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Quotes by Bangladeshi Authors
"The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality."
"Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force."
"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."
"Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression."
"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."
"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."
"At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic."
"It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy."
"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."
"Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past."
"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"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."
"Without dreams 'life'remains 'life'..always: neither better nor worse."
"You are the mark on my liquid heartwhere love begins with the beginning's startYou are the desire of the ablaze fires the only truth from ten-thousand-liarsFrom the poem- A Letter to My Love."
"If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?"
"Word-Power'Being stuck in my room,I've become a world traveler.If you wonder how...just guess how I've reached you right now."
"Dreamers must dream on as long as the nightmare wakes them upto greet with a bucketful of reality."
"Wish I could be a fragile piece of glass to accept my brokenness."
"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."
"Your eyes need to be opened wider than your heart, when love is blinder than your eyes."
"Only loyal love knows the sacred path to a faithful heart."
"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."
"Death is every mortal's life to be alive!"
"Dream is an expensive ornament to adorn your hope."
"Science is theology for an atheist."
"A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover."
"Learn from the ants- how a tiny heart is big enough to love, help and care about another living existence."
"She felt nervy as all her excitements turned into weaknesses."
"I believe the night I've never methides one elusive star I needto divide me between darkness and light."
"My eyes in tearsHeart never sighsMy mind never fearsI conquer the lies."
"My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them."
"Give me one more night to taste the darkWhen wolves imitate a lone dog's bark Let those secrets remain unspoken Fallen angel's heart now lover's token Light grows dim burying riddle's death Just breathe to free your one last breath."
"Everything unsaid can be guessedTruth may not always be confessed."
"Let your love be the kindness to make a homeless person believe that a soul needs something more than just four walls and a ceiling."
"My pillows are dreaming, not me.With my eyes closed I only try to feel how they dream."
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