British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the enduring impact of imperialism on British society.
Salman Rushdieβs quote reflects on the lingering remnants of imperialism within British society. It suggests that the historical injustices and moral failings associated with imperialism have not been fully addressed or resolved, leaving a lasting 'filth' that affects contemporary social and cultural dynamics. This statement emphasizes the need for acknowledgment and reckoning with the past to understand and improve the present.
In practice
In a discussion about the lingering effects of colonialism on modern societies.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.
Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
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