"If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Dream Quotes #Country Quotes #Islam Quotes

“I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.”

Source : Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004
“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”

Source : "The Book of Embraces" by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Cedric Belfrage, 1991.
“My mother used to have a shop in which she offered very colorful clothes. I liked that from my early days on.”
“To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.”
“Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.”
“It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.”
“And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this is very good. Because democracy is not possible in the Muslim world without bringing in the Islamists or part of the Islamists who hate us now into these governments.”
“Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised.”

Source : Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.336

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