Maulana Wahiduddin Quotes

#1. If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

Charles Edward Montague

#2. Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

Anais Nin

#3. Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45.

Robert Gottlieb

#4. If I let you get killed, the other body guards will make fun of me.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#5. The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to mean 'struggle'. the action most consistently called for in the Qur'an is the exercise of patience. (p. 7-8)

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#6. According to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#7. Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Alfred North Whitehead

#8. You know," she said, stirring her tea, "the fastest way to get him off your back is to sleep with him. And tell him you love him. Preferably while in bed."
I smirked and the tea almost came out of my nose. "He'd run like he was on fire.

Ilona Andrews

#9. If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#10. I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#12. When we were pushed to the edge we were capable of anything. Surviving was the only thing that mattered.

Molly O'Keefe

#13. If there was no death, everyone would wish for it.

Sadegh Hedayat

#14. If thirst for water indicates the existence of water, in a similar way thirst for justice indicates the existence of justice, and since there is no justice in this world, this is indicates the presence of an afterlife, the home of true justice.

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan