Top 29 Bassam Tibi Quotes
#1. A lot of people don't know if Denmark is a country or a cheese.
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#2. The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.
Levon Helm
#3. America's strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.
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#4. Unlike multiculturalism, cultural pluralism doesn't just mean diversity but also togetherness - primarily the understanding of the rules of the game - the European values structure.
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#5. The accusation of cultural insensitivity is a weapon.
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#6. I pressed past the outer branches of the lilacs and found a small and relatively open space in the middle. Then I waited.
Jim Butcher
#7. The weaker the partner is viewed by the Muslims, then the greater the anger which they express. And this anger is often carefully staged.
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#8. Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of converting others, and renounce the Jihad. The third thing they need to give up is the Shariah, which is the Islamic legal system.
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#9. In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
Edmund Wilson
#10. A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.
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#11. Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer foreigners an identity because the Germans hardly have a national identity themselves. That is certainly a result of Auschwitz.
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#12. In Islam tolerance means that Christians and Jews are allowed to live under the protection of Muslims but never as citizens with the same rights. What Muslims call tolerance is nothing other than discrimination.
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#14. Anybody who leads with hate, is not fit for leadership.
Jeanette Coron
#15. One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.
William Stanley Jevons
#16. I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
John Lennon
#17. It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.
Jahangir Khan
#18. Accusing somebody of racism is a very effective weapon in Germany. Islamists know this: As soon as you accuse someone of demonizing Islam, then the European side backs down.
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#19. I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.
Nate Berkus
#20. The Scriven men wore stack-heeled boots and pearl-studded evening coats; the ladies in their vast skirts looked like mythical creatures, half woman, half sofa.
Philip Reeve
#21. I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.
Edward Weston
#22. The idea that my brains could be untangled, straightened out, and thus refashioned into a state of peace and sanity was a comforting fantasy.
Ottessa Moshfegh
#23. Pluralism and tolerance are pillars of modern society. That has to be accepted. But pluralism doesn't just mean diversity. It means that we share the same rules and values, and are still nevertheless different. Islam doesn't have this idea. And Islam also has no tradition of tolerance.
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#24. To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.
Thomas Aquinas
#25. I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.
James A. Baldwin
#26. Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.
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#27. The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.
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#28. I myself am Muslim and I stand on the side of an open society.
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#29. The American goes to Paris, always has, and comes back and tells his neighbor, always does, how exorbitant and inhospitable it is, how rapacious and selfish and unaccommodating and unresponsive it is, how dirty and noisy it is-and the next summer his neighbor goes to Paris.
Milton Mayer
