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Minds Quotes by Arundhati Roy
- Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice,…
- People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and…
- Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs…
- Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that…
- And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering.…
- Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.
More Minds Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- Nobody minds having what is too good for them. — Jane Austen
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
- When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally… — Ansel Adams
- Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. — Tallulah Bankhead
- Only idiots refuse to change their minds. — Brigitte Bardot
- Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds. — James M. Barrie
- Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. — John Adams