
The Guardian, Arundhati Roy https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/oct/28/arundhati-roy-india-kashmir-bjp
Quote, Professor P.C. Mahalanobis and the Development of Population Statistics in lndia
The Guardian, Arundhati Roy https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/oct/28/arundhati-roy-india-kashmir-bjp
“Modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population.”
Spark (2014)
Context: Modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population. If you pull away the curtain and show the reality of power, people are motivated to question the fictions that govern their own lives.
Bernays, Paul. " Comments on Ludwig Wittgenstein's Remarks on the foundations of mathematics http://www.phil.cmu.edu/projects/bernays/Pdf/wittgenstein.pdf." Ratio 2.1 (1959): 1-22.
C. R. Rao in "Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in Vigyanprasar".
Source: The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. xxi
Adam Schaff (1967), "Functional Definition, Ideology, and the Problem of the 'fin du siècle' of Ideology." L’Homme et la Société, April-June 1967. pp. 49-61; p. 50
Source: The Ethics of Freedom (1973 - 1974), p. 396
Context: No society can last in conditions of anarchy. This is self-evident and I am in full agreement. But my aim is not the establishment of an anarchist society or the total destruction of the state. Here I differ from anarchists. I do not believe that it is possible to destroy the modern state. It is pure imagination to think that some day this power will be overthrown. From a pragmatic standpoint there is no chance of success. Furthermore, I do not believe that anarchist doctrine is the solution to the problem of organization in society and government. I do not think that if anarchism were to succeed we should have a better or more livable society. Hence I am not fighting for the triumph of this doctrine.
On the other hand, it seems to me that an anarchist attitude is the only one that is sufficiently radical in the face of a general statist system.
“What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?”
Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 455
Shri K. R. Narayanan President of India in Conversation with N. Ram on Doordarshan and All India Radio