Wendy Doniger Quotes

#1. Although proselytizing is not in itself necessarily intolerant, it does close the open-ended door of pluralism

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#2. intrareligious and interreligious. Hinduism interacted

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#3. Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?

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#4. Kautilya makes Machiavelli look like Mother Teresa

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#5. Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.

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#6. As long as it was just a matter of graft and the lust for power, the British treated the people they robbed as human beings. It was religion that made them treat them like devils

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#7. Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda,

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#8. I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

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#9. The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.

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#10. Voltaire was deeply impressed by it and cited it often.

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#11. (Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.

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#12. Its hatred is directed not only against Hindus of the more diverse traditions - the ones that the British, and Rammohan Roy, taught the Hindus to despise - but also, ironically, against the very monotheisms (Islam and Christianity) that nurtured the Hindu insistence that Hinduism is monotheistic.

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#13. The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think,

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