Thread by @BrankoMilan

Nirad Chadhury, Thy Hand, Great Anarch: India 1921-1952.
"Ever since I have become capable of thinking I have despised public opinion. I have realized that it follows events & cannot influence them, & besides shifts with a blind fickleness which is terrifying to watch." (p.69)

..One must say that the economic theories of political violence and terrorism are total nonsense. I would set down most emphatically that nowhere in the world has terrorism been, or is, a product of economic distress. It springs solely from racial or class hatred." (p.314).

[On British report on India]
"It was as if the wolf, when presenting his argument to the lamb for eating it was assuming that he was speaking only to a fellow-wolf & at the same time taking it for granted that if the lamb was not persuaded it must be a very unreasonable animal."

Gandhi after the invasion of France by Hitler: "[the Germans of the future generations] will honour Herr Hitler as a genius, as a brave man, a matchless organizer and much more" (p. 536).

"No empire in the entire history of the mankind has exterminated the original inhabitants of a country in the manner of the Americans. Not even the Spanish conquistadores practised a sustained cruelty like the British settlers...

...It is through this extermination that the Americans have earned the right to be anti-imperialistic, while the British, by allowing people like us not only to survive but to prosper, have had the stigma of being oppressors and exploiters fastened on them." (p.779)