Iskander Mirza famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.
Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
You learn your limitations and then you try to work within them.
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.
Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

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