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“Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It…

— T. E. Lawrence

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is…

— T. E. Lawrence

Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is…

— T. E. Lawrence

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

The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill.

— Stephen Kinzer

“Talking of politics, I would like to reiterate that Arabs are people. By that I mean they are not merely an anonymous mass of…

— Albert Camus

They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of…

— Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

From before I was born, we Arabs have been caught between two forces that, seemingly, cannot be defeated: our ruthless dictators, who oppress and…

— Hisham Matar

“We became ruthless with the Arab,” a 1st Division soldier wrote. “If we found them where they were not to be, they were open…

— Rick Atkinson

“I spent hours apart by myself, taking stock of where I stood, mentally, on this my thirtieth birthday. It came to me queerly how,…

— Anonymous

You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince.

— Michael Scheuer

Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values.

— Saddam Hussein