#according

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#applied #background #cannot #cultural #culture

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. ↗

— Euripides

#acting #fortune #free #law #other

I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated. ↗

— Zach Braff

#creative #creative people #frustrated #go #going

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can. ↗

— David Brainerd

#always #design #faithfully #glorify #god

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. ↗

— Dave Barry

#big #big business #business #consumer #nader

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#because #been #choice #high #high standards

The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#almost #america #any #captured #considered

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#catholic #catholic faith #change #changes #faith

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#accordingly #care #depends #entertain #guard

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#both #creation #development #every #his