Deep Sourav

“You take away economic security and the whole pack of cards collapses. Everyone is at each other’s throats. All these vaunted bourgeois values that prop up society – love, duty, honour, respect – all rest on power-relations lubricated by economics. They are the gloss people put on the naked truth: self-interest.”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others

“I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide...”
― Emil Cioran

“Fortunately there are wars. And rationing is one of the grandest inventions of man. You stamp paper with figures and you feed stomachs on numbers.”
― Raja Rao, The Cat and Shakespeare

“I do not share the belief in indefinite progress for society as a whole; I believe in man’s improvement in himself.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Works of Honore de Balzac