Arab Quotes · Page 3

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

— Noam Chomsky

My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.

— Federica Mogherini

What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

— William S. Burroughs

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

— Christopher Hitchens

The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

— Najib Razak

“From cradle to grave, Talal sprinted through life. I never did see a life extinguished so abruptly.”

— Zeina Kassem

You knew you were an Arab if your ride form the airport was two dozen people.

— Mohja Kahf

An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people…

— Ahmet Davutoglu

The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade between the Palestinian Authority and…

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a…

— Elliott Abrams

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much…

— William Odom

For so long, Arab culture has been misconceived by the western mindset as exotic, or more recently, as dangerous, so spaces like…

— Munira Mirza

Secretary Clinton and I have worked well together, but the Arab Spring is a different question... This administration, collectively, made some very…

— Jim Webb

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger…

— Jack Nicholson

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“I could only liken it to the strength of a wheat stalk, which when struck by a storm, bends to the ground,…

— Zeina Kassem

Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own…

— Elliott Abrams

Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp…

— Richard Engel

I try to be as specific as possible when saying 'Arab Muslims' because there are a lot of different Muslims. I've never…

— Ramy Youssef

I have a problem with the fact that when it's brought up, it's not really discussed. It's all that's brought up. So-and-so…

— Fady Joudah

“The colonialist's existence is so closely aligned with that of the colonized that he will never be able to overcome the argument…

— Albert Memmi

The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when…

— Amartya Sen

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Just because we got rid of the father of…

— Shereen El Feki

Matt Damon's anti-fracking diatribe was funded by the royal family of the United Arab Emirates.

— Ben Shapiro

There is no confidence in the Arab world today in the United States of America.

— John McCain

“For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.”

— Davis Bunn

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

— Carroll Quigley

The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.

— Mohammed Morsi

In general, the Arab world is an artistic hub that has such a variety, whether it be music, film, poetry.

— Ramy Youssef

I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.

— Spike Milligan

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world.

— Mona Eltahawy

The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.

— Fidel Castro

Hey, you know who I feel bad for? Arab-Americans who truly want to get into crop dusting.

— Brian Regan

The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

— L. Ron Hubbard

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

— Ahmed Ben Bella

I grew up with so much of the identity of being Muslim and being Arab tied around politics.

— Ramy Youssef

There's a myth that in Arab countries, they all like Palestinians. They don't. On the contrary.

— Frans Timmermans

Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.

— Richard Engel