Irshad Quotes

#1. The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

Hugh Mackay

#2. 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

#3. Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.

Ryan Kavanaugh

#4. I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

Tim Conway

#5. 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

#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. 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

#8. The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

Andy Hargreaves

#9. Take risks in life, if u win u can lead, if u loose u can guide

Swami Vivekananda

#10. 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

#11. When you are at the top then is only one way to go and thats Down

Irshad Kaukab

#12. The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

Alfred North Whitehead

#13. 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