Reza Aslan Quotes

If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.

Reza Aslan

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• The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Future
  • Way
  • Religious

• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Long
  • Success
  • Leadership

• Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Leadership
  • Leaders

• When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Human
  • Audience
  • Landscape

• The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Great
  • Education

• Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Leadership
  • Blessed
  • Dreams

• I'm like, 'Why aren't artists owning their masters? Why are labels robbing artists dry, and they have to spend all this time on tour to even break even?' Like, what happened? Why are they promoting things that aren't either socially conscious or elevating the human consciousness?

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Why
  • Human

• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Human
  • Distance
  • Wonderful

• Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Time
  • Long
  • Human

• Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Life
  • Human

• California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Running

• Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Community
  • Always
  • Pleasure

• The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Best
  • Human
  • Word

• Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Human
  • Race
  • Sisters

• Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Human
  • More

• It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Proud

• God deserves more love than the world gives him. Men, too, need more love than they receive from the world. Our community wants to take her place where these two needs meet.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be.

  

  Brad Wenstrup
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

  

  Adam Rapp
  • Hope
  • Community
  • Support

• You really have to think a lot before speaking, and the things that are written about you, sometimes you might not like it.

  

  Kriti Sanon

• My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • Gold

• If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.

  

  Reza Aslan
  • Community
  • Religious
  • Human