्में देख रहा हूँ। पच्चीस सालों से रईस का बेटा ग़रीब की लड़की से शादी कर रहा है। फिर भी लोग पूँजीवाद के पीछे हाथ धोकर पड़े हैं। अज़ीब बदतमीज़ी है।”
― Harishankar Parsai, ठिठुरता हुआ गणतंत्र