“to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.” SocialSilenceConversationStandardsIndiaTrainStrangerWeatherInevitableIndianEmbarrassingGatheringIntroductionEnglishmenSmall TalkFillers Book:Home to India Source: Home to India
“Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them; . . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.” MenNeedsLongMadeCountryFactsPoliticalEvilLostSocialLossMoralTechnologyRevolutionMereStrangerStupidityDisasterFrustrationCapitalistDeclineSocialistCrushedUsefulnessPolitical Revolution Book:Les Belles Images Source: Les Belles Images