Salleh Majid Quotes

What we call aid money serves only to strengthen the structures that generate poverty. Aid money never reaches those victims who, having lost their real assets, look for alternative ways of life outside the globalised system of production which are better suited to their needs. ~ Majid Rahnema

I don't hate you. I'm just disappointed. ~ ZAKIYA AND MAJID

People think I am a womanizer. ~ Majid Michel

What you think of yourself in your mind is nobody's business. Make it count. ~ Majid Kazmi

I always thought that the shortest distance between failure and success is luck. It so appears now that if you account for the wait time, the shortest distance between failure and success is action. ~ Majid Kazmi

[...], the soul of man lives in his language. ~ Anouar Majid

The judgment, handed down by Judge Ian Chin of the Sarawak High Court, demonstrated astonishing independence from the Malaysian government. Chin knew the price of that independence. After a much-maligned judgment against a politician belonging to the ruling Barisan National government in 1998, he had been verbally threatened by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, and then enrolled in a five-day boot camp with other judges for "re-educational" purposes. While there, the primacy of the government's interests was hammered into the judicial civil servants.3 Crushing the independence of the courts was done systematically under Mahathir. In 1988, the autocratic Premier had arbitrarily dismissed the country's top judge, Lord President Salleh Abas, thereby keeping the remaining judges on a short lead.4 Even today, in 2014, Malaysia's judges still have difficulty ruling independently when government interests are at stake. ~ Lukas Straumann

The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military ... The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting. ~ Majid Khadduri

Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own. ~ Majid Kazmi

All geniuses are not successful just like all successful people are not geniuses. I would rather be successful than a genius. ~ Majid Kazmi

We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. ~ Majid Kazmi

Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. This is the fundamental construct of a feudal society. ~ Majid Kazmi

[...] When you befriend old men you realize how innocent the human race is. ~ Anouar Majid

Love is fire, if it goes one's time, then will not stop// ~ Majid Hussain

One day you will understand why our prophet said that heaven is under the feet of mothers. Because they suffer so much in delivering humanity into existence. ~ Anouar Majid

"Such questions [about illegal immigration as 'a major threat to the state'], like the topics of slavery and Native Americans, are often met with a 'here we go again' attitude, an impatience with bringing up issues considered to be long gone (perhaps even resolved) and no longer applicable in America's here and now... Mexican and Hispanic cultures are part of the fabric of Americanness; to pretend otherwise is to invite more confusion and to fuel the xenophobic tendencies that have given strength to nativists and sanctioned violence. ~ Anouar Majid

We all look for opportunities in the form of an ideal state of affairs; the perfect weather for picnic, enough time to call a friend, or a good offer to sell the house. The truth is, you have the power to create the state of affairs that you call opportunities. ~ Majid Kazmi

That is the present: an emanation of memory bouncing on the illusion of the future ~ Anouar Majid

Doubting everything is a sign of wisdom; speaking your doubts is mere stupidity. ~ Majid Kazmi

The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic state, whose principal function was to put God's law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world ... .The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state. ~ Majid Khadduri

The lies that people tell in stories is what makes them so true. ~ Majid Kazmi

[...] It is not humanity that will tear the land asunder, but a certain inhumanity born from ingratitude and the explosion of souls_ in the usual name of progress. ~ Anouar Majid