“Art has little to do with made things, but rather concerns a state of mind, a way of being, a gesture that cannot be betrayed, a life”
Source: Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam
“Faith in God’s truth creates the necessary changes to have good Christian conduct, because practice makes perfect acceptance of truth through experience.”
Source: Victorious Faith in Jesus Christ: Creates Good Christian Conduct
“…the excitement of doing something for the first time had passed. I laid there in the back seat looking at the moon. It was unobscured by clouds except for a few wisps here and there. (Mitch) put his arms around me, and we looked at the moon together. You think we’ll have a lot of moons like this, this month? Mitch asked. “I hope so,” I said. We turned to each other and laughed. He didn’t try to fuck me after that. We just talked for a while about music, school, our brothers, and Janice, of course. And then he drove me home.”
Source: Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
“The last few weeks of that summer, Janice lost interest in our conversations…. Her mind was taking her to other places, as though she was listening to a song or watching a movie or reading a book we could neither see nor hear.”
Source: Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
“He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn't matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed and reinvented eternally across the world. I can't speak to that. What I do know? This is your story.”
Source: The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker
“A true democratic society is supposed to serve its people, not big businesses. The welfare of its citizens, not corporate pockets. But when you have corporations buying the seats of our political leaders, who do you think they will serve?”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“If I ever acquire great authority and power, I think that I would introduce at a single stroke the transformation needed in our social life. I do not accept and my spirit revolts at the idea entertained in some quarters that this can be done [only] gradually by getting the common people and the ulema to think at my level. After spending so many years acquiring higher education, enquiring into civilized social life and getting a taste for freedom, why should I descend to the level of common people? Rather, I should raise them to my level. They should become like me, not I like them. Nevertheless, there are some points here which should be gone into. It would be wrong to make a start before deciding them.”
Source: Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey
“May the Lord raise leaders for our nations who will respond correctly to His demand of honesty.”
“Better a fool chosen by the people than a sage thrust upon them by tradition.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“Man is wise not because he talks the most but because he knows how to tame his demons when hell break loose;he's a leader not because of the multitude behind him but because he shows his face to his people when they need inspiration & his back when they need to be led”