Quotes About Charlie Hebdo

#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. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

Patrick Chappatte

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. I am June Iparis, I remind myself.

Marie Lu

#17. What would a respectful political cartoon look like?

Salman Rushdie

#18. I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.

Carine Roitfeld

#19. Our values were under attacks, in Paris
Tell them:
We stand UNITED
We'll defend our values
We'll NOT be DIVIDED

Widad Akreyi

#20. Criminals kill journalists/hostages in France, devout Muslims pay the bill all over Europe.

Paulo Coelho

#21. The free world cannot afford to accept any form of extremism, whether it is fascism, racism or religious extremism.

Widad Akreyi

#22. I want to give Michael Moore a run for his money.

Dinesh D'Souza

#23. To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Bill Maher

#24. The bulk of my calls are from agents who are letting you know about material that's coming your way.

Stacey Snider

#25. People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.

Sam Harris

#26. I will follow anyone ... and invite everyone ... too unite and defend the freedom of expression.

Widad Akreyi

#27. Clare wasn't worried anymore about their being mean to each other. She imagined that someday she's be part of a friendship in which she and the friend thought so highly of each other and were so sure or this that they could say anything.

Marisa De Los Santos

#28. My woman. She had a momentary image of a caveman, hanging on to his woman by the hair with one hand while in the other he wielded a club to beat back caveman number two. Perhaps she would sketch it one day.

Mary Balogh

#29. I Will Follow Anyone
And Ask Everyone
To Stand Together
As One Civilisation
Against Terrorism

Widad Akreyi

#30. I scowled. He was giving me puppy dog eyes, which was totally unfair, especially since they seemed to be hitting me right in the dick. This convinced me that he knew he was cute and was just a little cocktease. And because my taste in men was so shitty, I found that appealing.

Anonymous

#31. Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them.

Gregory Maguire

#32. Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation.

Srikumar Rao