Sajith Kumar

“Friendship is something ritualistic, performed; you must go through the ceremonies and motions to create it. Proclaim friendship often enough, and it just might be forced into existence”
― Sulmaan Wasif Khan, Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts”
― Charles Allen, Coromandel: A Personal History of South India

“Alexander himself, in the hour of his triumph,
was conquered by the soul of the East; he married
(among several ladies) the daughter of Darius; he adopted the Persian diadem and robe of state; he introduced into Europe the Oriental notion of the divine right of kings; and at last he astonished a sceptic Greece by announcing, in magnificent
Eastern style, that he was a god. Greece laughed; and
Alexander drank himself to death.”
― Will Durant, The story of philosophy [Hardcover]

“I thought maybe we’d get all these engineers together and sit around a table. […] I felt that engineers were different from other people, that they were interested in combating nature, that they were above politics […] But I was naive”
― Eugene Black