Prashant Wadnere

“We frolic in our emancipation from theology, but have we developed a natural ethic—a moral code independent of religion—strong enough to keep our instincts of acquisition, pugnacity, and sex from debasing our civilization into a mire of greed, crime, and promiscuity? Have we really outgrown intolerance, or merely transferred it from religious to national, ideological, or racial hostilities?”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

“A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste

“Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.”
― Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

“As far as I'm concerned, I've come to realize only just now that I'm fighting because of pride.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude