#stance

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#bred #competition #desire #doubt #foremost

Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#complete #desire #finish #forces #halt

The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#american military #armed #main #main reason #military

The resistance will be exclusively conducted by only one group. This new group will be defined soon by me. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#defined #exclusively #group #me #new

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts? ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#away #blood #bombs #calls #democracy

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#centuries #civilization #course #customs #difficult

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#begun #chaucer #circumstances #early #exercise

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#dream #merely #shadow #substance #very

When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#bad #been #cheer #circumstances #considering

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do. ↗

— Mother Maribel

#circumstances #instead #letting #meant #often