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Pulkit Malhotra
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“Modern colonialism won its great victories not so much through its military and technological prowess as through its ability to create secular hierarchies incompatible with the traditional order.”
― The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism
― The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism
“I, too, stood on the sacred image. For a moment this foot was on his face. It was on the face of the man who has been ever in my thoughts, on the face that was before me on the mountains, in my wanderings, in prison, on the best and most beautiful face that any man can ever know, on the face of him whom I have always longed to love. Even now that face is looking at me with eyes of pity from the plaque rubbed flat by many feet. « Trample ! » said those compassionate eyes. « Trample ! Your foot suffers in pain ; it must suffer like all the feet that have stepped on this plaque. But that pain alone is enough. I understand your pain and your suffering. It is for that reason that I am here. »
« Lord, I resented your silence. »
« I was not silent. I suffered beside you. »”
― Silence
« Lord, I resented your silence. »
« I was not silent. I suffered beside you. »”
― Silence
“We have only to conquer
Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
Now is the triumph of the cross.”
― Murder in the Cathedral
Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
Now is the triumph of the cross.”
― Murder in the Cathedral
“There’s a reason that God gave us two ears, two eyes and one mouth. It’s so you can listen and watch twice as much as you talk. Best of all, listening costs you nothing.”
― Leading: Lessons in leadership from the legendary Manchester United manager
― Leading: Lessons in leadership from the legendary Manchester United manager
“What day is the day that we know that we hope for or fear for? Every day is the day we should fear from or hope from. One moment Weighs like another. Only in retrospection, selection, We say, that was the day. The critical moment That is always now, and here.”
― Murder in the Cathedral
― Murder in the Cathedral
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