Wendy Doniger Quotes & Sayings

Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries. — Wendy Doniger

The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak. — Wendy Doniger

Although proselytizing is not in itself necessarily intolerant, it does close the open-ended door of pluralism — Wendy Doniger

As long as it was just a matter of graft and the lust for power, the British treated the people they robbed as human beings. It was religion that made them treat them like devils — Wendy Doniger

Its hatred is directed not only against Hindus of the more diverse traditions - the ones that the British, and Rammohan Roy, taught the Hindus to despise - but also, ironically, against the very monotheisms (Islam and Christianity) that nurtured the Hindu insistence that Hinduism is monotheistic. — Wendy Doniger

Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda, — Wendy Doniger

intrareligious and interreligious. Hinduism interacted — Wendy Doniger

Kautilya makes Machiavelli look like Mother Teresa — Wendy Doniger

The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think, — Wendy Doniger

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars. — Wendy Doniger

Voltaire was deeply impressed by it and cited it often. — Wendy Doniger

(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. — Wendy Doniger

Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people? — Wendy Doniger

Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning. — Wendy Doniger