"The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception."

-- John Foster Dulles

#Commitment Quotes #Special Quotes #Principles Quotes

“Your desire to withdraw from everything when Allah has involved you in the world of means is a hidden appetite. Your desire for involvement with the world of means when Allah has withdrawn you from it is a fall from high aspiration.”
“The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
“It gives a message to people of love... It does not matter what is the color of your skin, what language you speak, what religion you believe in, it is that we should all consider each other as human beings and we should respect each other.”

Source : "Malala Yousafzai 'honoured' by Nobel". www.radionz.co.nz. October 10, 2014.
“Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.”
“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”
“I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.”
“Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.”
“If you ever go to talk to an editor you don't want to be able to turn down a job because you can't do what is necessary.”

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