Cases Quote by Saddam Hussein

We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the…

— Michel Aflaq

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

Successful nations make a point of trying to learn from their neighbors. The Arab world has been taught over generations only to hate theirs.

— Bret Stephens

“All these complexities are lost on many commentators, often the same ones who would single out the Arabs for being Arabs; now there is…

— Jean-Pierre Filiu

The Arab soul is broken by poverty, unemployment, and general recession. The Tunisian revolution is not far from us. The Arab citizen entered an…

— Amr Moussa

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

Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.

— Yair Lapid

What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

— James Surowiecki

“From the eighth or ninth centuries, Muslim Arabs have been politically dominant in the Islamic world and have grown accustomed to that position; the…

— Benny Morris

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

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun