No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer
– Naguib Mahfouz
Related Quotes:
- I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam. – Muhammad Abduh
- Muslims may fall short of Islam but Islam will never fall short of Muslims. – Habeeb Akande
- Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love. – Zarina Bibi
- Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims. – Salman Rushdie
- I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion. – Naguib Mahfouz
- Oh…why has time changed us? – Naguib Mahfouz
- I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other. – Naguib Mahfouz
- Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life. – Naguib Mahfouz
- Don’t go back over the past. Let it depart, never to return. – Naguib Mahfouz
- Why don’t we keep track of the happy moments, so that afterward we will believe them? Is he the same man Was he really sincere? – Naguib Mahfouz
- I want a world where hearts are not deceived and do not deceive others. – Naguib Mahfouz
- An anxious heart is like a string that’s out of tune. – Naguib Mahfouz
- There is no alternative to action, and that requires faith. The issue is how we are to mold for ourselves a belief system that is worthy of life. – Naguib Mahfouz
- There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam. – Imran Khan
- What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day. – Steve Goodier
- I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
- Jealousy stings, envy poisons, anger harms, and hate murders. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Talk only if it’s worth, else it harms your worth only. – Vikrmn
- Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’. – Idries Shah
- You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger. – Carrie Jones
- It’s a sin only if it harms you – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others. – Cortney S Warren
- I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide, is a wild call and a clear call, that cannot be denied! – John Masefield
- Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity. Just don’t call it madness. – Megan Shepherd
- Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled -œenemy? – Sylvia Plath
- Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient. – Russell Brand
- There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in a different manner. – MF Moonzajer
- Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation. I would even go so far as to confess that we are musical anarchists. – Nick La Rocca
- Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors. – Darnell Lamont Walker
- Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion. – MF Moonzajer
- You want a revolution, start murdering innocents. – MF Moonzajer
- And if the characters haven’t died, they carry on murdering to this very day … – Rebekka Kricheldorf
- That’s quite the specific search…’Sadistic Old-Bag-Murdering Witches’-”I can’t even begin to imagine what that involves. – Stacey T Hunt
- Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone’s beliefs as seriously as they do. – Jasper Sole
- To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray. – Ilyas Kassam
- That in the captain’s but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. – William Shakespeare
- He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape. – GK Chesterton
- God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy. – James Agee
- Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you. – Richard Dawkins
- When I told you I didn’t want you it was the blackest kind of blasphemy – Stephenie Meyer