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“Talk," he continued, chewing rapidly and swallowing, "is the key to liberation, one's tongue the very machete of freedom. We are the only species, some say, who have created speech. But that is only because, being far less intelligent than the majority of the other animals, and more prone to disastrous blunders, in our relationships with others, speech is so necessary.”
― The Temple of My Familiar
― The Temple of My Familiar
“No government's condemnation of terrorism is credible if it cannot show itself to be open to change by nonviolent dissent”
― The End of Imagination
― The End of Imagination
“Make peace with those you love and that love you or with those you wish to love. These are your compañeros, as the latin Americans say. Above all, resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.”
― The Temple of My Familiar
― The Temple of My Familiar
“Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“As one unusually self-critical textile factory owner observed to me, reflecting on the system in which she played a nodal role, "There used to be a time when you could be a capitalist with personality. You could make your own decisions about what kind of ethos you wanted to create. Now it does not matter if you are a 'nice' person. It is completely irrelevant. We live in an age hen we all know what we do is disgusting but we still carry on doing it. The system we are part of feeds on desperation. And any system that demands such levels of desperation will produce more and more disorder, and the only way to keep everything in check will be the increasing militarisation of the world.”
― Capital: The Eruption of Delhi by Rana Dasgupta (6-Mar-2014) Hardcover
― Capital: The Eruption of Delhi by Rana Dasgupta (6-Mar-2014) Hardcover
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