Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam. — Tariq Ramadan
Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love — Rumi
Armenian is the language to speak with God. — Lord Byron
All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing. — Ibn Khaldun
I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items. — Emo Philips
I can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass. — Tyler Oakley
Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values. — Saddam Hussein
Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner. — Muhammad Ali
The hottest new programming language is English. — Andrej Karpathy
Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you. — Dane Rudhyar
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go. — Golda Meir
There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population. — Moshe Dayan
The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine. — Jimmy Carter
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other. — Steven Spielberg
We do not wish and do not need to expel Arabs and take their places. — David Ben-Gurion
Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches. — Ariel Sharon
Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs. — Sayings
To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in. — Charles Godfrey Leland
Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians? — Arthur Balfour
Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture. — Ali Mazrui
Arab Quotes
The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it. — Saddam Hussein
To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing. — George S. Patton
Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave. — Saddam Hussein
Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy. — Nizar Qabbani
And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners. — Alex Jones
The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans. — Ibn Khaldun
We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us... — Golda Meir
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
My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay. — Franz Liszt
The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state. — Hendrik Verwoerd
Arab World Quotes
My identity comprises more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalized world who speaks English, Arabic, and Urdu. — Maajid Nawaz
Today, the Muslim world is injured and corrupt. People who are the enemies of all Muslims are trying to cause disunity in the Islamic world by intensifying ethnic difference and separating people under names such as 'Shia and Sunni', 'Arabs and non-Arabs'. — Ali Khamenei
Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart. — Yasser Arafat
Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding. — Rick Larsen
Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion. — Natan Sharansky
Palestine must be built up without violating the legitimate interests of the Arabs.. Palestine is not Rhodesia... 600,0000 Arabs live there, who before the sense of justice of the world have exactly the same rights to their homes as we have to our National Home. — Chaim Weizmann
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition. — Naguib Mahfouz
If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world. — William Kristol
What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. — Marilyn Monroe
The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when a Princeton mathematician does an algorithm, he may not remember that "algorithm" derived from the name al-Khwarizmi, who is a ninth-century Arab mathematician. — Amartya Sen
Arabic Language Quotes
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity. — Amin Maalouf
Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom. — Umar
I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places. — Zaha Hadid
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe. — Samuel P. Huntington
It was an identity crisis. I was born and raised in France, but I never really felt French, so I needed to find something that I was more connected to. I used to go back to Tunisia every summer, but I was more into the language, my Arabic roots. — eL Seed
French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the UK may well prove to be a major asset in this effort. — David Graddol
Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home. — John Abizaid
Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English. — Amos Oz
I read nasheeds (Islamic songs) in English, in Arabic. I read nasheeds even in Bangla language. Now I don't just travel to meet people from my own country but people from the entire ummah. — Junaid Jamshed
Arab Spring Quotes
Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. — Eric Alterman
But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria. — Bashar al-Assad
Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it's in the Arab Spring, whether it's in Iraq or whether it's right here in the United States, means working cooperatively and interdependently with others. — Benjamin Barber
If you look not just at the Arab spring, but at what I call the youth spring that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that. — Shane Smith
The problem with what we call the 'Arab spring' is that these are very nationalistic experiences. Tunisians are concerned with Tunisia, Egyptians concerned with Egypt and so on. — Tariq Ramadan
The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring. — Paul Wolfowitz
From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it. — Dan Rather
No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one. — King Abdullah II
Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person. — Alaa Al Aswany
There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess. — Madeleine Albright
Arabian Quotes
I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all. — James Lovelock
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. — Gene Tierney
We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition. — Peter O'Toole
We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States. — Jay Inslee
In the world of animation, you can be anything you wanna be. If you're a fat woman, you can play a skinny princess. If you're short wimpy guy, you can play a tall gladiator. If you're a white man, you can play an Arabian prince. And if you're a black man, you can play a donkey or a zebra. — Chris Rock
Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality. — Armand Nassery
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth! — Nathaniel Parker Willis
Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like crystals growing, or minds changing, or leaves turning. The trick is to keep an eye peeled, so they don't slip by unappreciated. — Ken Kesey
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation. — Saadi Shirazi
We liberate our nation's heart inside of Indonesian independence!! Ibn Saud liberated Arabian's heart inside of Saudi Arabian independence one by one!! Stalin liberated Soviet-Russian's heart inside of Soviet one by one!! — Sukarno
Let me first tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the world says about Israel; it doesn't matter what they say about us anywhere else. The only thing that matters is that we can exist here on the land of our forefathers. And unless we show the Arabs that there is a high price to pay for murdering Jews, we won't survive. — David Ben-Gurion
The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
I do a real analysis of who actually owns things - it’s the British…the Dutch…then it’s the Arabs…then it’s the French…then it’s the Jews…and then, on down the line. — Alex Jones
Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd's flock. — Edward Said
We will not accept any...coexistence with Israel...Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel....The war with Israel is in effect since 1948. — Gamal Abdel Nasser
Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. — David Ben-Gurion
A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we smash the Arab Legion's strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight on, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo. — David Ben-Gurion
Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth. — Tom Lantos
It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews. — Albert Einstein
I do a real analysis of who actually owns things--it's the British . . . the Dutch . . .then it's the Arabs . . . then it's the French . . . then it's the Jews . . . and then, on down the line. — Alex Jones
Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith. — Anwar Sadat
In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity, and murder, and for good reason: the members were confirmed users of hashish, or marihuana, and it is from the Arabs' 'hashashin' that we have the English word 'assassin.' — Harry J. Anslinger
Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel. — Yasser Arafat
The Israelis feel threatened — not just by Iran’s potential to wipe out Israel with just one bomb, but because if Iran were to get the bomb, then the Arab countries, like Saudi Arabia, would probably panic and attempt to get their own as well. — Tim Marshall
By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand? — Golda Meir
These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame. — Thomas Carlyle
Groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIL have garnered what support they have partially because of the humiliation caused by colonialism and then the failure of pan-Arab nationalism — and to an extent the Arab nation state. — Tim Marshall
The United Arab Emirates with the help if God and the Spirit of the Union shall be in the hearts and minds of its people and will always remain the homeland of splendor and glory. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
The majority of the Jordanian population is now Palestinian; when the Israelis occupied the West Bank in 1967, many Palestinians fled to Jordan which was the only Arab state to grant them citizenship. — Tim Marshall
I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim. — Maya Angelou
If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel' — Benjamin Netanyahu
The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history. — Malcolm X
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home — Mahatma Gandhi
Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids. — Ilana Mercer
Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs. — Carroll Quigley
Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you. — Haj Amin al-Husseini
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