“What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.”
Steven Erikson book Deadhouse Gates
Source: Deadhouse Gates
In an interview with CNNs S.E. Cupp, when asked about the Donald Trump's proposed ban on Muslims visiting the United States. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/katrina-pierson-muslim-ban-so-what (December 9, 2015)
“What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.”
Steven Erikson book Deadhouse Gates
Source: Deadhouse Gates
“They’re schemers, so they see schemes.”
Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 38 (p. 325)
Seth MacFarlane (1973) American animator, actor, singer and television producer
they spend their entire day hating people. <br class="br">Of PTC, quoted in Read Oscar Host Seth MacFarlane's One and Only Gay Interview (From 2008) http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/television/2008/01/25/read-oscar-host-seth-macfarlanes-one-and-only-gay-interview, The Advocate, 25 January 2008.
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 44, “The Burning Glass” (p. 328)
“This is what it means to be a Muslim.”
Abdullah II of Jordan (1962) King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Address to the European Parliament (2015)
Context: I and countless other Muslims, have been taught from our earliest years that our religion demanded respect and caring for others. The Prophet Mohammad, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “None of you has faith until you love for your neighbour what you love for yourself.”
This is what it means to be a Muslim.
Among the very names of God, we hear: the Compassionate, the All-Merciful. All my life, every day, I have heard and used the greeting, Assalamu aleikum — a wish for the other to be blessed with peace.
This is what it means to be a Muslim.
More than a thousand years before the Geneva Conventions, Muslim soldiers were ordered not to kill a child, a woman or an old person, not to destroy a tree, not to harm a priest, not to destroy a church.
These are the same values of Islam we were taught in school as children: not to destroy or desecrate a place where God is worshipped, not a mosque, not a church, not a synagogue.
This is what it means to be a Muslim. These are the values I teach my children and they will hand on to theirs.
Jussi Halla-aho (1971) Finnish Slavic linguist, blogger and a politician
Jussi Halla-aho (2006), published in the blog Scripta Islamin yleisestä ja erityisestä suvaitsevaisuudesta http://www.halla-aho.com/scripta/islamin_yleisesta_ja_erityisesta_suvaitsevaisuudesta.html, September 21, 2006 <br class="br">2005-09