Abu Bakr Quotes
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A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.
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A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
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Now, as the world's largest economy and as the world's second largest emitter, America bears our responsibility to address climate change, and we intend to meet that responsibility.
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If you think about it, if you've ever been to a Catholic service, it's practically a laser light show. It's very dramatic, very theatrical. The outfits they wear, it's all designed to be impressive.
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Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.
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Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
