Asghar Ali Engineer Quotes

I am not an individualist in the Western sense. Collectivism can become oppressive when it tries to dictate; the rights of the two should not clash.

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• I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.

  

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• I think a draft produces a better Army than the one we would have with all volunteers, because I think you get average Americans if you have a draft. And if it's an all-volunteer Army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don't have anything else to do, they don't have a job, or they can't find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn't produce the best Army.

  

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• The good displeases us when we are not up to it.

  

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• I saw Grizzly Man; I know what can happen.

  

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• The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.

  

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• I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

  

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• To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

  

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• We all make mistakes. We all need second chances and even third, fourth, and fifth chances.

  

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• A modern gentleman is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

  

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• The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what music made with commitment sounds like.

  

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• Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

  

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• I am not an individualist in the Western sense. Collectivism can become oppressive when it tries to dictate; the rights of the two should not clash.

  

  Asghar Ali Engineer
  • Clash
  • Collectivism
  • Individualist