Quotes About Sayyid Qutb

#1. There is a Yiddish saying: If I am going to be forced to eat pork, it better be of the best kind.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. Aristotle was convinced that a trained memory helped the development of logical thought processes.

Janet M. Tavakoli

#3. Humans, no matter their Color, are fragile as doves in the meat grinder of war.

Pierce Brown

#4. Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our words will suddenly spring to life and live amongst the hearts that are dead, bringing them to life as well.

Sayyid Qutb

#5. A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.

Sayyid Qutb

#6. Dreams free us from normality. Daydreams, especially, take us somewhere between the real world and the dream world.

Fennel Hudson

#7. Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

Sayyid Qutb

#8. People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds.

Liam Neeson

#9. Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and half-Jahiliyya [separated from God].

Sayyid Qutb

#10. Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all.

Sayyid Qutb

#11. Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.

Sayyid Qutb

#12. I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.

Cary Fukunaga

#13. We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

Marjane Satrapi

#14. I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.

Ernie Pyle

#15. Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.

Jake Holmes

#16. And smiles to go before I weep, And Smiles to go before I weep.

Jerry Spinelli

#17. My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.

Tracy Spiridakos

#18. Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of the tyrant

Sayyid Qutb

#19. All people go to Allah after their death, but the happy person is the one who goes to Allah while still alive.

Sayyid Qutb

#20. I found the best thing
I could do
was just to type away
at my own work
and let the dying
die
as they always have.

Charles Bukowski