Best Taliban Quotations
124 Taliban quotes by 86 unique authors
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The Taliban is resilient.
— Leon Panetta
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Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against…
— John Podhoretz
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Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area.…
— Colin Powell
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We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country,…
— Colin Powell
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When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people.…
— Arundhati Roy
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
— Salman Rushdie
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state,…
— Salman Rushdie
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's…
— Malala Yousafzai
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living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts
— Kathy Lette
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A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and…
— Greg Mortenson
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[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the…
— Christopher Hitchens
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It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we…
— Arundhati Roy
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To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.…
— Arundhati Roy
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I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless…
— Meg Cabot
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Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons." Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head…
— Malala Yousafzai
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I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.
— Malala Yousafzai
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The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up.. not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship U.S.…
— Joe Biden
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The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well…
— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which…
— James G. Stavridis
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Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban…
— Teju Cole
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The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.
— Unknown Author
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In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the…
— Noam Chomsky
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The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in July 2001, which…
— Virginia Postrel
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Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American…
— William T. Vollmann
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I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.
— Malala Yousafzai
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