Top 36 Hebdo Quotes
#1. Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.
Scott Simon
#2. Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how to read it. And they understood the kind of release from piety that it represented every week.
Scott Simon
#3. THE TERRORISTS hoped their deadly attack would spell the end of Charlie Hebdo magazine, but the publication's staff is showing no sign of surrender.
Anonymous
#4. The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
Maajid Nawaz
#5. Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone. They mocked the left. They mocked the right. They mocked, above all, the extreme right, the extreme right of Le Pen's. If anything could identify their politics, they were kinds of anarchists.
Scott Simon
#6. After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#7. If the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris had nothing to do with Islam as President Francois Hollande suggested, why did he invite Muslim community leaders to meet him the day after the tragedy?
Amir Taheri
#8. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire
Salman Rushdie
#9. 51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They aren't asking for a law to prevent Charlie Hebdo from publishing caricatures, but they are calling on its editors to be a bit more sensible.
Tariq Ramadan
#10. What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war against radical Islam, which means that anything short of pure reverence for them generates tribal rage and vilification.
Glenn Greenwald
#11. 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
#12. I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
Patrick Chappatte
#13. I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.
Scott Simon
#14. Charlie Hebdo has been sued a good dozen times by the General Alliance against Racism and for Respect of French and Christian Identity (AGRIF), an organization of Catholic fundamentalists who long maintained close ties with the National Front.
Charb
#15. Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.
Simon Schama
#16. It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.
Frederick Buechner
#17. To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.
Bill Maher
#19. I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
Jim Morrison
#20. Our demographic dividend is our strength. The youth have what it takes to engage with the latest technology.
Narendra Modi
#21. The free world cannot afford to accept any form of extremism, whether it is fascism, racism or religious extremism.
Widad Akreyi
#22. Criminals kill journalists/hostages in France, devout Muslims pay the bill all over Europe.
Paulo Coelho
#23. While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.
Thomas Frank
#24. Our values were under attacks, in Paris
Tell them:
We stand UNITED
We'll defend our values
We'll NOT be DIVIDED
Widad Akreyi
#25. What would a respectful political cartoon look like?
Salman Rushdie
#26. There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.
Mark Twain
#27. If you practice gratitude a little, your life will change a little. If you practice gratitude a lot every day, your life will change dramatically and in ways that you can hardly imagine.
Rhonda Byrne
#28. People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.
Sam Harris
#29. Well, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns into pearls!
Suzanne Collins
#30. I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do.
Mario Testino
#31. I will follow anyone ... and invite everyone ... too unite and defend the freedom of expression.
Widad Akreyi
#33. I Will Follow Anyone
And Ask Everyone
To Stand Together
As One Civilisation
Against Terrorism
Widad Akreyi
#34. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
Seth Godin
#35. Wouldn't it be surprising if a 911 caller actually did begin to describe the tragedy in alarming detail? And dwell on the details, swooning in their splendor?
Michael A. Arnzen
#36. To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
Kurt Cobain
