Abdul Ghaffar Quotes & Sayings

Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional — Trinh T. Minh-ha

If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Assassinating someone is another way of saying I care, just not in the way they'd want you to. — Dov Davidoff

Magic [has] been replaced by machinery. — Shilo Shiv Suleman

A man who experiences difficult trials usually receives special visions — Sunday Adelaja

Today's world is traveling in some strange direction. You see that the world is going toward destruction and violence. And the specialty of violence is to create hatred among people and to create fear. I am a believer in nonviolence and I say that no peace or tranquility will descend upon the people of the world until nonviolence is practiced, because nonviolence is love and it stirs courage in people. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.' — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

I wasn't sure I was ready to go home. I believed that this city was magical. That it sang to me. And it seemed to me that once you happened upon magical places you should stay there, happily ever after. — Megan Crane

Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

If I'm in a room with nunchuks you might as well forget it. It's like putting down a plate of peanut butter cookies, I cannot resist picking them up. I will invariably grab those nunchuks and start flipping them around, whirling them through the air and within seconds my whole face is bruised and bleeding. I can't work 'em. I just can't. Don't even let me hold them. — Ron Burgundy

To me nonviolence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people. Therefore I am devoting all my energies toward the establishment of a society that would be based on its principles of truth and peace. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else. — Iris Dement

The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It's contextual. — Pearl Zhu

There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Produce great men, the rest follows. — Walt Whitman

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. — James Ellroy

Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won't come through. — Susan Sontag

My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

I am going to give you such a weapon that the police and the army will not be able to stand against it. It is the weapon of the Prophet, but you are not aware of it. That weapon is patience and righteousness. No power on earth can stand against it. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and love what you do' philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status. — Alex Pareene

I would say the reason that I've never written a novel is because I've never written a novel. — Deborah Eisenberg

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome. — William James