Interesting Quotes

Hitler: Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Stalin: It is not the people who vote that count, it is the people who count that vote.

Mussolini: The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Osama Bin Laden: Your security is in your own hands.

Napoleon: A true man hates no one.

Lincoln: A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Washington: Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Khatami: Ignoring people's demands in the name of religion ... will only create disappointment.

Ahmadinejad: How can you prove you are not a bad person? You can't prove that.

Religious Quotes

God is not necessarily a discovery, it might be a human invention.

Deaths made under the name of God are more than under the name of Devil.

I do not think believing to something or someone that gave us the power of deduction but encourages us not to use it is necessary.

Prophets without swords are forgotten.

A reasonable religious person is like a long hair clone.

Maybe the life purpose is not to worship a God, maybe is to create one to worship.

Devil is a drunk God.

When you hate someone, he/she hates you too, so God is artificial.

Story of Two Pines

Next to telephone lines
there were two pines,

for many years people thought,
they are real undoubted friends

In autumn, when there was wind and shower
one of them shook, fell on the other

Said: Sorry! it was out of my hand
my roots are out, carry me for a second!

another replied with violence:
I hate you trouble! get out of my way

leave me alone! I cannot tolerate
then, shook the poor unfortunate,

lines were torn, pine fell, in an action
the center became out of connection

a research group was sent
to figure out what happened

preventing the same problem,
pines were chopped, all of them.

Human Classification

There are four types of mankind

1- Those who when do exist, do, when do not, do not: These guys are just physical bodies, most of us are like them.

2- Those who when do exist, do not, when do not, do not: These are useless people, no aim in life, dead or alive the same.

3- Those who when do exist, do, when do not, do: These are effective people, planned to develop human society, or dangerous mankind who abused their power, few of us are like them.

4- Those who when do exist, do not, when do not, do: Extra ordinary people who served their life for others with no claim. If you encounter one of them your life direction is changed.

Happy Nowrooz

Happy the new Persian year 1387 Hijrat, 7030 Mitraian, 3746 Zaraostrian and 2567 Archemedian.
Yes, Mohammad the prophet had traveled from Mecca to Medina 1387 years ago, but my land, Persia, was celebrating Nowrooz 5845 years before that. Moreover, 2361 years before his travel, my people was worshiping the only God and Cyrus, the great, was distributing friendship between people all over the world about 1182 years before that trip.
We have the true calendar, the start of spring season is start of our new year. We count it even in seconds to change the year exactly on time.
Westerns have borrowed their Georgian calendar from us. Count back from December as 10th. month, November as the 9th month, October as 8th month, September as 7th. month to see we were cultural cousins a day.
Happy Nowrooz to All Then.

Everybody Knows

Leonard Cohen's Style:
Everybody knows what election means

Everybody knows what power is

Everybody knows the bullet kills

Everybody knows a tortured fears
Everybody knows how it goes
Everybody knows the captain is wrong

Everybody knows the storm is strong

Everybody knows day after day

Everybody knows our people should pay
Everybody knows how it goes

Learning steps

Being far apart of you, what should I learn?
Being united again at last, why should I learn?
If you be with me, miracles I learn,
and if you don't, I won't.

Do not leave if I am not an intellect,
teach them me, I am not a perfect.
Since the time is passed with you everywhere,
I will learn by time anyway.
Ferro pieces I become around a magnet fraction,
to learn the meaning of attraction.

Like a fish I make a shield of me,
to learn the deep floation in blue ocean.

Like the heart of mine I drink the red wine,
to learn the sense of true passion.

I don't know by what I learn how to faith,
someone said by faith itself.

An exercise of translation of Rumi poems from Shams collection.