Mangesh Padgaonkar Best Quotes & Sayings

My take on the various components of Maoist politics varies, depending on the philosophical, theoretical, strategic, or methodological element in question. In general, I consider Maoism to be an internal critique of Stalinism that fails to break with Stalinism. Over many years, Mao developed a critical understanding of Soviet society, and of the negative symptoms it displayed. But at the same time, he failed to locate the cause of these symptoms in the capitalist social relations of the USSR and so retained many shared assumptions with the Stalinist model in his own thinking. — Elliott Liu

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something. — Alan Lightman

From a legal point of view - " He shook his head. "Forget the law. It isn't going to help. They'll cite it where it suits them, ignore it where it doesn't. They're clerics, Archeth. They spend their whole fucking lives selectively interpreting textual authority to advantage. — Richard K. Morgan

No one gives you anything in life. You gotta work hard and go after it to get it. — Rob Dyrdek

The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist. — Gordon Korman

Muslims now with only 15-16 percent population have a decisive say in about 200 out of total 542 Lok Sabha — Darshan Khullar

O love, where are you leading me now? — Robert Creeley

We always describe a piece as 'really lively' where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical. — Jerry Yang

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways. — Peter Diamandis

There is no love in Puritanism. It turns out that these monsters that won't allow any deviation from that rigid orthodoxy are obsessed with frigging, fucking, wanking, twatty sex. Don't do it, they screamed, while that's exactly what they did. My mother's cunt was all bent out of shape to prove it ... All those Puritan preachers were vindictive, vengeful men spouting hateful thoughts and threats, and it's disheartening that they're still taught in the schools with reverence. They were shits. And they spouted shit. And a goodly portion of the world is still spouting shit. — Larry Kramer

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking — Marvin Bell

With a lot of success comes a lot of negativity. — Beyonce Knowles

The dead should not have to answer to the claims of the living, even the sharpest grief. — Emily Croy Barker