You laughed for the marrow in their bones that was not yet ready for laughter;
And you wept for their eyes that yet were dry.
Your voice fathered their thoughts and their understanding.
Your voice mothered their words and their breath.

Historians must break out of the prison of ideas.

After this I proceeded to the city of Barwan, in the road to which is a high mountain, covered with snow and exceedingly cold; they call it the Hindu Kush, that is Hindu-slayer, because most of the slaves brought thither from India die on account of the intenseness of the cold.

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.

Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb.

A Sudra, whether bought or unbought he may do servile work; for he was created by the Self-Existent (Svayambhu) to be the slave of a Brahmana.

The early Indo-Aryans could no more have thought in modern terms of the race prejudice than they could have invented the airplane.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

For if this country—or any other of the great powers—were to make its defense program a function of its domestic employment situation, it would become impossible to conduct a constructive and well-thought out foreign policy or to develop any lasting collaboration.

What? You thought I was a what? You...You...You daughter of a pig!

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.

One of the most important thought leaders of the Hindu revivalist movement...

It [thought] is a mechanical thing and can solve only mechanical problems. But you want to use it to understand something living; that is the problem. It is not intended for that. Human problems are something living. You cannot use thinking to solve those problems.

...we’ve got to get the building trades organizations, the construction trades, and the oil workers. These are the people who need to be brought on board in terms of climate.

Mr. Ai, we’ve seen the same events with different eyes; I wrongly thought they’d seem the same to us.