Alike Quote by Mona Eltahawy Download Open image “Morality crusades unite military regimes and religious zealots alike.” — Mona Eltahawy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alike Character Crusades Military Morality
Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction. — John Cory Copy Share Image
Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where self-doubt is… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it. — J. G. Stedman Copy Share Image
I don't believe in Western morality, i.e., don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during the holiday seasons, don't bomb… — Manis Friedman Copy Share Image
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I defend a woman's right to cover her hair if she chooses, but the face is central to human interaction, and so the ideologues… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
My birth at the end of July 1967 makes me a child of the naksa, or setback, as the Arab defeat during the June… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia isn't just a conservative country with different values we shouldn't judge. It is a modern Gilead. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I can write about my culture and religion because I am a product of both. Even when I'm accused of giving ammunition to the… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
“Why were women alone responsible for sheltering men from the sexual desires women supposedly elicited in men? Why could men not control themselves? Why,… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Saudi authorities must launch a campaign about the safety of female pilgrims and the determination of the authorities to ensure every woman's safety. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Bashar al-Assad's henchmen stomped on the hands of famed Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat. Our dictators tailor wounds to suit their victims' occupations. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
When Mubarak does die, he will be remembered as the most bland of those military men turned dictators: compare him with Gamal Abdel-Nasser and… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
As a Muslim woman, I'm all too familiar with the media shorthand for 'Muslim' and 'woman' equaling Covered in Black Muslim Woman. She's seen,… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I left my husband a year after 9/11. Not because he was an American and I an Egyptian, nothing to do with culture or… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings. — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Everyone has their own path, their own story through which they go at their own pace.” — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
“It is not a simple thing to decide where we fit, for at one time or another in our lives we manage to organize… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
