Quotes

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The State’s behavior is violence, and it calls its violence “law”; that of the individual, “crime.” - Max Stirner

• The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

 

[Handcar]

Even the idiot may have a message for us ― Henry Miller

 

[Handcar]

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking ― John Kenneth Galbraith

 

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[Handcar]

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. ― Mark Twain

 

[DesertRose]

“The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”

– Mark Twain

 

[Handcar]

It has justly been said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded. - Sir Humphry Davy

 

[DesertRose]

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[mecca]

"Governments never lead; they follow progress. When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then." - Lucy Parsons

 

[mecca]

"Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth." - Lucy Parsons

 

[mecca]

“The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” - Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania (1964 – 1985)

 

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[Handcar]

A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ― Leonardo da Vinci

 

[DesertRose]

THE JOURNEY TO AN ETERNAL LIFE
“From the very moment of creation, mankind is on a journey.
He is a traveler and is not allowed to halt except when he reaches either Paradise or Hellfire.
The wise one among them is the one who knows that traveling is based on hardship and danger.
It is usually hard to seek pleasures and relief during it, which are to be acquired after it is completed.
Every footstep and every moan made during this journey will not stop him.
It is proven that the traveler is preparing supplies, which will take him to his final end.
And if he halts, sleeps, or rests, he is doing so while preparing himself to complete his journey.”
Imam al-Qayyim رحمه الله, [Al-Fawaid, p. 331]

 

[grateful servant]

@DesertRose I can't send you PM Sis...


"Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge." Hakeem Olajuwon

GS - with this quote Brother Hakeem is referring to two ayat of the Quran: 49:13 and 35:28

 

[grateful servant]

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” ​

-Zig Ziglar​