I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.


Maajid Nawaz

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Nobody objected to live in prison
if already felt comfortable living in it.
TOBA BETA
The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot o...
PETER BENENSON
Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER
Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE
Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companion...
GEORGE CANNING
I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I w...
NAWAL EL SAADAWI
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn&#...
MIKE TYSON
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There w...
JOAN DIDION
Most of those who were killed died in their homes.
DONNIE SMITH
It is not fair that honest people who always paid their taxes were being denied a cut in income tax ...
JOSEPH MUSCAT
Given that he (Major) has told me in writing that those who were killed on Bloody Sunday should be r...
JOHN HUME
There is always a solution to any problem.
Find opportunities in any circumstance. Never become...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
I'm from Ohio, and I wasn't one of those kids who grew up making movies or whatever, but I a...
DAVID LESLIE JOHNSON
She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING
The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people...
KARON WADDELL
The group of guys I came up with in the 1990s were very innovative. I remember some of the older guy...
TRACY LAWRENCE
And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; a...
BIBLE
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard b...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, t...
NARGIS FAKHRI
Given that those who died were of all races and all ethnicities and that the statue was to be symbol...
FRANK GRIBBON
Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qua...
HARRY HAMLIN
Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who...
INDIRA GANDHI
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who...
INDIRA GANDHI
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who...
INDIRA GANDHI
We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG
Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my bro...
NATASCHA MCELHONE
Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, ...
JA RULE
Everyone who I called my friends, persons who I used to hang out with, these were the individuals wh...
DREXEL DEAL
Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't ha...
THOMAS FRANK
Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu...
KATHLEEN TESSARO
Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE
Security forces were collecting dead bodies of those killed in the two days of mayhem.
EMEKA UMEH
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't...
MIKE TYSON
A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
That confrontation, I think, clearly was in the minds of those who were sitting down at the table,
LEON PANETTA
I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think ...
JOHN MCCAIN
With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Cha...
MATT GROENING
Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and...
PETER KROPOTKIN
In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero...
GRAEME SIMSION
Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were int...
PAT BUCHANAN
When I was a kid, I thought I had my life figured out. I knew where I was going. I was sure of whom ...
CRISTINA MARRERO
The greatest comedies that were made by anybody were made in two reels; I don't care who it was.
HAL ROACH
If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
CHAKA KHAN
I did not want a probation in this case since probation is not appropriate. Lots of people down here...
WARREN DIEPRAAM
Historically, the 'deadline' was the line around a prison beyond which prisoners were eligible for s...
CRIMETHINC.
All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers ...
POPE FRANCIS
I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo...
STEPHEN SPENDER
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the...
BILL SIENKIEWICZ
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in th...
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.
AMIT RAY
Reality becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it
JOYCE CARY
When we can no longer change a situation, its the time to changed our self.
GLENDA RADORES
Four years (in prison) was the lowest that they felt comfortable with and that I felt comfortable wi...
JASON LEWIS
I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs becaus...
TOM RATH
The unique problem for transgender women in prison is that our health and welfare are also the respo...
CHELSEA MANNING
God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in th...
AMIT RAY
A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy D...
JAMES DARREN
Rwanda will never ever leave me. It's in the pores of my body. My soul is in those hills, my spirit ...
ROMéO DALLAIRE
And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were b...
BIBLE
Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
AMIT RAY
(Milosevic) had really quite extraordinary comforts given that he was in prison.
RICHARD GOLDSTONE
With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi in...
JOHN SPRATT
But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in thi...
CHARLES W. COLSON
The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, ...
PATRICK MACNEE
In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
ERIC S. RAYMOND
Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER
You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those ye...
BARBARA DELINSKY
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
There was no alcohol for us. We were in a red prison.
EDUARD LIMONOV
...The lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love.

The first thing you ...
CARLA BUCKLEY
Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other hars...
MADELINE L'ENGLE
I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.
GERRY COONEY
I think, with 'Pride,' I always knew that was something amazing because of the people who we...
FAYE MARSAY
Do not just think about the destination when you start the journey or just mind the direction of you...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af...
MICHAEL STEIN
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sin...
ALANIS MORISSETTE
The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF
The United States is like one big jail for Black people, because we're locked into a mentality and a...
CHUCK D
The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
Opinion is often compromised in the face of fear.
GAVIN MILLS
I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - G...
MARIE WINDSOR
In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS...
You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN
When I first went to prison, I made the best out of it. From the streets, I was hearing reports of R...
DREXEL DEAL
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the m...
BARACK OBAMA
I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorne...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

More Maajid Nawaz

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
MAAJID NAWAZ
The positive is I'm delighted at the way the Liberal Democrats as a party have supported me and ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negoti...
MAAJID NAWAZ
We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prison...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.
MAAJID NAWAZ
Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
MAAJID NAWAZ
The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorren...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
MAAJID NAWAZ
Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-econ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out in...
MAAJID NAWAZ
In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to de...
MAAJID NAWAZ
In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
MAAJID NAWAZ
If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissent...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to w...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.
MAAJID NAWAZ
My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, ar...
MAAJID NAWAZ
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-T...
MAAJID NAWAZ
I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty Internat...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
MAAJID NAWAZ
One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassr...
MAAJID NAWAZ
A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them b...
MAAJID NAWAZ
My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Br...
MAAJID NAWAZ
The great liberal betrayal of this generation is that in the name of liberalism, communal rights hav...
MAAJID NAWAZ
The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups s...
MAAJID NAWAZ
I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my backgr...
MAAJID NAWAZ
In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers p...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic va...
MAAJID NAWAZ
For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain a...
MAAJID NAWAZ
De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking wh...
MAAJID NAWAZ
If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be r...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programmes between Muslim-only schools and non-Mus...
MAAJID NAWAZ
By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countrie...
MAAJID NAWAZ
In today's Britain, the weakest among us are often assumed to be minority communities. In fact, ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Now I think that a true liberal will always prioritize individuals over the group, will always prior...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply can...
MAAJID NAWAZ
No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.
MAAJID NAWAZ
Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these publ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security ...
MAAJID NAWAZ
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pak...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
MAAJID NAWAZ
Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more...
MAAJID NAWAZ
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture ac...
MAAJID NAWAZ
Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims gi...
MAAJID NAWAZ
I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both fee...
MAAJID NAWAZ
When one person of whole nation fails to achieve his set goals, it influence the whole country.. Tha...
FAISAL NAWAZ MAITLO
A man limits his abilities himself according to his created interest, and then he pays very little a...
FAISAL NAWAZ MAITLO
Do not ask directly when you find something unusual in someone, and do not respond quickly when some...
FAISAL NAWAZ MAITLO
If you have knowledge, then use it for educating not for degrading.
FAISAL NAWAZ MAITLO
Those people make us strong and then valuable, whom we do not like initially.
FAISAL NAWAZ MAITLO