A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments, and upon framing hypotheses with the greatest possible freedom from dogmatic prejudice. And if these were the really important things in life, physics would be an essential study for everybody.
Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal.
The longer I live, the more I'm convinced the world is just one big high school, with the cool kids always targeting the uncool.
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.