Abstraction Quote by Michel Aflaq

Traditionally Marxism attracts the oppressed. This, however, is not the case in the Arab nation... The socialist programs in Arab history did not always…

— Saddam Hussein

The Arab world had a big problem of frankly venal elites. That is why these revolutions happen, because people didn't think the opportunities were…

— Thomas Friedman

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private…

— T. E. Lawrence

And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

— Ward Churchill

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

It's about time that we as Arabs take things into our own hands and figure out our own future, rather than [keep depending] on…

— Marwan al-Muasher

I think we are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking…

— Tariq Ramadan

“For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.”

— Davis Bunn

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals.…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Any fourth grade history student knows socialism has failed in every country, at every time in history,

— Vladimir Putin