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Quotes by Bangladeshi Authors
"It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy."
"The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality."
"At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic."
"Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force."
"Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion."
"Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression."
"My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see."
"I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them."
"I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh."
"Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women."
"I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation."
"Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past."
"But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities."
"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."
"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
"There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences."
"Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame."
"Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay."
"Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it."
"Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?"
"Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?"
"I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked."
"The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism."
"They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy."
"Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away."
"Dreamers must dream on as long as the nightmare wakes them upto greet with a bucketful of reality."
"Your eyes need to be opened wider than your heart, when love is blinder than your eyes."
"Slogans seem to be dead, this world is now busy chanting fears of lost democracy."
"To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back."
"Everything unsaid can be guessedTruth may not always be confessed."
"The moon seems unawareof night's dark hittingon the damp warm rain misguiding owl's spitting A thunder light of loveraising hearts beatingwhile weather learns morefrom rain lovers meeting."
"Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish."
"Without dreams 'life'remains 'life'..always: neither better nor worse."
"Only loyal love knows the sacred path to a faithful heart."
"Learn from the ants- how a tiny heart is big enough to love, help and care about another living existence."
"Deep down inside we always seek for our departed loved ones."
"Pets reflect you like mirrors. When you are happy, you can see your dog smiling and when you are sad, your cat cries."
"Far away soul in a dreamy stateForgotten slumber seemingly latePure rhythmic love now rising higherUnclad passion our only attire."
"Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language."
"...and when we die we die alone I cry, I cry aloneLike a piece of stone I am thrown into the wavy ocean of lifeto atone...to atoneOnly to atone..."
"Wish I could be a fragile piece of glass to accept my brokenness."
"Weep hard as much as you need, but do not let your tears pursue the sorrow for the rest of your life."
"A dung beetle couple in love constantly proves that you still can be in love living on shit."
"Lightning hides the colour of night."
"Death is every mortal's life to be alive!"
"Distance matters only when you fail to cover it through your mind."
"Dream is an expensive ornament to adorn your hope."
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