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Quotes by Pakistani Authors
"An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the dead options. Only then, that is, by the action of Will, good results in good and evil in evil."
"I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big."
"Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity."
"Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there."
"We Pashtuns love shoes but don't love the cobbler; we love our scarves and blankets but do not respect the weaver. Manual workers made a great contribution to our society but received no recognition, and this is the reason so many of them joined the Taliban-to finally achieve status and power."
"In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles."
"I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, 'If he comes, what would you do Malala?' then I would reply to myself, 'Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.'But then I said, 'If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.'Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that 'I even want education for your children as well.' And I will tell him, 'That's what I want to tell you, now do what you want."
"Love, endure, persist... Everything will return to you, innocent fool!"
"Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!"
"Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice."
"From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible."
"A successful father is not more successful than his children."
"All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them."
"Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms."
"World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!"
"The intelligent talk and the wise listen."
"We have an active program. We have nuclear weapons, we are a nuclear power. We have an advanced missiles program."
"Limits are always extended, never broken."
"Everyone is the right person for the right person."
"Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world."
"All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one."
"Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice."
"Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient."
"Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with Will, the other with Reason. Morality is always pursued, never reached!"
"Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'"
"Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all."
"The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory."
"The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor."
"I believe the gun has no power at all."
"We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not matter what language you choose, the important thing is the words you use to express yourself."
"Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that is centred upon ourselves."
"Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces."
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