Rajeev Ramakrishnan

“We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”
― Karl Marx

“o love is to battle, if two kiss
the world changes, desires take flesh
thoughts take flesh, wings sprout
on the backs of the slave, the world is real
and tangible, wine is wine, bread
regains its savor, water is water,
to love is to battle, to open doors,
to cease to be a ghost with a number
forever in chains, forever condemned
by a faceless master;
the world changes
if two look at each other and see

Piedra de Sol (The Sun Stone), translated by Eliot Weinberger”
― Octavio Paz

“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
― Denis Diderot

“Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones