Qutb Quotes

#1. At Varanasi, according to Ferishta, Muhammad of Ghor and Qutb-ud-din Aybak demolished the idols in a thousand temples and then rededicated these shrines 'to the worship of the true God'.

John Keay

#2. Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.

Brian Tracy

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Sayyid Qutb

#7. 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

#8. Only weariness remained. It was a special kind of weariness that descended rarely, according to internal chemical regimens he did not understand. It made striving difficult, but also falsehood.

Boris Fishman

#9. The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.

Bonnie Raitt

#10. North Korea has the same ability to launch a nuclear strike against America as I do. It's like walking through a parking lot and getting barked at by a chihuahua locked in a car.

Bill Maher

#11. To me, the future is personalization .

Marissa Mayer

#12. 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

#13. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

Ray Bradbury

#14. I think that sometimes things just get confusing and we get lost, and sometimes you can't figure out which path is the right path ... which is the right decision. Quit or move forward. Heal or break. Fight or die.I'm still figuring that out.

Jessica Sorensen

#15. Depression grabbed me like a piranha on the testicles of an Amazonian warrior. I couldn't tell where the pain was worse: my arm, my whole back, or my heart.

James Crawford

#16. Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

Epictetus

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

Sayyid Qutb

#18. Mother and her entire family line are obsessed with skinniness as an indicator of physical, moral, and economic fitness.

Maggie Nelson

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

Sayyid Qutb

#20. Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

Mike Krzyzewski