Abdolkarim Soroush Quotes, Names Quotes, People Quotes

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

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He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.

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And on the pedestal these words appear:  'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:  Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'  Nothing beside remains. Round the decay  Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare  The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

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We are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

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Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

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In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.

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Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that only the few will be saved and the many damned, have been shed, replaced by strummed guitars and saccharine smiles. It has reinvented itself so often, and with such breathtaking hypocrisy, in the interests of retaining its hold on the gullible, that a medieval monk who woke today, like Woody Allen's Sleeper, would not be able to recognise the faith that bears the same name as his own.

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Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.

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For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

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As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

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Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

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It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

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Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it.

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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness

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There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans.

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When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

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Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.

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What is necessary is to rectify names.

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