Al Rachid Taha Quotes & Sayings

Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite. — Nikos Kazantzakis

No one actually likes wine. They just like being snotty about what they choose to get drunk on. — Sarah Noffke

Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been. — Emily Giffin

People said I'd never make 35, then I'd never make 40, 45; now I'm almost 50, so Im beginning to think maybe they might be wrong. — Chet Baker

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across. — Rosemary Clooney

Darkness will never prevail. If you do not recognize the evil in our world, you will never stand up to it. — Landon Parham

We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight. — Lane Kirkland

Islam, however inadequate, was the only source of ethics and stimulus for political mobilization. And al-Afghani also presciently saw that a totally secular society- the dream of nineteenth-century rationalism- was doomed to remain a fantasy in the West as well as in the Muslim world. As he concluded in his response to Renan:
The masses do not like reason, the teachings of which are understood only by a few select minds. Science, however fine it may be, cannot completely satisfy humanity's thirst for the ideal, or the desire to soar in dark and distant regions that philosophers and scholars can neither see nor explore. — Pankaj Mishra

You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be 'undemocratic'. — Geoffrey Wood