#stance

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#behave #children #i #instance #islam

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#adapt #assumption #changing #circumstances #deny

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#community #considered #created #fate #first

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

#fashion #influence #instance #lot #minimal

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adopt #been #certain #circumstances #determined

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#after #been #contact #continue #distance

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#battered #bloody #cease #enough #further

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#anywhere #by the people #circumstances #conditions #elections

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#also #avert #change #continue #destruction

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance. ↗

— Mark McGwire

#did #i #illegal #once #other