"The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society."

-- Reza Aslan

#Religious Quotes #Egypt Quotes #Iran Quotes

“I'm reluctant to draw many conclusions from private correspondence leaked without permission.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each otherâ€™s pockets and somehow get rich.”
“God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.”
“Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.”
“Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.”

Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.100, New York Review of Books
“My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.”
“Credibility is what it is ALL about...”
“People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.”

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