Arab Quotes · Page 2

I'm very much an Arab, although I need to practise my Arabic more.

— Sami Zayn

We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters

— Yitzhak Rabin

I may be born in the U.K., but nobody takes away from the fact that I'm an Arab, and I'm proud to…

— Naseem Hamed

Toward the Palestinians, Israel can only give. But when dealing with the entire Arab world, Israel can get a lot.

— Ehud Barak

You can’t teach a monkey to speak and you can’t teach an Arab to be democratic,

— Moshe Feiglin

Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

— Wadah Khanfar

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

— Dominique de Villepin

Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.

— Hisham Melhem

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.

— Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

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

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

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

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

— Munira Mirza

The Arab soul is broken by poverty, unemployment, and general recession. The Tunisian revolution is not far from us. The Arab citizen…

— Amr Moussa

When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It…

— Wadah Khanfar

We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor…

— Ahad Ha'am

The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went…

— Wadah Khanfar

Arab Israelis don't have the same voice as Jewish Israelis. If you look at the numbers, we are not equal. There are…

— Nuseir Yassin

“By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was…

— Jim Al-Khalili

4Shbab has been dubbed Islamic MTV. Its creator, who is an Egyptian TV producer called Ahmed Abu Haiba, wants young people to…

— Shereen El Feki

We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against…

— Mordechai Vanunu

“The loneliness of the arab is a terrible thing; it is all consuming. It is already present like a little shadow under…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

— Anonymous

Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.

— Jehane Noujaim

Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.

— Jalal Talabani

I have been to Burj-Al-Arab. And I visit Dubai quite often, I really like the place.

— Neha Dhupia

It is not necessary to agree with the Arab point of view about their own history, but it is foolish to ignore…

— Michael Korda

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.

— Noam Chomsky

I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

— Tahar Rahim

Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace] with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country.

— David Ben-Gurion

“if an arab girl caves into the forest of her body is she the tree or the ax or is she the…

— Jess Rizkallah

I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Too many have rushed in to explain the Arab world to itself.

— Mona Eltahawy

What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.

— Elliott Abrams

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