"The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings."

-- Ali Khamenei

#Teaching Quotes #Islamic Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.”
“The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.”

Source : Partners for Peace interview, March 15, 2006.
“Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.”
“If thereâ€™s one thing that makes a man sick, itâ€™s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.”
“You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time youâ€™d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldnâ€™t know the outcome for a long time.”

Source : Meg Wolitzer (2008). “The Ten-Year Nap”, p.375, Penguin
“Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul.”
“Women are my hobby... every man needs something to keep his hands busy, and I don't have a guitar like Eddie and Michael, or some drums to bash like Alex, so I have to find some friends.”
“When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.”

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