"If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals."

-- Reza Aslan

#Leadership Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Country Quotes

“We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1798). “Twenty two sermons on various subjects: selected from the works of the Rev. Isaac Barrow, ...”, p.378
“Do you know him well?" I ask.I am too curious; I always have been. "Everyone knows Four," she says. "We were initiates together.I was bad at fighting,so he taught me every night after everyone was asleep." She scratches the back of her neck, her expression suddenly serious. "Nice of him." She gets up and stands behind the members sitting in the doorway. In a second, her serious expression is gone,but I still feel rattled by what she said, half confused by the idea of Four being "nice" and half wanting to punch her for no apparent reason.”
“You're the one who doesn't exist. You're doing this because you're scared to death, like the rest of us, that you don't matter. And you know what? You're right. You don't. It's not important. You're not important. Get used to it”
“But I end up with these bands who have players from literally all over the world.”
“My life is as good as an Abba song. Itâ€™s as good as Dancing Queen.”
“And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.”
“But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.”

Source : Rosamund Lupton (2011). “Afterwards”, p.187, Hachette UK
“We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.”

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