We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good,
Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the prom...
They are not true Marxist, nor true Leninist. The Russians are imperialists.
There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.
There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor.-- Abdullah
Then, to the general comment—I think that suffering is the way we test our love. Every act of suffering, no matter how small or agonisingly great, is a test of love in some way.
The trick in life is to want nothing. And then work our way towards achieving that.
The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the he...
The strength and wildness and will that I found in him were more and better than all the truth and goodness in the world. I pledged myself to him as brother and friend no matter what he'd done and no...
The rich in any country, and any system, always got the best justice money could buy.
The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.
The heart doesn't know how to quit because it doesn't know how to lie. You lift your eyes from the page, fall into the smile of a perfect stranger, and the searching starts all over again. It's not wh...
The end mirrors the beginning. In the end, its about a woman & a city.
The drums staggered toward the distant street. Moving away from us, the dancers romped and rolled on the rhythm, their swaying heads like a field of wildflowers weaving back and forth on waves of wind...
The Big Questions only have small answers, and the Big Answers can only be found through small questions.
SUNLIGHT SHATTERED ON THE WATER,
Qasim Ali said that night, his bark-coloured eyes softening on the two young men, ‘because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even...
Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.
Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships.
Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a...