Charb quotes
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“When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.”
-- CharbSource : "The Charlie Hebdo Affair: Laughing at Blasphemy" by Emily Greenhouse, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2012.
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“I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.”
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“So let's talk about Islam the way we talk about everything else.”
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“Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.”
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“A drawing has never killed anyone.”
-- CharbSource : "'Charlie Hebdo' Editor in Chief: 'A Drawing Has Never Killed Anyone'". Interview with Stefan Simons, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2012.
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“I prefer to die standing than to live on my knees,”
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“We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism.”
-- CharbSource : "The Slain Editor Of Charlie Hebdo's Last Cartoon Is Tragically Prescient" by Pierre Bienaimé, www.businessinsider.com. January 7, 2015.
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“If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.”
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Source : "Adam Yauch on Happiness: Part Two". Interview with Randy Taran, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.
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“Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.”
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