Raj Quotes

“I fought to stay awake and keep the car on the road. And I thought back to texts I had read from the British Army in India, during the Raj, at the height of their empire. Young subalterns trapped in junior ranks had their own mess. They would dine together in splendid dress uniforms and talk about their chances of promotion. But they had none, unless a superior officer died. Dead men's shoes was the rule. So they would raise their crystal glasses of fine French wine and toast "bloody wars and dread diseases" because a casualty further up the chain of command was their only way to get ahead. Brutal, but that's how it's always been, in the military.”
― Lee Child, Persuader

“Tu sam se ponovo uverio da su raj i pakao od iste građe i da sve zavisi od našeg izbora; tamo si gde misliš da jesi.”
― Stevan Pešić, Katmandu

“You young people. Where do you think you come from, huh?"

"I arrived by stork," Raj said seriously. "My brother and sister by magic.”
― Nalini Singh, Rebel Hard

“I would have rather felt you round my throat,
Crushing out life, than waving me farewell!”
― Laurence Hope, Indian Love Lyrics

“To nie choroba czy śmierć wprowadzają nas do raju. To muzyka.”
― Melissa Muller

“They left no noble monuments behind and no religion save a concept of Englishness as a desirable code of behaviour--of chivalry, it might be described, tempered by legalism--which in Indian minds can be dissociated from the fact of English rule, the vulgarities of racial arrogance, or the position of England today. ... This
consciousness of Englishness will survive because it was the product of fantasy, a work of national art; it will outlast England; ... The Raj was an expression of the English involvement with themselves rather than with the country they ruled. It is not, properly, an imperialist attitude. It points, not to the good or evil of British rule in India, but to its failure.”
― Naipaul V S

“Imperialism, like dictatorship sears the soul, degrades the spirit, and makes individuals small, the better to rule them. Fear and cowardice are its allies. Imperialism is government of other people, by other people, and for other people.
Colonial administration never is, and never can be successful. History has known no good colonisers. Every empire digs its own grave. Imperialism is a perpetual insult, for it assumes that the outsiders has the right to rule the insider who cannot rule themselves, it is thus arrogant nationalism and inevitably begets an opposing nationalism.”
― Louis Fischer, Life of Mahatma Gandhi