Daily Wisdom

[deepstrasz]

 

[MattNJ]

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." -- Napoleon Bonaparte

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war." -- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." -- Napoleon Bonaparte

 

[ShadowMidas]

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[ShadowMidas]

 

[deepstrasz]

“One man with a gun can control 100 without one. ... Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.”
~Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.

 

[MattNJ]

"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." -- Harry S. Truman

 

[ShadowMidas]

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[pyf]

 

[deepstrasz]

“I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.”
~Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.

 

[pyf]

from the pages of Nemesis the Warlock - Book III, by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill


Nemesis the Warlock (Character) - Comic Vine

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[deepstrasz]

“The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and getting stronger in their fight to overthrow the bourgeoisie and their accomplices, the educated classes, the lackeys of capital, who consider themselves the brains of the nation. In fact they are not its brains but its shit.”
~Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.

 

[ShadowMidas]

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[Championfighter25]

"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention" - John Burroughs

"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own" - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit" - Peter Ustinov

"If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how" - John Burnside

 

[ShadowMidas]

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[deepstrasz]

“When the workers of a single factory or of a single branch of industry engage in struggle against their employer or employers, is this class struggle? No, this is only a weak embryo of it. The struggle of the workers becomes a class struggle only when all the foremost representatives of the entire working class of the whole country are conscious of themselves as a single working class and launch a struggle that is directed, not against individual employers, but against the entire class of capitalists and against the government that supports that class. Only when the individual worker realizes that he is a member of the entire working class, only when he recognises the fact that his petty day-to-day struggle against individual employers and individual government officials is a struggle against the entire bourgeoisie and the entire government, does his struggle become a class struggle.”
----
“We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly under their fire. We have combined, by a freely adopted decision, for the purpose of fighting the enemy, and not of retreating into the neighbouring marsh, the inhabitants of which, from the very outset, have reproached us with having separated ourselves into an exclusive group and with having chosen the path of struggle instead of the path of conciliation. And now some among us begin to cry out: Let us go into the marsh! And when we begin to shame them, they retort: What backward people you are! Are you not ashamed to deny us the liberty to invite you to take a better road! Oh, yes, gentlemen! You are free not only to invite us, but to go yourselves wherever you will, even into the marsh. In fact, we think that the marsh is your proper place, and we are prepared to render you every assistance to get there. Only let go of our hands, don't clutch at us and don't besmirch the grand word freedom, for we too are "free" to go where we please, free to fight not only against the marsh, but also against those who are turning towards the marsh!”
~Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.

 

[ShadowMidas]

 

[deepstrasz]

“The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all compromises, but to be able, through all compromises, when they are unavoidable, to remain true to its principles, to its class, to its revolutionary purpose, to its task of paving the way for revolution and educating the mass of the people for victory in the revolution.”
----
“Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay”
----
~Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.

 

[pyf]

 

[deepstrasz]

@pyf Woe to those who do not know!

---

“The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.”
----
“An oppressed class which does not strive to learn to use arms, to acquire arms, only deserves to be treated like slaves. We cannot, unless we have become bourgeois pacifists or opportunists, forget that we are living in a class society from which there is no way out, nor can there be, save through the class struggle. In every class society, whether based on slavery, serfdom, or, as at present, wage-labor, the oppressor class is always armed. Not only the modern standing army, but even the modern militia - and even in the most democratic bourgeois republics, Switzerland, for instance - represent the bourgeoisie armed against the proletariat. That is such an elementary truth that it is hardly necessary to dwell upon it. Suffice it to point to the use of troops against strikers in all capitalist countries.
A bourgeoisie armed against the proletariat is one of the biggest fundamental and cardinal facts of modern capitalist society. And in face of this fact, revolutionary Social-Democrats are urged to “demand” “disarmament”! That is tantamount of complete abandonment of the class-struggle point of view, to renunciation of all thought of revolution. Our slogan must be: arming of the proletariat to defeat, expropriate and disarm the bourgeoisie. These are the only tactics possible for a revolutionary class, tactics that follow logically from, and are dictated by, the whole objective development of capitalist militarism. Only after the proletariat has disarmed the bourgeoisie will it be able, without betraying its world-historic mission, to consign all armaments to the scrap-heap. And the proletariat will undoubtedly do this, but only when this condition has been fulfilled, certainly not before.”
~Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.

 

[ShadowMidas]

 

[deepstrasz]

“The revolution does not need historians.”
----
“And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?”
----
“America, like a few other nations, has become characteristic for the depth of the abyss that divide a handful of brutal millionaires who are stagnating in a mire of luxury, and millions of laboring starving men and women who are always staring want in the face.”
----
~Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.

 

[deepstrasz]

“It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.”
----
“Capitalism in its imperialist stage leads directly to the most comprehensive socialisation of production; it, so to speak, drags the capitalists, against their will and consciousness, into some sort of a new social order, a transitional one from complete free competition to complete socialisation. Production becomes social, but appropriation remains private. The social means of production remain the private property of a few. The general framework of formally recognised free competition remains, and the yoke of a few monopolists on the rest of the population becomes a hundred times heavier, more burdensome and intolerable.”
----
“This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important—if not the most important—phenomena of modern capitalist economy,”
----
“Official science tried, by a conspiracy of silence, to kill the works of Marx, who by a theoretical and historical analysis of capitalism had proved that free competition gives rise to the concentration of production, which, in turn, at a certain stage of development, leads to monopoly.”
----
“Competition becomes transformed into monopoly. The result is immense progress in the socialisation of production. In particular, the process of technical invention and improvement becomes socialised.”
----
“Translated into ordinary human language this means that the development of capitalism has arrived at a stage when, although commodity production still “reigns” and continues to be regarded as the basis of economic life, it has in reality been undermined and the bulk of the profits go to the “geniuses” of financial manipulation.”
----
“Socialism means keeping account of everything. You will have socialism if you take stock of every piece of iron and cloth.”
----
“At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators.”
----
“Why should we bother to reply to Kautsky? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There’s no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautsky is a traitor to the working class, and everyone will understand everything.”
----
“Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual things", i.e., of the development of the entire concrete content of the world and of its cognition, i.e., the sum-total, the conclusion of the History of knowledge of the world.”
----
~Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.

 

[deepstrasz]

“Revolution consists not in the new class commanding, governing with the aid of the old state machine, but in this class smashing this machine and commanding, governing with the aid of a new machine.”
----
“In capitalist society, providing it develops under the most favorable conditions, we have a more or less complete democracy in the democratic republic. But this democracy is always hemmed in by the narrow limits set by capitalist exploitation and consequently always remains, in effect, a democracy for the minority, only for the propertied classes, only for the rich. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slaveowners. Owing to the conditions of capitalist exploitation, the modern wage slaves are so crushed by want and poverty that “they cannot be bothered with democracy,” “cannot be bothered with politics”; in the ordinary, peaceful course of events, the majority of the population is debarred from participation in public and political life"
----
“The Guchkov government is held in a vice: bound by the interests of capital, it is compelled to strive to continue the predatory, robber war, to protect the monstrous profits of capital and the landlords, to restore the monarchy. Bound by its revolutionary origin and by the need for an abrupt change from tsarism to democracy, pressed by the bread-hungry and peace-hungry masses, the government is compelled to lie, to wriggle, to play for time, to “proclaim” and promise (promises are the only things that are very cheap even at a time of madly rocketing prices) as much as possible and do as little as possible, to make concessions with one hand and to withdraw them with the other."
----
“You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw”
----
“What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy. [Addressing to a delegation of Italian socialists in Moscow after Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922]”
----
“Take a factory, a railway, a ship on the high seas, said Engels: is it not clear that not one of these complex technical establishments, based on the use of machinery and the systematic co-operation of many people, could function without a certain amount of subordination and, consequently, without a certain amount of authority or power?”
----
“Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is an act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets, and cannons, all of which are highly authoritarian means. And the victorious party must maintain its rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionaries. Would the Paris Commune have lasted more than a day if it had not used the authority of the armed people against the bourgeoisie? Cannot we, on the contrary, blame it for having made too little use of that authority? Therefore, one of two things: either that anti-authoritarians don’t know what they are talking about, in which case they are creating nothing but confusion. Or they do know, and in that case they are betraying the cause of the proletariat. In either case they serve only reaction."
----
“Federal Switzerlandization would be a huge step backwards for Germany."
----
“Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of “advanced” countries."
~Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.

 

[ShadowMidas]

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[ShadowMidas]

Jack Ma.

 

[deepstrasz]

“History has shown there are no invincible armies.”
~Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili.

 

[deepstrasz]

“Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.”
~Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili.

 

[Championfighter25]

''Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit'' - Edward Abbey

''An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed'' - A. J. Liebling

''The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it'' - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

''He that lives upon hope will die fasting'' - Benjamin Franklin

 

[deepstrasz]

“It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.”
----
“Advance towards socialism cannot but cause the exploiting elements to resist the advance, and the resistance of the exploiters cannot but lead to the inevitable sharpening of the class struggle.
~Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili.

Spoiler

 

[deepstrasz]

"Iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be 'blind'. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline.”
----
“When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies . . . we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such a power was a crime against the working classes. That soon became apparent . . .”
-----
“There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.”
-----
“If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluated not from the standpoint of "eternal justice" or some other preconceived idea, as is not infrequently done by historians, but from the standpoint of the conditions which gave rise to that system or that social movement and with which they are connected.”
-----
“Let’s see what we have here. In the north we have everything in order and normal. Finland has given way to us and we’ve pushed the frontier up from Leningrad. The Baltic region – which consists of truly Russian lands! – is ours again; all the Belorussians are now living with us and so are the Ukrainians and the Moldavians. Everything’s normal in the west.

What have we got here? . . . The Kurile Islands are now ours, Sakhalin is wholly ours: doesn’t that look good! And Port Arthur and Dalni [Darien] are both ours. The Chinese Railway is ours. As to China and Mongolia, everything’s in order.”
----
~Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili.
-----

 

[Championfighter25]

''Vision is the true creative rhythm'' - Robert Delaunay

''Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives'' - Samuel Johnson

''There is nothing permanent except change'' - Heraclitus

''When all else is lost, the future still remains'' - Christian Nestell Bovee

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[deepstrasz]

“There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.”
----
“I created you from one soul, and from the soul I created its mate so that you may live in harmony and love.
----
“Allah causes the night and the day to succeed each other. Truly, in these things is indeed a lesson for those who have insight.”
----
“Is not Allah enough for his servant??”
----
“Read in the name of your Lord Who created. He created man from a clot.Read and your Lord is Most Honorable, Who taught (to write) with the pen. Taught man what he knew not.”
----
“Acquire knowledge, it enables its professor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to heaven. It is our friend in the desert, our company in solitude and companion when friendless. It guides us to happiness, it sustains us in misery, it is an ornament amongst friends and an armour against enemies.”
----
“It is He Who sent down to thee, in truth, the Book (Quran), confirming what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus) before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down the criterion (Quran) (of judgment between right and wrong)."
----
“Allah will not give mercy to anyone, except those who give mercy to other creatures.”
----
“When the sun shall be folded up; and when the stars shall fall; and when the mountains shall be made to pass away; and when the camels ten months gone with young shall be neglected; and when the seas shall boil; and when the souls shall be joined again to their bodies; and when the girl who hath been buried alive shall be asked for what crime she was put to death; and when the books shall be laid open; and when the heavens shall be removed; and when hell shall burn fiercely; and when paradise shall be brought near: every soul shall know what it hath wrought.”
----
“And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.”
----
“The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer.”
----
“So make remembrance of Me, and I will make remembrance of you. And show thanks to Me, and do not be ungrateful.”
~excerpts from the Quran.

 

[pyf]

Spoiler: Uh-oh...

 

[deepstrasz]

It is He who makes the lightning flash upon you, inspiring you with fear and hope, and gathers up the heavy clouds. The thunder sounds His praises, and the angels, too, in awe of him. He hurls his thunderbolts at whom He pleases. Yet the unbelievers wrangle about God.”
----
“It is better for a leader to make mistake in forgiving (a guilty person) than making a mistake in punishing (an innocent).”
----
“In the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of night and day; in the ships that sail the ocean bearing cargoes beneficial to man; in the water which God sends down from the sky and with which He revives the earth after its death, scattering over it all kinds of animals; in the courses of the winds, and in the clouds pressed into service between earth and sky, there are indeed signs for people who use their reason.”
----
“While anyone whom God lets go astray will have no guide. No one can mislead anyone whom God guides."
----
“Those who believe (in the Qur'an), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians - any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.”
----
“Nothing on earth nor in the sky is hidden from God"
----
“It is not your responsibility to make them follow the right path; God guides whomever He pleases.”
----
“He has forbidden you only carrion, blood, and the flesh of swine; also any flesh that is consecrated other than in the name of God. But for one who is driven by necessity, neither craving nor transgressing, it is no sin. For God is forgiving and merciful.”
----
“Virtue does not consist in whether you face towards the East or the West; virtue means believing in God, the Last Day, the angels, the Book and the prophets; the virtuous are those who, despite their love for it, give away their wealth to their relatives and to orphans and the very poor, and to travellers and those who ask [for charity], and to set slaves free, and who attend to their prayers and pay the alms, and who keep their pledges when they make them, and show patience in hardship and adversity, and in times of distress. Such are the true believers; and such are the God-fearing.”
----
"If the debtor is in a difficulty, grant him time Till it is easy for him to repay. But if ye remit it by way of charity, that is best for you if ye only knew.”
~excerpts from the Quran.

 

[deepstrasz]

“That was why We laid it down for the Children of Israel that whoever killed a human being—except as a punishment for murder or for spreading corruption in the land— shall be regarded as having killed all mankind, and that whoever saved a human life shall be regarded as having saved all mankind.”
----
“Fighting [in defence] is ordained for you, abhorrent as it may be to you. You may dislike something although it is good for you, or like something although it is bad for you: God knows but you do not.”
----
“Such are they who buy the life of this world at the price of the Hereafter. Their punishment shall not be lightened for them, nor shall they be helped.”
----
"And do not gaze longingly at what We have given some of them to enjoy, the finery of this present life: We test them through this, but the provision of your Lord is better and more lasting."
----
“Woman is the equal of man in rights of property. On the material side, too, we find no difference, except what nature requires for its own ends. A woman can earn, inherit and own property and dispose of it just as a man can, and the Holy Qur’an is explicit on all these points: “For men is the benefit of what they earn. And for women is the benefit of what they earn”
----
“Every human being is bound to taste death: and you shall receive your rewards in full on the Day of Resurrection. He who is kept away from the Fire and is admitted to Paradise, will surely triumph; for the life of this world is nothing but an illusory enjoyment.”
----
“Remember how those who bent on denying the truth plotted against you to imprison you or kill you or expel you: they schemed—but God also schemed. God is the best of schemers. 31 Whenever Our revelations are recited to them, they say, ‘We have heard them. If we wished, we could produce the like. They are nothing but the fables of the ancients.’ 32 They also said, ‘God, if this really is the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from heaven, or send us some other painful punishment.’ 33 But God would not punish them while you [Prophet] were in their midst, nor would He punish them so long as they sought forgiveness. 34 Yet why should God not punish them when they debar people from the Sacred Mosque, although they are not its guardians? Its rightful guardians are those who fear God, though most of them do not realize it. 35 Their prayers at the Sacred House are nothing but whistling and clapping of hands. ‘So taste the punishment because of your denial.’ 36 Those who are bent on denying the truth are spending their wealth in debarring others from the path of God. They will continue to spend it in this way till, in the end, this spending will become a source of intense regret for them, and then they will be overcome. And those who denied the truth will be gathered together in Hell. 37 So that God may separate the bad from the good, He will heap the wicked one upon another and then cast them into Hell. These will surely be the losers. 38 Tell those who are bent on denying the truth that if they desist, their past shall be forgiven, but if they persist in sin, they have an example in the fate of those who went before.b 39 Fight them until there is no more [religious] persecution,c and religion belongs wholly to God: if they desist, then surely God is watchful of what they do, 40 but if they turn away, know that God is your Protector; the Best of Protectors and the Best of Helpers!”
----
"Take care to do your prayers, praying in the best way,d and stand before God in devotion. If you are in danger, pray when you are out walking or riding; when you are safe again, remember God, for He has taught you what you did not know.”
----
"If you are ungrateful, remember God has no need of you, yet He is not pleased by ingratitude in His servants; if you are grateful, He is pleased [to see] it in you. No soul will bear another’s burden. You will return to your Lord in the end and He will inform you of what you have done: He knows well what is in the depths of [your] hearts.”
----
“To Moses We gave the Book and sent a succession of messengers after him. We gave Jesus, son of Mary, clear signs and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit. But, whenever a messenger came to you with something which you did not desire, you grew arrogant, calling some liars and slaying others.”
----
"God does not wrong people at all—it is they who wrong themselves.”
----
"Do not follow blindly what you do not know to be true: ears, eyes, and heart, you will be questioned about all these.”
~excerpts from the Quran.

 

[deepstrasz]

"O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in the Paradise and eat both of you freely with pleasure and delight of things therein as wherever you will, but come not near this tree or you both will be of the Zaalimoon (wrong-doers).”
----
"God speaks the truth, so follow Abraham’s religion: he had true faith and he was never an idolater.”
----
“We created man—We know the promptings of his soul, and are closer to him than his jugular vein—17 and the two recording angels are recording, sitting on the right and the left: 18 each word he utters shall be noted down by a vigilant guardian."
----
"Everything in the heavens and earth belongs to God; it is to Him that all things return.”
----
“36 But those who deny and scorn Our revelations shall be the inmates of Hell, where they shall remain forever. 37 Who does a greater wrong than he who invents lies against God or rejects His revelations? Such people will have what has been decreed for them. And when Our messengers come to them to take away their souls, they shall ask them, ‘Where are those you used to call upon besides God?’ They will answer, ‘They have deserted us;’ and they will bear witness against themselves that they were disbelievers?”
----
"And keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate and whatever good you send before for yourselves, you shall find it with Allah; surely Allah sees what you do.”
----
"the Day when God will raise everyone and make them aware of what they have done. God has taken account of it all, though they may have forgotten: He witnesses everything.”
----
"He is the First (nothing is before Him) and the Last (nothing is after Him), the Most High (nothing is above Him) and the Most Near (nothing is nearer than Him). And He is the All-Knower of every thing.”
----
“If you obey the majority of those on earth, they will lead you astray from God’s way. They follow nothing but conjecture. They are only guessing.”
----
“If anyone seeks a religion other than Islam [submission to God], it will not be accepted from him; he will be among the losers in the Hereafter.”
----
"And surely, We gave you authority on the earth and appointed for you therein provisions (for your life). Little thanks do you give.”
----
"You can warn only those who will follow the Qur’an and hold the Merciful One in awe, though they cannot see Him: give such people the glad news of forgiveness and a noble reward.”
----
"so be patient, for God’s promise is true: do not let those with no firm beliefs discourage you.”
~excerpts from the Quran.

 

[Championfighter25]

''It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well'' - Rene Descartes

''Read nature; nature is a friend to truth'' - Edward Young

''Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues'' - George Will

''The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever'' - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

 

[deepstrasz]

"When God wishes to guide someone, He opens their breast to islam;b when He wishes to lead them astray, He closes and constricts their breast as if they were climbing up to the skies.”"
----
"None of you [believers] will attain true piety unless you give out of what you cherish: whatever you give, God knows about it very well.”
----
“And I will put My words in his mouth”, a qualification which is met with only in the person of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. (3) That he will glorify Jesus, and the Holy Prophet did glorify Jesus by denouncing as utterly false all those calumnies which were heaped upon Jesus and his mother."
----
“We made a covenant with the Children of Israel, ‘Worship none but God and be good to your parents and to relatives and orphans and the needy."
----
“And so We’ve placed wicked leaders in every town, drawn from among its most influential citizens, so they can weave their schemes, but in the end they’re only scheming against their own souls, even though they don’t realize it!"
----
“And do not pick the inferior things to give away, when you yourselves would not accept it except with eyes closed.”
----
"Do not hold prayers for any of them if they die, and do not stand by their graves: they disbelieved in God and His Messenger and died rebellious.”
----
“The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger (such as the Jews), nor of those who went astray (such as the Christians).”
----
“Fight in the cause of God Those who fight you, But do not transgress limits; For God loveth not transgressors. 191. And slay them Wherever ye catch them, And turn them out From where they have Turned you out; For tumult and oppression Are worse than slaughter; But fight them not At the Sacred Mosque, Unless they (first) Fight you there; But if they fight you, Slay them. Such is the reward Of those who suppress faith."
----
"As to those who disbelieve, I will punish them with a severe torment in this world and in the Hereafter, and they will have no helpers.”
----
“God is the Light of the heavens and the earth; the likeness of His Light is as a niche wherein is a lamp (the lamp in a glass, the glass as it were a glittering star) lit from a blessed tree, an olive that is neither of the East nor of the West whose oil wellnigh would shine, even if no life touched it; Light upon Light;”
~excerpts from the Quran.

“The fact that the descent of the Quran led not only to the foundation of one of the world’s great civilizations, but also to the creation of one of the major scientific, philosophical, and artistic traditions in global history was not accidental. Without the advent of the Quran, there would have been no Islamic sciences as we know them, sciences that were brought later to the West and we therefore would not have words such as “algebra,” “algorithm,” and many other scientific terms of Arabic origin in English. Nor would there be the Summas of St. Thomas Aquinas, at least in their existing form, since these Summas contain so many ideas drawn from Islamic sources.”
~Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

 

[Tiriel]

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim. -Maya Angelou

I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me. - Johnny Weir

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period. - Stevie Wonder

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. - Jeanette Winterson

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. - Confucius

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. - Confucius

 

[deepstrasz]

"We have already sent Our messengers with clear evidences and sent down with them the Scripture and the balance that the people may maintain [their affairs] in justice. And We sent down iron, wherein is great military might and benefits for the people, and so that Allah may make evident those who support Him and His messengers unseen. Indeed, Allah is Powerful and Exalted in Might.”
----
"Say (O Muslims), "We believe in Allaah and that which has been sent down to us and that which has been sent down to Ibraahim (Abraham), Ismaa'il (Ishmael), Ishaaque (Isaac), Ya'qoob (Jacob), and to Al-Asbaat [the twelve sons of Ya'qoob (Jacob)], and that which has been given to Moosa (Moses) and 'Iesa (Jesus), and that which has been given to the Prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and to Him we have submitted (in Islaam).”
----
“Most surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day, and the ships that run in the sea with that which profits men, and the water that Allah sends down from the cloud, then gives life with it to the earth after its death and spreads in it all (kinds of) animals, and the changing of the winds and the clouds made subservient between the heaven and the earth, there are signs for a people who understand.”
----
"Exalted is He who put constellations in the heavens, a radiant light, and an illuminating moon— 62it is He who made the night and day follow each other—so anyone who wishes may be mindful or show gratitude.”
----
"God has purchased the persons and possessions of the believers in return for the Garden—they fight in God’s way: they kill and are killed—this is a true promise given by Him in the Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur’an."
----
“Eat and drink of that which Allaah has provided and do not act corruptly, making mischief on the earth.”
----
“God causes grains and seeds to split and sprout, for He brings life from death and death from life. That’s how God is to you, so how is it that you’re so deceived (about His nature)?” [95] He splits the dawn (from the night) and made the night for rejuvenation and rest, while the sun and the moon are for counting the passage of time. That’s how He’s arranged (for your world to work, for He’s) the Powerful and the Knowing. [96] He’s the One Who made the stars (as reference points) to guide you on your way through the unknown regions of land and sea, and this is how We explain Our signs for people who know. [97] He’s the One Who produced you all from a single soul. (So understand that this world that you inhabit) is a place to linger, and it’s also a point of departure. This is how We explain Our verses for people who understand. He’s the One Who sends down water from the sky and uses it to produce plants of every kind. ”
~excerpts from the Quran.