Nilantha Ilangamuwa

“Foremost, step one could take is avoiding the cheap behaviour of compromising principles with decorated lies which assails the moral power of common sense.”

“Fear has become normal and is covered by the idea of “patriotism”.”

“When the day to day life is suppressing you, how could you put your moral values and will power to the realm of life?”

“Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us to change the mindset which has tended to create ad hoc solutions for the political madness and social farce. In fact, our age of tragedy which has been represented by the so-called “Marxists” in the Sinhalese community and “liberalists” in Tamil community since the 70s to the late 90s, has been replaced by the age of farce.”

“The government of Pakistan is yet to understand that the insurgency is not the disease but the symptoms of the disease. If the government really needs to cure the crisis in the area, then it must engage in genuine treatment procedure rather than engage in ad hoc solutions that go under the motto: picked up, killed, and dumped. Kidnapping the target and dumping his or her bullet riddled and tortured corpse in a public place to scare the people in the area is a military strategy which aims to provide a lesson to those who still retain seeds of resistance. If this is the only solution that the government is capable of then it will have to commit genocide against the people of Balochistan so that it can continue to steal their natural resources and have total control of the province.”

“The main element of true reconciliation is the public education system.”

“A society is driven by “social fear” always produces the seeds of doubt and unhappiness.”

“We have created our own fake world in order to satisfy our imagination through the illusion.”

“It is a smokescreen if someone believes that they can make change without identifying the root causes which influence social disorder.”

“Social systems are neither a consumer product that we can buy or rent from the market nor a material that we can import from another country. It is not a creation of the almighty gifted from the heavens. A social system is a creation of mankind. That is a reflection of our responsibilities. In other words, the social system is the result of our behavior and the decisions we take in our way of life.”

“The victory is not only the pathway of celebration but also to take the greater degree of responsibility for those who were victimised.”

“The man on the top of the hierarchy has created social fear in order for us to accept him as the leader.”

“Peace without truth is nothing but an illusion – a deceptive misguidance which generates opportunities and problems to chew the sweet and bitter tastes of evil respectively.”

“Nothing can be changed in the system when the system itself is revolting against those who opposed violence.”