Wahid Quotes

#1. I miss being a student," said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours among the books.

Helen Simonson

#2. To run to anything else is to resist the irresistible. To seek other than The One (al Wahid), is to become scattered, but never filled. How can we find unity, completion of heart or soul or mind in anything other than Him?

Yasmin Mogahed

#3. Writing is a deeper sleep than death.
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

Franz Kafka

#4. I do not like violence.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#5. On deathbed every single good, bad, ugly moment becomes special.

Sheeja Jose

#6. Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#7. I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#8. I don't talk in ifs.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#9. All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#10. I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#11. Life sure went by quick when you weren't paying attention. It took forever to go from a child to a grown-up. The middle-aged years went by at a steady clip, and everything else after that just sort of whizzed by.

Karen McQuestion

#12. Vegas is a very fickle market that's about fun. It will change to what people want.

Steve Aoki

#13. Risk means that more things could happen that will happen

Elroy Dimson

#14. If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#15. Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam ... second, the culture of Islam.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#16. The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.

Noam Chomsky