Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
Krishnamurti, Jiddu. The Flight of the Eagle. Harper & Row, 1971, p. 55.
Opposition to the Bolsheviks
This statement is eerily similar to the statements of some of the Islamic fanatic fundamentalists 80 years later.
His observation was particularly made about Party Politics in an era of ideological party identity. If a Democrat were presented with evidence that lowering corporate taxes would increase the tax yield, it would be hard for him to accept this change of mind because if he did change, his party colleagues would accuse him of abandoning the basic principles of the party,
He was one of the few Muslim political leaders who at that time called for reform of any aspect of Islam where reform and change are considered blasphemy and heresy by most Islamic theologians and clerics.
Jiddu Krishnamurti was a philosopher, speaker and writer. In his early life, he was groomed to be the new World Teacher, but later rejected this mantle and withdrew from the Theosophy organization behind it. His interests included psychological revolution, the nature of mind, meditation, inquiry, human relationships, and bringing about radical change in society. He stressed the need for a revolution in the psyche of every human being and emphasised that such revolution cannot be brought about by any external entity, be it religious, political, or social.
