Manu Joseph Quotes

• The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India's poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is to chat with other people. And when the poor chat, it is not always about curing a child of diarrhea.

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  Children, People, Triumph

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• You acquire a new kind of intelligence when you stay away from instant news.

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  News, Kind, Instant

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• At the heart of memory, is the stillness of time.

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  Memories, Heart, Stillness

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• But then the fate of shy people is that all of their fears usually come true.

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  Fate, People, Shy

  Manu Joseph (2015). “The Illicit Happiness Of Other People”, p.6, HarperCollins Publishers India

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• It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is the evidence that people are not as smart as dogs think they are.And he wants to see it time and again.In the fog of ambiguities and mysteries,he desperately searches for truths because truth usually shows humanity in a poor light

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  Dog, Smart, Men

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• No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children

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  Children, Parent, Matter

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• The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And that language is a trap, that a dark evolutionary force has created languages to limit human thought. That writers are overrated fools. That all religions come from ancient comic writers. And the ultimate goal of comics is same as the purpose of humanity – to break free from language.

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  Dark, Thinking, People

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• That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends.

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  Memories, Reality, Men

  Manu Joseph (2011). “Serious Men”, p.10, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really

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  Men, Doe, Benefits

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• The Magna Carta is an early reminder of the crucial difference between freedom and liberty. Liberty is freedom that is unique to humans, it is guaranteed by law. All animals are free, but in a system of humans total freedom is anarchy. Humans have thrived by letting a dominant authority regulate freedom. Liberty is a freedom that the authority has granted or has been persuaded to grant. For centuries, the state and the people have negotiated, peacefully and violently.

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  Animal, Unique, Law

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• Yes, Yes. Indians were the oldest civilization on Earth, the greatest, the best. And only Indians had culture. Others were all dumb nomads and whores.

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  Civilization, Dumb, Culture

  Manu Joseph (2011). “Serious Men”, p.297, HarperCollins Publishers

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• From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they don’t have to face. They are not just a nuisance. As a collective they are dangerous. When men capable of murder receive the affection of engineers and MBAs, it makes them potentially far more lethal.

  Manu Joseph

  Distance, Men, Mba

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