Arab Quotes · Page 3

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

— Ahmed Ben Bella

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— Brian Regan

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

— Ramy Youssef

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

— Richard Engel

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

— Frans Timmermans

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

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

— William Odom

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

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

— Jim Webb

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

— Munira Mirza

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'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really…

— Danielle Arbid

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

“It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try…

— Zeina Kassem

“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

For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts…

— Elliott Abrams

“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

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

— Liana Badr

“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

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

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military…

— Edward Said

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

— Spike Milligan

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

— Fidel Castro

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

— Ben Shapiro

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

— Davis Bunn

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

— John McCain

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

— Mohammed Morsi

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

— Carroll Quigley

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

— Ramy Youssef

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

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

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

“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