#men

...The Qur'an cannot be translated. ...The book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. But the result is not the Glorious Qur'an, that inimitable symphony, the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy. It is only an attempt to present the meaning of the Qur'an-and peradventure something of the charm in English. It can never take the place of the Qur'an in Arabic, nor is it meant to do so... ↗

— Marmaduke W. Pickthall

#kor-an #koran #qur-an #quran #religion

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#both #equally #evidence #irrational #men

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#fiction #how #i #itself #judgmental

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

#history #over #portrayed #re-examine #should

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

#i #just #liberation #toward #woman

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#area #between #gray #gray area #happened

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. ↗

— John Paul Stevens

#course #government #must #neutrality #pursue

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me. ↗

— Anatole France

#bores #charm #gives #irritates #me

The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#constituents #continue #end #enjoy #ensure

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

#class #democratic #democratic republic #instrument #less