Irshad Manji Quotes

#1. It is the - actually profoundly unartistic - impulse to produce exterior likeness rather than inner truth: the same impulse as naturalistic photograpy and the copy.

Joseph Roth

#2. When the ladies see an athlette walking around, they think, Well, he got the cocaine, so let's go get high with him.

Moses Malone

#3. We often hear Islamists declare, 'We love death as much as you people in the west love life.' Well, if we're going to now celebrate and jubilate in the death of Bin Laden, I have to say, I think that comes eerily close to mimicking the likes of the Islamists. And that gives me the creeps.

Irshad Manji

#4. If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it's now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?

Irshad Manji

#5. In Hollywood it seems that you're considered gay until proven otherwise.

Ryan Seacrest

#6. Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years.

Irshad Manji

#7. What is life but a fucked-up factory fabricating fuckups?

Jorge Enrique Ponce

#8. Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

Ted Nugent

#9. When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

E. Stanley Jones

#10. A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.

Irshad Manji

#11. Be quick but do not hurry.

John Wooden

#12. Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn't.

Fredrik Backman

#13. Bin Laden-ism, I don't think, is dead yet. And I think there's a long way to go before we can legitimately say that, you know, it is no longer in our midst.

Irshad Manji

#14. One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

Irshad Manji