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.

Ali Shariati

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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.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
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• Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Society
  • Diversity
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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.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Good
  • Believe
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• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
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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.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Live
  • Society

• I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Moving
  • New
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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.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • Society
  • Focus

• If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • God
  • Live
  • Society

• Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • Poetry
  • Morality

• A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Heart
  • Society
  • Democracy

• Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Society
  • Wellbeing

• 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.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • People
  • Society
  • Alone

• 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?

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Good
  • Believe
  • True

• We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • People
  • Society
  • Period

• 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.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • People
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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.

  

  Olof Palme
  • People
  • Society
  • Democracy

• We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Society
  • Create
  • United

• In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society
  • Responsibility
  • Laws

• Beware of assumptions that seem 'obvious' in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

  

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• She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • She
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• So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Soul
  • Speak
  • Lord

• If I can be of inspiration to anyone to go after their goals and their dreams, then I feel like I'll be satisfied with that.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • Inspiration
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• 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.

  

  Ali Shariati
  • Society
  • Direction
  • Lead