"As long as the arabs fight tribe against……" — T.E. Lawrence
"As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel."
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T.E. Lawrence
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42 Quotes by T.E. Lawrence
T.E. Lawrence has 42 quotes on this site.
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Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.
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Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to…
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It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has…
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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
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Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting…
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To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.
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I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly,
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The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
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In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in…
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There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not…
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab…
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder…
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Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they…
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard…
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The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I…
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These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one…
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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know…
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I've made it clear, Madam President, that the war against terrorism is not a war against Muslims, nor is it…
— George W. Bush
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During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress…
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