But I couldn't respond. My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no reaction at all. But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has n...
Black money runs through the fingers faster than legal, hard-earned money. If we can’t respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can’t use it to make life better for our families and loved...
Black markets for things exist,’ he said slowly, as if confiding a personal secret rather than a commercial fact, ‘because the white markets are too strict. In this case, in the case of currencies, th...
At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead...
At first, on that first journey out of the city into India, I found such sudden politeness infuriating after the violent scramble to board the train. It seemed hypocritical for them to show such defer...
And while a small measure of bitterness might’ve protected me from time to time, as it sometimes does, I’ve learned that sweet memories don’t walk through cynical doors.
And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirti...
And little by little, things settled down to the semblance of peace that’s good enough, when you know enough about bad enough.
And if you did this, if you saved your mother from this vicious killer, would you be doing the wrong thing or the right thing?
Anarchists...' I began and then faltered. 'No political philosophy I ever heard of loves the human race as much as anarchism. Every other way of looking at the world says that people have to be contro...
An amateur is anyone who hasn’t learned how not to do it,’ I said.
All political systems favour the powerful rich over the defenceless poor.
A young man didn't bring flowers or chocolates to the woman he loved: He brought her stories from the wider world, where men grappled with demons of desire, and monstrous injustice.
A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there’s no river.
A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water
A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.
A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.
A business suit, Didier once said to me, is nothing but a military uniform, stripped of its honour. And
Сякаш в гънките на кожата бе събрала чудовищното и скръбно осъзнаване, че няма щастие без мъка, че всяко богатство си има цена и че няма живот, който рано или късно да не получи в пълна мяра своя дял...
— Така ще е справедливо — обяви Касим Али онази вечер, а очите му с цвят на дървесна кора гледаха меко младежите, — защото справедливостта е преценка, едновременно честна и опрощаваща. Не може да има...