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“Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone. Therefore, Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression, as their speech and actions are determined by divine revelation and not based on people's desires.”

People Believe Mean Doe Action Desire Divine Expression Speech Concepts Islam Determined Contrary Command Revelations Submission Misconception Freedom Of Expression Divine Revelation

Author:Anjem Choudary

“The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.”

Men Body Law Desire Social Virtue Crime Produce Command Civilized Customs Legislators Savagery

Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.”

War Desire History Taken Alive Battle Command Civil War American Civil War

Author:Philip Sheridan

“The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will do so; otherwise it is enough for him that God commands, and enough for them that he cannot disobey.”

World Enough Christian Desire Objects Duty Please Command Consistently

Book:Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

“Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life... there are other forces afoot of which consciousness has only the dimmest of understandings.”

Shows Faces Desire Force Understanding Consciousness Destiny Normal Sacred Obligation Command Casual

Author:James Hollis

“Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.”

Ifs Feels Together Political Desire Males Command Bother Salary Counterparts

Author:Shirley Manson

“There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.”

Thinking World Desire One Thing Command Wicked

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“I've always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I've always believed that my dreams and my desires can command and bend time and space to be the things that I want them to be.”

Want Character Dream Desire Space Obstacles Command Odds End Times Time And Space Always Believe Insurmountable Insurmountable Odds

Author:Will Smith

“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.”

Body Action Desire Opinion Property Pursuit Command Reputation One Word Aversion

Book:The Handbook of Epictetus

Source: The Handbook of Epictetus

“In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.”

Believe Happens Desire Order Atheism Atheist Command Fulfilled Adolescence

Book:First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge

Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge