"History laughs at both the victim and the…" — Mahmoud Darwish
"History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor."
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56 Quotes by Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish has 56 quotes on this site.
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Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance,
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One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.
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I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold
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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
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I wish I were a candle in the darkness.
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My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller
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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism,
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When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
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I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.
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I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very…
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We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
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Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?
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More Aggressor Quotes
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The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights.…
— Ronald Reagan
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity;…
— Thomas Aquinas
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war…
— Harold Lasswell
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Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.
— Saddam Hussein
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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars…
— Howard Zinn
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I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that,…
— Dominic Monaghan
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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world.…
— Mark Twain
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While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or…
— Benjamin Tucker
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