Top 140 Christina Engela Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “How do YOU know what God meant? Did he whisper into your ear? Did he put the knife in your heart? Did he put a gun in your hand?”

— Christina Engela

52. “Different people think of different versions of ‘God’ – a loving father or a fearful punishing ghoul. These are incompatible, irreconcilable – and you thought having ‘one world religion’ or ‘one God’ would unite humanity?”

— Christina Engela

53. “One of the eternal truths of life – People who ask “do you know who I am?” will always, given half a chance, tell you.”

— Christina Engela

54. “Is human dignity and human life so cheap that the rights protecting it can be traded away to appease the appetite for intimidation and prejudice of a vicious and self-centered group – for whatever reason, power, politics, nationalism, or unity?”

— Christina Engela

55. “It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an ‘attack’ on their ‘faith’.”

— Christina Engela

56. “Waiter – there’s a bigot in my soup.”

— Christina Engela

57. “South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority that they need racist affirmative action policies to protect the majority by legislatively excluding the minority totally from the job market.”

— Christina Engela

58. “Swearing, d’Angelo entered the elevator. Fortunately, that was also still in order. When he got to the bridge, everything looked pretty ordinary – except for the third body of the day, which was lying spread-eagled on the deck with an almost comical look of surprise on his face. Jang was dead, although d’Angelo couldn’t see the cause, but then, he was no doctor. He sighed dismally. Now he hadn’t a navigator either. Or a crew for that matter.”

— Christina Engela

59. “If you expect me to respect your private beliefs and faith and your rights and dignity as a person, how can you actually expect that from me if you are unwilling to reciprocate and continue to incite hatred and the vilification of mine.”

— Christina Engela

60. “Not being treated as equal IS oppression.”

— Christina Engela

61. “If we refuse to accept knowledge because it frightens us, we will never grow. If we give in to fear, we will never outgrow hatred.”

— Christina Engela

62. “Some might claim that like the secret of flying is missing the ground, the secret to immortality is simply not dying.”

— Christina Engela

63. “Happy people make happy families.”

— Christina Engela

64. “There is a word which sums up this ‘separate but equal’ mentality – Apartheid. And we all know how separate and how equal that was.”

— Christina Engela

65. “Liberals want all people to have choices open to them – which does not mean that everyone HAS to choose things they don’t want to or don’t agree with. Quite frankly, I don’t see why any sane human being would have a problem with that?”

— Christina Engela

66. “You can pass any law you like to make ‘criminals’ of those you don’t like and then justify it with whatever stupid reasoning that appeals to you. Is that rule of law – or tyranny?”

— Christina Engela

67. “If you hate others in the name of God, you should be looking within to see where it stopped being about God and where it started being about YOU.”

— Christina Engela

68. “Hate is no respecter of race – as apparently neither is stupidity.”

— Christina Engela

69. “Advanced weaponry, victories in battle and space travel do not an advanced species or civilization make.”

— Christina Engela

70. “It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it.”

— Christina Engela

71. “If I want religion, I know where to look for it – and if for example I don’t want it, then why should it be forced on me in media and public spaces?”

— Christina Engela

72. “Timaset didn’t need a ship – especially not a flying museum piece! And as far as he knew, a dodgy plasma injector could drop you smack into a wormhole ending somewhere on the other side of the universe with no way back. Well, he could always sell the damn thing. Couldn’t he? He could use the money. Damn, he could always use the money! Maybe the crew would want to buy it over from him?”

— Christina Engela

73. “Respect by fear isn’t respect... it’s fear.”

— Christina Engela

74. “Isn’t unconditional love supposed to work both ways? How can we expect unconditional love for ourselves if we are not willing to grant others the same mercy?”

— Christina Engela

75. “Regardless of what language it is said in, “I love you” stays beautiful, and two hearts beating together make the same sound. It is the language of Love.”

— Christina Engela

76. “Be assured, a God who spoke the universe into existence would not need grains of dust to fight holy wars for him.”

— Christina Engela

77. “You can only appreciate being up when you know what it’s like to have been down.”

— Christina Engela

78. “They set about making people so unhappy and isolated and when they crawl into a hole and pull it in after them, they have the nerve to call homosexuality a ‘suicidal lifestyle’. And yet they do this – and deny that any gay or trans person could ever be a ‘true’ Christian. As if THEY are.”

— Christina Engela

79. “Hugs are so vital a thing that there should never be so few of them that you can count the ones you’ve had.”

— Christina Engela

80. “It is quite ironic that those calling the loudest for ‘morality’ are typically the most immoral of all.”

— Christina Engela

81. “What we see far too little of today is people who identify as Christians, standing up to the hate-mongers and death-dealers who have been hijacking their religion and using it as a murder weapon. The question is just begging to be asked: are they afraid? Or are they just not interested because they feel it somehow does not affect them.”

— Christina Engela

82. “Attention, aboard the shuttle! You are under arrest! Surrender immediately! Come out slowly, in single file, with your hands behind your heads! Leave all weapons behind. Comply and your lives will be spared!”

— Christina Engela

83. “Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people – all you have left is GOVERNMENT.”

— Christina Engela

84. “Love yourself. Someone has to. Sure, some people will hate you for who and what you are – but they’re not perfect either.”

— Christina Engela

85. “How can you put human rights to a popular vote and call it democracy? How many times do you need to redefine or haggle about the meaning of the word EQUALITY?”

— Christina Engela

86. “Knowing who you are is more valuable than having ten ‘friends’ who don’t even know who they are, but who judge you anyway.”

— Christina Engela

87. “Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group – and their own.”

— Christina Engela

88. “It is interesting indeed that some people think they are right to force others into believing what they believe.”

— Christina Engela

89. “All it takes to be a voice against injustice, is to say something against it.”

— Christina Engela

90. “Turning the other cheek only gets that slapped as well.”

— Christina Engela

91. “Irony: When those who call others a ‘threat to Christianity’ reject the crucial tenets of their own faith themselves.”

— Christina Engela

92. “It is interesting how – depending on the person in power – our LGBT issues are either right at the top of the list – or right at the very bottom. And almost always for exactly the wrong reasons.”

— Christina Engela

93. “As far as I am concerned, bigotry in strawberry or vanilla flavor is still bigotry.”

— Christina Engela

94. “It should be made clear that religious freedom DOES NOT include the right to persecute others, nor the right to take away their humanity and equal treatment before the law.”

— Christina Engela

95. “Start thinking for yourself, ask ‘why?’ and even venture to say ‘why should I?’ and pretty soon you will have half the world at your throat for being a ‘trouble maker’.”

— Christina Engela

96. “Genocide doesn’t become ‘common assault’ or ‘isolated incidents’ just because it is taking place one victim at a time.”

— Christina Engela

97. “I wonder why bigots think their conservative and puritanical version of ‘God’ made the male body with a prostate gland that also co-incidentally ‘just happens’ to be a ‘g-spot’?”

— Christina Engela

98. “Usually, people who ask ‘do you know who I am?’ don’t have a clue themselves.”

— Christina Engela

99. “If you stick your head in the sand like an ostrich, pretending you don’t exist – why get upset when the world agrees with you?”

— Christina Engela

100. “Rejecting your gay or transgender child won’t make them straight. It will only mean you will lose them.”

— Christina Engela