Ahmed Kathrada famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.
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The hardest thing to open is a closed mind.
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In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.
-- Ahmed Kathrada
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.
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Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.
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The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.
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Hatred doesn't just hurt the people being hated, it hurts the people housing the hatred
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We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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