Arab Quotes · Page 3

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

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

— Fidel Castro

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

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

— Spike Milligan

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

— Ramy Youssef

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

— Carroll Quigley

In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab…

— Noam Chomsky

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

“One time her father told her Shakespeare was really an Arab. 'Just look at his name: It's an Anglicization of Sheikh Zubayr,'…

— 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

It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who…

— Tina Brown

My dad is Arab. I'm not Muslim, but half of family is, so I see a lot of injustice happening in the…

— Lexi Alexander

Many Muslims consider the United States hostile to Islam and to Arab interests. In fact, the United States saved tens of thousands…

— Antony Blinken

Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each…

— Elliott Abrams

“You are insistent, calling again. You want me to tell you the story of Scheherazade, who rocks the sad king on her…

— Liana Badr

Why should not our furniture be as simple as the Arab's or the Indian's? When I think of the benefactors of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Grief is shameless; it refuses to be ignored. If you let it have its way, it becomes fatal. If you try to…

— Zeina Kassem

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their…

— T. E. Lawrence

“I want to see a flowering of Arab and Jewish cultures in a country without racism or anti-Semitism, without rich or poor…

— Aurora Levins Morales

“I am from Lebanon, from Beirut and Saida I am from the ground underneath my home I am from the trees, the…

— Talal Kassem Zeina Kassem

Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted…

— Tahar Rahim

“Arab expansions under the impulse of the Mohammedan religion finally tore away all the eastern and southern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea,…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

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

— Mohammed Morsi

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

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

— Ben Shapiro

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

— Mohja Kahf

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

— Zeina Kassem

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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

— Federica Mogherini

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Najib Razak

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

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

— William S. Burroughs

Offering democracy to an Arab is like bringing a horse to a steakhouse.

— Jeff Cooper

Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.

— Paul Weyrich

The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

— Ban Ki-moon

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

— Zubin Mehta