M. Ali Quotes

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

In establishment Indian and Pakistani thought, Kashmiris are defined as different from the nationals of the two countries.

I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages

The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

Everyone wouldn't just accept that I wanted to be a fighter - because I wasn't someone that they envisioned could or would be a fighter.

The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

At the time of German Reunification, it was no secret that Germany would soon become the strongest political entity in the European Union. And that has happened.

Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.

When my title was taken away boxing died.

One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.

It's much easier to cheat than it is to be loyal. Everyone goes through down times. You just don't put yourself in those situations, you know?

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him

Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

The world’s champ should be pretty like me!

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.

I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.

I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.

A new car is not going to change your life.

If you think you are powerless, then you are

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.

I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.

Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.

I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right.

Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.

You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.

When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part.

Every concept should have a beginning, middle and end.

The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.

People don't respond just because you are fighting for the truth. They take their interests into account.

Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldnt seated in the confines of your home.

You have a right to say what you believe, and I have a right.

Religion helps you relate with the universe. Buddha was indifferent to the concept of god yet he gave us values.

I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.