--- title: "1 State Love Quotes By Amitav Ghosh" description: "1 State Love quotes by Amitav Ghosh. Plus more from Amitav Ghosh and more State Love sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c3/amitav-ghosh-16648_able_t-hat-state-love-is-so-utterly-alien-to_1449751.jpg" --- > [ \[T\]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It is only because love is so profoundly the enemy of justice that our minds, shrinking… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/t-hat-state-love-is-so-utterly-alien-to-that-other-idea-without-which/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c3/amitav-ghosh-16648_able_t-hat-state-love-is-so-utterly-alien-to_1449751.jpg) ## More by Amitav Ghosh > [“She had talked of this at length with Kadambari—Mrs. Dutt: Why should it not be possible for these freedoms to be universally available for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/she-had-talked-of-this-at-length-with-kadambari-mrs-dutt-why-should/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) > [“How was it that no one had ever told her that it was not love itself, but its treacherous gatekeepers which made the greatest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/how-was-it-that-no-one-had-ever-told-her-that-it-was-not-love-itself/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) > [The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/the-government-to-you-is-what-god-is-to-agnostics-only-to-be-invoked/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) > [“Ana (it is I)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/ana-it-is-i/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) > [“There was a time when the Bengali language was an angry flood trying to break down her door. She would crawl into a closet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/there-was-a-time-when-the-bengali-language-was-an-angry-flood-trying/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) > [ “\[C\]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/c-apitalist-trade-and-industry-cannot-thrive-without-access-to/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) > [“He said: 'You don't understand. We never thought that we were being used to conquer people. Not at all: we thought the opposite. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/he-said-you-don-t-understand-we-never-thought-that-we-were-being-used/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) > [“already know by instinct we're not comfortably at home in our translated world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/already-know-by-instinct-we-re-not-comfortably-at-home-in-our/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) > [“She remembered a word he'd often used, karuna-one of the Buddha's words, Pali for compassion, for the immanence of all living things in each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/she-remembered-a-word-he-d-often-used-karuna-one-of-the-buddha-s/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) > [“And now, indeed, everything began to look new, unexpected, full of surprises. I had a book in my hands to while away the time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/and-now-indeed-everything-began-to-look-new-unexpected-full-of/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) > [“Contrary to what I might like to think,my life is not guided by reason;it is ruled rather by the inertia of habitual motion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/contrary-to-what-i-might-like-to-think-my-life-is-not-guided-by/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) > [“Why don’t they complain?" "They do sometimes. But usually there's nothing in particular to complain about. Take the case of Hardy's appointment: Who was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/why-don-t-they-complain-they-do-sometimes-but-usually-there-s-nothing/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) > [“I had thought you were a better man, Mr Reid, a man of your word, but I see that you are nothing but a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/i-had-thought-you-were-a-better-man-mr-reid-a-man-of-your-word-but-i/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) > [You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/you-see-in-our-family-we-don-t-know-whether-we-re-coming-or-going-it/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) > [ “\[T\]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/t-he-great-irreplaceable-potentiality-of-fiction-is-that-it-makes/) [Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/state-love/amitav-ghosh/#itemlist", "name": "1 State Love Quotes By Amitav Ghosh", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. 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