Shamseerkeloth

“Very soon into the campaign, Indira Gandhi realized things were not going according to plan. As she told journalist Pran Sabharwal, a few days after she announced elections, ‘Jab se election announce hua hai, chaprasi theek se paani tak nahin pila rahe hain (From the moment I have announced the election, even the peons are cold-shouldering me).”
― Neerja Chowdhury, How Prime Ministers Decide

“But repression, they say, breeds resistance in some men, and I was resisting the world with every minute of my life.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Ah, my dear friend, I cannot claim it as my own. It was Karla who said it to me the first time, and I have used it ever since. I am guilty of many crimes—of most crimes, to say the truth—but I have never claimed a cleverness that was not my own.’ ‘Admirable,’ I laughed.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Part of the solution to that problem was for one person, the chief, to exercise a monopoly on the right to use force.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel