#we

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. ↗

— George Santayana

#emotional #emotional life #life #never #others

We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#around #benefits #create #economies #enhance

We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#aid program #being #days #debt #demands

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#connections #faith #immediate #must #subsist

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#already #being #compared #delectable #different

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#most #most powerful #multiplicity #powerful #two

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#bombing #come #conquer #defender #different

So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#after #american #anymore #arrested #exist

The Americans were never interested in what was best for the Shiites. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#interested #never #were

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#iraqi people #just #people #saddam #still