"If the charter of your liberties entails death……" — Amitav Ghosh
"If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter."
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Amitav Ghosh
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10 Quotes by Amitav Ghosh
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To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to…
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You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But,…
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...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs,…
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What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and…
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(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their…
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How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and…
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The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at…
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[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings ---…
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I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that…
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