Quotes for All
Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood… In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established. Gamal Abdel Nasser
At festivals there’s always one spectator from Egypt who says, ‘I like it, it moved me, reminds me of so many things.’ I get a lot of reaction from the Arab world at fests. But the percentage of people from the Arab world who like it should be the same as anywhere else. Eran Kolirin
Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle … Read more
[Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East – those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security. Edward Said
They [root causes of terror] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East – those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security. Edward Said
The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world. Fouad Ajami
Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me. Dominique de Villepin
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they refused to adopt the Arabic language, and it’s a great point of pride to them that Persian culture and the Persian language and Persian literature survived the conversion to Islam. And the conversion … Read more
We’ve got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we’re setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida. Chris Matthews
I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead… Education itself – which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people -sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour… It is therefore vital to ensure … Read more