#cal

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#cause #god #itself #necessary #necessity

I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.' ↗

— Michael Arad

#civil #engineer #find #forward #i

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head. ↗

— Michael Arad

#idea #magical #moment #really #see

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#establish #everything #explosion #including #israel

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#cannot #cause #just #possibly #stands

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. ↗

— John Arbuthnot

#last #lies #own #parties #political

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France. ↗

— Joan of Arc

#debt #duke #england #france #good

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#authority #day #decade #defiance #established

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. ↗

— Aristotle

#called #character #effective #may #means

Man is by nature a political animal. ↗

— Aristotle

#man #nature #political #political animal