“If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.” IfsChristianDesireBearsCreaturesWorshipAccountsCreatorNeighborFleshOrthodoxProvisionGrudgeTransitory Author:Maximus the Confessor
“We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.” ThinkingMayQualityVirtueBenefitsAccountsPraiseCreditNeighborGenerousPocketsSparesBankersGood QualityHighwaymen Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level with their neighbors, is most likely to prevent usurpation and tyranny ... If rulers know that they shall in short period of time, be again out of power, and ... may be liable to be called to account for misconduct, it will guard them against maladministration.” IfsKnowsYearsMayPoliticalChoicesPoliticsLeftLevelsPeriodsAccountsNeighborTyrannyRulersLiableAnnualsMagistratesUsurpationMisconduct Author:Clinton Rossiter
“Burma is located between China, India, and South East Asia. So it is quite natural that a country wanting diplomatic relations with our country would pay attention to who our regional neighbors are. It is not at all fair to ask a country to build relations with Burma but not take into account the situation in China. There is no way to think that taking the Chinese situation into consideration shows a disregard for Burma.” ThinkingWayCountryShowsAsksNaturalPayAttentionSituationFairsAccountsIndiaRelationSouthChinaEastNeighborOur CountryChinesePay AttentionConsiderationAsiaDisregardDiplomaticBurmaEast AsiaDiplomatic Relations Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. If we have to fight it must be on larger issues than that.” IfsMayWarWholeBigsFightingNationsPowerfulIssuesMilitaryCircumstancesAccountsBritishNeighborEmpiresBritish EmpireSmall Nations Author:Neville Chamberlain