Al-Jahiz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to ensure survival, thus transforming into new species. Animals that survive to breed can pass on their successful characteristics to offspring.
-- Al-Jahiz

#Struggle #Successful #Animal
Ikhlaas is to forget the vision of creation by constantly looking at the Creator.
-- Al-Jahiz

#Wisdom #Islamic #Vision
Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.
-- Al-Jahiz

#Character #Men #Crow

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance
Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!

Al-Jahiz famous quotes

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