Theo Van Gogh Quotes

#1. The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.

Otto Schily

#2. My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#3. When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#4. [Vincent Van Gogh] 'Oh Theo, don't you think I'm the black sheep, do you?'
[Theo Van Gogh] 'I'm more inclined to consider you as an ass.'

Irving Stone

#5. The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.

Theo Van Gogh

#6. No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result.

Theo Van Gogh

#7. The pillow whistled across the room and smacked him in the face. Nicolas smiled, satisfied. If he was going to die, this was the man he wanted to die beside.

Sarah M. Cradit

#8. It was he [Vincent] who helped me to accommodate my life in such a way that I can be at peace with myself. Serenity - this was the favorite word of both of them [Vincent and Theo], the something they considered the highest. Serenity - I have found it.

Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger

#9. I thought that the AIVD was there to protect citizens like me.

Theo Van Gogh

#10. As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

Theo Van Gogh

#11. I've been watching Mad Men since day one.

Gayle King

#12. If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America.

Theo Van Gogh

#13. All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

Berthold Auerbach

#14. There's no set-in-stone way to be a vampire, especially with the evil ones.

Cameron Bright

#15. My use of language is part and parcel of my message.

Theo Van Gogh

#16. I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

Theo Van Gogh

#17. I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.

Theo Van Gogh

#18. In thought I am living wholly with Theo and Vincent, oh, the infinitely delicate, tender and lovely [quality] of that relation[ship].

Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger

#19. We can feel sorry for ourselves or we can put the work boots on and understand the situation and the reality of it all.

Marty Turco

#20. Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.

Theo Van Gogh

#21. One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.

Theo Van Gogh

#22. We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.

Terry Tempest Williams

#23. Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.

Frederick Lenz

#24. The important thing about security systems isn't how they work, it's how they fail.

Cory Doctorow