V. S. Naipaul - Men Quotes

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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

V. S. Naipaul

We pretended to be real, to be learning, to be preparing ourselves for life, we mimic men of the New World.

'Ralph Singh''s words

V. S. Naipaul

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

V. S. Naipaul

Religion now had to have its compartment, almost its social place.
The frontier had ceased to exist. And the religions it had bred were beginning slowly to die. In the old days, when men, often of little education, had needed only to declare themselves ministers, people would have seen themselves reflected in the expounders of the Word. This quality of homespun would have made the religions appear creations of a community, personal and close and inviolable. Now a certain distance was needed.

V. S. Naipaul

In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.

V. S. Naipaul