All Quotes

"A people who are to govern themselves need virtue and morality much more than intellectual knowledge to appreciate and preserve the form of self-government. Hence it is so truly said that a Republic needs moral and virtuous citizens."

"As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they’re all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do."

"It's not painless – there's a lot of struggle with all the identity stuff you go through. But we were saying you can count on one hand people whose parents achieved at a very high level and whose children also achieved. So it definitely binds us and I think that's why we enjoy working together. Our heads aren't swelled about it."

"Conrad was ignorant of the seizure of his camp and the disaster which had occurred. Suddenly he looked up and saw the battle from afar, and immediately he snatched up his standard, for he was a most energetic soldier, and shouted out to the listening people: "Great warriors. I see men valiantly resisting our enemies and, if I am not mistaken, the flash of their arms suggests that the resisters are allies, since the Saracens do not use breastplates in battle. Let anyone who has zeal for God come with me! Let us fight for our brothers! Let heaven's will be done!""

"Forgiveness is the best beauty product in the world. And bitterness is the ultimate pampa-panget. Pero bakit ang hirap magpatawad? I think it’s because we have some misconceptions about forgiveness. So I will give you four things that forgiveness is not."

"Number one, forgiveness is not forgetting."

"Number two, forgiveness does not mean na wala nang consequence."

"Shauwaa Mauwaa Cchirraa Falaitey Hoibo Khankir Polago!!! (শাউয়া মাউয়া ছিড়ড়া ফালাইতে হইবো খানকির পোলাগো) [Shauwwaa Mauwwaa (derived from bangali word Hauwwa and the later word "Mauwa" is it's phonetic assiimilative derivative (someone follower or blind to biological, mostly erotic sexual instinct (Haush, meaning wish or will) rather than rationality and conscience) bengali slangs for shame organs, private parts, and pubic hairs) must have to be (deadly, harshly) torn away out of the khanki's (bengali slangs for prostitutes, the name of the female servants in Sufi khankas, who were secretly used as extramarital sexual partners at one point due to their blind adherence to the Khanka's religious leaders) sons!!!]"

"We have one demand from the BNP, on behalf of the student community. Don't trust India; you will sink, sink, sink!!!"

"If I win, you will gain. So you will have to bear all my election expenses. I will not spend a single taka from my own pocket here and I will not use a single taka from your money for my personal expenses. Exactly 25 lakh taka is required to run the election campaign. I have also opened bank accounts, bKash, Nagad, Rocket numbers. You will have to pay the entire 25 lakh. In the first 10 days of this December, people have sent me money in various ways and means. The amount is 6 lakh 24 thousand 880 taka. Since the start of the election campaign till December 10, I have received a total of 21 lakh 65 thousand 292 taka from the public"

"21-day account of donations sent by supporters: From November 7 to November 30, his election campaign received 13 lakh 31 thousand 557 taka in bank account; 1 lakh 98 thousand 989 taka in bKash; 6 thousand 28 taka in cash; 3 thousand 838 taka in Rocket. In total, a total of 15 lakh 40 thousand 412 taka has been deposited. After the election, the full account, including bank statements, will be published, maintaining the confidentiality of donors."

"...This fascism was born by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the greatest Bengali of a thousand years."

"Awami League, killer league, millitant-terrorist League, their birth in India will also be in India. This is why our language has become bad, looking at the blood of July, there is no such disgusting language, people did not apply it to Sheikh Hasina. Because the abuse of the oppressed against the mass murderer has become his epic. Now again some intellectuals are standing up, you slang them, then what will we give them, kiss? Bring me Hasina, we will give her a kiss.. Bustard.. Now our boys who are giving the f*ckin' slangs with her like chudling pong fong, by saying naraye takbir, she is supposed to slang them, but she is not giving it, she is not supposed to be that good at this age.. how strange it is..."

"I have slanged many times, I will not do it again, I repent, I want to leave, I have a son of my own, now there is an age coming, there is a stage of slang, but even if I don't give in, now there is a stage where not giving slang becomes a sin..."

"We don't slang, no, we do slang. Now who do we slang, that is the fact. Now suppose, you are leaving here for home. So, sitting in front of you, you saw a lady sitting in front of you being robbed by a robber holding a knife to her and taking all her belongings, or while trying to protect her, the child in her lap is about to fall and die, then if you have the least courage and strength, you will chase him even at the risk. Now, while chasing him, will you say to him in the formal wordy language like "Oh good boy, stop please" or will you slang him? The fact is, slang has been and will continue to be in society. But the slang that can be given to a mass murderer, who shoots a 6-year-old child from a helicopter and rips out her liver, then you will not necessarily give this slang to anyone else."

"The nature of Awami League is that it kills whoever loves it. Ziaur Rahman allowed Sheikh Hasina to return, whatever happening, let her come and atleast do politics, he was martyred after 13 days. We are in the same situation. So this is a poison. We have to create a national consensus on how to fight this poison. So I am telling you, do not corner BNP 100 percent. BNP is a big force for us in this fight against hegemony. This force cannot be cornered so much that they grab the hand of Awami League. If they grab the hand of Awami League, then the fight will become more difficult for us. Rather, our challenge to BNP is that any BNP that shows love for the BAKSALi constitution should be held up the picture of martyr Zia in front of it, that Ziaur Rahman himself had thrown away this BAKSALi constitution! Begum Zia said that this constitution will be thrown away, but Oh my God! What we are seeing now? A strange paradox! Now a new BNP is coming, better than Begum Zia! A BNP with more love! What an irony!"

"If you don't know your enemy, then how will you fight the enemy on the battlefield? One hundred persons, skilled, is better than a million such people. Do we have such a person here? Who can give a 3-minute speech in Arabic or English for Al Jazeera or CNN?"

"Death is decided not on the ground, but in the sky."

"We will give our life, but we will not give July."

"These so called people of civil society should be fed to the crows by tearing their ugly thing."

"Come to the country, appeal, we want to do justice to the enemy too. Many political parties have been persecuted in Bangladesh before, no one has left the country and fled to India like you (Sheikh Hasina)."

"The people of this country want Zakir Naik, invite him, and they that he should be handed over to India; after 15 years of hiding and murder, the murderer (Sheikh Hasina) go to sleep in India, but they don't return the murderer, while they ask us to hand Zakir Naik over to them, what a shame, what a third-class state!"

"18 November 2025,"

"Sajeeb Wazed Joy should be fired and his eyes should be opened and his hands should be touched, let him see what kind of bloodshed happens in the heart of a mother when she plucks out her child's eyes. This procession goes to Karwan Bazar and says Joy and goes to Jatrabari and says Bangla. Sajeeb Wazed Joy, it's not even right to call it a name, its name is Autistic Joy."

"Ponderalo (Ponder (anus) + Alo, a sarcastic name for Prothom Alo) calls it a 'movement' in July. If it calls it a 'mass uprising', Delhi will stop all Dhonesan (Dhon (slang for penis) + Ashan, a sarcastic pronunciation of donation)."

"I have no problem with Chanchal Chowdhury's acting talent, he and artists like him always say, we don't understand politics; but artists like him have come under the apolitical banner and have been politically defending and supporting the fascist power day after day, he holds a procession of treason in front of Khaleda Zia's sand truck, but he cannot see Hasina's three-time farce election without an opposition party."

"The story we heard from our fathers is that the Muslims said, "We will not let them go here and beat the drums during prayers while they are on our necks." The Hindus told E.H. Brandy in English, "They said, 'We will throw our necks away.'" Brandy then ordered the Gurkha soldiers to shoot. Immediately, 19 Muslims were martyred. Sher-e-Bangla then came here and dismissed Brandy, wanted to give land to the families of the martyrs, renamed the Kulkathi area as Shaheediya and built a school and a madrasa called Shaheediya, which still exists... My father said, "If you want to study in a university and become educated and work as mediators for those Muslims who did not know English and were given their statements to the British by the Hindus because they misinterpreted them, then I am willing to allow you to take the entrance examination." After I got admitted to Dhaka University, I was reading Abul Mansur Ahmed's book 50 Years of Politics in the library and saw that this incident was also briefly mentioned at the beginning."

"Tear me apart, vulture: "O vulture of the border, tear me apart at once, O eagle of the Atlantic, soon devour me, O hawk of Baikal Lake, scratch and bite me to pieces. There is only helplessness and poverty in my blood; The paper moths call inflation with affection. My molecules are turning blue under the pressure of debt, my heart is bleeding internally to run the family, what a wonder, yet I am not dying! On the other hand, I do not dare to commit suicide for fear of hell! I told God, I want to die, He said, who said you are alive? The king has mummified you as a witness to millennia of development. If you sigh in the market, the state is greatly disgraced. The king is also very upset. The police have issued an order, I have to laugh all the time! Otherwise, local dogs and foreign cats will be fed with my meat. They don't like the intestines of broilers every day! Or I will be sold in parts, even humans can eat humans, right? Luckily, it won't be sold in foreign supermarkets, local humans have more right to eat me! When this hell is the fate, then I am calling the best carnivorous creatures in the world. O eagles, hawks and terrible hawks, O brave imperialist vultures, you like F-35s and MiG-29s - gather in a group and attack my chest; my thighs, thighs, eyes, liver - today they are all your booty; before the local pigs eat me, tear me to pieces as you wish! For heaven's sake, don't just eat my brain. Then you too will soon become slaves."

"You may be able to survive against the League. But you will not be able to survive against Shahbag! Shahbag state is stronger than the whole of Bangladesh!"

"If you want to protect the border, make weapons even if you eat grass, Bangladesh!"

"This attack is not only on Hadi, this attack is on the existence of whole Bangladesh. Young people like Hadi, who are outspoken, honest, uncompromising, and completely indifferent to personal interests, are the biggest threat to the return of the defeated fascist force. That's why they are dying to terminate these youths before election."

"...Considering all these conditions, We hope that Allah will accept Sharif Usman Hadi brother as a martyr."

"He (Hasnat Abdullah) is the next after Hadi! Strong Warning Issued to India Over Northeast Region: "'Seven Sisters' will be separated from India." - Hasnat Abdullah (NCP)"

"Neck! No headshot (like Osman Hadi). Silence him first! Will also take care of small errors. #UnknownGunmen."

"Don't be greedy. Money will come today, and will go away tomorrow. They gave 10 lakh taka to kill my gold (Hadi). Is this 10 lakh taka a lot? How long does it take to finish this 10 lakh taka?! I think even if a Bangladesh is given, my Osman will not come. This Osman will not be created! If you keep this Osman in yourself, you will have to keep both your intellect and the highway in your possession. Can't you?.. My Osman used to say that I want to create some boys and girls and leave them behind...."

"Hadi wanted a society where the people would make the leader of the parliament with their own money, and the leader would not become the leader of the parliament with his own money."

"Hadi doesn't seem like anything more to me than a very important 'guinea pig' at the moment. You doctors would cut open a cockroach's stomach and sew it back together. But Hadi might not be able to walk."

"This is a victory opening the gates of men’s hearts."

"I thought of thee, amid the thrusting of their spears, While the straight browned blades quenched their thirst in our blood— ... again and again we were on the verge of destruction; nor would God have delivered us save for some [future] duty."

"This Yemen is a treasure house...We conquered it, but up to this day we have had no return and no advantage from it. There have only been innumerable expenses, the sending out of troops...and expectations which did not produce what was hoped for in the end."

"Children are brought up in the way in which their elders were brought up."

"The sacred works [Koran, hadith, etc.] are full of passages referring to the jihad. Saladin was more assiduous and zealous in this than in anything else...Jihad and the suffering involved in it weighed heavily on his heart and his whole being in every limb; he spoke of nothing else, thought only about equipment for the fight, was interested only in those who had taken up arms, had little sympathy with anyone who spoke of anything else or encouraged any other activity."

"They advanced like men; like women they vanished."

"No scribe is known to have reached a position with regard to his master comparable to that achieved by al-Fāḍil with Saladin. It was said that the lands were not conquered by the armies of Saladin but by al-Fāḍil's pen."

"If I could choose to live in any woman’s shoes, it would be Apo Whang-Od. She’s an amazing symbol of cultural preservation. She’s an amazing symbol of ageism. She has been defying boundaries, stereotypes, and that is something that I have tried to inspire everybody around me as well, which is to own your unique story, own your traditions, love where you came from, love who you’re with, who you’re surrounded with. And truly, with that unique story, you can make your country proud. You can show the universe what your country has to offer. In my case, my love for my country can shake the whole universe as well."

"I think one of the worst impressions about me, especially in my career, is I had it easy."

"People don't know how hard I work behind the scenes. People don't know what I went through growing up. People think I'm a nepo baby because I have two prominent parents, but I have been independent since I was a teenager."

"I am just taking it day by day. People don't know I am drowning. [I am] very proud of where I am but I know that there is so much more that I could do."

"Always a 10, we always try to have a better year than the previous year. A lot of growth talaga (of course) and I'm excited to start anew."

"2023 was my most authentic year. Every year after that has just been a deeper version of that authenticity."