#lt

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#appropriate #aristotle #death #death penalty #i

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#adult #autonomy #choice #competent #her

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#little #ought #thoughts #unthinking #wild

Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#better #better off #between #differentiate #electricity

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#constitutional #culture #democracy #human #human rights

There is no doubt that some in Iran have an unhealthy focus on Bahrain, as some of the broadcast coverage shows. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#broadcast #coverage #doubt #focus #iran

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#culture #etc #france #leadership #people

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots. ↗

— Ayatollah Khamenei

#corruption #cultural #economic #must #plots

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation. ↗

— Ali Akbar Khan

#honours #joys #mind #music #path

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law. ↗

— Aly Khan

#basic #basis #built #centuries #developed