A Quote by Adnan Sami
I believe in the philosophy of turning the other cheek.
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Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.
I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.
Often, my liberal Canadian brethren will claim that 'Canada doesn't get involved in foreign affairs or wars overseas. We turn the other cheek.' No. Canada doesn't have the military might to exercise any option other than to remain uninvolved. They aren't turning the other cheek. They're pulling a Sweden.
Turning the other cheek isn't submissive. It's defiant.
I am not a pacifist in terms of turning the other cheek.
Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too.
The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.
If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.
I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning the cheek and suffering peacefully for 400 years in a land of bondage, under the most cruel, inhuman and wicked slavemaster that any people have ever been under, he is doing those people an injustice, and he's a traitor to his own people.
...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.
Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy which saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It is useful for harming stupidity, for turning stupidity into something shameful. Its only use is the exposure of all forms of baseness of thought.
The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.
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