Arab Quotes · Page 4

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

— Mona Eltahawy

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

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

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

Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel'…

— Shereen El Feki

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab…

— Noam Chomsky

Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

Iran must stop meddling in the affairs of Arab countries, and we refuse to be taken by Iran to an axis against…

— Saad Hariri

Social change doesn't happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation.

— Shereen El Feki

It's normal; Arab women have always been very active at the forefront of culture - as film producers since the 1920s; as…

— Yasmine Hamdan

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I…

— Anthony Shadid

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

“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

“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

“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

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

— Elliott Abrams

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

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

— Ramy Youssef

[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

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

“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

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

“Our dead become the photographs and words we hang on the walls, but they also hang on the walls of our hearts,…

— Zeina Kassem