“ The most sectarian people are the furthest from being religious. ” —Musa al-Sadr
“ I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam. ” —Muhammad Abduh
“ We cannot fight for our rights and our history as well as for the future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness. ” —Edward Said
“ [There is] little connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, or any one of the world’s religions ... The taproot of suicide terrorism is nationalism. ” —Robert Pape
“ Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ” —John F. Kennedy
“ A secular democracy that upholds human rights is neither pro- nor anti-religion. Rather it is neutral with regard to personal belief system. ” —Noam Chomsky
“ Do good to people and you'll enslave their hearts. ” —Abu al-Ala' al-Ma'arri
—Eleanor Roosevelt
“ No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ”
—Aboul-Qacem Echebbi
“ When the people will to live,
Destiny must surely respond.
Oppression shall then vanish.
Fetters are certain to break.
”
“ When you educate a woman, you create a nation. ” —Hafez Ibrahim
“ Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. ” —Steve Jobs
“ Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ” —Peter Ustinov
“
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
” —Martin Niemöller
“ The creative person should have no other biography than his works. ” —B. Traven
“ Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. ” —Thomas Stephen Szasz
“ It is not a writer's business to hold opinions. ” —William Butler Yeats
“ There are no fools more troublesome than those with wit. ” —François de La Rochefoucauld
“ Revenge yourself on your enemies by not becoming like them. ” —Marcus Aurelius
“ An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. ” —Kahlil Gibran
“ Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. ” —Anne Lamott
“ Be the change that you wish to see in the world. ” —Mahatma Gandhi
“ I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ” —Thomas A. Edison
“ It is never too late to be what you might have been. ” —George Eliot
“ It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. ” —Paulo Coelho
“ When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ” —Helen Keller
“ Peace begins with a smile. ” —Mother Teresa
“ All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. ” —St. Francis of Assisi
“ Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. ” —Leonardo da Vinci
“ You never fail until you stop trying. ” —Albert Einstein
“ A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. ” —William G.T. Shedd
“ The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. ” —John Milton
“ It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ” —Confucius
“ A person is either your brother in faith, or your equal in humanity. ” —Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
“ In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ” —Martin Luther King Jr.
“ Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. ” —C.S. Lewis
“ The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy ” —Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
“ Beware the level headed when he is angry. ” —Arabic proverb
“ If you can't reward then you should thank. ” —Arabic proverb
“ The best generousity is giving without being asked. ” —Arabic proverb
“ Good health is a crown on the heads of the healthy that only the ill can see. ” —Arabic proverb
“ A tree starts with a seed. ” —Arabic proverb
“ Anger begins with madness and ends with regret. ” —Arabic proverb
“ Men are judged by the strength of their opinion. ” —Arabic proverb
“ He who does not have a job circumcises cats. ” —Bahraini proverb
“ Who ever finds a friend, finds a treature. ” —Italian proverb
“ No amount of belief makes something a fact. ” —James Randi
“ We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. ” —Richard Dawkins
“ Chance favors the prepared mind. ” —Louis Pasteur
“ If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ” —Mark Twain