“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.” PeopleBelieveMeanDoeActionDesireDivineExpressionSpeechConceptsIslamDeterminedContraryCommandRevelationsSubmissionMisconceptionFreedom Of ExpressionDivine Revelation Author:Anjem Choudary
“All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.” MenLawDesireLaughingBrokenContraryLustInjury Author:Baruch Spinoza
“In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more.” KnowsYearsMightDesireEnjoyMathematicsSuicideContraryHatedAdolescenceEnjoy LifeVerge Book:The Conquest of Happiness Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father” DoeDesireFatherWishHolyContraryGhostIndulgeHoly GhostIndulge In Book:Journal of Discourses Source: Journal of Discourses
“He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsDoePainDesireCertainWaitingKnow HowSuccessfulFailingContraryDesperateImpatientObtaining Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.” DesireNextReligiousVirtueSacrificeContraryThis LifeRelatedSuperstitionsSuperstitiousFatalityVivacityEarthly Desires Author:Madame de Stael
“It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.” ThinkingMenWantFirstsDesireMethodIllContraryTyrannyOppressionSufficientFrustrationAttributesModerationOppressorsRigor Book:The Portable Edmund Burke Source: The Portable Edmund Burke
“Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.” DesireOughtContraryTendenciesImperfectionInherentCredulity Author:Napoleon Bonaparte