Arab world Quote by Thomas Friedman

The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“At various times during the 1950's and 1960's attempts were made by leaders in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria to unite as a single…

— Alistair MacLean

The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.

— Mohammed Morsi

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

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a…

— Adel al-Jubeir

Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That's what the Arab Spring was about, but the problem comes in trying…

— Cat Stevens

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

For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the…

— Elliott Abrams

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

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

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and…

— Alexander Haig

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