Cleric

🇮🇷Hassan Rouhani

Politics

b. 1948

"After all, in our region there's been a wound for years on the body of the Muslim world under the shadow of the occupation of the holy land of Palestine and the beloved al-Quds ."

🇨🇦Tommy Douglas

Politics

1904–1986

"'My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.' To his daughter Shirley Douglas, 1951"

Adam Ferguson

Literature

Scottish Enlightenment

1723–1816

"Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarrelled, in troops and companies."

🇺🇸Julian Jaynes

Psychology

1920–1997

"Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else."

Ramon Llull

Philosophy

1232–1316

"Raymund Lull: First Missionary to the Muslims by Samuel M. Zwemer"

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Religion

1838–1926

"Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation."

🇩🇪Sydney Smith

Philosophy

1927–2011

"He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again."

Horatius Bonar

Politics

1808–1889

"In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one."

Charles Wesley

Literature

1707–1788

"Hymns and sacred poems, 4th edition, by Wesley, John and Wesley, Charles, Bristol, 1743. At archive.org."

Marsilio Ficino

Philosophy

Neoplatonism

1433–1499

"The people who have discovered something important in any of the more noble arts have principally done so when they have abandoned the body and taken refuge in the citadel of the soul."

🇧🇬Vasil Levski

Social Activism

1837–1873

"If I win - I win for all our people, if I lose - I lose only myself."

🇫🇷Pierre Charron

Science

humanism

1541–1603

"The true science and study of man is man."

Jakob Hurt

Politics

1839–1907

"If we can't be a great nation in population we can be a great nation in spirit!"

🇬🇧Martin Joseph Routh

Literature

1755–1854

"But I know, my friends, that you may object to me what St. Irenaeus says."

🇫🇷Dalil Boubakeur

Politics

b. 1940

"Freedom of expression cannot be the freedom to tell lies, the prophet did not found a terrorist religion, but a religion of peace."

Charles Kingsley

Literature

Socialism

1819–1875

"If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love."

Muhammad Al-Munajjid

b. 1960

"Defeating the infidels requires a much greater effort. It requires the mobilization of the nation."

"Rome was ruined more by neglect of agriculture, and giving no attention to useful trade and commerce, than by the invasion of barbarians."

"Thus for ane Dow of Dunbar drew I this Dyte, Dowit with ane Dowglass, and boith war thei dowis."

🇨🇦Northrop Frye

Literature

1912–1991

"The real Bible is a sealed book, an apocryphon, a book not to be opened until its time has come."

🇬🇧Samuel Palmer

Art

Romanticism

1741–1813

"I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching."

"Bring your ignorance to the Holy Spirit, the great teacher, who by His precious truth will lead you into all truth."

🇮🇷Ali Meshkini

Politics

1922–2007

"You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed."