Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

If someone is supporting Sharia, that is doing something wrong.

Ideas can threaten people. Be careful who you put them in front of.

The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

I have traveled a lot in the world, and wherever Islam is in charge, it's just terrible.

Humanity has both its beautiful and its ugly sides.

In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.

Westworld is an examination of human nature: the best parts of human nature... but also, violence, sexual violence have sadly been a fact of human history since the beginning of human history.

God made man to be free. Anybody can do whatever they want.

Humans can be cruel - kids and adults alike. That doesn't mean they have to be forced to a specific stereotype.

I don't like how cruel humans can be.

Political correctness never rears its ugly head independently. It always shows up as a series of actions designed, to this observer, to crush the souls of those blessed with common sense.

In my opinion, Islam is an outdated religion. It's not modern. And therefore, there's too much space for violence.

Mankind is at its best when it is most free.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God never created you to be a slave, man did. God never created division or set up any borders between brothers, man did. God never told you hurt or kill another, man did. Why is man your god and not the Creator?

Force works on servile natures, not the free.

Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

In all the dictatorships, there's such a non-understanding of what human beings are. I mean, if you believe in the Bible, you have the story of Adam and Eve and God tells them, "Do whatever you want. The only thing you shouldn't do is eat the apple." What do they do the first thing? They eat the apple. So if you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.