None of us need anniversaries to remind us of what we cannot forget. So it is no more than coincidence that I happen to be here, on American soil, in September - this month of dreadful anniversaries. Uppermost on everybody’s mind of course, particularly here in America is the horror....................
Read MoreTime has come to stand up for the principles of justice and liberty, of true democracy and respect for peoples rather than pay only lip-service to democratization and popular outrage while political system remains hermetically sealed and collaboration with dictatorial regimes has become an open secret. Such would have been....................
Read More“To acquire knowledge is noble, but to translate it into action is nobler. Yet there is another, more elevated state of being and that is when you are able to crush the idols of knowledge and achievements of action by neither becoming vane with them nor being reliant on them.....................
Read More“Rhetoric is always uplifting, and we are enjoined to admire the sincerity of those who produce it, even when they act in ways that recall Alexis de Tocqueville’s observation that the United States was able “to exterminate the Indian race……without violating a single great principle of morality in the eyes....................
Read More“It is one of the greatest frauds on the people to suggest that religious affinity can unite areas which are geographically, economically, linguistically and culturally different. It is true that Islam sought to establish a society which transcends racial, linguistic, economic and political frontiers. History has however proved that after....................
Read More“The ultimate spiritual basis of all life, as conceived by Islam, is eternal and reveals itself in variety and change. A society based on such a conception of Reality must reconcile, in its life, the categories of permanence and change. It must possess eternal principles to regulate its collective life,....................
Read More“The ultimate spiritual basis of all life, as conceived by Islam, is eternal and reveals itself in variety and change. A society based on such a conception of Reality must reconcile, in its life, the categories of permanence and change. It must possess eternal principles to regulate its collective life,....................
Read MoreI have seen of America what could be seen during a brief stay, travelling from north to south, east to west. What has struck me most is the supremacy of machines. The flowering here is the flowering of commerce and technol- ogy: the physical sciences have reached the utmost point....................
Read More“ If the fundamental rights are opposed by the community, no law, no parliament, no judiciary can guarantee them in the real sense of the word. What is the use of fundamental rights to the Negros in America, to the Jews in Germany and to the Untouchables in India? As....................
Read More“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth....................
Read More“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest – But the myth – persistent, persuasive and realistic.”John F. Kennedy35th President of the United StatesCommencement Address at Yale 1962 “We must adjust to changing times but still hold to unchanging principles” Julia ColemanHigh....................
Read MoreYes they die, we call them pleasures Then our hopes and then our fears When these are gone, the debt is due Dust claims dust and we die too. Shelly 1792-1822.
Read More“I believe that the community is already in the process of dissolution when each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection, where denunciation without specification takes the place of evidence, where....................
Read MoreThis association of poverty with progress is the great enigma of our times. It is the central fact from which spring industrial, social and political difficulties that perplex the world, and with which statesmanship, philanthropy and education grapple in vain. It is the riddle which the Sphinx of Fate puts....................
Read More“In my 30 year history in the Drug Enforcement Administration and related agencies, the major targets of my investigations almost invariably turned out to be working for the CIA.” Dennis Dayle, former chief of an elite DEA enforcement unit.
Read MoreWe, the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:JUSTICE, social, economic and political;LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;And to promote among them allFRATERNITY assuring the dignity of....................
Read MoreBlessed are the poor.Blessed are the hungry.Give to anyone who asks.If someone asks for your coat, give your shirt too.If someone asks you to walk a mile, walk the second mile also.If slapped on the cheek, offer the other cheek.Love your enemies.Compassion makes one a neighbor, not authority or religion....................
Read More“ To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it “ Olin Miller.
Read MoreNone of us need anniversaries to remind us of what we cannot forget. So it is no more than coincidence that I happen to be here, on American soil, in September - this month of dreadful anniversaries. Uppermost on everybody's mind of course, particularly here in America is the horror....................
Read MoreNone of us need anniversaries to remind us of what we cannot forget. So it is no more than coincidence that I happen to be here on American soil, in September - this month of dreadful anniversaries. Uppermost on everybody's mind of course, particularly here in America is the horror....................
Read MoreTime has come to stand up for the principles of justice and liberty, of true democracy and respect for peoples rather than pay only lip-service to democratization and popular outrage while political system remains hermetically sealed and collaboration with dictatorial regimes has become an open secret. Such would have been....................
Read More" The ultimate spiritual basis of all life, as conceived by Islam, is eternal and reveals itself in variety and change. A society based on such a conception of Reality must reconcile, in its life, the categories of permanence and change. It must possess eternal principles to regulate its collective....................
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