Raif Badawi Quotes

#1. I watched 'I Love the '80s' on VH1.

Hayley Orrantia

#2. Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#3. To respect the opinions of those who stand against you is nothing short of courageous.

Raif Badawi

#4. Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.

Salman Rushdie

#5. For me, liberalism simply means, live and let live. This is a splendid slogan

Raif Badawi

#6. Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.

Sam Storms

#7. DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than snatching purses for a living, or robbing graves.

Larry Lujack

#8. Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some people are aware of it.

Brie Larson

#9. States that are built on a religious foundation limit their own people in a circle of faith and fear.

Raif Badawi

#10. Knowledge becomes really such only when it is assimilated in the mind of the learner and shows in his character.

Inazo Nitobe

#11. Nature is the endless reflective pattern of existence in eternity. As I sit here watching the leaves and watching their patterns, I'm reminded of so many things I've seen in other planes and in other worlds.

Frederick Lenz

#12. I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.

Primo Levi

#13. FREEDOM OF SPEECH is the air that any thinker breathes; it's the fuel that ignites the fire of an intellectual's thoughts.

Raif Badawi

#14. Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

Elizabeth I

#15. It's a wonder of human behavior: we build our own handcuffs that trap and harm us. We create the myth, and we honor it. We tell the lie, and we believe it.

Raif Badawi

#16. Look at all the countries that are based on a religious ideology; look at their people and the generations born into it: What do they have to offer human civilization?

Raif Badawi

#17. There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.

Jennifer James

#18. My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities.

Raif Badawi