Infidel Quotes

“I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.”
― Giordano Bruno

“It is always difficult to make the transition to a modern world. I moved from the world of faith to the world of reason - from the world of excision and forced marriage to the world of secual emancipation. Having made that journey, I know that one of those worlds is simply better than the other. Not because of its flashy gadgets, but fundamentally, because of its values.
The message of this book, if it must have a message, is that we in the West would be wrong to prolong the pain of that transition unnecessarily, by elevating cultures full of bigotry and hatred toward women to the stature of respectable alternative ways of life.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.”
― Wendell Phillips

“Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully say: 'He who sleeps here never gave us a moment of pain. From his lips, now dust, never came to us an unkind word.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child

“Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.”
― Luther Burbank

“Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep.”
― Luther Burbank

“It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s in the desert. “Speak, thou vast and venerable head,” muttered Ahab, “which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world’s foundations. Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home. Thou hast been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many a sailor’s side, where sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay them down. Thou saw’st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them. Thou saw’st the murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw; and his murderers still sailed on unharmed—while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to outstretched, longing arms. O head! thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“They won’t love you anymore; they would start disrespecting you and hating you because you turned to be an infidel for them by not believing anymore in what they believe.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“The religious issue was dragged out, and stirred up flames of hatred and intolerance. Clergymen, mobilizing their heaviest artillery of thunder and brimstone, threatened Christians with all manner of dire consequences if they should vote for the 'in fidel' from Virginia. This was particularly true in New England, where the clergy stood like Gibraltar against Jefferson.”
― Saul K. Padover, Jefferson: A Great American's Life and ideas

“The only kafir or infidel in the world is not the one who does not believe in God, but the one who does not have humanity in their heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Any book that claims to be a book of life and love while demanding absolute obedience is but a book of death and degradation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Only kafir is one without kindness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Better an egalitarian infidel than a dogmatizing evangelist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables