Christina Engela > Quotes

“Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise.”
― Christina Engela, Blachart

“Happy people make happy families.”
― Christina Engela, All That Remains

“It would seem that the right to equality and human rights is far more an exclusive thing than an inclusive thing.”
― Christina Engela, Black Sunrise

“Usually, people who ask ‘do you know who I am?’ don't have a clue themselves”
― Christina Engela, Pearls Before Swine

“Some mommies and daddies find it hard to accept
Kids who are different to the normal set.”
― Christina Engela, Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You

“I fail to see how somebody can hate me for 'what I do' and what I am without actually hating me as a person. That makes about as much sense as throwing the baby out with the bathwater - or gay man out the church door with his homosexuality.”
― Christina Engela, For Love of Leelah

“Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group - and their own.”
― Christina Engela, Blachart: Galaxii Series Book 1

“If you don't follow Christ or love others in the way Christ said, and let yourself be bogged down instead with fearfulness, hatred, violence and the persecution of others - HOW can you call yourself a 'Christian'?”
― Christina Engela, Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire

“Turning the other cheek only gets that slapped as well.”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“People attacking a group from outside will simply case that group to close ranks and unify and become even stronger - which in case they haven't noticed, is exactly what has happened with the pink community.”
― Christina Engela, For Love of Leelah

“You can only really appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down.”
― Christina Engela, Bugspray

“Vents were added to the rear bonnet in 1972 and resulted in wet engines and starting problems, and then extra drip-trays to compensate. From 1968 the Beetle got the right side fuel flap that dodgy people used to break open to steal your gas – or your fuel cap – another hard to find item if lost!”
― Christina Engela, Bugspray

“You cannot defend human rights without fighting religious fanatics - regardless of one's own religious experience - it is unavoidable. Why? Because they are the ones who take issue with how other people live their lives instead of minding their own business.”
― Christina Engela, Bugspray

“The simple truth of the matter is that people who complain about a peaceful parade which lasts at best one hour in a particular place - ONCE in a whole year - do so out of hatred and intolerance. it isn't just the parade, it is seeing gay and trans people in public - and gay and trans people BEING gay and trans in public. And that is the root of the problem - they HATE gay and trans people.”
― Christina Engela, Black Sunrise

“Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear.”
― Christina Engela, Blachart

“Swallowing, he entered the second code. Then there was a sound like a marble dropping on the floor - bouncing slowly, gradually getting faster as it dropped lower and lower… The thing was toying with him! Where was it? He strained his hearing, but all was again silent. He wanted to shout and scream obscenities at it, but he fought the impulse. It might not really know his location after all - and that would've led it right to him. It must be coming for him! It must be by the door by now, looking for a way in. Time was running out. He hastily keyed in the third and last code.
Death the destroyer never is late!”
― Christina Engela, Demonspawn

“Interestingly enough, every time I corner a homophobic religious fanatic bigot with scientific facts which they cannot argue or disprove, they either dismiss me as ‘anti-God’ and a ‘secular humanist’ or they start spouting reams of misapplied and irrelevant ‘scripture’ at me, like that will in any way, shape or form prove anything… Which just proves to me that common sense and actual reason doesn't come into it. Only very blind hatred.”
― Christina Engela, Pearls Before Swine

“isn't lying supposed to be a 'sin'? Or is it okay to lie when trying to make people you hate look bad?”
― Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency

“Irony: When those who call others a 'threat to Christianity' reject the crucial tenets of their own faith themselves.”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking statements is this: omelets do not come from chickens – it is eggs which come from chickens. Omelets on the other hand, are an entirely Human invention. Humans being here, the ‘middle man’ as it were.”
― Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency

“I don't think it matters so much who we love - what matters is that we love.”
― Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer

“Churches need to realize that they are houses OF God - and that they are NOT God.”
― Christina Engela, For Love of Leelah

“Money is not respect. Neither is power. And if people respect you for your money or your power, it isn't you they respect - but the money or the power.

When you win people over who hate you for what you are or what you believe, and they still come to you to make friends - or to ask you for counsel or assistance - that is respect - and that respect is power.”
― Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency

“The last week hadn’t been any better, come to think of it. On Monday they arrived at Gorda, just to find that the cargo of electronics he was to ship to Beowulf had been taken by another freighter for a lower fee. It took him until Wednesday before he found another cargo – which had to reach Earth by Saturday. The last straw was when his crew mutinied a day out of the Hermes system and demanded a pay increase. The union tended to call that sort of thing “collective bargaining”, not actually mutiny, but hey – the results are the same. He tended to favor the term “piracy”, but this wasn’t the high seas and out here, there were real pirates to worry about. His former crew had also wanted more time off and a better cook – at least one who knew how which end of a frying pan to hold. He was unable to comply, and so was forced to stop at Beowulf anyway. That was the last time he saw them. Fortunately for him, Weaver, Fuller and Jang opted to stay with him. Whether it was out of loyalty, or perhaps just convenience, he never knew.”
― Christina Engela, Blachart

“I can't imagine why a media company views a law preventing the commission of hate speech as a restriction on media freedom, but it is probably similar to how some religious folk view hate speech as being essential to religious freedom.”
― Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency

“Who is the more courageous? The macho gay-basher who roars their hatred, or the gay or trans person who faces threats of violence and harm on a daily basis, and carries on being honest about who they are regardless?”
― Christina Engela, Pearls Before Swine

“I believe most people are good, even if only deep down – and even if you have to dig a little. Some people tempt me to pick up a shovel and actually find out”
― Christina Engela, Pearls Before Swine

“It is interesting indeed that some people think they are right to force others into believing what they believe.”
― Christina Engela, Blachart

“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, All That Remains

“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, Bugspray