“We deserve leaders who stand for principle, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody.”

On special role of caste in Indian society in page=12.
History, Society, and Land Relations: Selected Essays

Source: The Kiss

Speech in the House of Commons, March 22, 1944 &quot;War Decorations&quot; http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1944/mar/22/war-decorations-and-medals#column_872. <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945)

Source: Always on My Mind

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

Source: White Teeth (2000)
Context: You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, 'Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me.' Now how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll—then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Acceptance Speech (2013)