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“It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can always be more unconventional than women, and a bachelor of independent means need encounter no difficulties at all.”

Book:Howards End

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Howards End

E.M. Forster's classic novel weaves together the lives of three families, the Wilcoxes, the Schlegels, and the Basts, as they navigate the complexities of their relationships and the shifting social landscape of the time. more

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E.M. Forster

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“I hated this new breed of pacifist Indian revolutionary. So often they acted like we were all just good friends who happened to disagree about something, and that once the issue was resolved – obviously in their favour – we’d go back to taking tea and being the best of chums. It made punching them in the face morally difficult.”

Hatred India Independence Human Rights Colonialism Non Violent Protest Struggle For The People Pacifisn

Book:Smoke and Ashes

Source: Smoke and Ashes

“True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer.”

Love Independence

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“Independence has made us Soft”

Politics Independence Revoloution

Book:The battle against underdevelopment: Being the text of his keynote address to the United Nations' General Assembly, in the special session on problems ... and development

Source: The battle against underdevelopment: Being the text of his keynote address to the United Nations' General Assembly, in the special session on problems ... and development

“I have an impulse to apologize, but my mother always says that many women apologize when they´ve done nothing wrong, like they´re apologizing simply for existing.”

Feminism Independence Male Gaze

Book:We Fell Apart

Source: We Fell Apart

“What is the ordinary criminal but one who has committed the fatal mistake of endeavouring after what is the people's instead of seeking for what is his? He has sought despicable alien goods, has done what believers do who seek after what is God's. What does the priest who admonishes the criminal do? He sets before him the great wrong of having desecrated by his act what was hallowed by the state, its prop erty (in which, of course, must be included even the life of those who belong to the state); instead of this, he might rather hold up to him the fact that he has besmirched himself in not despising the alien thing, but thinking it worth stealing; he could, if he were not a cleric Talk with the so-called criminal as with an egoist, and he will be ashamed, not that he transgressed against your laws and goods, but that he considered your laws worth evading, your goods worth desiring; he will be ashamed that he did not - despise you and yours together, that he was too little an egoist”

Philosophy Crime Morality Independence Individualism Egoism

Book:The Ego and Its Own

Source: The Ego and Its Own

“Negroidity represents antiquity, the time of dependence on things (on cocks' eating, birds' flight, on sneezing, on thunder and lightning, on the rustling of sacred trees, and so forth) ; Mongoloidity the time of dependence on thoughts, the Christian time. Reserved for the future are the words, 'I am owner of the world of things, and I am owner of the world of mind'.”

Philosophy Civilization Independence Individualism Mind And Body

Book:The Ego and Its Own

Source: The Ego and Its Own