Village Quotes

Our innocent kids undergo much trouble. Not only do the children of high caste families look down upon our children calling them low caste brats, but even some teachers ridicule them. They beat our children for no reason.

According to the Buddha's doctrine that they believed in, it was not the caste that defined a person high or low. It was one's deeds that mattered.

Village life gently swirled around them, with the perpetual ebb and flow of people, scurrying in every direction. The village was a living, organic entity, with blood flowing through its veins, and with a definite pulse and heartbeat. It had its own distinct personality and its own dark caustic humour, and was constantly processing and regurgitating information through its winding, meandering streets.

If their horoscopes are not compatible, this marriage is out of the question.

Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".

A man that has not dealt with his foundation cannot deal with another man's foundation.

I will build the best Potemkin village for you, my love!

Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy.

The villagers considered it lucky to make the New Year's first money transaction with her because she was a prosperous person.

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.