book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer
War
- War is so evil that it makes treachery and terror less shocking in comparison.
- There is no just war. There are just wars.
- America is constantly at war to produce new destructive weapons to keep its war industry busy and prosperous, and to maintain her hegemony over the world.
- In war, terror by the victor is an act of containment, and by the vanquished a crime of insurgency.
- No war is just. All wars are for territory, resources, wealth, and for the sheer pleasure of domination in the name of monopoly over the truth, such as the Christian crusades of the 11th century, colonization of the continents by the Europeans in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, and by the Americans, and the European occupation of Iraq in the 21st Since crusades, it has been a millennium of wars and conquests in the world by the Western Christians, whose basic tenets of faith are love and mercy.
- If the threat of war between India and Pakistan, both nuclear countries, continue, they will one day achieve the peace of wilderness.
- War is the only function of man, in which base instincts of fighting evoke best emotions of honour, sacrifice, and glory. An unworthy person can become a martyr in it.
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In every family, if one is lucky, there appears a figure so marvellously singular, so steeped in wisdom and warmth that he becomes a sort of personal North Star. Rasheed Ahmed Akhund was such a man; measured, principled and enigmatic. A man who, like the best of us, lived not for show but for substance. He belonged to a dwindling class of men who thought deeply, spoke sparingly and forgave quietly.
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“lf you attempt to prove existence of God with cold logic, you will land him in contradictions. If you feel him warmly, he is universal love and sense of perfection.”
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Book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer
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