Al-Farabi quotes
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“A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.”
-- Al-FarabiSource : "The Dictionary of Islam vol. IV". 1991.
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“An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.”
-- Al-FarabiSource : "Philosophy" by Alpharabius,
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“Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.”
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Source : Interview with William Van Meter, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2013.
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“Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.”
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“The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.”
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“Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.”
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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“He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan
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