"People who have left the group talk about how a religious inspiration took them to ISIS. It was their feeling of being marginalized as Muslims in the society where they were living, and then buying into the promise of a caliphate and of a Muslim land that is governed as in the time of the prophet. I have yet to meet anybody, or speak to anybody, who was not religiously motivated at some level."

-- Rukmini Maria Callimachi

#Religious Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Isis Quotes

“Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone. Therefore, Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression, as their speech and actions are determined by divine revelation and not based on people's desires.”

Source : "People know the consequences: Opposing view". www.usatoday.com. January 7, 2015.
“What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade”
“The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.”

Source : "Personality Clash: Kate Tempest x Loyle Carner". www.clashmusic.com. May 10, 2016.
“There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy.”
“To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.”
“You donâ€™t have to have a boyfriend to be happy, to be pretty, or belong.”
“When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.”
“If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.”

Source : Bill Knott (1968). “The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans”

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