Madrassas Quotes & Sayings

We in the West have been at the mercy of those who where supposed to translate and explain an entire ideology but instead sanitized it and camouflaged it. The same applies on the other side. In western culture, democracy is being taught in the classroom, but it is a historically understood concept. The intellectual translation into Arab Muslim culture depends on the "translating party." In those cultures, its real meaning has been complicated and altered in the madrassas (Islamic religious schools) or when taught by antidemocracy teachers. — Walid Phares

Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke. — Courtney Barnett

It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care. — Ezra Klein

What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk. — Vance Havner

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would. — Ted Shackelford

When your heart softens and opens, your being becomes matter in your self. That is the change of matter and what matters to you in your self will change. — John De Ruiter

It is common knowledge that Saudi Arabia is the most extremist of the Muslim States. It finances the infamous Madrassas (schools) that preach a litany of hate and turn out thousands of fanatical Islamic zealots. It indirectly provides the funding and its' citizens provide most of the fighters for Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda organization. It supports, financially and by other means, the Palestinian terrorists and other Muslim anti-Western groups throughout the world. — James Byron Bissett

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister — Lord Byron

Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate surface of being and reveal the tactile density of it as a manifold whose measure cannot be immediately taken by the eyes, that it's deep, it's connected, it's complex. Everything holds within itself the anticipation and the memory of everything else. — Terence McKenna

Ms. Ginsberg. I wonder if you can help me. I have a legal question," Felicity Mason said. Great. I hated giving out free legal advice at parties, but at that moment, I would have drafted her will in crayon on a cocktail napkin to get away from Cole. — N.M. Silber