Amitav Ghosh

“Hold a bottle by the neck and a woman by the waist. Never the other way around”.”

― Amitav Ghosh

“The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.”

― Amitav Ghosh

“Contrary to what I might like to think, my life is not guided by reason;it is ruled rather by the inertia of habitual motion.”

― Amitav Ghosh

“In a way the better the master; the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.”

― Amitav Ghosh

“Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.”

― Amitav Ghosh

"To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past."

― Amitav Ghosh

“when merchants and traders begin to run wars – hundreds of lives depend on bribes.”

― Amitav Ghosh

“It is by worrying about adversity that people survive; complacency brings catastrophe.”

― Amitav Ghosh

“The only way to find out was to try.”

― Amitav Ghosh

"Climate change is like death. no one wants to talk about it."

― Amitav Ghosh

“The truth is, sir, that men do what their power permits them to do. We are no different from the Pharaohs or the Mongols: the difference is only that when we kill people we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.”

― Amitav Ghosh