Quotes from Criss Jami

If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.

In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.

Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.

They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies.

April Fools' is the only day to take people seriously.