"I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the……" — Ahmed Ben Bella
"I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death."
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30 Quotes by Ahmed Ben Bella
Ahmed Ben Bella has 30 quotes on this site.
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Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
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Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with…
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Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain -…
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Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the…
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Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew…
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In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a…
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
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I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria;…
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I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only…
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I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the…
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is…
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So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart…
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You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn,…
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You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?
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A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill…
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If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the…
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Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war
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I ain't got time to bleed.
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For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where…
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It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when,…
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