Penyatuan Ummah Quotes & Sayings

Ah, life in medieval times! Yeah, we only have to worry about losing our heads every day. — David Kuklis

We are human precisely insofar as we always intend a singularity across the thickness of our lives, insofar as we are grouped around this unique interior where there is no one, which is latent, veiled, and escapes from us always leaving behind in our hands truth which are like traces of its absence. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

I'm sorry to inform you that your 50 year warranty has expired on your back, knees, and memory. Luckily your lifetime warranty on your heart is still in effect. Of course, that becomes void and expires when you do. — Kin Hubbard

Most people are about as aware of their surroundings as a sea cucumber. — Douglas Preston

You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable. — Cathy Freeman

Money", he muttered, "opens all doors. — Andrzej Sapkowski

The only way we come back as a country is to build the domestic economy. — Gerald Celente

Can we feel contrition for other people's crimes? Can we feel contrition for crimes we have not committed personally, but have subsequently profited from? How can we formulate the criteria for contrition to make them applicable to collective responsibility for historical crimes? Perhaps like this:
We freely admit that our predecessors have done wrong and that we are profiting from it.
We ask forgiveness of those who were wronged and of their descendants.
We promise to do our best to make amends to those who were wronged for the effects that still remain.
The larger the collective, the more diluted the personal responsibility. The less intimate the contrition, the greater the risk that it will just be hollow ceremony. — Sven Lindqvist