Skip to content

We had no ambition for more land or power, and nothing in the religion commands us to conquer non-Yazidis and spread our faith.

— Nadia Murad

Another quote →

Topics

More quotes by Nadia Murad

I still think that being forced to leave your home out of fear is one of the worst injustices a human being can face.

I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine.

I was only one of hundreds of thousands of Yazidi victims.

All Nadia Murad quotes →

You may also like

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Nadia Murad (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.