Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building.”

“I would rather clean than beg.”

“I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.”

“I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.”

“Every time I went on TV I got a threat.”

“I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.”

“In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

“What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.”

“When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.”

“Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.”