Infidel Quotes - Page 4

• There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.

  Josh Billings

  Mother, Children, Infidelity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 349, 1895.

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• What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects the wealth they produce. Last September (2001) a handful of fanatics, armed only with box-cutters, provided a new rationale for the trillion -dollar swindle. A bonanza! I don't know what these 'terrorists' thought they were achieving: Making the infidel respect Allah? If so, they were wrong. You might as well try to make the U.S. government respect the U.S. Constitution.

  Joseph Sobran

  Blessing, Reality, Government

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• There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.

  W. A. Criswell

  Imagination, Church, Separation

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• Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw through some delusions and rationalisations about what harms are good for people themselves (prison punishment, hysterectomies for unhappy 1950s wives); and readjusted our for-the-good of others criteria so as to demand only reasonable sacrifices (ceasing to use children as handy chimney sweeps).

  Catherine Wilson

  Children, Sacrifice, Animal

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Anyone who does not in their way of interpreting events around the world is an infidel, regardless if you're a Muslim or you're not a Muslim. That doesn't matter.

  Ali Soufan

  World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.

  Ameen Rihani

  Religious, Circles, Helping

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• I believe the word "infidel" is not particular to any religion.  I believe we are all created in the image of God, in fact, we are all God, or at one with God, at our deepest core essence.  I think "infidel" refers to one who does not believe that God is none other than the Self. The "infidel" is the individual personality who identifies with the body and thoughts and not the Divine Indweller.  Therefore we are all "infidels" save the sacred few who have transcended the notion of the limited self.  The ancient mystics of all tradtitions have said this.

  Todd Rundgren

  Believe, Thinking, Self

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• If we want to avoid a clash of cultures - and the jury is still out on whether we can - we'll have to make different cultures and religions compatible with the universal nature of human rights and tolerance. But I can promise you this: Anyone who calls me an infidel at the conference will be in for a fight.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Fighting, Rights, Tolerance

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• Hamas cannot make peace with the Israelis. That is against what their God tells them. It is impossible to make peace with infidels, only a ceasefire.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Ceasefire, Impossible, Making Peace

  "Son of senior Hamas figure claims to be Israeli informant". Ha'aretz Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2010.

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• Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion.

  David Brewster

  Foundation, Favour, Chance

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• If you're following the news, you know that the major religions differ in their interpretation of the holy books. For example, one way to interpret God's will is that you should love your neighbor. An alternate reading of the holy books might lead you to rig a donkey cart with small mortar rockets and aim it at a hotel full of infidels. In summary, po-tay-to, poh-tah-to. Religions are very flexible.

  Scott Adams

  Love You, Reading, Book

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• To militant Islamists, the expulsion of the Soviets was just the prelude to purging the entire Islamic world of infidels.

  Gilles Kepel

  Islamic, World, Prelude

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school. Nevertheless I know that I am, in spite of myself, exactly what the Christian would call, and, so far as I can see, is justified in calling, atheist and infidel.

  Thomas Huxley

  Christian, Atheist, School

  Letter to Charles Kingsley, mathcs.clarku.edu. May 05, 1863.

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• Liberals believe in burning the American flag, urinating on crucifixes, and passing out birth control pills to 11-year-olds without telling their parents -- but God forbid an infidel touch a Quran at Guantanamo.

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Years, Parent

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• Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever other worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this; for else this world would seem to give the lie to Him; so utterly repugnant seem its ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven.

  Herman Melville

  God, Lying, Ideas

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.272, Herman Melville

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• I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

  Richard Steele

  Atheist, Atheism, Titles

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers (1822). “The Tatler”, p.199

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• I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dog, Subjects, Knows

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 95 (19 October 1769); referring to Samuel Foote q.v.

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• Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.

  Ishmael

  Eye, Men, Doubt

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• Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Rights, Justice

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.48

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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

  Walt Whitman

  Running, Depressing, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXXI”

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• Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.

  James Boswell

  Mother, Ignorance, Worship

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• Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

  Anthony Trollope

  Democrat

  Anthony Trollope (1874). “Phineas Redux”, p.64

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• The houses of this country (Maharashtra) are exceedingly strong and built solely of stone and iron. The hatchet-men of the Govt. in the course of my marching do not get sufficient strength and power (i.e. time) TO DESTROY AND RAZE THE TEMPLES OF THE INFIDELS that meet the eye on the way. You should appoint an orthodox inspector (darogha) who may afterwards DESTROY THEM AT LEISURE AND DIG UP THEIR FOUNDATIONS

  Aurangzeb

  Country, Strong, Eye

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• We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Israel, Marching On, Jerusalem

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• Today you are standing in a position that would please the friend and would anger the enemy and all the infidels. You will be victorious against the enemies and you are causing them to suffer.

  Saddam Hussein

  Iraq, Enemy, Suffering

  "Saddam goes on TV to rally troops", www.cnn.com. March 24, 2003.

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