Faris Alsaleh

“If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations at a certain stage.”
― Ehud Barak

“For good people, religion means peace with everybody, for bad guys a tribe to protect”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“If I should die,” said I to myself, “I have left no immortal work behind me—nothing to make my friends proud of my memory—but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember’d.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina.
If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied—the incarnations of their respective faiths—asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?”
― Eliza Griswold