Democracy Quote by Yasser Arafat

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 Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.

— David Ben-Gurion

“I am as confident that all the elements needed in a distinguished Arab development process are available, as I am about the ability of…

— Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge, while standing behind us…

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is…

— Wadah Khanfar

The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its…

— Mahmoud Darwish

The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.

— Fouad Ajami

Ever since our country came into existence, we have always assumed that we are better than the Arabs. But we are noticing that these…

— Tom Segev

We believe that the Arab world has been there for centuries, and thousands of years, and it'll keep on continuing being there. All we…

— Saad Hariri

We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what…

— Ahad Ha'am

I am patient and am waiting for a profound revolution in the consciousness of the Israelis. The Arabs are ready to accept a strong…

— Mahmoud Darwish

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