"Sharia is the most oppressive system on earth. It encourages people to lie, if it's for the benefits of Islam. It doesn't allow Muslims to leave Islam, and there's a death penalty in all the schools of Sharia against those that leave Islam. Sharia defines what jihad is."

-- Mark Durie

#Lying Quotes #School Quotes #People Quotes

“In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.”
“At some point you have to believe that the inadequacies of the words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use them. You have to believe that poetry has some reach into reality itself, or you have to go silent.”

Source : Christian Wiman (2013). “Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet”, p.161, Copper Canyon Press
“I'm a clean freak and a germaphobe - I have hand sanitizer in my pocket.”
“What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?”
“A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.”
“Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb”
“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.”
“hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.”

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