You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you’re always in a compartment, and because you’re used to it you don’t realize that through that car window everything you see is
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“Scientific temperament is a process of thinking, method of action, search of truth, way of life, spirit of a freeman.”
― The Case for Reason: Volume One: Understanding the Anti-superstition Movement
― The Case for Reason: Volume One: Understanding the Anti-superstition Movement
“Fascists say you must live as they tell you. Free people say that you should live your own life and we will live ours.”
― Islam: Religion or Fascism?
― Islam: Religion or Fascism?

“Mahabharata is about the household, about relationships, about others. It is essentially about a property dispute. Arjuna’s dilemma begins when he realizes that the enemy is family and he fears the impact of killing family on society as a whole. Krishna”
― My Gita
― My Gita
“Savarkar went a step yet further than Golwalkar. He brazenly supported the Manusmriti, which said that a Shudra who insults a high-caste man with gross invectives should have his tongue cut out, for the former was of low origin; that if he arrogantly taught Brahmins their duty, the king should cause hot oil to be poured into his mouth and into his ears; that a low-caste man who tried to place himself on the same seat with a man of high caste should be branded on his hips and be banished or the king should cause his buttocks to be gashed.38 Of this same text, Savarkar said, ‘Manusmriti is that scripture which is most worshipable after Vedas for our Hindu nation.”
― Hindu Rashtra
― Hindu Rashtra
“Vani showed concern in a manner that disturbed instead of soothed. From Vani, I realized that even humming could be loud and a sleeping person could be jarring. I learnt from her, a manner that, like my husband once said to me, “makes your invitations repulsive.” From her, I understood that caring was about taking over and not about surrendering. Desirable”
― Urmila
― Urmila
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