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Wadah Khanfar has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same…
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When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there,…
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better…
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The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing…
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Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are…
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The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the…
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had…
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The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots…
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The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went…
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and…
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At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers…
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We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera…
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules…
— Annie Besant
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but…
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America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping…
— Bill Bryson
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The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
— James Buchan
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We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation,…
— David Cameron
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Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
— Thomas Jefferson
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...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -…
— Yehudi Menuhin
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Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
— Vera Brittain
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look…
— Swami Vivekananda
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What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a…
— Carl Sagan
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