M. Ali Quotes

The world is full of paper, write to me

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.

My main fight is for freedom and equality.

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief.

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

Islam religion has no color distinction, we are just Muslims.

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

People of dua are optimistic by definition. They know that dua and thoughts like 'unlikely' or 'impossible' don't coexist.

You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

"The best form of devotion to the service of Allah is not to make a show of it."

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.

There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.

The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.

Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.

One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.

Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.

We have one life / It soon will be past / What we do for God / Is all that will last.

Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.

I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written.

Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing

Poverty is the worst form of death.

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.

The will must be stronger than the skill.

There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.

A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).

Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

My toughest opponent has always been me.

Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.

Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions

The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb

Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.

Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.

I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.