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"Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not."
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"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."
"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."
"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."
"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"
"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
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"Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one."
"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured."
"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."
"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
"These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians and Moslems, and introducing material from and about Sufis."
"Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions."
"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."
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