Afghans Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Afghans excel at fighting Afghans. This is what Afghans do, even when they are not being invaded by foreign powers. They fight each other,…

— Phyllis Chesler

Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It's so challenging to live, and the people are so close among…

— Bill Murray

The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.

— Stephen Kinzer

Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that no leading…

— Stephen Kinzer

The bureaucratic culture that we [Afghanistan] have inherited is an obstacle. Hierarchies may be extremely efficient for dealing with certain events, but they are…

— Ashraf Ghani

“locals, build things, try to organize them against the Taliban. The other is our military”

— Raymond Hunter Pyle

“Take two Afghans who've never met, put them in a room for ten minutes, and they'll figure out how they're related.”

— Khaled Hosseini

A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

— Iqbal Quadir

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this…

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

— Hamid Karzai

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

— Maureen Dowd

We should remember that the Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Of course, many of them did support the Taliban. But you…

— Ahmed Rashid