Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

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• For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

  

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• The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.

  

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• I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.

  

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• Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

  

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• Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • West
  • Civilized
  • Asia