3 Quotes by Vinod Mehta

After the disastrous 1962 China war, a patriot wrote this graffiti on a wall, ‘Krishna Menon is a fool.’ He was hauled up in court and sentenced to fifteen years of imprisonment – one year for defacing public property and fourteen years for letting out state secrets!

Adlai Stevenson, ‘It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Abuse can be laced with humour and made less toxic, almost acceptable. When Winston Churchill heard his long-term rival Clement Attlee had collapsed and been rushed to hospital, he said, ‘Nothing trivial, I hope.