Maududi Quotes

#1. You who will emerge from the flood
In which we have gone under
Remember
When you speak of our failings
The dark time too
Which you have escaped

Bertolt Brecht

#2. A change is always nice.

Euripides

#3. He was a creature of the last turning of the centuries when sleep seemed to come more easily. Things were clear to him. He was loyal, a believer in dignity, honor, and effort.

Erik Larson

#4. I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.

Sheila Kaye-Smith

#5. It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers.

Abul A'la Maududi

#6. My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name is Irish and would not be familiar to English editors, one of them said: 'If she writes anything else, do let us know.' Slowly, very slowly, the books began to sell and be noticed.

Colm Toibin

#7. There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

Pat Conroy

#8. One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

Michael Pollan

#9. Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left for Muslims lies in their observance of the God-made law.

Abul A'la Maududi

#10. There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

John Ashbery

#11. Those nights when the future seemed to last only till the morning and he would count off the hours, one by one, by the chimes of distant church bells.

Paolo Giordano

#12. In our domain we neither allow any Muslim to change his religion nor allow any other religion to propagate its faith.

Abul A'la Maududi

#13. We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North.

Elizabeth Dole

#14. The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

Bradley Chicho

#15. German Nazism could not have succeeded in establishing itself except as a result of the theoretical contributions of Fichte, Goethe and Nietzsche, coupled with the ingenious and mighty leadership of Hitler and his comrades.

Abul A'la Maududi