Amitav Ghosh Quotes

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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 justify the past.
• 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 wasn't…
• If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
• ...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the…
• What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by…
• (He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can…
• How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs…
• The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
• [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…
• I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must…

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