41 Quotes by Bangladeshi authors

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These lines carry the pulse of the delta, river-bent patience, monsoon-bold defiance, and a soft insistence on dignity. Bangladeshi sayings braid everyday wit with lyrical protest, tea-stall banter with devotional hush. They honor mothers’ thrift and farmers’ foresight, mock pomp, and shelter grief inside gentle metaphors of rain, boats, and ripe paddy. The language fights and forgives, bargaining with fate yet keeping pride intact, the cadence of Bangla where love, labor, and liberation meet.

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"It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

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"The biggest enemy of creativity is self-doubt"

Humayun Ahmed, Author

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"Life is too short to waste time on things that don't matter"

Humayun Ahmed, Author

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"Life is an illusion, and we must create our own reality"

Humayun Ahmed, Author

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"Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion"

Taslima Nasrin, Writer

"The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism"

Taslima Nasrin, Writer

"I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"The late King's great service for the Muslim world and his noble deeds of charity and assistance for the poor of humanity will be long remembered with reverence"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

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"Southeast Asia is now a region full of hope because of the freedoms America has helped foster"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

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"If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

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"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend"

Humayun Ahmed, Author

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"Happiness is a state of mind, not a destination"

Humayun Ahmed, Author

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"The greatest wealth in life is peace of mind"

Humayun Ahmed, Author

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"Life is a journey, and the journey is the reward"

Humayun Ahmed, Author

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"Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

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"Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

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"The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

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"The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

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"Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

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"I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law"

Taslima Nasrin, Writer

"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"

Taslima Nasrin, Writer

"Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?"

Taslima Nasrin, Writer

"Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression"

Taslima Nasrin, Writer

"Poverty is unnecessary"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"Business money is limitless"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic"

Ziaur Rahman, Politician

"It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system"

Sheikh Hasina, Politician

"Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force"

Sheikh Hasina, Politician

"After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power"

Sheikh Hasina, Politician

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