Kavitha Sivakumar

“நம் வாழ்க்கை முறை உடம்பை
வாழையாய் வளர்த்துவிட்டது.
மனதைக் கோழையாய்
வளர்த்துவிட்டது. உடம்புக்கும்
மனதுக்கும் ஒருமைப்பாடு
இல்லை.
செருப்புக் கடித்துச்
செத்துப்போகும்
தேகங்களை
வளர்த்துவிட்டோ ம்.
தந்திவந்தால் இறந்துபோகும்
இதயங்களை
வளர்த்துவிட்டோ ம்.”
― R Vairamuthu, Thaneer Desam

“Stars! It looks as if you're winking amused at the idiocy of the people on this earth. You have every reason to laugh. You saw the battle that happened a hundred years ago, and the blood that flooded the ground a long time afterwards. You wonder why there should be so much enmity among human beings, so much carnage and bloodshed. And why this should be known as heroism!"
"Even after a man has been dead a hundred years, people continue to hate him. This is an enemy's pallipadai where people gather to torture the living in name of the dead. Stars in the sky! Why wouldn't you laugh! Laugh!”
― Kalki, பொன்னியின் செல்வன், பாகம் 1: புது வெள்ளம்

“Thinking about things freely means leaving behind your physical body. Leaving the cage of your physical flesh, breaking free of the chains, and letting pure logic soar free. Giving a natural life to logic. That's the core of free thought.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches