Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, Indonesian Mujahidin Council

• So if you ask me which one is more dangerous, nude women or the Bali bombs, then my answer would be the women showing off their skin. [21 September 2006] This, from someone who was jailed for his involvement in the 202 murders.

Abu Abdullah, Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party Of Liberation)

• Bush says that we want to enslave people and oppress their freedom of speech. But we want to free all people from being slaves of men and make them slaves of Allah. [quoted in Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2006] Oh, yes, yes, please 'liberate' me into slavery under your beneficent Caliphate.

abdullah

• The kaffir (kuffur) are the enemies of islam. They are less than human unless they revert to the one true way. It is acceptable to be rude to them – regardless of where you live, for they are less than us. [post to muslim-wife blog (living in Florida), in response to a query as to why she would refer to her neighbours as kaffir, 08 October 2007] So perhaps you can enlighten we kuffar (and coming from you that's a proud thing to be called) as to how we can 'revert' to something we never had in the first place? Strange, though, how when anyone is rude to you that you jump and up down (or just blow something up) and scream 'Islamophobia'.

Hassan Mohammed Abrone, Somalian Refugee Wishing To Enter The U.S.A.

• If I can't beat my wife, how will she know that I love her? [quoted in LA Times, 12 September 2006] And apologists still claim that "all cultures are equal" and "some concepts such as love are universal".

Dean Acheson

• The limitations imposed by democratic political practises make it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest. [Citizen Looks At Congress]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President, Iran

• In Iran we don't have homosexuals like you do in your country. We do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have it. [Columbia University, New York, 24 September 2007] That's because you've hanged them all.
• There is no truth on earth but monotheism and following tenets of Islam and there is no way for salvation of mankind but rule of Islam over mankind. [14 August 2007] The Sunnis and Shi'ites get along so well, after all.

Howard Ahmanson

• My purpose is total integration of biblical law into our lives. [1985]

Omar Ahmed, Council Of American Islamic Relations

• Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur'an, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth. [paraphrased (and disputed), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998]

Shabbir Akhtar

• Allah is the subject of faith and loving obedience, not of rational inquiry or purely discursive thought. Unaided human reason is inferior in status to the gift of faith. Indeed, reason is useful only in so far as it finds a use in the larger service of faith. [A Faith For All Seasons]

Peter Akinola, Archbishop, Nigeria

• I didn't create poverty. This church didn't create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind. Roll up, roll up, see all the poverty-stricken trees and dinosaurs!
• I cannot think of how a man in his senses would be having a sexual relationship with another man. Even in the world of animals – dogs, cows, lions – we don't hear of such things. As with Mugabe, he knows nothing of 'the world of animals', and as to why a man would want to have sexual relations with another, perhaps they love one another (or they just like sex).

Alabama Supreme Court

• She manifested an entire want of instruction as to the nature and effect of an oath, of all religious training, and utter ignorance of the existence of a Supreme Being, "the rewarder of truth and avenger of falsehoods." [disqualifying an 11-year old girl's testimony at her rape trial and ensuring the rapist went free, 1882]
• Homosexual conduct is, and has been, considered abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature, and a violation of the laws of nature and of nature's God upon which this nation and our laws are predicated. [15 February 2002] That's progress for you.

St. Alban

• To find a virtuous women is like finding the one eel in a bag with 500 venomous snakes. And if you grope in the bag and find the eel you have but a wet and slimy eel by the tail. [4th cent BCE]

Madelaine Albright

• The United States is good. We try to do our best everywhere. [Washington Post, 23 October 1999]
• We are the greatest country in the world! [defending their policy on Iraq, Columbus, Ohio, 18 February 1998]
• I think this is a very hard choice, but the price – we think the price is worth it. [in response to reporter Lesley Stahl, speaking of US sanctions against Iraq : "We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And – and you know, is the price worth it?", 60 Minutes, 12 May 1996]
• We are talking about using military force, but we are not talking about a war. That is an important distinction. [speaking at Tennessee State University, Nashville]
• We recognise this area as vital to US national interests and we will behave, with others, multilaterally when we can and unilaterally when we must. [Middle East International (London), 21 October 1994]
• The United States is not going to stop doing what we have to do. We have responsibilities; we have national interests. We are operating in a world that is filled with a variety of threats, but that doesn't mean that we can crawl into an ostrich-like mode. We are eagles.
• But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us. I know that the American men and women in uniform are always prepared to sacrifice for freedom, democracy and the American way of life. [Today, NBC, 19 February 1998]

Sheik Abdalla Ali, Mogadishu Court

• When people accept practising Islamic Sharia Law every body will enjoy life based on peace and prosperity. … He who does not perform prayer will be considered as infidel and our Sharia Law orders that person to be killed. [Shabelle Media Network, 05 July 2006] So terrified that the only way to enforce prayer is by threat of death. Still, it's a small price to pay for all the peace and prosperity that 'every body' will enjoy, unless you're a woman, of course, in which case you'll be allowed to read, write, drive, think, go out without a burqa, etc, etc.

Shujaat Ali, Cartoonist, Al-Jazeera

• There's an informal code of ethics among cartoonists in the media, and it includes two kinds of censorship: one is self-censorship; the other is professional censorship. Religion is one of the very important things that we should respect and not criticize. … We should respect people from other religions, whether they are Jews, Christians or whatever. We should have a code of ethics among cartoonists, and we need to ask ourselves how far it is acceptable for us to go and what kind of limits we should set. It's fine for cartoonists to target politicians or governments, but they should leave religion alone. … Freedom is very important. And I am fighting for it here. But the problem is that we must set limits. We cannot tolerate any disparagement of the Prophet – for whom we have the highest respect. In every religion, even Christianity, there are some people who are very emotional about their religion. Within my own community, I criticize people who are going beyond limits. They should be criticized, of course. (Muslim) extremism is also bad. We are not angels, but we are also human. As humans, we must respect each other. And our religion. [Spiegel, 03 February 2006] Why should anyone leave religion alone and grant it some special place immune from criticism? Perhaps if its believers behaved in a half-way decent manner ("Look, there's a cartoon showing Muslims as violent and uncontrolled, so let's set fire to some buildings and trash the cars of our own people who happen to be nearby") it might not draw so much flak. You "cannot tolerate" anything you deem an insult? Someone obviously doesn't understand what freedom of expression means unless, as you say, you agree with the limits set by yourself, and if it's so important to you, why not start at home and try to tone down all the Islamic cartoons that denigrate Jews? Respect the person, certainly, and always respect their right to believe what they like, but to go from that to demand respect for the belief itself is an entirely different thing (you are aware of that, aren't you?), and to throw your own quote back at you, something that cannot be tolerated, as the two are separate entities. Also what cannot be tolerated is a pre-mediaeval culture that despises women and is terrified of gays, who sees the world in a purely us-and-them binary division (now so perfectly copied by the U.S. government), and whose only desire seems to be to impose their will upon other countries by subversion and the continual bleating of victimhood. If you're all so afraid of pictures of anyone because your lack of self-control might lead to idol worship (and what is it with your lack of control that you have 'morality monitors' walking the streets hitting any women who accidentally show a bare wrist or ankle?), why are there hundreds of idealised images of every Ayatollah hanging from buildings, with Muslim artists openly selling pictures of Mo?

Abbas-Ali Alizadeh, Head of The Judiciary Administration, Tehran

• One of our greatest glories is closure of offending newspapers. Based on our assessments, by doing this, we have done the greatest service to the people. … When you do a job for the sake of God, defeat is meaningless. [commenting on the closure of over 50 newspapers in the last 20 months, 12 December 2001]

A. A. Allen

• When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."

John Allman

• The Gender Recognition Act 2004 ("GRA") violates my human rights as a heterosexual Christian male in selecting a sexual or marriage partner, in particular by allowing the falsification of the birth certificates of "trans persons". The GRA goes out of its way to prevent me from ascertaining the true birth gender of a prospective sexual or marriage partner, which is of vital importance to me as a Christian male who is in mortal fear of having a sexual relationship with someone who is biologically male by birth. … the whole of the GRA is predicated upon unproven medical theories of dubious authority. [a married fundy expressing mortal fear of a situation he'd never encounter, and advertising his ignorance of decades' worth of medical and psychological evidence, June 2005]

Arnaud-Amaury, Abbot Of Citeaux

• Kill them all; for God will know his own. [when asked by the Crusaders what to do with the citizens of Beziers (a mixture of Catholics and Cathars), 1209] Possibly apocryphal.

St. Ambrose

• The precepts of medicine are contrary to celestial science, watching and prayer.

Yigal Amir

• I did this to stop the peace process. We need to be cold-hearted. … According to the Halacha you can kill the enemy. My whole life, I learned Halacha. When you kill in war, it is an act that is allowed. [commenting on his murder of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 06 November 1995] When asked if he acted alone, his reply was "I acted alone on God's orders."

Father Gabriele Amorth

• What is happening is what normally happens when the devil enters the lives of those who let him in. … The priest of the parish ought today to go and bless all the houses that have witnessed paranormal phenomena, because that is what they are. [describing the source of various fires in Caronia, Sicily, January 2004]

Anonymous Tub Of Lard

• I don't know what the fuss is all about. The firemen came here and got on with their job. Sometimes I slide to the floor in my living room, and it's hard to get back up. I try not to make a habit of ringing for help, but sometimes there is nothing I can do. [commenting on having called the Fire Brigade four times in a week to shift his 260kg (>¼ tonne!) bulk across his bed and around his home in Grangemouth, The Guardian, 23 February 2008]

Thomas Aquinas

• That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. [Summa Theologica]
• As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of woman comes from a defect in the active force or from some material indisposition, or even from some external influence.

Balwan Arya

• From society's point of view, this is a very good thing. We have removed the blot. [speaking proudly of the murders of (pregnant) Sunita Prakash and her boyfriend Jasbir Singh, for being from the same village their relationship was deemed as 'incest', Reuters, 16 May 2008] So what do the cultural relatavists say about this, hmm? The silence is deafening. Satvir Singh

John Ashcroft

• If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal. [commencement address upon receiving an honorary degree at Bob Jones University, 08 May 1999]
• Civilised people – Muslims, Christians and Jews – all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator. Civilised people of all religious faiths are called to the defence of His creation. … We are a nation called to defend freedom – a freedom that is not the grant of any government or document, but is our endowment from God. … God bless you and God bless America. [National Religious Broadcasters Convention, Nashville, Tennessee, 19 February 2002] So anyone who doesn't believe in one of the three big sky-daddies isn't (and by definition cannot be) civilised – what a surprise.
• To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil. [06 December 2001]

St. Augustine

• If those who are called philosophers, and especially the Platonists, have said aught that is true and in harmony with the faith, we are not only not to shrink from it, but to claim it for our own use from those who have unlawful possession of it. [Confessions, City Of God, Christian Doctrine]
• Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder. What about all the seed that goes to waste during 'nocturnal emissions'? Guess that doesn't count.
• I should not believe in the truth of the gospels unless the authority of the Catholic Church forced me to do so. Unable to think for yourself, then.
• Nothing is to be accepted except on the authority of scripture, since greater is that authority than all powers of the human mind.
• All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to these demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptised Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants. So the cause of diseases amongst non-Christians is…?
• It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam. The bible also doesn't mention penguins or kangaroos, but guess what?
• Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men. That's right, it's our fault you can't control yourself. Why don't you demand we cover ourselves up, too? Oh, no wait, that's already been done by Muslims. See how much you have in common with them?
• Neither in the confusion of paganism, nor in the defilement of heresy, nor yet in the blindness of Judaism, is religion to be sought, but among those alone who are called Catholic Christians. [De Vera Religions, v]
• The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
• Scripture speaks of no such descendants of Adam as the Antipodeans. Men could not be allowed by the Almighty to live there, since if they did they could not see Christ at his second coming descending through the air.
• I was already Bishop of Hippo, when I went into Ethiopia with some servants of Christ there to preach the Gospel. In this country we saw many men and women without heads, who had two great eyes in their breasts; and in countries still more southly, we saw people who had but one eye in their foreheads. [Sermon 37]

Raphael Ndingi Mwana A'zeki, Archbishop of Nairobi

• HIV/AIDS is going so fast because of the availability of condoms. … they should not be made at all. … Anybody for that matter [should not use them]. The laws of God affect everybody. … we are not peddling ignorance [an article published in Kenya by its bishops claimed incorrectly (but in accordance with equally wrong Vatican teachings) that "latex rubber from which condoms are made has pores through which viral-sized particles can squeeze during intercourse"]. We shall be proved the only people who have been right in this matter in the long run. [Panorama, 12 October 2003]

Shaikh Abd-al-Aziz Ibn Abd-Allah Ibn Baaz, Mufti Of Saudi Arabia

• The earth is flat. Whoever claims it is round is an atheist deserving of punishment. [1993, quoted by Yousef M. Ibrahim, The New York Times, 12 February 1995] Though often cited, this seems to be based on an erroneous translation of one of his stationary-earth fatwas.
• If the earth is rotating as they claim, the countries, the mountains, the trees, the rivers, and the oceans will have no bottom and the people will see the eastern countries move to the west and the western countries move to the east. [Evidence That The Earth Is Standing Still, 1974]

Richard H. Baker, Baton-Rouge - R

• We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did. [09 September 2005] Can't you just feel the love?

Buju Banton (Mark Myrie)

• (Its like) Boom bye bye Inna batty bwoy head Rude bwoy no promote no nasty man Dem haffi dead Boom bye bye Inna batty bwoy head Rude bwoy no promote no nasty man Dem haffi dead … Guy come near we Then his skin must peel Burn him up bad like an old tire wheel gwaan buju banton yuh tough … (Two man) A hug up on an kiss up on An lay down inna bed Hug up on another Anna rub dung leg Send fi di matic an Di Uzi instead Shoot di batty boy come if we shot dem– Dem don't want Jackie Give dem Paul instead Don't want di poom poom Between Patsy leg All dem want Is the body from Fred But dis is Buju Banton Me say [Boom Bye Bye, 1992] Me say lynch de nigger. Oh, I'm sorry, is that 'offensive'? So don't dish it out if you can't take it.

Rev. Bill Banuchi, New York Christian Coalition

• When a society has degenerated to the point of celebrating an immoral lifestyle that results in sickness and premature death it's questionable whether that society can long survive. We put warning labels on cigarette packs because we know that smoking takes one to two years off the average life span, yet we 'celebrate' a lifestyle that we know spreads every kind of sexually transmitted disease and takes at least 20 years off the average life span according to the 2005 issue of the revered scientific journal Psychological Reports. Something is wrong with this picture. [Protesting about the first Gay Pride Day in New Paltz, 11 June 2005]

Percy Barnevik, President of The ABB Industrial Group

• I would define globalisation as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour laws and social conventions.

Matt Barrett, Barclays Bank

• I don't think I know what excess profits means. [2003]

L. Frank Baum

• We had better, in order to protect our civilisation, follow it up and wipe these untamed and untameable creatures from the face of the earth.
• The nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them. The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they should die than live the miserable wretches that they are.

David Bay, Christian Occult Investigator

• That way, when the real Antichrist arrives on the scene, they will be preconditioned to accept him. [speaking of children accepting Harry Potter, 14 November 2001] As we all know, the Antichrist is easy to identify as he will be a vegetarian.

Lindy Beam, Youth Culture Analyst, Focus On The Family

• The concern is that these books [Harry Potter] are placed in a culture that glorifies and markets witchcraft, sorcery, and Wicca things that from a biblical perspective are harmful. [12 November 2001]

Arnold Becker, Former Vice-President of CBS

• I'm not interested in culture. I'm not interested in pro-social values. I have only one interest. That's whether people watch the program. That's my definition of good, that's my definition of bad.

Cardinal Bellarmino

• To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. [Galileo's trial, 1615] ( Frank Zindler's comment regarding parthenogenesis)

Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Alois Ratzinger)

• I likewise profess that in the Mass a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice is offered to God on behalf of the living and the dead, and that the Body and the Blood, together with the soul and the divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ is truly, really, and substantially present in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist, and there is a change of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into Blood; and this change the Catholic Mass calls transubstantiation. I also profess that the whole and entire Christ and a true sacrament is received under each separate species. [12 September 2006] Roll up, roll up! Fresh meat every week! Plump thighs and firm buttocks! Come and get it while it's fresh!

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

• The Christian glories in the death of a pagan, because thereby Christ himself is glorified. Text-book example of how to become a saint.

Muhammad Saad al-Beshi, State Executioner, Saudi Arabia

• It doesn't matter to me: two, four, ten – as long as I'm doing God's will, it doesn't matter how many people I execute. … In this country we have a society that understands God's law. … I am very proud to do God's work. … Despite the fact that I hate violence against women, when it comes to God's will, I have to carry it out. [The Guardian, 06 June 2003]

Senator Albert J. Beveridge

• Mr. President, the times call for candour. The Philippines are ours forever, "territory belonging to the United States," as the Constitution calls them. And just beyond the Philippines are China's illimitable markets. We will not retreat from them either. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. And we will move forward to our work, not howling out regrets like slaves whipped to their burdens, but with gratitude for a task worthy of our strength, and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world. Mr. President, this question is deeper than any question of party politics: deeper than any question of the isolated policy of our country even; deeper even than any question of constitutional power. It is elemental. It is racial. God has not been preparing the English-speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing hut vain and idle self-contemplation and self-admiration. No! He has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has given us the spirit of progress to overwhelm the forces of reaction throughout the earth. He has made us adepts in government that we may administer government among savage and senile peoples. Were it not for such a force as this the world would relapse into barbarism and night. And of all our race He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America, and it holds for us all the profit, all the glory, all the happiness possible to man. We are trustees of the world's progress, guardians of its righteous peace. The judgment of the Master is upon us: 'Ye have been faithful over a few things; I will make you ruler over many things.' [1900]

Arthur Biele

• I am pro-life. I'm in agreement that not only is the abortionist a mass murderer, but that the mother who consented to the abortion is a murderer. Both are worthy of the death penalty.

Syed Bilal

• Only out of respect, because he was our teacher, did we not beat him to death on the spot. [demonstrating commendable restraint after his teacher Dr. Younus Shaikh had spoken about their prophet's body-hair and hygiene (but in any case Pakistan mandates death for everyone who derides Mo), New York Times, 12 May 2001]

Tony Blair

• The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get. [speaking of the police's DNA database, 23 October 2006] Which of course means every person in the country. But "if you're innocent, you've nothing to hide", right?
• To me, the most remarkable thing about the Koran is how progressive it is. … The Koran is inclusive. It extols science and knowledge and abhors superstition. It is practical and far ahead of its time in attitudes toward marriage, women, and governance. [Foreign Affairs, January/February 2007] Cough, choke, splutter. 'Inclusive'? 'extols science and knowledge'? 'abhors superstition'? 'women'? I know that as a politician you're used to lying to the public so you can get whatever you want from those people and corporations who pay you for favours, but don't expect all of us to stand in line like mindless drones.

David Blunkett, Home Secretary

• If these people are dynamic and well-qualified, and I don't dispute that they are, they should get back home and recreate their countries that we freed from tyranny, whether it be Kosovo or now Afghanistan. We are freeing countries of different religions and cultural backgrounds and making it possible for them to get back home and rebuild their countries. I have no sympathy whatsoever with young people in their 20s who do not get back home and rebuild their country and their families. [Remarks To The Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, 18 September 2002] If they're qualified and willing to work, why does it matter where they work? These are precisely the kind of people we should we welcoming, not barring, but then people like you want to increase borders instead of removing them.

John Bolton, State Department

• There is no such thing as the UN. There is an international community that can be led by the only real power left in the world, and that is the US, when it suits our interests and when we can get others to go along.

Lt. Gen. William Boykin

• … the enemy is a guy named Satan.
• Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this. [speaking of G. W. Bush, New York Times, 17 October 2003]
• He went on CNN and he laughed at us, and he said, 'They'll never get me because Allah will protect me. Allah will protect me.' Well, you know what, I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol. [speaking of the Somalian warlord Osman Ato, January 2003]
• We in the army of God, in the house of God, kingdom of God have been raised for such a time as this.

T. J. Briscoe

• Atheists are to be pitied. God gave mankind free will and, sadly, atheists have taken that and turned it against their creator. … Atheists are in for a great shock when they reach the hereafter and are held accountable for turning free will against the very God who created them. [letter to St. Petersburg Times, Florida, in response to one of their columnists 'coming out' as an atheist, 13 August 2004] Then again, perhaps we'll be rewarded for thinking for ourselves and drawing our own conclusions (even if ultimately wrong), whereas you'll be ridiculed for being a sheep. Nothing you say can be proven, it's all conjecture, desperation, faith.

Pastor Jack Brock, Christ Community Church, Alamogordo, New Mexico

• Behind that innocent face is the power of satanic darkness. Harry Potter is the devil and he is destroying people. [burning copies of the Potter books along with work by Stephen King, ouija boards, and records by AC/DC, 31 December 2001]

William Jennings Bryan

• No, but they would not run back beyond the creation, according to the bible. [in response to Clarence Darrow's question of "Don't you know that the ancient civilisations of China are six or seven thousand years old, at the very least?"]
• If God had wanted a sponge to think, a sponge could think.
• If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
• If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
• All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

Pat Buchanan

• With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide. [17 October 1990]
• Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism. [22 November 1983]
• Gay rights activists seek to substitute, for laws rooted in Judeo-Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie. [Wall Street Journal, 21 January 1993]

Barbara Bush

• I asked the President, "What can we do to show support for America?" He said, "Mom, if you really want to help, buy, buy, buy." [2001]
• Almost everyone I've talked to says we're going to move to Houston. What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this – this [chuckles] is working very well for them. [sympathy for Katrina survivors, 05 September 2005]
• I watch none [TV]. He sits and listens and I read books, because I know perfectly well that, don't take offence, that 90 percent of what I hear on television is supposition, when we're talking about the news. And he's not, not as understanding of my pettiness about that. But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that. And watch him suffer. [Good Morning America, 18 March 2003]

George Bush

• I don't use the Bible as necessarily a way to predict the findings of science.
• I will never apologise for the United States of America – I don't care what the facts are. [expressing sympathy for the victims of a commercial Iranian airliner shot down in Iranian air-space by the U.S.S. Vincennes on 03 July 1998, killing all 290 passengers and crew]
• I think that, for example, on the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the earth.
• No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

George W. Bush [Thanks To The Complete BushismsFor Many Of These]

• Brie and cheese. [Trying (and of course failing desperately) to taunt a reporter who had visited the West Coast (damn pinko faggots), Crawford (Texas), 23 August 2001]
• Our priorities is our faith. [Greensboro (North Carolina), 10 October 2000]
• So, what's the difference? [response to Diane Sawyer's query about the US government's statement that Saddam Hussain actually possessed WDMs, and the possibility he could have acquired them, 16 December 2003]
• We ought to make the pie higher. [South Carolina Republican Debate, 15 February 2000]
• I don't understand how poor people think. [New York Times, 26 August 2003]
• I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy. [Redwood (California), 27 September 2000]
• It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it. [Reuters, 05 May 2000]
• Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? [Washington (D.C.), 08 June 2005]
• Will the highways on the Internet become more few? [Concord (New Hampshire), 29 January 2000]
• Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning? [Florence (South Carolina), 11 January 2000]
• I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully. [Saginaw (Michigan), 29 September 2000]
• The Pearl Harbour of the 21st century took place today. [11 September, 2001] A year prior to the incident, a report describing the processes necessary for the continuing dominance of the American Empire said: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbour." [Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century, The Project for the New American Century, September 2000] It also stated its aims as the "Control of space and cyberspace. Much as control of the high seas – and the protection of international commerce – defined global powers in the past, so will control of the new 'international commons' be a key to world power in the future. An America incapable of protecting its interests or that of its allies in space or the 'infosphere' will find it difficult to exert global political leadership."
• There's no cave deep enough for America, or dark enough to hide. [Oklahoma City, 29 August 2002]
• One year ago today, the time for excuse-making has come to an end. [Washington (D.C.), 08 January 2003 ]
• Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace. [Washington, 25 July 2003]
• International law? I better call my lawyer, he didn't bring that up to me. [12 December 2003] Having not bothered with the ICC, you scream about other people ignoring the Geneva Convention whilst doing so yourself. What a surprise.
• You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. [Townsend (Tennessee), 21 February 2001]
• I don't care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass. [11 September 2001]
• The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity. [State Of The Union Address, January 2003] Blah blah God, thanks for the money, blah God blah, fuck the world, God blah blah, gimme the oil.
• I want to appreciate those of you who wear our nation's uniform for your sacrifice. [Jacksonville (Florida), 14 January 2005]
• Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness. [CNN online chat, 30 August 2000]
• I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children. [Second Presidential Debate, 11 October 2000]
• If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier – just so long as I'm the dictator. [18 December 2000]
• It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce. [Quebec City (Canada), 21 April 21 2001]
• It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way. [Washington (D.C.), 28 April 2005]
• It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas. [Beaverton (Oregon), 25 September 2000]
• I think the American people – I hope the American – I don't think, let me – I hope the American people trust me. [Washington, 18 December 2002]
• You've heard Al Gore say he invented the internet. Well, if he was so smart, why do all the addresses begin with "W"? [28 October 2000]
• Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them. [addressing a joint session of Congress, 20 September 2001] Quite right, too. If you read the Bible or Qur'an you'll see he's clearly on the side of fear and cruelty.
• See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. [Milwaukee (Wisconsin), 03 October 2003] Admitting that the good ol' US of A is not free, but most of us already knew that.
• This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table. [Brussels (Belgium), 22 February 2005]
• God loves you, and I love you. And you can count on both of us as a powerful message that people who wonder about their future can hear. [Los Angeles (California), 03 March 2004]
• There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be town-hall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country. [Larry King Live, 16 December 1999]
• We have a great opportunity to extend a just peace, by replacing poverty, repression, and resentment around the world with hope of a better day. [addressing graduates at West Point, 01 June 2002] … by bombing and invading your countries and killing your civilians because they don't do what we want them to, and placing our puppets in place to kill even more of you …
• See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. [Greece (New York), 24 May 2005]
• A couple of more, then I got to hop. Keith. I get to leave. That's not a very – a couple of more, and then I have to retire, as opposed to hopping. [Press conference, 31 May 2005]
• First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill. [Washington (D.C.), 19 May 2003]
• The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. [New York Times, 14 January 2001]
• You've also got to measure in order to begin to effect change that's just more – when there's more than talk, there's just actual – a paradigm shift. [Washington (D.C.), 01 July 2003]
• The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. [New York Times, 14 January 2001]
• Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment. [New York Times, 14 January 2001]
• Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. [Washington (D.C.), 05 August 2004 & Newsweek, 16 August 2004]
• People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you. [Washington (D.C.), 19 September 2002]
• The best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are the people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world. [Fox News, 17 October 2003]
• It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet. [Arlington Heights (Illinois), 24 October 2000]
• I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavour for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves. [Washington (D.C.), 21 September 2003]
• As our Nation moves troops and builds alliances to make our world safer, we must also remember our calling, as a blessed country, to make this world better. [State Of The Union Address, 28 January 2003]
• There's an old saying in Tennessee – I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee – that says, fool me once, shame on – shame on you. Fool me – you can't get fooled again. [Nashville (Tennessee), 17 September 2002]
• See, we love – we love freedom. That's what they didn't understand. They hate things; we love things. They act out of hatred; we don't seek revenge, we seek justice out of love. [Oklahoma City, 29 August 2002]
• Well, first of all, I believe in an Almighty God, and I believe that all the world, whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God. That's what I believe. [Al Arabiya, 05 October 2005] So now Yahweh and Allah are the same as Odin? Didn't think so.
• We look forward to analysing and working with legislation that will make – it would hope – put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see. [Washington (D.C.), 14 April 2005]
• The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the – the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice. [Washington (D.C.), 27 October 2003] By shooting children at a wedding.
• There's no doubt in my mind that we should allow the world worst leaders to hold America hostage, to threaten our peace, to threaten our friends and allies with the world's worst weapons. [South Bend (Indiana), 05 September 2002]
• One of the interesting initiatives we've taken in Washington, D.C., is we've got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a – a cell deal you can plug in the wall to charge your cell phone. [Denver (Colorado), 14 August 2001]
• There's no doubt in my mind that we should allow the world worst leaders to hold America hostage, to threaten our peace, to threaten our friends and allies with the world's worst weapons. [South Bend (Indiana), 05 September 2002]
• And so – by the way, we rank 10th amongst the industrialized world in broadband technology and its availability. That's not good enough for America. Tenth is 10 spots too low as far as I'm concerned. [26 April 2004]
• When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and we knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there. [Iowa Western Community College, Council Bluffs (Iowa), 21 January 2000] Ah, poor li'l president can't find the enemies he needs, but I'm sure, if he looks hard enough, they will be found somewhere, because "they" are always out there.
• He said well, he's going to raise the taxes on the rich. That's what he said. The top two brackets. That raises, he says, $800 billion. We say $600 billion. We've got battling green eyeshades. Somewhere in between those numbers. [2nd Bush-Kerry debate, St. Louis (Missouri), 08 October 2004]
• I'm sure there's a lot of people frightened – biotechnology is a long word and it sounds – they may say, well, I don't know if I'm smart enough to be in biotechnology, or it sounds too sophisticated to be in biotechnology. [Winston-Salem (North Carolina), 07 November 2003]
• In terms of the CO2 issue, I will explain as clearly as I can, today and every other chance I get, that we will not do anything that harms our economy. Because, first things first, are the people who live in America. That's my priority. [29 March 2001] If the states were treated separately, then they would comprise 26 of the top 60 countries that create greenhouse gases, whilst Texas by itself exceeds the emissions of France.
• Throughout the 20th century, small groups of men seized control of great nations, built armies and arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world. In each case, their ambitions of cruelty and murder had no limit. [State Of The Union address, 28 January 2003] Perfectly describing his own country, which as of spring 2003 spends 13.5% of its budget on war… er, I mean defence, which is as much as the next 20 countries combined – this works out at about $1bn per day, yet they refuse to teach or provide the most basic health care for their own population.
• Going into this period, I was praying for strength to do the Lord's will. … I'm surely not going to justify the [Iraq] war based upon God. Understand that. Nevertheless, in my case, I pray to be as good a messenger of his will as possible. [quoted in Plan Of Attack by Bob Woodward]
• I didn't join the International Criminal Court because I don't want to put our troops in the hands of prosecutors from other nations. Look, if somebody has done some wrong in our military, we'll take care of it. We got plenty of capability of dealing with justice. [Niceville (Florida), 10 August 2004]
• I'm the commander – see, I don't need to explain – I don't need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation. [Washington Post, 19 November 2002]
• More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than – I say more Muslims – a lot of Muslims have died – I don't know the exact count – at Istanbul. Look at these different places around the world where there's been tremendous death and destruction because killers kill. [Washington (D.C.), 29 January 2004]
• And so, in my State of the – my State of the Union – or state – my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation – I asked Americans to give 4,000 years – 4,000 hours over the next – the rest of your life – of service to America. That's what I asked – 4,000 hours. [Bridgeport (Connecticut), 09 April 2002]
• America has a message for the nations of the world: If you harbour terrorists, you are terrorists. If you train or arm a terrorist, you are a terrorist. If you feed a terrorist or fund a terrorist, you're a terrorist, and you will be held accountable by the United States and our friends. [22 November 2001] So… you're going to attack your own military and government, Saudi Arabia, Miami? Didn't think so.
• Our country puts $1 billion a year up to help feed the hungry. And we're by far the most generous nation in the world when it comes to that, and I'm proud to report that. This isn't a contest of who's the most generous. I'm just telling you as an aside. We're generous. We shouldn't be bragging about it. But we are. We're very generous. [Washington, 16 July 2003]Compare that to the >$1 billion per day you spend on 'defence'.
• I am driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, 'Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East'. And, by God, I'm gonna do it. [June 2003]
• She's doing a fine job of coordinating interagency. She's doing what her – I mean – it shouldn'a – the, the, the role of the National Security Advisor is to not only provide good advice to the President, which she does on a regular basis – I value her judgment and her intelligence – uhh – but, uhh – her job is also to deal interagency, and to help unstick things that may get stuck – is the best way to put it. She's an unsticker. And – is she listening? Okay, well, she's doing a fine job. [Speaking of Condoleezza Rice, 28 October 2003]Uhh, uhh, where's mah, mah, autocue?
• Anyway, I was sitting there, and my Chief of Staff – well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on. And you know, I thought it was pilot error and I was amazed that anybody could make such a terrible mistake. And something was wrong with the plane, or – anyway, I'm sitting there, listening to the briefing, and Andy Card came and said, "America is under attack." And in the meantime, this teacher was going on about the curriculum, and I was thinking about what it meant for America to be under attack. It was an amazing thought. But I made up my mind that if America was under attack, we'd get them. … Anyway, it was an interesting day. [Describing his 'actions' (staring like a rabbit mesmerised by oncoming headlights whilst waiting for someone to tell him what to do) on 11 September 2001 during his publicity tour (sorry, school visit), 05 January 2002] Oops! The video showing the first attack wasn't available until the following day, and even after you'd been told of this horrendous event, what did you do? Calmly sit in class for a further five or six minutes waiting for someone to tell you what to do. Obviously, a very interesting day. And what were you reading? The Pet Goat, part of Reading Mastery, Level 2 Storybook 1, which makes Janet & John look like Shakespeare. "the goat ate things. he ate cans and he ate canes. he ate pans and he ate panes. he even ate capes and caps." Granted, its aim is to teach pronunciation ("No child left behind!"), but given the lack of capitalisation at the beginning of each sentence it's hardly a good way to introduce children to reading. Still, who cares? Most of them will end up in fast-'food' franchises and only need to press buttons faced with icons.
• … America's greatest opportunity is to create a balance of world power that favours human freedom Bwahahahaha!. We will use our position of unparalleled strength and influence brute thuggery to build an atmosphere of international order see, you take our orders and openness in which progress and liberty can flourish in many nations as long as your regimes do what we say (and if not, we'll put in our own dictator) and let our companies do what they want with your people and assets. … We defend this peace by opposing and preventing violence by terrorists and outlaw regimes except the ones we created ourselves because they benefit the corporations who have bought us; we preserve it by building good relations among the world's great powers and threatening them with military invasion, er, I mean humanitarian intervention, like the Contras; and we extend it by encouraging free and open societies on every continent as long as they follow monopolistic capitalist principles and don't give a damn about working people or those who want freedom of choice. … With our allies, we must also confront the growing threat of regimes that support terror, seek chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and build ballistic missiles so long as no one questions our own programs or those of our carefully selected allies. On this issue, the consequences of inaction could be catastrophic. At the same time, we have the best opportunity in generations to build a world where great powers cooperate in peace instead of continually prepare for war which is why we've increased the defence budget to $1bn per day. The 20th century was dominated by a series of destructive national rivalries that left graveyards across the earth. Competition between great nations is inevitable, but armed conflict is not because once PNAC's advice has been followed and we've got control of everywhere there won't be anyone left to fight except the pinko commie faggot liberal traitors in our midst. … More than ever, we know that weak states, like Afghanistan, can pose a great danger to the peace of the world which is why once we've bombed the crap out of them we'll renege on all our offers of help and just walk away like we always do. … Free trade and free markets have proved their ability to lift whole societies out of poverty – so the US is working with the entire global trading community to ensure our companies can do what they like in other countries and build a world that trades in freedom and therefore grows in prosperity as long as your money comes to us and we don't have to spend any in your filthy dump unless it's paying off your friendly local dictator or building razor-wire around EPZs. … [12 September 2002]

Jonathan Cainer

• What if this eclipse really does spell the beginning of the end of the world? … What if, as we all stare hopefully upwards at the night sky, a ladder descends from the heavens? What if the creator steps gracefully down it to walk among us all in human form once more? [August 1999] What if you didn't get paid for making this stuff up? What if you had to actually earn a living? What if you bothered to learn some science? What if you had the imagination to conceive a God who didn't need a ladder!
• As I predicted on BBC2 a few weeks ago, scientists have accepted, as a planet, the new discovery 2003 UB313. Uh… no, they haven't. That's Xena to the likes of you and me. It's official name is Eris, and its moon is Dysnomia, Eris' daughter. They have also reclassified Ceres, the asteroid, as a planet – and declared that Pluto's Moon, Charon, is a planet too. Double negatory there, Jonny boy. By tradition, we astrologers defer to the decisions of astronomers. If they say a heavenly body is important, we treat it with respect, even if previously we have all but ignored it. It's going to take us a while to learn to read these new dials on our dashboard but, eventually, you'll start to see us make even more accurate predictions. Well, being any worse than this would be difficult, wouldn't it, when you got every single thing wrong! [Daily Mail, 26 August 2006]

Barry Chamish

• GUsh is like GUlf, and KATif is like KATrina. If you take 'KAT' from KATif and KATrina, you are left with 'IF' and 'RAIN.' If you support Gush Katif evacuation, it will rain. [spam] Can I play, too? Barry is like Batty, and Chamish is like Chattish or Cat-shit, so you're mad and talk crap. (Apologies to all our feline friends.)
• Simple human beings cannot fully understand what is going on, but the events certainly must be connected. It's statistically impossible to have two such great natural disasters like the recent tsunami in Asia and Katrina right after each other. This is the hand of God. He is saying something. [WorldNetDaily, 07 September 2005] God, she say: learn some geology!

Mahmood Chandia

• Nearly every university in England has a department which is called the music department, and in others, where the Satanic influence is more, they call it the Royal College of Music. [The Times, 07 September 2007] No, he's not being sarcastic, it's perfectly in line with Qur'anic teachings.

Heng-ming Chen, God's Salvation Church (a.k.a. God Saves the Earth Flying Saucer Association)

• At 10 A.M. on March 31, 1998, God shall make His appearance in the Holy Land of the Kingdom of God: 3513 Ridgedale Dr., Garland, TX. 75041 U.S.A. … I guarantee this on my life. [1998] You'll never guess what never happened.

Francisco Chimoio, Archbishop, Mozambique

• I know of two countries in Europe who are making condoms with virus on purpose, they want to finish with African people as part of their programme to colonise the continent. If we are not careful we will finish in one century. I also know some companies who are manufacturing anti-retroviral drugs already infected with the virus, also in order to finish quickly the African people. [26 September 2007] Another desperate Catholic murdering his own people rather than helping them. (But they all go go heaven, right? so that's OK then.)

Deepak Chopra

• Illness and aging are an illusion. We can achieve an ageless body and a timeless mind by the sheer force of consciousness. If you think happy, you will have happy molecules. As you are getting older, does this mean you're unhappy?

Anjem Choudary / Anjum Chaudri

• We should not be surprised at people doing something like 7/7. How else do you expect Muslims to express themselves? We are a community under siege. It's going to blow up one day in everyone's faces. [protesting outside the Old Bailey trial of Mizanur Rahman, 01 November 2006] "How else… "? Ever tried a protest march, or how about voting out people whose ideas you don't agree with? I know the system is inherently corrupt, but even our form of democracy has a lot going for it, not the least of which is it's tolerant of people who want to overthrow the very system they take advantage of.
• No, at the end of the day innocent people – when we say innocent people we mean Muslims. As far as non-Muslims are concerned, they have not accepted Islam, and as far as we are concerned, that is a crime against God. [Stephen Sackur, interviewer: I want to be clear about what you are saying – this is very important – you are saying that only Muslims can count as innocent people?] As far as Muslims are concerned , you are innocent if you are a Muslim – then you are innocent in the eyes of God. If you are a non-Muslim, then you are guilty of not believing in God. [HARDtalk, 10 August 2005]

John J. Christman

• It is more realistic to support the idea that some being with or without the name "God" put the real world in place than to support the idea that the real world came into existence in some random fashion. [letter to St. Petersburg Times, Florida, in response to one of their columnists 'coming out' as an atheist, 13 August 2004]

St. Clement of Alexandria

• Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman. [The Tutor] More words of wisdom from another saint, but then this pretty much sums up the entry criteria, along with having killed someone.

Piero Coda

• If life were to be found on a planet, then it would also have been contaminated by original sin and would require salvation. [statement to the Vatican]

Rev. Jesse Colson

• At the end of the Mesozoic, you begin to see evidence of a stunning moral decline. Bones of wives and children all alone, with the philandering husband's bones nowhere in sight. Heaps of fossilised species living together in unnatural defiance of biblical law. Researchers have even excavated entire orgies – hundreds of animals with their bones intertwined in lewd positions. Immorality was rampant. [1982] Well, what can I say? Oh, I know: Bwahahahaha!

Christopher Columbus

• They [American Indians] would make fine servants. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

Rev. Adrian Condit

• Satan had a big-time role in this. [speaking of his son's (Gary Condit – D) problems and his possible involvement in the disappearance of intern Chandra Levy, 05 September 2001]

Fr. Francis J. Connell

• … if they landed from a planet not affected by original sin, they would be unkillable. [warning pilots about encounters with UFOs, Time, 15 September, 1952]

Monsignor Paul Cordes

• Jesus heals illness and banishes sin. He therefore tells us that there is a link between sin and sickness. … I cannot say that someone is sick because he has sinned, but in the history of salvation, sickness is the consequence of sin. [quoted in The Guardian, 07 February 2002]

Charlene E. Cothran

Ann Coulter

• God says "Earth is yours. Take it, rape it – it's yours". [Hannity & Colms, 22 June 2001] Amazing what you can do when god is on your side.
• We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. [National Review, 13 September 2001] The first two are standard US foreign policy, and as for the third… wow, Xianity's history is so full of loving kindness and tolerance for other beliefs (never mind the way they embrace all their own internal sects) that it's such an obvious solution. Why did no one see it before?
• The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man's dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet – it's yours. That's our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars – that's the Biblical view. [Jewish World Review13 October 2000]

William Lane Craig

• Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter, not vice versa. [Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth And Apologetics, 1994]
• The Bible says all men are without excuse. Even those who are given no good reason to believe and many persuasive reasons to disbelieve have no excuse, because the ultimate reason they do not believe is that they have deliberately rejected God's Holy Spirit. [Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth And Apologetics, 1994] Typical fundy "reasoning", unable to comprehend that an atheist cannot reject something in which they do not believe. Does Craig deliberately reject Odin and Ra, or the Easter Bunny?
• Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God. [Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth And Apologetics, 1994] Not true. I think Amun-Re / Aten, as a symbol of the sun, is something to love.
• What, then, should be our approach in apologetics? It should be something like this: "My friend, I know Christianity is true because God's Spirit lives in me and assures me that it is true. And you can know it is true, too, because God is knocking at the door of your heart, telling you the same thing. If you are sincerely seeking God, then God will give you assurance that the gospel is true. Now, to try to show you it's true, I'll share with you some arguments and evidence that I really find convincing. But should my arguments seem weak and unconvincing to you, that's my fault, not God's. It only shows that I'm a poor apologist, not that the gospel is untrue. Whatever you think of my arguments, God still loves you and holds you accountable. I'll do my best to present good arguments to you. But ultimately you have to deal, not with arguments, but with God himself." [Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth And Apologetics, 1994]

Creation Research UK website

• What we do know is that believers should not be surprised when things like this [terrorist attacks on World Trade Centre, 11/09/2001] happen, for Jesus warned very plainly that the world will become more violent before He returns. The root cause of this increasing violence is sin – sin which is rooted in the refusal to glorify The Lord as the God who created the universe (Rom. 1:16ff.). In recent Western culture this refusal has been built around evolution and the denial of a god of any sort. Throughout history it has been far more common to exchange "the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man – and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things." The consequence is that both secular humanism and false religions are left without any concept of The Lord who is the God in charge of history – past, present and future. [September 2001]

Tom Cruise

• Some people, well, if they don't like Scientology, well, then, fuck you. [rises from table] Really. [points angrily at imaginary enemy] Fuck you. [face reddens] Period. [Rolling Stone 956, 11 August 2004] What an erudite spokesman he is. All hail Xenu!

Ken Cumming

• Both events have much in common. The public was unaware of the deliberate preparation that was schemed over the past few years to lead to these events. And while the public now understands from President Bush that "We're at War" with religious fanatics around the world, they don't have a clue that America is being attacked from within through its public schools by a militant religious movement called Darwinists. "Come on!" you might exclaim. "You're blowing a whistle on American scientists, the very cream of human genius. What evidence do you have for such an outrageous accusation?" To which I say, let this blatant video series speak for it. And let its support documents tell you of mind control beyond anything yet seen in public education. "Evolution" is PBS's assault that's coming to your children's classroom – not soon but now. [linking a TV series about evolution (a fact and not a religion) with the attack on the World Trade Centre, 14 October 2001]

Yaw Poku Dankwa, Information Director, Ghana Extension Of The African Hebrews

• Democracy is a divisive factor that creates a booming market for sin, with an alarming moral degeneration. [31 August 2004]

Peter David

• I shall be telling the court that the Lord told me I didn't need insurance, and that that assurance is my divine protection. I have been licensed from heaven, and I will be giving the word of the Lord in court. [after having been stopped by police in South Wales who found he was driving with no insurance, MOT, or road tax, and had an unlicensed number plate of DEUT 818, The Scotsman, 20 April 2001]
• I do not recognise the authority of the court or the Parliament in England. God's word is the only law I recognise … On February 15, 1996, God told me I didn't need insurance, over-ruling, in my case, a sensible law. I was to trust Him for His protection, which I did. He has delivered me from possible death twice since then – praise God. [having been found guilty and ordered to pay £758.75 in fines, costs, and back duty to the DVLA, BBC News, 12 June 2001]

Senator Charles Davidson, Alabama - R

• The truth is that nowhere on the face of the earth, in all of time, were servants better treated or better loved than they were in the Old South by white, black, Hispanic and Indian slave owners.
• People who are bitter and hateful about slavery are obviously bitter and hateful against God and his word, because they reject what God says and embrace what mere humans say concerning slavery.

Keith Davidson, Education Director, British Union Conference Of Seventh Day Adventists

• The way science works is that you set up a hypothesis and test it and see if it is validated… There's absolutely no concrete evidence to prove evolution. [March 2002]

Don Davis, North Carolina - R

• There's a lot of it that's truth, the way I see it. Who came to this country first – the white man, didn't he? That's who made this country great. [commenting on an email he forwarded to every member of the state House and Senate ("Two things made this country great: White men & Christianity. Every problem that has arrisen [sic] can be directly traced back to our departure from God's Law and the disenfranchisement of White men."), 22 August 2001]

Dr. George DeHoff

• If God had wanted another "i" dotted or another "t" crossed, He would have had it done. The writers did not use one word unless God wanted that word used. They put in every word which God wanted them to put into the Bible. [Alleged Bible Contradictions Explained]

Tom DeLay, Texas - R

• Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist. [Congressional Record H3706, 23 April 1996]
• Our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes who are evolutionised out of some primordial soup of mud. [August 1999] And this disturbs you because? Oh, you think you're so special, being made by God and all that.
• Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of 'Where did I come from?' 'Why am I here?' 'Where am I going?' 'Does life have any meaningful purpose?' … Only Christianity offers a way to understand that physical and moral border. Only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview that covers all areas of life and thought, every aspect of creation. Only Christianity offers a way to live in response to the realities that we find in this world – only Christianity. [12 April 2002]

Dr Adel Al-Damkhi, Kuwait Human Rights Society (sic)

• …uttering profanities against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is the worst form of human rights violation in the world. Attacks on the values and tenets of Islam are extremely dangerous and unacceptable. [wanting YouTube to delete all videos that denegrate Islam, September 2008] Well of course this is worse than stoning women who have been raped, or even blowing up other people's statues. Who would dare to think otherwise? Oh, wait…

Senator Jeremiah Denton, Alabama - R

• Damn it, when you get married, you kind of expect you're going to get a little sex. [explaining his opposition to legislation to protect victims of rape within marriage, 1981]

Mufti Ebrahim Desai, Ask Imam Online To call these responses (and most of the questions!) 'Mediaeval' is of course an insult… to all the people who lived through that period of European history and paved the way for the Reformation.

• No. [responding to the question "Assalamalaykum Muftisaab. Is it sunnah to peel bananas from the bottom? Jazakallah."] Phew! Got me worried there for a moment!
• It is permissible to shower standing. [responding to the question "Is it permissable to take a shower while standing, or is it only permissable to bath while sitting."] Oh, Allah be praised! I'd been worrying myself sick, sick, so sick over this.
• We do not know what is mean by "FENG SHUI"? [responding to the question "Can we Muslims apply the principles of 'FENG SHUI' in our daily lives?"] Is he really this ignorant of another culture's superstitions, or merely afraid of admitting he knows what it is because it's not in the Qur'an and therefore he's a been a very bad boy?
• We do not understand your question as everything existing is made up. [responding to the question "Does gravity exist or is it made up?"] Riiiight. Here's a little test for you: go to the top of the nearest minaret and jump from it. Let's see how something that's "made up" affects you, or perhaps a winged horse will carry you up to heaven.
• It is permissible to sweep at night. That does not deprive one of the Barakat of the house. [responding to the question "Is it permissible to sweep at night? I've heared by sweeping at night you remove the barakat of the house."] How empty are these people's lives that they genuinely worry about things like this?
• Shari'ah does not permit a strange male to associate with a strange female before marriage in any way, talking, writing, etc. [responding to the question "Is it allowed in Islam for a fiance to write letters to his/her fiance?"] Huh? Everyone is a stranger to everyone else before they start talking and get to know one another (not in the biblical sense!). That's how normal friendships and relationships form, which may lead to marriage or just co-existence.
• Pictures of animate objects is prohibited in the Shari'ah. It is not permissible to be part of anything prohibited in Shari'ah even while at work at university. [responding to the question "Is it ok to work at university in U.S.A , Where I have to deliver TV, VCR, Video camcorder ext… to the classrooms?"] Get another job, then.
• It is true that the feet should not face the direction of the ka'bah whilst sleeping. In fact, it is not permissible to face the feet towards the ka'bah whether a person is sleeping or awake. (Shaami vol.1 pg.655; HM Saeed) [responding to the question ""Is it true that when sleeping your feet should not facing towards the directionof the kaba?" Given that feet tend to face the way you walk, does that mean you can only walk away from the ka'bah? So all the Muslims arrive at its antipodes.]
• The slave girls refer to those non-Muslim woman who are captured in Jihaad by the Muslims. They are distributed among the warriors according to the laws of distributing spoils of war. [responding to the question "Allah has made only wives and slave-girls halal for men to have intercourcse with. Can you explain who these slave-girls are and what qualities do they have? In this age and times who can be classified as slave-girl? Since the possibility of acquiring a slave-girl like the earlier Muslims used to have them and also having multiple wives is next to impossible in these times, is there a derivative of a slave-girl that one could have? "]
• It is not permissible, since it resembles the non-Muslims. The Ulama have prohibited it. Furthermore, Rasulullah [Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam] has also prohibited us to inculcate the practice of non-Muslims. (Ahsanul Fataawa) [responding to the question "What is the basis of wishing happy birthdays, as people get offended when I don't wish them?"] So here you are, using a PC (made in the U.S. or Europe with Oriental and/or American components), powered by AC electricity (whose entire system of generation and distribution was designed by an Eastern European living in America), and published on the Web (originating in the U.K. / U.S.). But it's all for Allah, so anything is permissible.
• Music is expressly prohibited in many Ahaadith. Among the dominant purposes of our beloved Prophet (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) was to destroy musical instruments. (Mishkat vol.2). Ref. http://www.jamiat.org.za/v41ifta.html. [responding to the question, "Is ALL music haraam?"] Okay boys, tonight I want you to round up all the evil dulcimers and harps and break them into lots and lots of little pieces (but quietly, so they don't make any naughty dirty filthy evil music).
• It is advisable to sleep on one's right side facing the Qibla. Before sleeping, recite the four Quls, blow on your palms and pass them around your body. If you experience nightmares or bad dreams and wake up, spit lightly in that direction, recite Laa hawla wala quwwata illaa billaah and change your direction of sleep. [responding to the question "Best way of sleeping…What is the best way of sleeping as Ive heard that you shouldn't sleep on your stomach. [snipped bit about typical hypnopompic / hypnagogic experiences which weren't addressed]"]
• If a female was raped due to her not maintaining the laws of Hijaab, she is partly to be blamed as the rapist will be considered as being seduced by her revealing form and shape. She should make Tawbah (sincerely repent) by also adhering to the laws of Hijaab. [responding to the question "Could you please give me a detailed analysis of what a Virgin women should do after being raped. Please could you tell me if the Virgin female should perform any special prayers, fast etc. JazakAllah for your advise. 2)Has she lost her Vaginity as she was raped? 3)has she also lost her blessings?"] Of course it's the woman's fault that the men can't control themselves when they see an enticing ankle or chin! Oh, and don't bother trying to console her or help her through the trauma to regain some form of dignity or feel safe when she goes out (oops, can't do that without a man) because it was your honour that was offended so it's best just to kill her.
• In the Sahih of Muslim, Hadhrat Abu Sa'eed al-Khudri (Radhiallaahu Anhu) narrates that Nabi (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) said, 'Let no women travel for more than three days (being the equivalent of 48 miles / 88 kms.) unless her husband or her Mahram is with her.' In view of the abovementioned Hadith, it is not permissible for women to travel alone. [responding to the question "Is it ok for my wife to travel to another state to visit a friend without me? She will be staying with the friend's family (mother, father, sister etc). I don't know the family very well because they lived overseas."] Oh, please can I have a really nice man to look after me, because I'm so stupid I can't even travel by myself to… uh, could you tell me where was I supposed to be going?
• Evil dreams (including dreams about sex) are Shaytaani dreams. Dreams are not within our Ikhtiyaar (choice). Therefore, it is not within us to avoid bad dreams. However, if one sees bad dreams, he/she should spit lightly and recite 'Laa Hawla Walaa Quwwata illaa billaah'. Thereafter, change one's direction of sleep. Insha Allah, the dream will not have any effect on the person. [responding to the question "I would like to know is it good or bad when a single muslim person has dreams about intercourse."] For anyone else this would be a normal healthy part of life, but not for you, oh no: it's Satanic!
• Women can only wear gold and silver rings. (Fataawa Rahimiyah vol.9 pg.158). A man can wear a ring which is silver plaited. A man is allowed to wear a silver ring with the provision that its weight does not exceed 1 Mithqaal (4.374 grams) of silver. By virtue of of the silver plaiting, permission is granted to wear such a ring. However, one should still observe the weight restriction of 4.374 grams. [responding to the question "Salam, is it true that women can ONLY wear gold rings, and not platinum etc. jazakallah 2) is it true that men can wear a platinum ring that is silver plate? if so, then does this ring hve to be 4.5 grams?"] So what precisely is 'wrong' with platinum or titanium or haematite, etc., etc. And does it matter which shade of gold? Must it only be yellow, or is white or red permissible? Answers on a postcard to…
• There are differences of opinion among the Ulama regarding the images on a digital camera. According to some Ulama, that is also Tasweer (picture making) which is prohibited. In such a situation, it is advisable to adopt Taqwa and abstain from posting your daughter's picture on the web camera. [responding to the question "I live in America and my whole family is in Pakistan, my daughter is 4 months old we have not taken her picture to send them as it is prohibited in islam. Is the use of Web camera permissible, if they do not take the print out of the picture, as we have heard that if it is live and remains on internet only then it is permissible"] These people actually worry themselves about this kind of thing? What next, regressing to believing that photographs steal your soul as well?
• It is not permissible for you to display images of human beings and insert music and sound loops on websites. This is assisting in sin. Allah Ta'ala states, 'And do not assist in sin.' (Maaidah) [responding to the question "I work as a web designer. This profession involves the displaying of human images (male, female) and insertion of music and sound loops in websites..earn from this source is haraam or halal? I work as a web designer. This profession involves the displaying of human images (male, female) and insertion of music and sound loops in websites. Now as a profession, I want to know if the money i earn from this source is haraam or halal? I've spoken to few people and they told me, the least rank of thought is to make sure that I'm not involved in 'making' those images and music. I only take sources given by my clients and in some cases take existing sources available on the internet and display them. So, please let me know of this issue. Jazakalah Khair."] Unbelievable. (Well, not really). Here is someone trying to live and work in the real world, and he's being told to get another job that doesn't involve the use of such dog-dirty sinful things.
• Allah is our creator and ultimate Master. We, as his creations and slaves are obliged to express our servitude to Him Alone. If one does not submit his slavery to Allah, which of course is far more heinous and unjust to Allah in comparison to the 'injustices' of slavery and sexual relationship, etc. by a human master. Since the human being did not willingly submit to the ultimate Master, Allah, He condemns them to the unwilling slavery of his sincere slaves. And by understanding the powers of a man master, they may understand the Powers of the True Master, Allah. In fact, the concept of slavery should be regarded as a concept of mercy, as the heinous crime of rejecting Allah as our Master demands immediate terminating of life. Allah, our kind Master, has granted an opportunity to his very negators to enjoy a second chance of life and redirect it to the right avenue by submitting to Him as the ultimate Master. [responding to the question "Please explain the concept of slavery in Islaam. Is it alowed in this day and age? If there was an Islamic government then would slavery be allowed. Please explain te issue in detail as we are not knowledge in the islamic rulings."] " … the concept of slavery should be regarded as a concept of mercy, as the heinous crime of rejecting Allah as our Master demands immediate terminating of life." No more perfect definition of religious 'mercy' can be found anywhere else in the modern world.

Eileen Drewery

• Glennand I are instruments of God and He is displeased at what has happened. Something spectacular will happen soon, you mark my words. Yawn. Still waiting. … Each life is payback time. It's like paying off your credit-card. You carry the baggage of your former life. [at the launch of her book Why Me? My Life As A Healer, 11 March 1999]

Abdul Karim Dughmi, Justice (sic) Minister, Jordan

• All women killed in cases of honour are prostitutes. I believe prostitutes deserve to die. [2001] Even when they're been raped, because that's the woman's fault too(Mufti Ebrahim Desai & Sheik Taj Din al-Hilal).

Mary Baker Eddy

• The less we think or know about hygiene, the less we are predisposed to sickness. [Science And Health With Key To The Scriptures]

Paul Eidelberg & Israel Hanukoglu

• We urge the American people to remind their president that the evil the nations do to Israel always strikes them. Pharaoh, Haman, Hitler and all the leaders of nations that have opposed the will of God for His people have perished or ended on the ash heaps of history. [Zionist sympathy for the Katrina victims, TheRaphi.com, September 2005]

Michael Eisner, Chief Executive, Disney

• We have no obligation to make history, we have no obligation to make art, we have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

Elephant Man (O'Neil Bryant)

• When yuh hear a Sodomite [lesbian] get raped / but a fi wi fault / it's wrong / two women gonna hock up inna bed / that's two Sodomites dat fi dead. [A Nuh Fi Wi Fault] Go hang a tyre around your neck and set it on fire.

Jenna Elfman (Jenna Butala)

• You know how your head feels heavy when you're having a problem? It's actually mass that you can weigh. It's compressed mental energy. And the E-meter sees changes in that. [Explaining Scientology's auditing process, Mirabella, March 1999]

Hojatolislam Seyyed Ahmad Elmalhoda, Shia Cleric, Iran

• Women without the veil are a danger that the authorities underestimate. This situation is very serious in that if men see these bad women, they will turn into beasts, and then the whole of society will have to pay the consequences. [10 April 2008] What, you didn't know? Of course it's the women's fault that men are utterly incapable of controlling themselves. Well, your men, anyway. Isn't it strange how this kind of behaviour is restricted to certain parts of the world where the women are still attacked despite being covered? Sorry, that should have been 'protected within a portable seclusion area'.
• A women who does not wear the entire veil is like a fire which burns anyone who comes into contact with her. Our youth, even those who are educated by families who believe and respect the words of the Prophet, when they come into contact with this fire they burn and become ash. [10 April 2008]

Bob Enyart

• The AIDs virus also discriminates on religious or political views. Those people who are liberals, or atheist, or agnostic, or buy into "new age" anything goes, are at high risk of getting AIDs and dying.

Sheik Yusuf Estes

• If it still doesn't work out then hit her how? Roll up a newspaper and give her a crack. Or take like a yard stick, something like this, and you can hit. [speaking of 'disobedient wives', West Virginia University, October 2005]

European Round Table Of Industrialists

• The provision of education is a market opportunity and should be treated as such. [Job Creation And Competitiveness Through Innovation, November 1998]

Eusebius

• It will be necessary sometimes to use falsehood as a remedy for the benefit of those who require such treatment. [The Preparation Of The Gospel]
• We shall introduce into this history in general only those events which may be useful first to ourselves and afterwards to posterity. [Ecclesiastical History]
• On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs.

Ayatullah Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadallah

• What martyrdom is greater than making yourself a human bomb detonating it among the enemy? What spiritualism is greater than this spiritualism in which a person loses all feeling of his body and life for the sake of his cause and mission? [199?]

Rev. Jerry Falwell

• If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being. All my life I wondered where I was going wrong, and now I've been shown the way. Praise the Lord!
• Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them. [Crossfire, 17 May 1997] Is this based on personal experience?
• AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. [1993]
• It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc. [speaking about the Bible, Finding Inner Peace and Strength]
• AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh's charioteers.
• I listen to feminists and all these radical gals – most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men – that's their problem. Man in the house? I don't have any pianos that need moving :-) Hating half the population of the world is a little pointless and somewhat self-destructive, but something I can do is read a watch and / or clock.
• The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this … But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way – all of them who have tried to secularise America – I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.' … In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time – calling upon God. [placing the blame for the World Trade Centre attacks, The 700 Club, 13 September 2001]
• You say what's going to happen on this earth when the Rapture occurs? You'll be riding along in an automobile; you'll be the driver, perhaps; you're a Christian; there'll be several people in the automobile with you, maybe someone who is not a Christian. When the trumpet sounds, you and the other born-again Christians in that automobile will be instantly caught away, you'll disappear, leaving behind only your clothing and physical things that cannot inherit eternal life. That unsaved person or persons in the automobile will suddenly be startled to find that the car is moving along without a driver, and suddenly somewhere crashes. Those saved people in the car have disappeared. Other cars on the highway driven by believers will suddenly be out of control. Stark pandemonium will occur on that highway and on every highway in the world where Christians are caught away from the world.

Louis Farrakhan

• The spread of international AIDS was an attempt by the U.S. government to decimate the population of central Africa. [1989]

Tina Farrell

• On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought [sic] I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't. I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher — not lower — than -8 but I'm not having it. I think Camelot are giving people the wrong impression — the card doesn't say to look for a colder or warmer temperature, it says to look for a higher or lower number. Six is a lower number than 8. Imagine how many people have been misled. [criticising The Cool Cash card (subsequently withdrawn because of this and other incidents) rather than her own education or lack thereof, Manchester Evening News, 03 November 2007] Imagine how many people such as yourself know nothing of the basic arithmetic I knew when I was at primary school. -6 is more than -8 because it's nearer 0, just as 5 is less than 7.

www.fightforkids.com [Shell site for $cientology]

• Brain: A physical organ inside the head that sends and receives messages through the nervous system. It is a physical part of the body, just as an arm, leg or the heart is. It has little to do with thinking. It can physically tell the body that something is hot and warn against touching it, but it doesn't make decisions for you or tell you how to act. So what does do the thinking – a body thetan?

Caroline Flint, Government shill

• I can only confirm that no UK law enforcement agencies were involved in the matter. I am not at liberty to discuss the specific case in more detail. [refusing to answer queries regarding the seizure of Indymedia's servers and demonstrating our government's commitment to freedom (both of expression and information / accountability), 03 November 2004]
• I can confirm that no UK law enforcement agencies were involved in the matter referred to in the question posed by my hon. Friend. In the circumstances I do not therefore believe that it is necessary for me to make a statement. [refusing to answer queries regarding the seizure of Indymedia's servers and demonstrating our government's commitment to freedom (both of expression and information / accountability), 20 October 2004]
• I can confirm that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has had no discussions in regards to the matter referred to in the question posed by the hon. Member. In the circumstances I do not therefore believe that it is necessary for me to make a statement. [refusing to answer queries regarding the seizure of Indymedia's servers and demonstrating our government's commitment to freedom (both of expression and information / accountability), 02 November 2004]

Thomas L. Friedman

• The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the US Air Force F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps. [The Lexus And The Olive Tree] So much for free markets.

Father John Furniss

• The little child is in this red hot oven. Hear how it screams to come out. See how it turns and twists itself about in the fire. It beats its head against the roof of the oven. It stamps its little feet on the floor of the oven. You can see on the face of this little child what you see on the faces of all in hell – despair, desperate and horrible! The same law which is for others is also for children. If children, knowingly and willingly, break God's commandments, they must also be punished like others. This child committed very bad mortal sins, knowing well the harm of what it was doing, and knowing that hell would be the punishment. God was very good to this child. Very likely God saw that this child would get worse and worse, and would never repent, and so it would have to be punished much more in hell. So God, in His mercy, called it out of the world in its early childhood. [The Sight Of Hell]

Norman Geisler & Thomas Howe

• Yes God has spoken, and He has not stuttered. The God of truth has given us the Word of Truth, and it does not contain any untruth in it. The Bible is the unerring Word of God. Inspiration includes not only all that the Bible explicitly teaches, but also everything the Bible touches. This is true whether the Bible is touching upon history, science, or mathematics. Whatever the Bible declares, is true – whether it is a major point or a minor point. [When Critics Ask]

Mel Gabler, Censor, Texas

• Too many textbooks and discussions leave students free to make up their minds about things.
• Allowing a student to come to his own conclusions about abstract concepts creates frustration. Ideas, situation ethics, anti-God humanism – that's what the schools are teaching. And concepts. Well, a concept never will do anyone as much good as a fact.

Rabbi Joseph Garlitzky, Chabad Lubavitch, Tel Aviv

• We don't have prophets who can tell us exactly what are God's ways, but when we see something so enormous as Katrina, I would say Bush and Rice need to make an accounting of their actions, because something was done wrong by America in a big way. And here there are many obvious connections between the storm and the Gaza evacuation, which came right on top of each other. No one has permission to take away one inch of the land of Israel from the Jewish people. [WorldNetDaily, 07 September 2005]

Ayatollah Ghomi

• Most Europeans have mistresses. Why should we suppress human instincts? A rooster satisfies several hens, an stallion several mares. A woman is unavailable during certain periods where as a man is always active. [Le Monde, 20 January 1979]

Sheik Mohammed al-Ghozali

• A secularist represents a danger to society and the nation that must be eliminated. It is the duty of the Government to kill him. [quoted by Yousef M. Ibrahim, International Herald Tribune, 19 August 1993]

Jennifer Giroux, Director, Women Influencing The Nation

• I believe that, when hetalks about New Orleans and a cloud of darkness hanging over an immoral city, he could be referring to any city in the United States. I believe that God will not be mocked. We talked about this just eight-and-a-half months ago with the tsunami. It's a very delicate theological issue, as we talked about then. You know, all of us have a sinful nature. And many innocent people suffer, along with those that perhaps were engaged in sinful activity. But let's look at the state at which our country is in, abortion, contraception, homosexuality, cloning, I mean, it all really comes together in one big picture. Why do you think those like myself and those in my organization that voted for President Bush are outraged that he is saying he doesn't have a litmus test? Abortion is an abomination, an offence and mocks God. … I believe that the innocent, historically and biblically – and I believe Bill Donahue would agree with this – the good have always suffered with the bad. That is not for us to understand. I believe God has historically allowed disasters and punishments to happen as a form of chastisement. We can go back as far as when God liberated the Jews and allowed Passover to happen and innocent first-born Egyptian babies to die to allow the Jews out of exile. [Scarborough Country, 05 October 2005]

Duane Gish

• We cannot discover by scientific investigation anything about the creative processes used by the Creator. [Evolution? The Fossils Say No!, 1985]

Rev. Terry Glidden

• Just last week I saw two homosexual men at the supermarket. The supermarket! In broad daylight! That's what you get when you worship the creation instead of the creator. [Washington Post, 05 October 1999] You mean… you mean they went outside?! Jesus H. Christ!! I'll bet the fucking perverts were even on the same side of the road!!!

Joe Glover, Family Policy Network

• It's sad to see people celebrate such a destructive way of life. The people who do this are merely trying to fill a God-sized void in their lives that can only be filled by Jesus Christ. [objecting to Disney's 'Gay-Days', 04 June 2001]

Joseph Goebbels

• A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see one. Christ could not possibly have been a Jew. It is not necessary to prove that scientifically – it is a fact.

Hermann Goering

• God gave the saviour to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he was sent to us by God to save Germany. [speaking of Hitler]
• Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship … Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. [Nuremberg Trials]

Armando Martinez Gomez, Association Of Catholic Lawyers, Mexico

• It is simply not the will of God to have acts of homosexuality. We are not against gay people, but we believe in a union between a man and a women for the creation of children. [16 March 2007] "the will of God", huh? Guess he shouldn't have made gay people and animals, then. But if you believe he exists, then it's obvious he did, so deal with it.

Stan Goodenough

• On August 14, citizens in the United States, like people around the world, heard about the issuing of an order for the forced evacuation of Jews from parts of Israel's biblical land. … While this was taking place, a small tropical depression was forming near the Bahamas in the Atlantic Ocean. Slowly, as the air began to revolve, the nonthreatening weather system began moving in the direction of Florida. … As today unfolds we are bracing to see wind and water pounding homes, whole communities, into the ground. Is this some sort of bizarre coincidence? Not for those who believe in the God of the Bible and the immutability of His Word. What America is about to experience is the lifting of God's hand of protection; the implementation of His judgment on the nation most responsible for endangering the land and people of Israel. … Can't you see the link, America? Won't you see the link? [Jerusalem Newswire, 29 August 2005] Do what we want or our god will smite you verily, yea!

Franklin Graham

• This is one wicked city, OK? It's known for Mardi Gras, for Satan worship. It's known for sex perversion. It's known for every type of drugs and alcohol and the orgies and all of these things that go on down there in New Orleans. [sympathy for those in New Orleans, 03 October 2005]

Katharine Graham, Publisher, Washington Post

• We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. [speech to CIA recruits, Langley, Virginia, 1988]

Stephen Green, Christian Voice

• … the less than 1% of the population who are unfortunately homosexual. [Homosexuality And The Police, December 2003]
• We believe the Holy Bible to be the inspired, infallible, written Word of God to whose precepts given for the good of nations and individuals, all man's laws must submit. We believe all government to be under the authority of God and that its purpose is the maintenance of freedom and justice solely in accordance with Biblical principles. [Mission Statement]
• … this mentally disturbed group. … Hospitals are full of poor, deluded people some of whom think they are Queen Victoria, or Elvis Presley, or even Jesus Christ. Gender reassignment surgery is akin to treating a man who sincerely and unshakeably believes he is Long John Silver by cutting off his leg and prescribing him a parrot. It merely adds to the confusion, in every sense. [Homosexuality And The Police, December 2003]
• Homosexual police are involved in some of the most disgusting perversions imaginable; … corrupted by what they do; … Their whole life is lived in denial; how can they be expected to tell the truth in Court? … Their sexual behaviour is deviant and indecent; … Many homosexual men will have been interfered with at a young age, and be sexually attracted to boys of around that age as a result; … officers who commit acts which are an abomination in the eyes of Almighty God? [Homosexuality And The Police, December 2003]

John Gribben & Stephen Plagemann

• In 1982, when the Moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter aligns with Mars and with the other seven planets of the solar system, Los Angeles will be destroyed. [The Jupiter Effect, 1974] Oops!

Radheshyam Gupta, Spokesman, The Uttar Pradesh Cow Protection Commission

• Even if the enemy [Pakistan] carries out its threat to bomb us with nukes, we don't have to panic, because we have sacred cows to help us. You can fully protect yourself from nuclear fallout by covering the roof of your house with cow dung. And applying sacred cow dung paste to your body from head to toe will serve as an extra shield. … we also promote sacred cow products like urine and dung, which have powerful medicinal properties. Ordinary people cannot afford expensive protective clothing against radiation, so they need to be informed that sacred cow dung will protect them from against nuclear fallout, and also from radiation burns. [Press Conference, Lucknow, 24 June 2002]

Frank Hague, Mayor, Jersey City

• As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never hear a real American talk like that." [02 April 1938]

Ken Ham, Answers In Genesis

• Nothing will be found out there in observational science that contradicts what the Bible is teaching. Doh!

Mohamad Hama

• I swear to god it took more than two hours [to rape her]. Her soul would not leave her body, it took over half an hour [to kill her, and five minutes to be garrotted]. I swear to god, my foot was on her back. I was kicking or stamping on her neck to get her soul out. She was stark naked, only wearing pants and underwear. [speaking of his murder of Banaz Mahmood, secretly taped during prison awaiting trial, 2007] Apologies to PC types everywhere, as they all know it wasn't really a murder, only an 'honour killing', so that's all right then. And she was 'stark naked' but 'wearing pants and underwear'? Can't have it both ways, chum, but I suppose to people like you, that is stark naked.

Abu Hamza (Mustafa Kamel Mustafa)

• The person who hinders Allah's rule, this man must be eliminated.
• It is not called suicide – this is called shahada, martyring, because if the only way to hurt the enemies of Islam except by taking your life for that, then it is allowed.
• Make sure that the person who gave him the licence for that wine shop doesn't exist any more on the Earth. Finish him up. Give him Dawa. If he doesn't respect Dawa, kill him.

Sheik Gad Al Haq Ali Gad Al Haq

• … a noble practice which does honour to women. [explaining female genital mutilation]

Ijaz-ul-Haq, Religious Affairs Minister, Iran

• If somebody has to attack by strapping bombs to his body to protect the honour of the Prophet then it is justified. [commenting on Salman Rushdie's knighthood, The Times, 19 June 2007] The statement was later 'clarified' (changed after the fact) to "If someone blows himself up, he will consider himself justified. How can we fight terrorism when those who commit blasphemy are rewarded by the West? We demand an apology by the British government. Their action has hurt the sentiments of 1.5 billion Muslims." The original incident was 18 years ago! You've been 'hurt'? Like the victims of 7/7 and 11/9? Don't think so. Grow up, already. Pathetic babies throwing their toys out of the pram.

Mohammed Rahim Haqqani

• We want to send the message that only Islam has the capability of bringing peace and stability in the world. The West has failed. … The Taliban are the practitioners of the pure Deoband Islamic thought. They have implemented laws in the real spirit of Islam. [09 April 2001] Even some other Muslims don't think "the real spirit of Islam" is to force women not to work, to wear a burqa, to end their education when children (anything else is a waste of time as women aren't born as intelligent as men), to blow up 1500 year-old statues of a man who taught peace and love of life, to have unlimited rice pudding (an obscure Dr. Who reference regarding power-crazed despots – forget it), blah blah blah … oh, but all this is done to us in the name of an "all merciful" god who specifically creates men and jinns to go to hell, and whose followers rape girls to send them to hell.

Harper's

• Nothing could be more anti-Biblical than letting women vote. [Editorial, November 1853]

Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani

• Women who do not respect the hijab and their husbands deserve to die. I do not understand how these women who do not respect the hijab, 28 years after the birth of the Islamic Republic, are still alive. These women and their husbands and their fathers must die. [19 December 2007]

Senator Orrin Hatch, Utah - R

• Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. [supporting the death penalty]

Richard Helms, Director, CIA

• One in 10 chance perhaps, but save Chile! … not concerned with risks involved … $10,000,000 available, more if necessary … make the economy scream. [discussing a plan to destabilise the democratically elected government of Chile, under President Salvador Allende]

Thomas Hesse, President, Sony BMG's Global Digital Business Division

• Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it? [commenting on proprietary DRM code that interferes with Windows and is very hard to remove even by those people who know what they're doing, NPR Radio, 04 November 2005]

Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, Mufti Of Australia

• But in the event of adultery, the responsibility falls 90 per cent of the time with women. Why? Because the woman possesses the weapon of seduction. [Ramadan sermon, September 2006] That's right, blame all the women for your repressed men's lack of control.
• September 11 is God's work against oppressors. Some of the things that happen in the world cannot be explained; a civilian airplane whose secrets cannot be explained, if we ask its pilot who reached his objective without error: 'Who led your steps?' Or if we ask the giant that fell: 'Who humiliated you?' Or if we ask the president: 'Who made you cry?' God is the answer. [2004] The people who build and design and repair aeroplanes know perfectly well how they work, but because you don't, it has to be… wait for it, wait for it… God! Yeah! God is the answer to everything. He later tried to claim he didn't support the attackers.
• Why, Rafihi? He says, because if she hadn't left the meat uncovered, the cat wouldn't have snatched it. If you take a kilo of meat, and you don't put it in the fridge, or in the pot, or in the kitchen, but you put in on a plate and placed it outside in the yard. Then you have a fight with the neighbour because his cats ate the meat. Then (inaudible). Right or not? If one puts uncovered meat out in the street, or on the footpath, or in the garden, or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, then the cats come and eat it, is it the fault of the cat or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem! If it was covered the cat wouldn't have. It would have circled around it and circled around it, then given up and gone. If she was in her room, in her house, wearing her hijab, being chaste, the disasters wouldn't have happened. The woman possesses the weapon of seduction and temptation. That's why Satan says about the woman, "You are half a soldier. You are my messenger to achieve my needs. You are the last weapon I would use to smash the head of the finest of men. There are a few men that I use a lot of things with, but they never heed me. But you? Oh, you are my best weapon." [Ramadan sermon, September 2006] Comparing the uncontrolled reactions of so many men to the urges of cats is completely unfair on all our feline friends, though entirely accurate when describing such out-of-control people as follow this loon. He later said that when referring to 'meat' he didn't mean any women without hijabs but only prostitutes (so rape is OK in those circumstances?), though no mention of them was ever made during the speech.

Paul Hill

• I feel very honoured that they are most likely going to kill me for what I did. I'm certainly, to be quite honest, I'm expecting a great reward in heaven for my obedience. [killer in 1994 of Dr. John Britton, an abortion doctor, 2003]

Benny Hinn

• When you don't give money, it shows that you have the devil's nature. [Praise-a-thon (TBN), 04 April 1991]

Adolf Hitler

• I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so. [speaking privately, quoted in the diary of SS Adjutant Gerhard Engel, October 1941]
• I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work. [Reichstag speech, 1936]
• The anti-Semitism of the new movement [Christian Social movement] was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge. [Mein Kampf]
• Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord. [Mein Kampf]
• Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it. [Mein Kampf]
• Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith … we need believing people. [from a speech made during negotiations leading to the Nazi-Vatican Concordant, 26 April 1933]
• My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Saviour as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognised these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was g