book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

Society

Patriotism is the love of culture we share with our neighbours in the security of each other’s proximity .
Terrorism is the last refuge of a dejected fanatic.
We have equal human rights and unequal human capacities and opportunities.
Many will always be manipulated by the few. It inheres in the genetic make up and social conditions of the human beings.
The wealth and well-being of the West were jump-started by their rigorous and ruthless exploitation of the backward countries, as the colonists and creditors.
Elegant socialites meet each other with cordial smiles, concealing venom at heart.
A retrogressive society has more preachers than teachers.
Hard work leads to success and more hard work. Call it progress or greedy trap, as you may prefer.
Civility is the goodly capacity to suffer fools.
Gratitude is the regard that the need expresses for future favours.
One is never weary of a person who listens to one’s monologue.
If you wish to be considered a polite company, you have often to suffer fools in conversation.
Reputation is also what others do not say at your face.
Many are honest for the lack of opportunity or courage.
Power makes arrogance acceptable and insolence excuseable.
Some are superior to others intellectually and brisk in availing opportunity with alacrity. The dictum of equality in justice will not help ostensibly alike but fatefully or genetically inferior. There is no such thing as equal justice in life .
Envy is to want for yourself what others possess and jealousy is to desire others not to have what you possess. Envy leads to the endeavour and success and jealousy ensnares in the impotent umbrage.
Some of the Western television programmes, in which the participants lay bare their innermost 1118. private and dirty secrets before the applauding audience, are shamelessly televised to provide
ml sickening excitement for the profit.
The worst tragedy of an ethnic people is not the relegation of their culture to anonymity, but Im the loss of their will to question their humiliation.
Easiest way to invoke submission is to put a person into fear or shame. Both sap the will and energy to resist or rebel. This is the time-honoured method employed by the powers, secular or religious, to overawe the masses for docile compliance of the legal or moral law, however illogical or absurd.
Kissing in public is socially acceptable in the West. It is a disgrace among the Muslims. Attitudes towards sex is one more aspect of the clash of civilizations.
Ostentation pleases the rich, arrogance the powerful and flattery the famous.
A culture, which is steeped in double standards and sleek logic, where every attempt is made to fit the past anyhow in the present changed milieu and where the liberals are afraid to speak the truth against the obscurantists, has no hope of renaissance.
Capitalism can be defined as greed for caviar.
The taciturn avoids exposure with silence, but also misses the joy of conversation.
Some rich and famous do not have pleasures. They have perversions.
There is comfort and safety in the herd mentality.
It is a tyrannical society which demands unanimity.
A great majority of the educated, who can think on their own, go along with the popular prejudices of the multitude to live safely in the collective paralysis of the general will.
A snob is easily identified by his superior airs and condescending smiles, such as a minister, an official dignitary or a judge of higher courts.
It does not matter, if fools vociferously criticize those who advocate a liberal society. What really hurts is the silence of sensible people out of expediency; and this is how a decadent culture keeps sliding down.
An opinion becomes insidious, if it deviates from the cherished truth of the dominant majority. It provokes hateful frenzy, if the so-called truth is openly defied in non-compliance.
In personal relations, it reinforces the bonds of affection to be partisan.
A poor person will also be envied, if his neighbour thinks he has lesser pennies than him.
It is a mark of your culture’s annihilation if your children cannot speak your mother tongue.
A condescending smile is detected, when only the lips smile, eyes remain stern at the corners and the neck is stiff in a straight posture.
It is pleasant to hear someone speak ill of the person you dislike. You would think him such a nice fellow. The disparagement might start a friendship between you two.
Hatred is also a bond with the hated. It gnaws at one’s humanity.
In international relations, a country’s vested interests are supreme, even if these are atrocious and inhuman. It is a cliche that a friend of today can be a foe of tomorrow, as Iraq became for America. Sovereignty of a weak nation is expendable. In a person, such a conduct is morally treacherous and is universally condemned, as unspeakably depraved. But in a country, it is termed national policy of enlightened self-interest and everyone is expected to applaud it. Only a world government can make us moral.
Power is not altruistic. In the ancient wars, men were taken as slaves and women as concubines. In the modem wars, conquerors occupy soil for the oil and not for the toil of vanquished people.
In the sub-continental male chauvinistic cultures, with variation of emphasis on different aspects, the status of women is callously minimal and tyrannically subservient to men. She is discriminated and basely treated on account of sex alone. When a daughter, the son is preferred over her in privileges. When a girl, if found with a paramour, she is invariably killed by the tribal or agricultural people with impunity and sanction by the community without any fear of retribution by the law. As a wife, her husband is her god or superior and can treat her anyway he likes. She is exchanged in marriage, when she is a child, sold against dowry or given away to a much older stranger for money, burnt alive by the in ..laws for demands of money or discarded in favour of a younger or more beautiful woman. As a mother she is a milching cow and a temporary governess for the custody of her son particularly, the heir of chauvinists. According to the religious law, the boy can be taken away at a specified young age and never returned by the husband who is the natural guardian and absolute arbiter of the children.
It is a subtle device to ask for the advice from the inferiors to ensure their loyalty.
The arrogant doctor thinks that the patients need him really badly, if there is a sign plate in the clinic, announcing that the patients’ reporting time is not the doctor’s appointment time.
Those who devised toothpicks were among the first creators of civilization.
Morality is prescribed by the satiated for the hungry.
Man will be moral, if there is no hunger or greed. Hunger can be mitigated, but greed will continue; human condition is greedy.
Civilization means leaving the country for city in the beginning and then taking the comforts of city back to the country.
The superstitious will believe anything, if you tell him that there is a mysterious way of hearing the sound of patting a petal.
Those who realize the potential of genetics and medicine to extend life in future, find dying in the 21st century regrettable .
Universal values of truth, freedom, equality and dignity are implicit in the fabric of a vibrant society, which lives in self-confidence, trust and security. In a decadent milieu, people lose faith in these life confering traditions, presaging obscurantism, fanaticism and oppression.
It is the stuff of science fiction at present that the science of genetics and biotechnology might make long lives of myriads of years possible, so that the birth of children will be severely curtailed and rationed for breeding, on quality of talent to converse earth resources for high standards of excellence in achievements and for living in revelries.

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