Rashid al-Ghannushi Quotes
No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.

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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
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I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
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France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
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Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.
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I represent an emerging group of leaders within the Jewish community who are conservatives; not just fiscal conservatives, but social conservatives as well.
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I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.
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I don't do social media.
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I like men in suits. Men in suits I think are so sexy. But I love men in suits who own their own businesses. That's even sexier... I just love a guy who has his own thing going on and believes in it.
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Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.
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I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
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I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.
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I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I have a lot of fun and audiences have a lot of fun, so I'm trying to package the messages in music and sounds that are fun to perform and fun to listen to.
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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
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If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.
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The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.
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Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.
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I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.
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No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.