“It was one of the reasons I came to love the Afghans. Friendship and loyalty mattered.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam. — Mohammed Omar Copy Share Image
The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“In Our Villages - You killed thousands by thousands, after each thousand, You are killing another one thousand.” — Abed Rahmani Copy Share Image
When windows shatter through a bomb, we will repair it next week because we are Afghans. That's the spirit. — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
“Take two Afghans who've never met, put them in a room for ten minutes, and they'll figure out how they're related.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they… — Abu Bakar Bashir Copy Share Image
To give you an idea how slowly we are leaving Afghanistan, Afghans don't refer to us anymore as 'infidel crusaders.' They refer… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If history is any guide, most Afghans would oppose an American invasion and fight the foreign occupiers, probably with substantial help from… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
They [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
While we can impart many of the tools of a nation to the Afghan people - economic development, the institutions of a… — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Afghans excel at fighting Afghans. This is what Afghans do, even when they are not being invaded by foreign powers. They fight… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
Obviously it is right that the Afghans take responsibility for their own future in the end, but they need to know and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“the gains of women in Afghanistan once again directly contributed to war, as their fate was mixed into the powder keg of… — Jenny Nordberg Copy Share Image
“Other Afghans from American, or from Europe," Amra says, "they come and take picture of her. They take video. They make promises.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that international development agencies could safely work… — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
If you take a look at Afghan history, usually they have united to defend against an outside enemy, and as soon as… — Lawrence Eagleburger Copy Share Image
Those who take to guns could do so due to deprivation, suppression, or historical legacy. The Afghans have lived through violence for… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past. — Sushmita Banerjee Copy Share Image
It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Theres no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets'… — Gary Goetzman Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower. — Abu Bakar Bashir Copy Share Image
The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those people can't find the United States… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
These guys that were standing up to fight, for the most part, had pride in their country, and they wanted to do… — Dakota Meyer Copy Share Image
“The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“She (Kamila Sidiqi) believes strongly that Afghans can shape their own future using business to create a healthy economy that offers opportunity… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
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