"The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism."

“We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.”

“There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.”

“Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.”

“Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a great service by developing, over the years, a form of language in which many of the archaisms and cliches that had become fashionable were discarded, a language that could serve as an adequate instrument for the writing of fiction in these times.”

Source : "Naguib Mahfouz" by Denys Johnson-Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2006.

“Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.”

“Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.”

“Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de

“Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.