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# Al-Farazdaq

Hammam Ibn Ghalib Al-Tamimi, also known as Farazdaq (641–728) was a 7th-century Arab poet and orator.

## Quotes

* If you do not know what death is, then look at Hāni' and Ibn 'Aqīl in the marketplace. Look at a hero whose face the sword has covered with wounds and another who fell dead from a high place. The command of the governor struck them down, and they became legends for those who travel on every road. You see a corpse whose color death has changed and a spattering of blood that has flowed abundantly, A young man who was even more bashful than a shy young woman yet was more decisive than the polished blade of a two-edged sword. Is Asmā' riding in peace a mount that moves at walking pace While Madhhij seeks vengeance against him? All Murād throng around him. Each one of them, whether a questioner or a questioned, is apprehensively watchful. If you don not avenge your two brothers, then be harlots, satisfied with little.
** Tareekh-i-Tabari, Vol. 9, p. 63

### Conversation with Husayn ibn Ali

* You have asked one who knows. The hearts of the people are with you, but their swords are with the Banu Umayyah. The decision will come from heaven, and Allah will do what He wishes.
** Tareekh-i-Tabari, Vol. 9, p. 71

## See also

* History of the Prophets and Kings, translated by I. K. Howard, Sunny Press, State Press of New York, United States, 1990
# Al-Hurr ibn Yazid Al-Tamimi

Al-Hurr ibn Yazid bin Najiyah Al-Tamimi Al-Yarbuʿi Ar-Riyahi (died 10 October 680) was the general of the Umayyad army dispatched from Kufa, Iraq to intercept al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abu Talib. The newly appointed governor of Kufa, Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, issued the command to guard all entrances and exits to Kufa in order to intercept al-Husayn for an oath of allegiance to Yazid ibn Mu'awiya ibn Abu Sufyan of the Ummayad dynasty. Al-Hurr ibn Yazid al-Tamimi al-Yarbu'i was to guard one of the roads with his 1,000 soldiers to sanction al-Husayn and his followers and bring them to Ibn Ziyad. Initially responsible for holding al-Husayn and his followers captive, al-Hurr died fighting on al-Husayn's behalf after decisions fueled by corrupt intentions surfaced from Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad.

## Quotes

* By God! If any of the Arabs other than you were to say that to me, while he was in the same situation as you, I would not leave him without mentioning his mother's being deprived of him. I would say it whoever he might be. But, by God, there is no way for me to mention your mother except by saying the best things possible.
** Replied to Husayn ibn Ali, History of the Prophets and Kings, Vol. 19, p. 95
* I have not been ordered to fight you. I have only been ordered not to leave you until I bring you to al-Kufah. If you refuse to do that, then take any road that will neither brng you into al-Kufah nor take you back to Madina, and let that be a compromise between us; I shall write to Ibn Ziyad. You write to Yazīd ibn Mu‘āwiya if you wish to write to him, or to ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Ziyād if you wish. Perhaps God will cause something to happen that will relieve me from beingtroubled in any way by your affair. Therefore, take this road here and bear to the left of the road to al-ʿUdhayb and al-Qādīsiyyāh.
** Replied to Husayn ibn Ali, History of the Prophets and Kings, Vol. 19, p. 95

## External links

* Al-Tabari: History of the Prophets and Kings, New York, United States, 1989
# Al-Fudayl ibn 'Iyad

Al-Fudayl ibn 'Iyad, also known as Abu Ali and as al-Talaqani (725 – 28 February 803) was a thief who renounced his crimes and became a Muslim ascetic and scholar.

## Quotes
### The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

* It is offensive that there should be seen in the outward appearance of man more humility than what is in his heart.
** p. 31
* Only the fearful one sees the fearful. It is the mother without her child who likes to see other mourning mothers.
** p. 31
* The scholars of the Merciful possess humility and submissiveness and the scholars of the rulers possess pride and arrogance. Whoever considers his soul to be of any worth has no share of submissiveness.
** p. 31
* Submit to the Truth; obey it and accept it from whoever says it, this is submissiveness.
** p. 31
* God revealed to the mountain, I will speak a prophet upon one of you; so the mountains raised themselves high is pride while Mount Sinai lowered itself humbly. Then God spoke to Moses on this mountain because of its humility.
** p. 31
* Satisfaction is better than asceticism in this world because one who is satisfied never wishes for anything beyond his station.
** p. 31
* Five of the signs of wretchedness in a man are: Hardness in the hearts, severity in the eyes, paucity of shame, desire for this world, and limitless expectation for worldly gain.
** p. 31
* Fudayl preferred seclusion to all the things of the world. World's renunciation for him, is a gift of God, granted to the chosen few. He says when God becomes friendly with a man, He grants him much distress and when He makes him His enemy, He provides him worldly goods in abundance.
** p. 31
* About solitude, he says: when night comes I become happy that I am alone, and I become one with God, without separation; when morning comes I get grieved on account of my disgust with the appearance of those who enter and disturb me in my loneliness.
** p. 32
* On the Day of Judgement many a rich will suffer imprisonment and the office-holders of the world will have a terrible time, being called to answer for their deeds. So be prepared to answer for your acts on that Day.
** p. 32
* Whom God loves, on him He sends sufferings and whom He does not like, on him He bestows comforts.
** p. 32
* Just as it is impossible to shed tears in Paradise, so to laugh in the world is also a matter of surprise. For just as Paradise is not a place for tears, similarly the world is no place for laughter.
** p. 32
* The Lord says: "When My slave remembers Me, I remember him and when He forgets Me I forget him."
** p. 32
* For thirty years I have never smiled.
** p. 32
* I wish to fall ill that all my time may pass in seclusion with the Lord and be saved appearing in mass prayers.
** p. 32

## External links

* Muhammad Riaz Qadiri: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, Gujranwala, Pakistan, 2004
# Al-Durr al-Mukhtar

Al-Durr al-Mukhtar Sharh Tanwir al-Absar commonly referred to as Durr ul-Mukhtar (lit. "the chosen pearl", also spelled Durr al-Mukhtar) is a book written by Imam Muhammad Ala-ud-Din Haskafi in the year 1070 AH.

## Quotes

* And if a man wants to take a concubine and his wife says to him "I will kill myself," he is not prohibited [from doing so], because it is a lawful act, but if he abstains to save her grief, he will be rewarded, because of the hadith "Whoever sympathises with my community, God will sympathise with him."
** A 17th century Hanafi scholar, Imam Haskafi, writes in his jurisprudential work Al-Durr al-Mukhtar. Kecia Ali (21 December 2015). Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence. Oneworld Publications. ISBN 978-1-78074-853-5. p.50
# C. B. Colby

C. B. Colby (born Carroll Burleigh Colby, September 7, 1904; died October 31, 1977) was a prolific children's book writer of mostly non-fiction works. He wrote approximately 93 books that were widely circulated in public and school libraries in the United States.

## Quotes
### Strangely Enough, (1963)

Colby, C.B. (1963). Strangely Enough. Publisher: Scholastic Magazines, Inc. ISBN 0-590-03123-6.
* When thoroughly reliable people encounter ghosts, their stories are difficult to explain away.
** p. 177

### World's Best "True" Ghost Stories, (1988)

Colby, C.B. (1988). World's Best "True" Ghost Stories. Publisher: Sterling Publish, Co., Inc. ISBN 0-8069-6898-2.
* A good yarn, an offbeat tale, a bloodcurdling ghost story -- they need no explanation or excuse for the telling!
** p. 5
# C. Delisle Burns

C. Delisle Burns (26 January 1879 – 22 January 1942) was a leading English atheist and secularist writer and lecturer.

## Quotes

* It has been assumed that freedom means the absence of limitation, which is correct but misleading; for it explains by a negative, and has therefore led to the absurdities of individualism. ... The value of freedom lies in the original impulse, and not in the absence of an obstacle.
** The Philosophy of Labour (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1925), as quoted in The Meaning of Adult Education by Eduard C. Lindeman (1926), p. 64
# C.K Raulji

C.K. Raulji is an Indian politician from the state of Gujarat belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a two term member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly.

## Quotes

* I don’t know whether they committed the crime or not. But their conduct was good; the activity of the family was very good. They are Brahmins. Their sanskar (values) were very good.
** On the decision to release 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano rape case, as quoted in "‘Brahmins, good sanskar’: BJP MLA on Bilkis rapists". Hindustan Times. 19 August 2022.
# C. E. M. Joad

Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (12 August 1891 – 9 April 1953) was an English philosopher and broadcasting personality. During the 1940s, he was a participant in The Brains Trust, a BBC Radio discussion programme. He popularised philosophy and became a celebrity, before his downfall in a scandal over an unpaid train fare in 1948.

## Quotes

* "If it is, then the sooner they give up the pretence of playing with public affairs and return to private life the better. If they cannot make a job of the House of Commons, let them at least make something of their own houses. If they cannot learn to save men from the destruction which incurable male mischievousness bids fair to bring upon them, let women at least learn to feed them, before they destroy themselves."
** As quoted in Virginia Woolf Three Guineas (1938)
* The thought of the Upanishads is bold and free, and their general conclusion is that mystical experience is the pathway to reality.
** Quoted in Salil Gewali Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House (2013).
* The civilizations of the East are very old; their roots stretch back into the past to a time when Europe was still a cockpit of fighting savages.
* The thought of the Upanishads is bold and free, and their general conclusion is that mystical experience is the pathway to reality.
* Thus, the doctrines of Hinduism were never reduced to a set of formal creeds and Hindu religion has always been willing to receive new experiences and to incorporate new knowledge.
** Quoted from Sushama Londhe A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture, New Delhi: Pragun Publications (2008), p. 49 ff.
# David Louis Walker

David Louis Walker (13 November 1938 –) is an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Broken Bay.

## Quotes

* Unity and peace are important words in the teaching of Jesus. Events in history at times made it difficult for Christians to live in agreement. Pope John Paul II left us documents which lay the foundation for our efforts to build closer relations with one another. Pope Benedict confirms this message. If we fail to go in this direction we would ignore what the Church is proclaiming today. This pact is a call to continue our mutual activities and find new ways of involvement for the future. It is a challenge for our respective communities to enter into closer relationship with other believers in Christ.
** Catholic and Anglican dioceses make history with ecumenical pact (3 April 2008) Fides News Agency
# David Lyon

David Lyon (born 1948) is a Canadian professor of sociology.

## Surveillance society

* But the term surveillance society does have connotations that at least hint at possible negative consequences, in ways that unambiguously optimistic talk of "information societies" and "knowledge-based economies" does not. My point is rather that such societies are in part constituted by a surveillance dimension.
** §2, p. 29
* Comint represents the effort to gain access to, intercept and process every important modern form of communication, in every significant sphere, and in many countries.
** §6, p. 95
* What a contrast with the lives of ordinary people at the start of twenty-first century! Today, everyday life is constantly monitored.
** Part III, p. 105
* The panopticon produces subjects with desires to improve their inner lives. In contrast the superpanopticon constitutes objects, individuals with dispersed identities, who may remain unaware of how those identities are construed by the computer. We are once again back with disappearing bodies.
** §7, p. 115
* How long can surveillance theory ignore the implications of this? It seems entirely appropriate to add to the surveillance impetuses of the nation state, capitalism and bureaucracy, the imperatives of an implicit cultural commitment to omniperception. [...] The driving desire to dragnet yet more detailed data is both as old and as ominous as the aspiration to be "as God".
** §7, p. 125
* What persists into postmodern conditions is an abiding infrastructural dependence on communication and information technologies. They are undoubtedly viewed in the popular and political imaginations as far more beneficial than baleful to humanity. That they will continue to expand their influence is beyond doubt, short of some global catastrophe.
** §8, p. 139
* Surveillance today is a means of sorting and classifying populations and not just of invading personal space or violating the privacy of individuals. In postmodernizing contexts surveillance is an increasingly powerful means of reinforcing social divisions, as the superpanoptic sort relentlessly screens, monitors and classifies to determine eligibility and access, to include and to exclude.
** §9, p. 151

## Bibliography

* David Lyon, Surveillance society: Monitoring everyday life, Open university press, 2001. ISBN 9780335205462
# David Low (cartoonist)

Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (7 April 1891 – 19 September 1963) was a New Zealand cartoonist who settled in England. His most famous creation was Colonel Blimp, a pompous, befuddled, reactionary, military buffoon.

## Quotes

* Gad, sir, Lord Beaverbrook is right! A conference should be held at once for the U. S. A. to pay back the money Europe owes her.
** Political Parade, with Colonel Blimp (London: Cresset Press, 1936); quoted in Time, July 27, 1936.
* "The scum of the earth, I believe?" "The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume?"
** Evening Standard, September 20, 1939.
** "Rendezvous", a cartoon set in the ruins of Poland showing Stalin and Hitler genially bowing to each other.
* Very well, alone.
** Evening Standard, June 18, 1940.
** Published after the German capture of Paris, this shows a soldier on the British coast shaking his fist at approaching bombers.
* Gad, sir, Churchill is right. The Govt. has evidently made an irrevocable decision to be guided by circumstances with a firm hand.
** Colonel Blimp, quoted in David G. Chandler & Ian Beckett (eds.) The Oxford History of the British Army (Oxford: OUP, 2003) p. 312.
* I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.
** New York Times Magazine, February 10, 1946.

## Quotes about Low

* Strube is a gentle genius. I don't mind his attacks because he never hits below the belt. Now Low is a genius, but he is evil and malicious. I cannot bear Low.
** Stanley Baldwin, quoted in Arthur Christiansen, Headlines All My Life (1961), p. 155
* It may well be, that the future historian, asked to point to the most characteristic expression of the English temper in the period between the two wars will reply without hesitation, "Colonel Blimp".
** C. S. Lewis "Blimpophobia", in Time and Tide (9 September 1944)
* [Winston Churchill]...detested David Low's politics, while admiring his skill. Low was a New Zealand Communist who was a favourite of Beaverbrook's. I found his employment inexplicable. In his own quirkish way Beaverbrook was a true patriot, yet he employed people like Frank Owen, Michael Foot and, appropriately below all, Low. Competent and talented they undoubtedly were, but the harm they did in opposing Britain's rearmament programme against Hitler is appalling. One of Low's cartoons depicted Colonel Blimp, his favourite Tory butt, exclaiming over our belated, inadequate but desperately needed arms programme of the late 1930s: 'Gad Sir, if we want to keep our place in the sun, we must darken the sky with our planes.' I would like to have confronted these gentlemen with the sight of one of our stricken airfields in the Battle of Britain. Would they have adopted for their own use Churchill's earlier saying: 'I have often eaten my own words and found them on the whole a most nourishing diet'? I doubt it.
** Anthony Montague Browne, Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill's Last Private Secretary (1995), p. 179
# David Lyndsay

Sir David Lyndsay (or Lindsay) of the Mount, Lord Lyon King of Arms (c. 1490 – c. 1555) was the leading Scottish poet and playwright of the mid-16th century; also a courtier, a diplomat, and his country's highest-ranking herald.

## Sourced

* Unthrift, sweirnes, falset, povertie, and stryfe Pat polacey in dainger of hir lyfe.
** The Dreme (c. 1528), line 965
* That nicht he sleipit never ane wink, Bot still did on the Ladie think.
** The Historie of ane Nobil and Wailyeand Squyer, William Meldrum (1550), line 899
* Quhowbeit that divers devote cunnyng Clerkis In Latyne toung hes wryttin syndrie bukis, Our unlernit knawis lytill of thare werkis, More than thay do the rauyng of the Rukis. Quharefore to Colyearis, Cairtaris, & to Cukis, To Jok and Thome, my Ryme sall be diractit, With cunnyng men quhowbeit it wylbe lactit.
** Ane Dialog Betuix Experience and ane Courteour, off the Miserabyll Estait of the Warld (1554), line 545
* Quhen the Sonne is at the hycht, Att nonne quhen it doith schyne most brycht, The schaddow of that hydduous strength Sax myle and more it is of lenth. Thus maye ye Juge, in to your thocht, Gyfe Babilone be heych, or nocht.
** Ane Dialog Betuix Experience and ane Courteour, off the Miserabyll Estait of the Warld, line 1752

### Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis

* Heir sall Wantones ga spy them and cum agane to the king
** Stage direction, line 326
* Heir entirs Flattery new landit owt of France
** Stage direction, line 601
* Brother Wantonness, what thinks thou? Yon are the Three Estates I trow Gangand backwart.
** Solace, lines 2023-20281599-1601
* Sir, I wald speir at ȝow ane questioun. Behauld sum Prelats of this Regioun: Manifestlie during thair lustie lyvfis, Thay swyfe Ladies, Madinis and vther mens wyfis. And sa thair cunts thay haue in consuetude. Quhidder say ȝe that law is evill or gude?
** Pauper, lines 2023-2028
* Ere I depart this natioun, I shall mak Reformatioun!
** Divine Correctioun
* And to the Devill of hell condemne this mein3e; For quhy sic reformatioune, as I weine Into Scotland was never hard nor seine.
** Lines 3720-3722

## Criticism

* But in the glances of his eye, A penetrating, keen, and sly Expression found its home; The flash of that satiric rage, Which, bursting on the early stage, Branded the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome. * * * Still is thy name in high account, And still thy verse has charms, Sir David Lindesay of the Mount, Lord Lion King-at-arms!
** Sir Walter Scott Marmion (1808) Canto 4, st. 7.
* Lyndsay, with all his ancient coarseness…maintained for two centuries, even among the precise, his position as the popular poet of Scotland.
** George Gordon The Discipline of Letters (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946) p. 91.
* He usually lacks the originality of Henryson and the brilliance of Dunbar and Douglas. But what there is of him is good all through.
** C. S. Lewis English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954) p. 100.

## External links

* Selected works of Sir David Lyndsay
# David Luban

David Luban is University Professor and Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University and Founding Editor of the weblog Just Security.

## Quotes

* Professional identity cannot cancel out or displace the primordial moral agency that we all share simply by virtue of being human.
** "The Inevitability of Conscience," Cornell Law Review, vol. 93, pp. 1437-1466 (2008)
# Daisy Nyongesa

Daisy Kanainza Nyongesa (born 23 January 1989), is a nominated senator in the Senate of Kenya, representing the youth on an Orange Democratic Movement party (ODM) ticket.

## Quotes

* Put youths of this Country to a level that they can comfortably go for leadership position.
** "Life and Style: The Kitchen; Chef Abdalla talks to Daisy Nyongesa a nominated youth senator." (April 24, 2017)
* Leadership position is not only politics.
** "Life and Style: The Kitchen; Chef Abdalla talks to Daisy Nyongesa a nominated youth senator." (April 24, 2017)
* There are so many leadership positions that youths can take advantage of.
** "Life and Style: The Kitchen; Chef Abdalla talks to Daisy Nyongesa a nominated youth senator." (April 24, 2017)
# Daisy Rockwell

Daisy Rockwell (born 1969) is an American Hindi and Urdu language translator and artist. She has translated a number of classic works of Hindi and Urdu literature, including Upendranath Ashk's Falling Walls, Bhisham Sahni's Tamas, and Khadija Mastur's The Women's Courtyard. Her 2021 translation of Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand was the first South Asian book to win the International Booker Prize. Rockwell was awarded the 2023 Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award by the Vani Foundation and Teamwork Arts, during the 2023 edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival. Tomb of Sand also won her the 2022 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.

## Quotes

* ...Translation is a lonely activity...
* ...America absolutely is a multiracial, diverse, society, but because of that, people don’t feel like they need to expand, because they feel like they’re already reading from other races or cultures...
* ...Word-by-word accuracy is only one factor of the equation, and accuracy of feeling and aesthetic experience is also important. Sometimes you have to end up slightly changing a semantic meaning just to get the feeling right, so I can’t obsess too much about whether or not I am wrong...
* ...For me, languages can be like people. Some of them you love, some of them you hate, some of them you just don’t gel with...
* ...translators are used to being in the shadows, and they’re coming out...
** Interview with Daisy Rockwell by CJLC
* ...a translator has this gift where they can raise voices that are not heard clearly enough...
* ...As a translator, when you do such in-depth reading of a text, you're so much more aware the way woman writers give space to women's thoughts and feelings without compromising the male characters either...
** Interview with Daisy Rockwell by The Times of India
# Alessandro Pagani

Alessandro Pagani (3 January 1937 –) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Mangochi.

## Quotes

* He was not one of your sons, you hardly knew him, he spoke only a few words of your language...why have you come to his funeral? This is the power of the faith, this is what it means to be Christians.
** Catholics in Malawi mourn Italian voluntary worker who died of malaria (6 July 2009) Fides News Agency
# Alessandra Torresani

Alessandra Torresani (born May 29, 1987) is an American actress. She is credited as Alessandra Toreson for her work prior to 2007.

## Quotes

* I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.
** Hugh Hart Wired Magazine Alessandra Torresani Gets Inside Caprica’s Prime Cylon (January 21, 2010).