"Were there peace and justice in the Middle……" — James Buchan
"Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes."
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James Buchan
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65 Quotes by James Buchan
James Buchan has 65 quotes on this site.
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Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.
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A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as…
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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a…
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Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
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Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none…
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Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control…
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Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit…
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there…
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All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.
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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
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More Arabs Quotes
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
— Bashar al-Assad
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As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not…
— Roseanne Barr
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab…
— Theodore Bikel
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder…
— Conrad Black
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard…
— Adolf Hitler
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The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I…
— George S. Patton
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These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know…
— June Jordan
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I've made it clear, Madam President, that the war against terrorism is not a war against Muslims, nor is it…
— George W. Bush
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As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people,…
— T.E. Lawrence
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During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress…
— Unknown Author
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