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You've got to change with time. ”
Anything worth changing is not easy to change. ”
I've always had this sense of responsibility to do what I can to help fix the world and help make this a better place to live. ”
The Qur'an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a change of heart should be a matter of free choice. ”
In order to continue in office, any government (not simply a 'democratic' government) must have the support of the majority of its subjects. This support, it must be noted, need not be active enthusiasm; it may well be passive resignation as if to an inevitable law of nature. ”
I think one of the most important directions to be pursued in the 'sciences of human action' is to develop a natural-law ethics based on nature rather than, or at least to supplement, ethics based on theological revelation. ”
The fact that natural-law theorists derive from the very nature of man a fixed structure of law independent of time and place, or of habit or authority or group norms, makes that law a mighty force for radical change. ”
A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature. ”
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it. ”
Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam. ”