(6 quotes found)
“Sri Lanka is our country. Our culture, our race, our people. Sometimes we forget this, forget that greatness can also be achieved in our Motherland. Our Motherland, what it means to us and how we can make it better. We chase that elusive dream, the white picket fenced house, which is not ours, some white-man in the west goes to sleep and wakes up thinking about it. And we foolishly dream his dream. When can we ever shred the noose of our colonial masters?”
Dhammika Dharmawardhane
“Someone tell this man that there are 660,000 refugees (displaced persons) in Sri Lanka. Some displaced by the Tsunami, and not all Tamil. Tell him that in a nation where lawless states remained in the control of a terror group, the slaying of journalist could be carried out by any party, and not just the government.”
Bailaman
“The balance of payments crisis sounds rather dry but it really would have a devastating impact on the economy and on the people [of Sri Lanka], particularly the most vulnerable.”
Brian Aitken
“This out dated mentality of 'oppose to get your point across' has never ever worked. Thus far Sri Lanka has only paid close attention to it's allies. Not those who dictate terms to her.”
“When you leave Sri Lanka it doesn't matter if you're Tamil, Sinhalese, or Burgher. Every one of us is known as a Sri Lankan, and not by our ethnicity. Do they know the repercussions of their smear campaign against Sri Lanka? They are smearing themselves.”
““Every time you try to conform to other people’s expectations you are unhappy. When you are who you are, you are happy. But then you make those around you unhappy. In consequence you become unhappy. As a result of their unhappiness. So you remain as ever, unhappy.””
