‘… because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving… justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.’
‘Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably kills the other.’
‘The ghetto was a living organism : to counter external threats, it responded with the antibodies of courage, solidarity, and that desperate, magnificent love we usually call the survival instinct.’
Quotes from the novel Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts