"I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance."

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Source : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#People Quotes #Tolerance Quotes #Islam Quotes

“My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.”
“We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!”
“I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, 'Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie.' What am I going to say, no? So I did it.”
“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
“Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.”
“Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.”
“What we're calling 'presencing' is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact. I think a buddhist would say that presencing can arise to the extent that we develop the capacity, individually and collectively, to extend our conscious awareness in both domains.”

Source : Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.225, Crown Business
“True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.”

Source : Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.61, Sasquatch Books

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