Kalki Krishnamurthy Quotes

d. 1954 India

Ramaswamy Aiyer Krishnamurthy (9 September 1899 – 5 December 1954) was a South Indian author who lived in Tamil Nadu. He wrote in Tamil under various pseudonyms, but became most famous using the name Kalki, evoking a prophesied avatar of Vishnu.

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Also known as: Krishnamurthy, Kalki

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Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

Sivakozhundu of Tiruvazhundur (1939)

There are many evils in this country. The only remedy for every one of them is freedom for the nation.

You should be glad that the government has provided for chain and bangles at their own expense, why are you feeling so bad about it?

Those who don’t actually witness such a happening can say, “No train will run off the rails, it is unnatural for it to do so”.

Sivakozhundu of Tiruvazhundur (1939)

It is natural for a train to run on its tracks.

Sivakozhundu of Tiruvazhundur (1939)

If it is natural for lightning to strike the earth, why doesn’t it strike each and every one of us? Why does it not blind us all?

Sivakozhundu of Tiruvazhundur (1939)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kalki Krishnamurthy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.