I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
It is urgent to prevent new U. S. aggression. The time is now for the world to say 'no' to U. S. threats of air attack against Iran, and to the very notion of a nuclear first-use 'option' by America or any other nation.
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that were necessary to end the Vietnam war will be necessary here. I think the American people will get us out of this war.
There's times you want to give up and times you want to move on. . . you get so much satisfaction out of staying and sticking with it, and seeing things turn around.
the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.
To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist,One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.
When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.