Terrorism Brainy Quotes

Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.

There has been more bloodshed in the name of God than for any other cause. And it is all because people never attempt to reach the fountain-head. They are content only to comply with the customs of their forefathers and instructions on some books, and want others to do the same. But, to explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map.

If someone wants to do good they'll do good, whether they have a billion dollars or just one.

Stop the noise of assumption and you'll hear the music of ascension.

Occupation has no place in a civilized society. It is time Palestine redeemed freedom from Israeli occupation, Scotland from British occupation, and Jammu and Kashmir from Indian occupation.

All the terrorism in the world that fester in the name of religion, are in fact not religious in nature, rather they are socio-political. Their roots are not religion, but socio-political condition. Religion is only used as a divine tool of authoritative justification in the search of absolution.

Artificial Intelligence is not the problem, heartless, senseless, reckless human intelligence is.

Instead of worrying about a fictitious judgment day, Make your actual today a real nonjudgment day.

Life is in every culture, but no one culture is the whole of life.

World peace begins where petty nationalistic identities end.

We don't need to see eye to eye with everyone, we just need to accept the fact that the world is big enough for more than one pair of eyes.

Acts of terror committed by a government is still terrorism.

If all you do is care for your own elevation, then at the end of the day, you'll find yourself six feet under.

Outward assumption is a reflection of inward corruption.

Nationalism is terrorism.

Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.

Scriptures are meant to serve humanity, not humanity to serve scriptures.

Violence cannot be religion. And true religion cannot be violent.

Community means compatriot unity.

Fundamentalism not only fuels devastating acts of violence, but also all kinds of primitive prejudicial behaviors, such as Misogyny, Polygamy, Homophobia, and Islamophobia.

You must remember, the so-called Jihadis who are in reality, mentally unstable individuals run by Quranic fundamentalists, do not represent the whole Muslim population of the world.

You are still worried about machines taking over your lives! Your lives are already taken over, not by mechanical deities but by organic sectarian deities born of the womb of your own indifference.

A person wearing a hijab is more likely to be suspected as a terrorist than a person carrying a confederate flag, yet it is the confederate flag that poses a threat to society as a symbol of white supremacy, not the hijab.

A police officer oblivious to their errors and shortcomings is no different from the Gestapo. Such police may be suitable in Nazi Germany, Imperialist Britain, Confederate America or the Amazon jungle, but they have no place in a society of civilized beings.

At a cellular level of the human mind, Islamophobia is not really a matter of social stigma, rather it is a natural biological fear response of the general human mind, conditioned through countless pairings between terrorist attacks (unconditioned stimulus) and their apparent association with Islam (conditioned stimulus). Hence, Islamophobia cannot be eradicated completely, unless that pairing is severed and thereafter the conditioned stimulus of Islam is paired with something optimistic such as the heartwarming works of the 13th century Persian Muslim poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi.

Terrorism has no face, but the general mind instinctively attempts to put a face on it based on internally as well as externally predominant biases and knowledge. And the mind does so in the pursuit of self-preservation, because putting a face on an act of terrorism, increases the chances of survival. Once the mind has successfully put a face on terrorism, it tries to avoid intimacy with all the faces that come from similar cultural background. This entire mental process takes place driven by the biological drive for survival. Does this mean that we are biologically bound to act like phobics and racists! And the answer is - we have indeed inherited certain biopsychological drives from our primitive ancestors, but later in our evolutionary history, we also developed the mental capacity to override those primitive traits.

The powers of world-building are all encoded in you. Bring those codes to life and write the world anew.

Disparity is not a policy issue, it's an education issue.

Blind heart maketh the world blind, kind heart maketh the world kind.

Turn your heart into a khichdi (fusion) of cultures, and behold o mighty human, as all division disappears.

Stand up to the tyrants as apocalypse incarnate. Reach out to the needy as a living love commandment.

Disown your ancestor before you disown your humanity.

Traditions born of bigotry and ignorance, are hardly a measure of civilization. Measure of civilization is an expanding spirit, one that ever evolves discarding superstition.

A just human is a universal human.

Apathy, vanity, self-centricity - these are the curse of our society.

To hell with fear, to hell with insecurity! Stand up with conviction, to hell with serenity!

You are human only when the very title sends a galvanic wave of courage and conscience into the hearts of others. You are human only when any creature bearing that title becomes near and dear to you, no matter their faith, language and culture.

Pure intellect devoid of emotions and ethics is dangerous.

Reason is what helps us eliminate our prejudice, but it's love that makes us want to eliminate our prejudice.

To heal and to help are the highest miracle.

Kindness is braver than cruelty.

If you want joy, serve - if you want reform, serve.

The story of human is a story of kindness, if not, life is but an utter futility.

I wear a ten dollar shirt with twenty dollar jeans, shoes and watch, because when you pay less attention to appearance, you can pay more attention to character.

Assumption is corruption, correction is ascension.

Service is my culture and my nationality.

Muslim not terrorist.

America is the land of liberty for white people, but for the people of color it's Nazi Germany.

Bombs kill terrorists, books kill terrorism.

Dare to be a radical, but make sure it's for the right reason, for it takes very little for a reformer to turn into a terrorist.

To the civilized revolutionary, not a single human life is expendable, even that of the oppressor, whereas to the mindless terrorist, even the loss of innocent lives is acceptable in the pursuit of their mission.

To the representatives of theoretical Islam, i.e. Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Buddhists and all other humans who are not Muslims, are not just object of extreme detestation, they are, at the worst, lesser humans of false religions. This is not religion my friend. This is primitiveness at its worst.

Any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, who can think for himself or herself, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves the neighbor as much as his or her own family is a Christian.

When a person irrationally and quite pathologically sticks to the creeds of his scriptures too much, it can turn even a great human being into the worst version of himself.

We don't have the luxury to say that, there is no hope for reform in Islam, because by saying this, we would be disavowing the entire peace-loving Muslim population of the world. We cannot leave our Muslim sisters and brothers behind to be oppressed by their own priestly tyrants, while the rest of the world keeps progressing with an open mind. The entire civilized society of the world, must put their heart and soul to get Islam liberated from the shackles of fundamentalism. Conscience must triumph over orthodox barbarianism, otherwise there would be no hope for the progress and wellbeing of humanity as a truly wise species.

El terrorismo surge del fundamentalismo no de la religión.

Love without growth is no love.

Love that refutes growth is not love.

Prejudice conquered is world conquered.

There is no satellite up in orbit to transmit peace onto the world. Each human is to be a hotspot of peace themselves.

We are all heroes when we are together, Togetherness forever whether alive or six feet under.

When everyone is trying to achieve something for themselves, give up everything you've achieved for the love of others.

Character makes the person, not pedigree and tradition.

Expansion is life, narrowness is death. Universality is life, nationality is death.

All power must be guided by a caring, humane hand, and not by pride or self-interest, be it artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, neurotechnology, or anything else.

Community means compatriot unity, Unity means undivided amity, Amity means affectionate sanity, Sanity means serene humanity.

Love first, reason later.

Discard anything that makes you narrow, discard anything that separates you from people, discard anything that impairs your growth. Discard traditions that make you narrow, discard scriptures that make you narrow, discard heritage that makes you narrow, discard culture that makes you narrow, discard constitutions, policies and governments that make you narrow. Expansion is the watchword of life, nay, expansion is life, narrowness is death.

Take nothing as gospel, except growth.

Killing terrorists doesn't end terrorism, it only postpones it. To end terrorism we have to end inequality.

Erase the soldiers and you'll give power to terror - erase the teachers and you'll give power to ignorance - erase the doctors and you'll give power sickness - erase the scientists and you'll give power to regress.

Terror has no nationality, it has no religion, it has no gender - its nationality is ignorance, its religion is bigotry, its gender is intolerance.

To bigots and divisionists their culture is the world. To me the world is my culture.

When wholeness is now and here, reform is everywhere. When oneness is now and here, uplift is everywhere. When the human is now and here, humanity is everywhere.

You may not know what cerebral atrophy is, you may not know what entropy is, you may not know what escape velocity is. If you could just know to lend a hand to someone in misery, that is enough.

When your family is in danger, you don't ponder, should I intervene - you just jump - that's what love does to a person. Only such love will save the world, not law. When the civilians of the world feel such love for the world as they feel for their family, the world leaders will have nothing left to do but direct traffic.

Religious literature from all around the world have an abundance of philosophical teachings as well, which in fact, prove quite helpful to humanity. But a rational human being must examine every single word from the scriptures before accepting it. Otherwise, it would only lead to religious bulimia, which in turn would bring chaos down on earth.

A person may hold his own beliefs and creeds to be dearest, and nourish them with all his might, but the moment he starts preaching the exclusive greatness and dominance over all other systems of beliefs and creeds, the world begins to plunge into a death trap.

The one ultimate rule of the Quranic fundamentalists is “there is one God and Mohammed is his prophet”. Everything beyond that not only is bad, but must be destroyed forthwith. At moment’s notice, every man or woman, who does not exactly believe in that, must be killed.... This is not religion my friend. This is primitiveness at its worst.

Why should a religion claim that it is not bound to abide by the standpoint of reason! If one does not take the standard of reason, there cannot be any true judgment, even in the case of religion.