Politics

“Y no hay peor fracaso para un cónsul o un diplomático que el de verlo entregado a proyectos al parecer quiméricos.”

“ब्राह्मणेतर चळवळीत राष्ट्रीय वृत्तीला काही वाव नव्हता; ती सर्वस्वी सरकारची मर्जी राखणारी चळवळ होती.”

“I must study politics and war, so that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”

“We can’t wait for government’s political will to resolve this crisis.”

“It would be blasphemy to say that Muhammad died without completing his mission, but if the caliphate had been part of his mission he would not have left it unsettled.”

“Good governance is just like a table – it has four legs.”

“People who spoke a unitary language have one heart and a common soul. As such, they constitute one nation, and so they have to have a unified state.”

“Avec une victoire de la gauche, nous irions vers une situation chaotique et dangereuse.”

“Islam is the religion of pure natural disposition, reason, knowledge, wisdom, proof, freedom, independence, social, political, and economic reform, and women’s rights.”

“He cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it.”

“We don't want to take over the power, we want to serve society.”

“The answer to the question of who owns water is that no-one owns water.”

“This past ten days is the most freedom-oriented public expression of national identity I’ve ever seen in this country.”

“We’re citizens first, aren’t we, before we’re anything?”

“Before the 1979 revolution, we were allowed to be artists, allowed to be women, allowed to be human.”

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”

“Because this is a government of service, and therefore it is a government at your service.”

“I sincerely hope it will not go through the Aborigine Welfare Board.”

“For the first time in history, the people of a whole nation are being asked whether they shall declare their allegiance to the force of Might or the force of Right.”

“You have almost exterminated our people but there are enough of us remaining to expose the humbug of your claim, as white Australians, to be a civilised, progressive, liberal and humane nation.”