#lest

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). ↗

— Ayn Rand

#earth #function #individual #individual rights #majorities

The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#israelis #palestinians #see #solution #states

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#building #bush #cheque #cost #donated

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ↗

— Alain Robert

#around #buildings #climb #climbed #did

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#heaven #highest #humblest #materials #occupation

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#around #create #great #hear #hear people

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#because #bone #cruelest #feel #game

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. ↗

— John Webster

#proceeds #subtlest #wisdom

Our Jihad will remain on Palestinian soil that is wide and large. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#large #our #palestinian #remain #soil

The Palestinian situation is different. We can have military cooperation with other factions in the Palestinian territories. But we cannot have this with Hizbullah in Lebanon. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#cooperation #different #factions #lebanon #military