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Tariq Ali Quotes

Pakistani - Historian | October 21, 1943 -

The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.

Music Lie Years Classical Music

The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.

Voice Temple Human Dancers Aid Any

Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

Music Time Born Royal Master Within

There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.

Culture Real Years Agreement Poets

'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

Great Old Taken For Granted Because

The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

Culture Democracy Political Born Way

I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.

I Am Corruption Activism Social Am

For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.

India Policy Foreign Policy United

I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.

Father War College Army Place Know

I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.

Time Myself Regret Too Much Young

I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.

Home Democracy Think Same West Wars

I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.

I Am Political Happen Europe Aware

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