Eboo Patel Quotes

#1. The question of how people orient around religion differently, or interact with one another, whether that be based on conflict or cooperation, will be one of the most engaging questions of the 21st century.

Eboo Patel

#2. If a man seeks to drink enough to blind his conscience, tis acquavit or nothing.

Lilith Saintcrow

#3. I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

Vera Farmiga

#4. I as a Muslim believe deeply in the differences that are within Islam. But I also take seriously the idea that we have to come to know one another.

Eboo Patel

#5. If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

Valorie Curry

#6. Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about the integration of minority and immigrant groups along the way. This is an important work and a joy to read.

Eboo Patel

#7. Religious extremists want to show us that the only possibility is for us to kill each other, so September 11 is not only heinous murder, it is also global performance. It is also putting an idea into the world, an idea of destruction.

Eboo Patel

#8. He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

Horace

#9. A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality.

Eboo Patel

#10. What we pluralists have to do is to say to the people standing on the faith line, particularly the young ones, no, pluralism is the wish of the creator. It is the greatest opportunity for humanity.

Eboo Patel

#11. The domes and dildos of pressurized buildings cast slowly lengthening shadows.

Charles Stross

#12. Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way ... in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch.

Eboo Patel

#13. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador Dali

#14. Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.

Herbert Read

#15. One of the best ways of showing pluralism in action is for people to do service together, and that has so many benefits.

Eboo Patel

#16. More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.

Ben Shneiderman

#17. We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw

Eboo Patel

#18. What the flower vendor interpreted as 'pretty nasty'
was only the intensity that comes to those who, better late than never, have found a
purpose in life and are pursuing it to make up for lost time.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#19. I've found when all I'm eating is really fresh, healthy foods, I stop craving pizza and burgers.

Lauren Conrad

#20. Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.

Eboo Patel

#21. To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism

Eboo Patel

#22. Designer clothes, bubblegum pop music, celebrity heartthrobs - I couldn't give a fat rat's hairy ass. Just give me my hotdog and Jane Austen, and I'm good.

Kristin Walker

#23. I thought about the meaning of pluralism in a world where the forces that seek to divide us are strong. I came to one conclusion: We have to save each other. It's the only way to save ourselves.

Eboo Patel

#24. Protein during promotion trumps the carcinogen, regardless of initial exposure.

T. Colin Campbell