Top 100 Christina Engela Quotes
#1. They make friends, they laugh, they share
They stay in touch, they care.
Christina Engela
#2. One of the eternal truths of life - People who ask "do you know who I am?" will always, given half a chance, tell you.
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#3. Slavery of the heart, oh Love - a prisoner of will thou art - proof that love, while blissful, can oft also be Hell. Demonstrative definition thou art, that love can be strategic as well!
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#4. Who is the more courageous? The big, tough gay-basher, or the LGBTI person who faces their threats on a daily basis and carries on being honest about who they are regardless?
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#5. Isn't it interesting how nationalistic attitudes foster the notion that being gay is 'un-(fill in your nationality/ religion/ culture here)'?
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#6. Some kids are both or neither
And don't want to have to choose, either.
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#7. Start thinking for yourself, ask 'why?' and even venture to say 'why should I?' and pretty soon you will have half the world at your throat for being a 'trouble maker'.
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#8. It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again.
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#9. Anger - justifiable anger in the face of oppression and prejudice - should not be mistaken for hatred.
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#10. Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies.
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#11. Hugs are so vital a thing that there should never be so few of them that you can count the ones you've had.
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#12. But some boys like boys more -
And some girls make other girls hearts soar!
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#13. The only marches I have ever witnessed under a banner of so-called "Christianity" have been to enforce oppression and incite hatred and intolerance - and to deprive people of their equal civil rights.
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#14. An advanced human rights friendly Constitution is fine and well - but what good is it if it is not put into practice? The government says it cherishes the principles in the SA Constitution, and yet acts in a manner which cannot be reconciled with that very Constitution.
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#15. It is interesting indeed that some people think they are right to force others into believing what they believe.
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#16. He looked at the viewscreen and couldn't believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it would've been up his nose! There was an urgent scuttling as the bridge crew scrambled back into their respective seats.
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#17. Christians believe their God gave us all free will - strange that for over 2000 years, they have tried to take that choice away.
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#18. People attacking a group from outside will simply case that group to close ranks and unify and become even stronger - which in case they haven't noticed, is exactly what has happened with the pink community.
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#19. The machine demanded access codes. As he entered the first, a faint whispering sound startled him, causing him to snatch up the sweep laser. All was silent again. It had sounded like metal on metal. Could he have imagined it? He listened intently.
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#20. Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT.
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#21. If God made gay people, then did God not intend them to be gay? Did the Potter's hand slip?
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#22. Voting for a political party with a cross stuck on it doesn't mean it reflects true Christianity (at least not how Christ intended it) nor does 'biblical governance' guarantee Christian governance.
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#23. What would Jesus do? One thing is obvious, if there is one thing Jesus would NOT do - is to behave like his followers.
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#24. There's no point in arguing with an idiot - save for exposing their stupidity in their own words.
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#25. The idea that all people can and should live together in peace is not really a new one - but yet in practice it is very young indeed.
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#26. The Doktor took a fly swatter and hit it hard. 'Bang!' it went. But it didn't go splat! The roach just shook its heads, hissed at him, and staggered off with two minor headaches.
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#27. But not all kids are exactly the same,
Even when they share the same name.
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#28. We are told that religion says: 'God gave us brains' - and then they also quickly add: '-but God doesn't want us to use them'. Ridiculous.
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#29. Christ asked people who follow him to be the voice for the voiceless - not to wire their mouths shut.
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#30. Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise.
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#31. Voting on things is democratic, yes - but not on deciding on whether or not people should be equal or have human rights. That isn't democracy, it is mob rule.
Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.
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#32. If we refuse to accept knowledge because it frightens us, we will never grow. If we give in to fear, we will never outgrow hatred
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#33. I can't imagine why a media company views a law preventing the commission of hate speech as a restriction on media freedom, but it is probably similar to how some religious folk view hate speech as being essential to religious freedom.
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#34. Why do I dislike nationalism? First it starts with 'birds of a feather flock together' and it gradually becomes more a case of 'my dog is better than your dog' - with knives in it...
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#35. Not being allowed to persecute someone else in the name of your religion does NOT equate to religious persecution.
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#36. Those who object to human rights protection laws typically do so because they want to be above those laws.
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#37. Some kids also think it makes them cool
When they pick on other kids, being cruel.
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#38. If you hate others in the name of God, you should be looking within to see where it stopped being about God and where it started being about YOU.
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#39. Looks like they went crazy and started cacking each other.' Lisa said to me as we walked through the ship, searching for a single survivor. There were what looked to be barricades in the corridors. The elevator doors were shot through from the inside. So were the sides and the roof!
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#40. It is ironic that the only thing separating 'friend' from 'fiend' - is a single letter.
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#41. Some people don't like 'different', it makes them scared
Of people who aren't like them, I think that's weird.
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#43. The simple truth is that the only real 'ex-gay' person is a dead gay person - and even then I am not too sure about the validity of that statement.
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#44. Who will be there to mentor those who follow us if we crawl into a dark place and hide, denying who and what we are/ How short-sighted and exceedingly selfish!
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#45. It seems to me that wherever religion and politics mix in one body, fascist values - and not 'family values' - rear their ugly head.
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#46. When religious law becomes civil law, does the state not cease being secular, and become theocratic or theocentric?
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#47. The alien was an ugly sight, all angles and corners. Like a pentagram might look if it fell into a mathematical blender. No ports, seam lines or anything. Smooth yellow hull. No markings. And it was too close!
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#48. Marsh'k cut the circuit on the rest of the helmsman's whining and rose to his feet, stretching to his full height of just under six standard Terran feet.
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#49. The moment you hand over YOUR responsibility to manage your own rights, morality, and freedoms - to the government, that is the moment democracy fails.
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#50. Coming from a portion of society that likes to exclude others from it, and separate itself from others, the myth of 'the Rapture' is naturally the ultimate exclusion.
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#51. How anyone can vote to support any form of fascism, knowing history, is beyond me - which leads me to draw the conclusion that either the people who voted to support it don't know what they are doing - or that they know exactly what they are doing.
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#52. Intelligence reports and local folklore together perpetuated tales of his bloody adventures across the rim worlds and badlands of Terran space. It was his trademark and often over the last two decades, history proclaimed in large bloody letters that 'Kilroy woz 'ere.
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#53. Some might claim that like the secret of flying is missing the ground, the secret to immortality is simply not dying.
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#56. it's disconcerting how many people billing themselves as 'experts in the occult' have bugger-all qualifications in the subject. Instead, they have a list of qualifications in studies on the occult THROUGH THE BIASED VIEWS of their own religions... This is NOT the same thing.
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#57. It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it.
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#58. If you stick your head in the sand like an ostrich, pretending you don't exist - why get upset when the world agrees with you/
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#61. The best way to piss off your enemies is to out-succeed, out laugh and out live them.
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#62. What other people believe shouldn't (be allowed to) hurt me.
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#63. Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue.
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#64. Some kids are black, or brown - some kids are red, and others white.
Kids come in all different colors, shapes and styles - beautiful and bright!
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#65. Religious fundamentalist haters and terrorists are not just saying that those who disagree with them shall give account to their God for our lives in the hereafter - but they are saying tat we shall also first give account to THEM.
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#66. Literary Agent: "I meant manuscript wise."
Tina: "Ohh. Um, yes. I've brought a few with me, just some rough drafts. (shuffle, shuffle) You might say something of an experiment.
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#67. Because freedom and liberty and equality are as vital as breath, we only notice their absence when we are left gasping when the colors of diversity and individual liberty are drained from the world around us.
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#68. Hate is no respecter of race - as apparently neither is stupidity.
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#69. You can pass any law you like to make 'criminals' of those you don't like and then justify it with whatever stupid reasoning that appeals to you. Is that rule of law - or tyranny?
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#70. When religion ceases to be speculative and becomes factual and "true", it will become science. Science can be used to prove or disprove opinions, beliefs and accusations. Until any religion crosses that line, who is anyone to use their religion to judge others?
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#71. Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?
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#72. I believe most people are good, even deep down, even if you have to dig a little - although some people can tempt one to pick up a shovel and actually put that to the test.
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#73. Some boys feel they are like girls,
They are gentle, and like their hair in curls.
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#75. You can only really appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down.
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#76. They set about making people so unhappy and isolated and when they crawl into a hole and pull it in after them, they have the nerve to call homosexuality a 'suicidal lifestyle'. And yet they do this - and deny that any gay or trans person could ever be a 'true' Christian. As if THEY are.
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#77. I wonder why bigots think their conservative and puritanical version of 'God' made the male body with a prostate gland that also co-incidentally 'just happens' to be a 'g-spot'?
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#78. They tell us variety is the spice of life - and yet diversity terrifies them.
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#79. How in any way does EQUALITY with other people equate to 'religious persecution'? Does the survival of a religion depend on the vilification and desecration of the humanity of others?
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#80. You cannot defend human rights without fighting religious fanatics - regardless of one's own religious experience - it is unavoidable. Why? Because they are the ones who take issue with how other people live their lives instead of minding their own business.
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#81. It is interesting how - depending on the person in power - our LGBT issues are either right at the top of the list - or right at the very bottom. And almost always for exactly the wrong reasons.
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#82. Sorry to disappoint you, parents - but when your kids come out as gay, bi or transgender, it is not about you.
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#83. How very like humans to pervert a message of love and peace to make it into an ideology of war and oppression to serve their own ends.
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#84. What is your talent? What are your interests? What resources do you have at your disposal? What can you do? What would you like to do? What can you do? You could apply your outrage to activism. Get involved. Do something.
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#85. Don't be a bully, don't be mean
Be a hero, don't be afraid to be seen.
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#86. Attention, aboard the shuttle! You are under arrest! Surrender immediately! Come out slowly, in single file, with your hands behind your heads! Leave all weapons behind. Comply and your lives will be spared!
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#87. While there is no shame in being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex - or even straight (but not narrow) - there is most certainly shame and dishonor in being a homophobe, a transphobe and a bigot.
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#88. Knowing who you are is more valuable than having ten 'friends' who don't even know who they are, but who judge you anyway.
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#90. I fail to see how somebody can hate me for 'what I do' and what I am without actually hating me as a person. That makes about as much sense as throwing the baby out with the bathwater - or gay man out the church door with his homosexuality.
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#91. Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war.
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#92. Wearing a smile while claiming to not judge and condemn people as you equate their nature with no less than a carnal and immoral act rather than as understanding their orientation and identity as an intrinsic part of who they are doesn't lessen the harshness and cruelty of that rejection.
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#93. Everybody is unique and different. Nobody is the same as anyone else. there is no 'normal' - it is a lie taught to us by a system so flawed that it is threatened by the awesome diversity of nature.
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#94. Some people do everything, some do something, many do nothing - which is bad enough - but the worst of the lot are those who break down what others have built.
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#95. There are many different forms of family and there is in fact NO 'the' family.
The basic building block of any close relationship - and thus any family - is LOVE.
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#97. Science tells us the more intelligent a person is, the less conservative and more liberal they become. ... which doesn't say anything good about violent, hate-mongering conservatives.
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#98. It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'.
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#99. Be assured, a God who spoke the universe into existence would not need grains of dust to fight holy wars for him.
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#100. When something hurts them, they weep.
By night, they rest, they sleep
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