Ali Shariati Quotes
Since Ummah is a society on the move, a society not in place, but on the way, towards an objective, having a direction, then we need an Imam (from the same root as umma) to lead us toward that objective.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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I know a lot of people who transitioned and dropped out of society for two years. They don't talk to anybody. They become hermits. They try to do everything alone.
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All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?
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We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
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In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.
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The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
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We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
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Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.
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I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse and he's one of my heroes so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable and they've got brains the size of golf balls.
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In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough. We will never be able to say that we have reached grade eight, or that we have left the grades behind and are now embarked on an advanced training.
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Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.
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Since Ummah is a society on the move, a society not in place, but on the way, towards an objective, having a direction, then we need an Imam (from the same root as umma) to lead us toward that objective.
