Shamina Singh Quotes

#1. Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God's on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. Astronomy is as soil'd at the hands of the Pelhamites as ev'ry other Business in this Kingdom, - and we ever at the mercy of Place-jobbery, as much as any Nincompoop at Court.

Thomas Pynchon

#3. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

Steven Pinker

#4. A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

Howard Zinn