58 Quotes by R. N. Prasher

The true definition of "the best" is that at the given place at a given moment it is better than the rest. Even a shade better makes it the best and all other distinguishing factors, that usually play a determining role, are considered insignificant.

Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.

When those in power get busy counting coins, those with lot of coins come to power soon.

Freedom and freedom from hunger need not be mutually exclusive. Revenge and cruelty threaten the former; greed threatens the latter. If the Government of the free, by the free and for the free wants to sustain the free State, it has to go hammer and tongs against the enemies of freedom, whether these are revengeful, cruel and violent mobs or their ideological supporters or the greedy who bleed the free so that the hungry will join the mobs.

Freedom is a right only when it sustains and strengthens freedom, not when it seeks to destroy freedom.

A government that is incapable of destroying non-state coercive actors is as harmful to the cause of freedom as a coercive State.

Persuasion and coercion are mutually exclusive. Freedom to persuade does include freedom to persuade by coercion. It also does not include persuasion for coercion. The armchair ideologue who preaches coercion is as guilty of coercion as one who coerces after such "peaceful" persuasion.

Ideology, like every other weapon deployed in the quest for supremacy, is only a means to power. It is never the goal; it has no other sanctity except as a weapon. During the power struggle, like other weapons, ideology too takes a lot of hits and may be disfigured beyond recognition.

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.