People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“A novel related in a dungeon, in the presence of death, cannot have the same meaning, the same consequences, as it would when read… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“Man is more noble dead than alive, because in returning to the earth he becomes earth, and nothing is nobler than the earth that… — Tahar ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
