Blasphemy Law Quotes

#1. I think the media projected the case of Asia Bibi in a right way. They have given the importance of this case and especially how the blasphemy law is being misused for the victimization [of religious minorities].

Shahbaz Bhatti

#2. However, the religious extremists, especially the pro-Taliban organizations, they mobilized and instigated the Islamists to come on the streets and put pressure on the government to stop any reform on the blasphemy law.

Shahbaz Bhatti

#3. This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.

Annie Besant

#4. It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.

Richard Dawkins

#5. It's weird that remixes have been associated so much with dance music. I think it's just kind of box-standard to put a beat behind it saying it's a remix.

Simon Taylor-Davis

#6. Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

Ken Robinson

#7. When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?

Eoin Colfer

#8. With Dremel, engineers could formulate queries using an SQL-like syntax, speeding up the process of iterative analysis without dealing with the overhead of defining raw MapReduce jobs.

Anonymous

#9. It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

Holland Taylor

#10. To get to do a West End play is once in a lifetime chance.

Rory Bremner

#11. Know what you are talking about.

Pope John Paul II

#12. Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental edicts.

Frank Herbert

#13. Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. You'd definitely think of me more as a good sport than as an athlete.

Gabrielle Burton

#15. There are different opinions across the Middle East of Al-Jazeera. They've been kicked out of Egypt and Jordan and then let back in; they've been totally banned from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria.

Jehane Noujaim

#16. We're all imaginary friends to one another,

Jim Butcher

#17. I noticed that once you realize
someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself
watching them back.

Meg Rosoff

#18. The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself.

Anne Sexton

#19. Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

Ricky Gervais

#20. A poor generous man is greatly praised.
A stingy rich man is greatly despised.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. Observe perpetually!

Henry James