Tamils Quotes



Sam Harris
Sam Harris

Religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews versus Muslims), the Balkans (Orthodox Serbians versus Catholic Croatians; Orthodox Serbians versus Bosnian and Albanian Muslims), Northern Ireland (Protestants versus Catholics), Kashmir (Muslims versus Hindus), Sudan (Muslims versus Christians and animists), Nigeria (Muslims versus Christians), Ethiopia and Eritrea (Muslims versus Christians), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese Buddhists versus Tamil Hindus), Indonesia (Muslims versus Timorese Christians), Iran and Iraq (Shiite versus Sunni Muslims), and the Caucasus (Orthodox Russians versus Chechen Muslims; Muslim Azerbaijanis versus Catholic and Orthodox Armenians) are merely a few cases in point. In these places religion has been the explicit cause of literally millions of deaths in the last 10 years.
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Thiruvalluvar
Thiruvalluvar

When you are about to badger the weak, Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.
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This is an ancient Indian Tamil version of the Golden Rule.

Thiruvalluvar
Thiruvalluvar

If men must beg to live, May the Creator also go wandering and perish.
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For Tamil Indians the Tirukkural is sacred scripture. There is no archeological evidence of his existence—only his literature. The date therefore is very uncertain and might be as early as the 8th century BC or as late as the 2nd century BC.

Thiruvalluvar
Thiruvalluvar

Reasoning with a drunkard is like going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.
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For Tamil Indians the Tirukkural is sacred scripture. There is no archeological evidence of his existence—only his literature. The date therefore is very uncertain and might be as early as the 8th century BC or as late as the 2nd century BC.

Thiruvalluvar
Thiruvalluvar

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.
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For Tamil Indians the Tirukkural is sacred scripture. There is no archeological evidence of his existence—only his literature. The date therefore is very uncertain and might be as early as the 8th century BC or as late as the 2nd century BC.

Solomon Dias Bandaranaike
Solomon Dias Bandaranaike

It is not right that a servile race should inhabit the same locality which their ancestors inhabited in power and glory.
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He was urging the majority Sinhalese to be more aggressive in dealing with the Tamils.

Thiruvalluvar
Thiruvalluvar

The wound that’s made by fire will heal, But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.
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For Tamil Indians the Tirukkural is sacred scripture. There is no archeological evidence of his existence—only his literature. The date therefore is very uncertain and might be as early as the 8th century BC or as late as the 2nd century BC.

Thiruvalluvar
Thiruvalluvar

As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil; So will a man’s reason vary with the quality of his friends.
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