"Weapons are less harmful than words."

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Source : "The Reformist as Pacifist". Interview with Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. May 16, 2013.

Asghar Ali Engineer

#Weapons Quotes

“Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want to do is to get control of what you are saying and thinking, so these things bring you good experiences in life rather than rotten experiences.”
“I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.”

Source : Cees Nooteboom (2013). “Rituals”, p.38, Hachette UK
“I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.”
“Today the brightest light in the Scottish political firmament has gone out.”

Source : "Scottish politician Margo MacDonald dies aged 70" by Severin Carrell, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2014.
“The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.”
“Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.”
“An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half.”
“Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.”

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