Surath Giri

“Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.”
― Edward Snowden

“Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties and independent newspapers, cannot help but make such an effort. Not surprisingly, while India continued to have famines under British rule right up to independence … they disappeared suddenly with the establishment of a multiparty democracy and a free press. … a free press and an active political opposition constitute the best early-warning system a country threaten by famines can have”
― Amartya Sen

“At this point I have no patience whatsoever with people who claim they want to help Africans or Black people but who are “anti-capitalists.”
― Magatte Wade, The Heart of A Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied to about African Poverty, and What That Means for Human Flourishing