A Cough... While People Sleep!

· Excerpts from readable books...."The corruption of rulers stems from the corruption of the ruled"

· "The calamity is not in the oppression of the oppressors, but in the silence of the oppressed"

· "The worst affliction that can befall a nation is the union of religion with despotism"

· "Despotism is a heavier burden than a plague, more dreadful than a fire, more ruinous than a flood, more humiliating to the self than begging."

· When a country endures prolonged repression, generations of people arise who do not need freedom, adapt to despotism, and what may appear is what we can call: "the settled citizen".

· "Poverty and oppression break something in people—ordinary people—the sense of citizenship is struck with a fissure.. When the regime treats people as the civil servant, the tax collector, the policeman, the landowner's agent...., and these all have not only usurped people’s work but have stolen their courage, stolen their capacity for collective action, taught them submission, contentment with humiliation, and then acceptance of fate however it comes" (Jawaharlal Nehru, "former Prime Minister of India").

· "That political language kills the essence of the national demand.. that literature threatens the right.. and that gentleness slaughters bravery"... (Jawaharlal Nehru)

· "There are seven things that destroy a person: politics without principles, pleasure without conscience, wealth without work, knowledge without values, commerce without ethics, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice" (Mahatma Gandhi)

· On 28-12-2020