"J. Robert Oppenheimer — the
man who invented the atom bomb — was called to testify before the US Senate Armed Services Committee. The Committee asked:
‘Doctor, is there any defence against a nuclear weapon?’ He promptly replied: ‘Yes, peace.’”
Fali S. Nariman, constitutional jurist and
senior advocate, Supreme Court, The
Indian Express, November 5, 2022
"Every man is guilty of all the
good he did not do.”
Voltaire, French writer and philosopher quoted by Dr Mazda Turel,
neurosurgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals
and honorary assistant professor of
neurosurgery, Grant Medical College
and Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals,
mid-day, November 13, 2022
"The state underplayed its role in not placing orders for enough vaccines in time: as of January 2021, we had ordered 16 million vaccines for 1.4 billion people, when the US had ordered 600 million for a
population of 300 million.”
The Struggle and the Promise by Naushad Forbes, co-chairman, Forbes Marshall; past president, Confederation of Indian Industry; chairman, Centre for Technology,
Innovation and Economic Research
and Ananta Aspen Centre
"At one time, a large number
of Irani cafés ran in Poona,
Hyderabad, Karachi and
Bombay. As the Sassoons and the Wadias created ecosystems around colonial centers, there was a need for bakeries, restaurants that served non-vegetarian food, and helped feed the working man.”
Dr Simin Patel, scholar and founder
director, Bombaywalla Historical Works, sunday mid-day, September 4, 2022
"The world had changed, Kersi (Katrak) had not. A creative
powerhouse, he had no head for money. MCM (Mass Communication and Marketing) consequently went bankrupt. But it ended up being the mothership which launched the leading lights that dominated Indian advertising for decades.”
Bittu Sahgal, salesperson turned
environmentalist, sunday mid-day,
September 11, 2022
"I’ve always been a huge student of the (American) Constitution.
I’m amazed at how short it is,
how long it has survived, and
how it has stood up to all of the trials and tribulations of
interpreting it over the years.”
Firdaus F. Dordi, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, Valley Lawyer, July 2022
"I’m a big fan of marriage, having done it a few times. And if gay couples want to be as happily or miserably married as straight
couples, more power to them.”
Nancy Mace, Republican
Congresswoman, South Carolina, The Washington Post, August 8, 2022