Saadat Manto Quotes

#1. [I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me ... [as] inspiration.

ASAP Rocky

#2. If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth

Saadat Hasan Manto

#3. Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries
slave of prejudice ... slave of religious fanaticism ... slave of barbarity and inhumanity.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#4. This new Ariella, quiet and sad, bowed under the weight of terrible knowledge and countless secrets,

Julie Kagawa

#5. Remember, every treasure comes with a price.

Kevin Kwan

#6. Allah sends down natural disasters to control population explosion. He encourages us to go to war, He creates Pakistan and Akhand Bharat. In doing this, He teaches humans new and innovative methods of birth control.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#7. Look this is hardly fair. You sold me impure petrol at black-market price and not even one shop could be put to the torch.

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#8. For me, remembrance of things past has always been a waste of time, and what's the point of tears? I don't know. I've always been focussed on today. Yesterday and tomorrow hold no interest for me. What had to happen, did, and what will happen, will.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#9. We've been hearing this for some time now - Save India from this, save it from that. The fact is that India needs to be saved from the people who say it should be saved.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#10. Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon

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#11. When Hamid dropped Lata off at her house at nine that night, he felt hollow. The touch of her soft body was sheared from him like bark from a tree, and he spent the entire night tossing and turning.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#12. I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#13. Let's not merely contemplate the Word of God in the world around us; let's do what it says (see James 1:22-25).

David Platt

#14. The field that cannot feed even its tiller Burn down every stalk that stands on it.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#15. The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.

R.J. Rushdoony

#16. He ate off dirty plates and was unfazed. His pillowcase was soiled and stank, but he never thought of changing it. Hamid thought long and hard, but he couldn't understand him. He often asked, 'Babuji, why aren't you revolted by dirtiness?

Saadat Hasan Manto

#17. To those men who say that women from "good families" must come into the world of cinema, I have this question: What is it that you mean by "good?" A woman, who honestly puts her wares on display, and sells them without an intention to cheat, is such a woman not virtuous?

Saadat Hasan Manto

#18. I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

Mohsin Hamid

#19. I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#20. You would have realized that it wasn't Mumtaz, a muslim, a friend of yours, but a human being you had killed. I mean, if he was a bastard, by killing him you wouldn't have killed the bastard in him; similarly, assuming that he was a Muslim, you wouldn't have killed his Muslimness, but him.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#21. In love, all questions are answered.

Djana Fahryeva

#22. I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

Michael Pollan

#23. Her pores were like those of an orange, its skin filled with juice, which, if you applied the slightest pressure, would squirt up into your eyes. She was that fresh.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#24. Manto had earlier been prosecuted in Lahore for obscenity, and one of the words alleged to have been obscene was, breasts

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#25. War has brought inflation even to the graveyard.

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#26. My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#28. If someone is determined to kill himself, nothing will stop him.

Dorothy Simpson

#29. He catches the thieves that lie in the hearts of their pure and respectable wives. And he compares them to the purity in the heart of a whore in a brothel.

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#30. But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#31. I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#32. Literature and film in my opinion are like saloons where bottles have no labels. I want to taste each one myself and figure out which is what. If I'm denied this by labelling, then my entertainment is considerably lessened.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#33. If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion? ... Is love incompelete without it? ... Is love the name of physical excersize ?

Saadat Hasan Manto

#34. And it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.

Saadat Hasan Manto