Bassam Tibi Quotes
In Islam tolerance means that Christians and Jews are allowed to live under the protection of Muslims but never as citizens with the same rights. What Muslims call tolerance is nothing other than discrimination.
Quotes to Explore
-
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
-
Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
-
The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
-
If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
-
I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
-
It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.
-
For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
-
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
-
I'm really tired of virtue.
-
He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question.
-
Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.
-
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.
-
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.
-
The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.
-
You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.
-
Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.
-
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
-
I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.
-
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
-
Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.
-
Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.
-
Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.
-
We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
-
In Islam tolerance means that Christians and Jews are allowed to live under the protection of Muslims but never as citizens with the same rights. What Muslims call tolerance is nothing other than discrimination.
