Al-Farabi Quotes

A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts

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• There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

  

  Ovid
  • More
  • Alcohol
  • Nap

• Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • World
  • Black
  • Longevity

• My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Family
  • School
  • Job

• I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Why
  • Lost
  • Sometimes

• Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Think
  • Man
  • Drink

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Hair
  • Someone
  • Intimacy

• I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Writing
  • You
  • Thought

• Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Flowers

• I didn't aim at anything except good music.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Music
  • Aim

• My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • American
  • Fun

• What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.

  

  Ouida
  • Abuse

• Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Feeling

• Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Manner
  • Quite
  • Butter

• Life is getting better, but that won’t stop a war if politicians and business people decide it’s to their advantage to have one.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• It is time we admitted that we are not at war with 'terrorism'. We are at war with Islam. This is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims, but we are absolutely at war with the vision of life that is prescribed to all Muslims in the Koran. The only reason Muslim fundamentalism is a threat to us is because the fundamentals of Islam are a threat to us.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Time
  • War

• Antiques exist as evidence of the cultural tracks we made in the past.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Past

• One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.

  

  Eric Schlosser
  • Friends
  • Reality
  • Support

• Justice is a constant uprightness in words and in deeds.

  

  Alexander Hume
  • Justice
  • Deeds
  • Constant

• There is a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Duty
  • Private

• It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to have to go out and sit in the car, and even in the summertime I'd have to roll up the windows. Because you just couldn't practice a banjo or a fiddle with other people around. Unless they're being paid.

  

  Steve Martin
  • People
  • Car
  • Window

• A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts

  

  Al-Farabi
  • City
  • Justice