Ramachandra Quotes

#1. At no other time or place in human history have social conflicts been so richly diverse, so vigorously articulated, so eloquently manifest in art and literature or adressed with such directness by the political system and the media.

Ramachandra Guha

#2. Right wins only when we dare and act.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#3. Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it encourages the individual to free himself from the impositions of custom, governmental authority, economic pressures, and cultural inhibitions.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#4. It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda's genocide described as a product of "ancient tribal hatreds." I think this is an easy way for Westerners to dismiss the whole thing as a regrettable but pointless bloodbath that happens to primitive brown people.

Paul Rusesabagina

#5. He carries around a notebook where he keeps a list of suspects and motives so the police will have leads if he ever turns up murdered

Stephanie Tromly

#6. Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#7. It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

Ramachandra Guha

#8. Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#9. I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you're not doing it.

Cynthia Ozick

#10. Be a good listener, so your spoken words may be appropriate

Emmanuel Aluko

#11. Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#12. How these things end. In confusion and curses and blood.

Cormac McCarthy

#13. The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it is atheistic in principle. It could have been the starting point for the atheistic movement in the modern age.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#14. Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#15. Whenever he's tried to dig out such secrets from her behind her mother's back, she has retreated like a tortoise into her child's shell. Children are quick to sense a threat. (From "Crows" by Mrinal Pande)

Keerti Ramachandra

#16. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom,

Ramachandra Guha

#17. In India, the sapling was planted by the nation's founders, who lived long enough (and worked hard enough) to nurture it to adulthood. Those who came afterwards could disturb and degrade the tree of democracy but, try as they might, could not uproot or destroy it.

Ramachandra Guha

#18. In 1962 one Naga faction had made its peace with the government of India, as had another faction in 1975. But there remained a group stubbornly committed to the idea of an independent and sovereign Nagaland. This was the National Socialist Council of Nagaland, led by Isaak Swu and

Ramachandra Guha

#19. The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#20. Don't we all have an itch for kitsch?

Matei Calinescu

#21. A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.

John Eldredge

#22. In India the choice could never be between chaos and stability, but between manageable and unmanageable chaos, between humane and inhuman anarchy, and between tolerable and intolerable disorder. ASHIS NANDY, sociologist, 1990.

Ramachandra Guha

#23. Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.

Bruce Rauner

#24. We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#25. But the history of independent India has remained a field mostly untilled. If history is 'formally constituted knowledge of the past', then for the period since 1947 this knowledge practically does not exist.

Ramachandra Guha

#26. Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

Melissa Brown

#27. Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao