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“Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.”
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“I never knew how easy it is to escape if you don't mind leaving nearly everything behind.”
― A Tyranny of Petticoats
― A Tyranny of Petticoats
“Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.”
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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
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“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”
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Raeesa’s 2025 Year in Books
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