Africa is closer to me in every way than Iraq or Syria.

Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up. Do not despair. Do not stop fighting for your freedom until you have victory!

Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.

Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man.

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act.

Those who do not love me do not deserve to live.

A woman has the right to run for election whether she's male or female!

I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting.

Sometimes, the people that love you the most turn out to be the people you will trust the least.

Nobody can treat you like a liability without your approval

... You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

& this girl right here? Who knows what she knows? So I'm going through her phone when she go to the bathroom and her purse right there, I don't trust these hoes at all.

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down, my parents did not shelter the kids from it.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

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