Manil Suri famous quotes

God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism.
-- Manil Suri

#World #Terrorism #These Days

To think I need a gun to protect against those who'd kill me for being Muslim ... It's too bad they don't know about my true religion of noodling - a reason to get their nuts in a snit.
-- Manil Suri

#Thinking #Gun #Nuts

They used Akbar's principles to formulate a version of Islam that could peacefully co-exist with other religions (or so they claimed). An Emperor's Bequest to Islam, their joint 1,300-page doorstopper, spent twenty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover alone. The fact that they remained practicing Muslims (albeit the liberal, wine-guzzling kind) put their message in high international demand.
-- Manil Suri

#New York #Wine #Islam

Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

I've always maintained terrorism passes through Pakistan, it doesn't evolve in Pakistan.

We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.