Kautilya Quotes

#1. To many he was known as Kautilya - the crooked one; to his childhood acquaintances he was Vishnugupta; but to most he was Chanakya - illustrious son of the great and learned Chanak, the most renowned teacher in all of Magadha. He

Ashwin Sanghi

#2. Those who seek to achieve things should show no mercy. Kautilya, Indian philosopher third century B.C. OBSERVANCE

Robert Greene

#3. Kautilya makes Machiavelli look like Mother Teresa

Wendy Doniger

#4. They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed ... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all.

Peter Shaffer

#5. The arrow shot by the archer may or may not kill a single person. But stratagems devised by wise men can kill even babes in the womb.

Kautilya

#6. Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.

Scott Lynch

#7. I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.

Rene Magritte

#8. Great griefs are mute.

Lisa Scottoline

#9. Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#10. Aaron looks like a con man who got hit with a shrink ray and you look like you're going to Catholic school.

Holly Black

#11. With or without God, good decisions can be made; But only with God will great decisions be made.

Damon Thueson

#12. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Mark Twain

#13. The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

Alexander Lowen

#14. for in the absence of a magistrate (dandadharabhave), the strong will swallow the weak; but under his protection, the weak resist the strong.

Kautilya

#15. The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

George Monbiot

#16. Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.

Al-Ma'arri

#17. Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.

Kurt Ralske

#18. Life is eternal and, at the same time, ephemeral.

Debasish Mridha