Sima Samar quotes

  • If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.

  • O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.

  • A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

  • I want in all cases to do right.

  • Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

  • We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.

  • As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

  • I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

  • The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.

  • Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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