The Quran says nothing about the veil, except for an injunction to veil the bosom, which is obvious. As for the face, Muhammad's wife Khadijeh never wore the veil, nor did the other wives of the Prophet after Khadijeh died. [...] The ulema have twisted the Quran with their hadith, always twisting it toward those in power, until the message Muhammad laid out so clearly, straight from God, has been reversed, and good Muslim women are made like slaves again, or worse.
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looki… - Kim Stanley Robinson
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looki…
- Kim Stanley Robinson
Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit. - Kim Stanley Robinson
Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one… - Kim Stanley Robinson
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one…
We ought to be keeping in mind that the technology is not just hardware and machinery, it is also software. So you can think of languages of the tech… - Kim Stanley Robinson
We ought to be keeping in mind that the technology is not just hardware and machinery, it is also software. So you can think of languages of the tech…
When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check. - Kim Stanley Robinson
When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists wh… - Kim Stanley Robinson
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists wh…
And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see it… - Kim Stanley Robinson
And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see it…
What we need is equality without conformity. - Kim Stanley Robinson
What we need is equality without conformity.
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. An… - Kim Stanley Robinson
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. An…
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