There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate.

She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different.

When the corruption seems to go all the way to the end of the world, the only good approach is through the front door with a gun in each hand.

I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.

You… are the symbol of the revolution that will transform Aryavarta; you are the one who has brought us to this.– Panchali Draupadi

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generations before we can have the conditions we seek.

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.

Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.

Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.

The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.

The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary.

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.