Eqbal Ahmad Quotes

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

Eqbal Ahmad

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• I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Dark
  • Minds
  • Dark Side

• Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Religious
  • Minds
  • Normal

• I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Me
  • Change

• Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Ideas
  • Existence
  • Minds

• Minds ripen at very different ages.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Different
  • Minds
  • Ages

• Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

  

  Tami Hoag
  • Family
  • Hope
  • Minds

• We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Poetry
  • Generation
  • Minds

• I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • People
  • Up
  • Stuff

• In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Simple

• I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • People
  • Truth
  • Pretty

• Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Nature

• As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Live
  • Love

• Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Children
  • Minds
  • Resource

• Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Minds

• If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Changes

• Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Children
  • Minds
  • Adults

• Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

  

  Sophocles
  • Grief
  • Minds
  • Teaches

• Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Force

• If we are faithful in keeping the commandments of God His promises will be fulfilled to the very letter. . . . The trouble is, the adversary of men's souls blinds their minds. He throws dust, so to speak, in their eyes, and they are blinded with the things of this world.

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • Trouble
  • Minds
  • Promises

• Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Voice
  • Values
  • Repository

• It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Afraid
  • Expression
  • Cotton

• Silence, and then Eve said, "Okay, that was extra creepy, with whipped creepy topping. And this is me, changing my mind.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Mind
  • Silence
  • Creepy

• We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

  

  Eqbal Ahmad
  • Minds
  • Dominated
  • Modern Times