"Assist your Muslim brother, whether he be an oppressor or oppressed. 'Bu how shall we doit when he is an oppressor?' enquired a companion. Muhammad replied, 'Assisting an oppressor by forbidding and witholding him from oppression."
Anonymous
"Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself."
Vernon Howard
"The greater good has been defined as 'the ends justify the means.' The common good says that 'liberty resides in the means."
R. A. Delmonico
"Words have power, my son. Words can cut to the heart and soothe the deepest hurts. They can be puzzles that leave another pondering for days. I prefer to cast my spells of words in ways that make others think. It is a fault, I fear, that has come with age."
Cheryl Matthynssens
"Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others."
Orrin Woodward
"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values."
William S. Burroughs
"Always be straight with flexibility and positive; it is medicine for two, first for your in health and second your wounded enemy."
Khalid Tareen
"A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick."
Ben Okri
"Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences."
James Reston
"If it's fiction, then it better be true."
Sherman Alexie
"She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before."
Robert M. Pirsig
"The beauty of art is that it comes from the heart."
T.A. Uner
"So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?"
Yann Martel
"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
Eric Hoffer
"Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do."
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