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

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

I love life more than I love death.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

Secrets are festering parasites to a relationship, devouring their hosts from within, leaving behind a empty hollow husk of what once was.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything and consequently get nothing.

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.

You can't go wrong with some nuts. The key word is 'some.' Eat them one at a time, not by the handful.

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