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We lost our Socrates
by Anfonze alexander on Oct 10, 2007 11:42 PM   Permalink | Hide replies

Here are some of his quotes. It is very difficult to translate his poetic malayalam, but still here are some.
1. A yawn can kill a great idea.
2. When elephant realises its strengh the mahout dies.
3. War is hysteria of history.
4. What we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history!
5. Art is a process in which we give form and meaning to this formless, meaningless world.
6. TO HAVE SOMETHING DIFFERENT is a market strategy of the bourgeois system.
7. Our existence is not for the sake of culture, instead culture exist for us. If it is harmful to us, or if it is decadent then we should abandon that culture.
7. Fascism reverts history.
8. You tell a beautiful lie and you call it imagination.
9. We give more importance to Asoka's repentance than the lives of thousands of men who died in Kalinga battle.
10. Our faith is sacred but other faiths are just superstitions.
11. Modern capitalism streams in through funding agencies and they target our civil societies.
13. Television and Newspaper inundate us with informations. So we have so much of information and so little direct experience. These informations are like conducted tours.
14. These days all non communists are wizards


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  RE:We lost our Socrates
by Tathagata Mukherjee on Oct 11, 2007 06:18 AM   Permalink

Why you have to always compare Indians with Greece, and Rome?

Stop living in mental colonization!

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  RE:We lost our Socrates
by Tathagata Mukherjee on Oct 11, 2007 06:24 AM   Permalink

>>Fascism reverts history.

Under Communists in power, just in 100 years, MORE THAN 100 MILLION PEOPLE WERE KILLED (See "Black book of Communism" by Harvard Univ Press).

Most of those were Minorities.

Only a Commie with NO SHAME can beat the drum of anti-facism, or pro-minoritism in India.

Fact is, they themselves are facists incarnate.

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  RE:We lost our Socrates
by bhagat singh on Oct 11, 2007 12:25 PM   Permalink
There are some correction Mr.Anfonze
3. War is tool of communist
7. Communism reverts history
9. We give more importance to Lenin's repentance who cold bloodedly killed Czar and his family by using Hungarian prisoners of war.
14. Communists thinks they are wizards

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