Afghanistan Quote by William E. Gladstone

The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let us not…

— Larry Heinemann

He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They…

— Therese of Lisieux

“He knows that had he been a young man himself he would not have stopped at Peshawar: he doesn’t know how he would have…

— Nadeem Aslam

Saying he is in Afghanistan in a spirit of brotherhood, we have also vowed that we will not allow each other's countries, ever, to…

— Pervez Musharraf

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

— Hamid Karzai

“I stood there with the rifle in my hands, that I first grasped the hallowness, the futility of the white man with his gun,…

— George Orwell

God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.

— Alexander the Great

I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their…

— Khaled Hosseini

“It is time we accept there’s no Cronkite moment for Afghanistan. Perhaps it's time we value the hearts and minds of our own over…

— Tiffany Madison

In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle…

— Khaled Hosseini

“marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“I sat against one of the house’s clay walls. The kinship I felt suddenly for the old land... it surprised me. I’d been gone…

— Khaled Hosseini