I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

Life ahead is full of endless opportunities.

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.

It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.

I need you,ʺ said Lissa. ʺI hear that from women a lot,ʺ said Adrian.