In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization – that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.

I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people’s lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

What we live by we die by.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

People love conspiracy theories.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.