Chappatte Quotes

#1. Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.

Patrick Chappatte

#2. We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

Patrick Chappatte

#3. In the politics of Jesus the world will be changed by non-coercive love or not at all. It's not the task of the church to change the world by legislative force. It's the task of the church to be the world changed by Christ. This is revolutionary in a way that conventional politics never can be.

Brian Zahnd

#4. You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.

Patrick Chappatte

#5. Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

Patrick Chappatte

#6. Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world - demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence.

Patrick Chappatte

#7. The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#8. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients, or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. So, in fact, the gamut of medical intervention is enormous.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#9. Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

Patrick Chappatte

#10. We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

Patrick Chappatte

#11. As long as the incomes of the various classes of contemporary society remain beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, there can be no hope of producing a useful economic and social history.

Thomas Piketty

#12. A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.

Patrick Chappatte

#13. In the end I have to hold myself accountable ... I had to make a change if I really wanted to reach the goals I had set for myself. I had to get out of being comfortable and get into a situation that was going to really push me.

Kara Goucher

#14. As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.

Angela Cartwright

#15. I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were working in a different language when I'm writing poetry. The words - what they are and what they can become - the possibilities of the words are vastly expanded for me when I'm writing a poem.

Pattiann Rogers

#16. I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

Patrick Chappatte

#17. Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

Bill Bruford

#18. In the words of Richard Driehaus, "The stock market is like a woman. You observe her. You respond to her. And you respect her." That is not as easy as it sounds. Just ask my ex-wife.

Gary Antonacci

#19. The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.

Patrick Chappatte

#20. Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.

Patrick Chappatte

#21. When we don't fear change, stress disappears. When we accept change, fear disappears.

Debasish Mridha

#22. To all who try and get over on other people, using and abusing them, thinking they deserve it because they're fools. Don't look now ... KARMA Is standing right behind you.

Timothy Pina

#23. Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

Patrick Chappatte

#24. ...I am the two-dimensional one in a 3-D family.

Jandy Nelson

#25. The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.

Patrick Chappatte