J G Farrell Inspirational Quotes (3)

The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them.

Why on earth should we be at each other's throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change than an idea?

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.