My feelings about Das Kapital are the same as my feeling about the Koran. I
Know it is historically important and i know that many people, not all of whom are idiots, find it a sort of Rock of Ages and containing inspiration. Yet when I look into it, it is to me inexplicable that it can have this effect. Its dreary, out-of-date academic theorizing seems so extraordinarily unsuitable as material for the purpose…Will you promise to read it again, if I do?

- John Maynard Keynes to George Bernard Shaw, December 1934

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Found in
The Last Liberal and Other Essays, Ramachandra Guha

There was a great Marxist called Lenin
Who did two or three million men in
That's a lot to do in
But where he did one in
That great Marxist Stalin did ten in.

- Robert Conquest
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Found in
The Last Liberal and Other Essays, Ramachandra Guha

“we shall have the English language as one of our own, of our own caste, our creed, our sect and of our tradition”

[English] “is the language of our intellectual make-up and not our emotional make-up”.

~ Raja Rao
Found in:
Indian Realities: In Bits and Pieces , Sham Lal