Arabia Quotes

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“But eyes couldn’t stay closed forever, unless one was dead. And the dead never dreamed.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Tell me, why do you hunt?"
"For my people. To feed them." Zafira said.
"No one can be that pure.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“No man can live this life and emerge unchanged. He will carry, however faint, the imprint of the desert, the brand which marks the nomad; and he will have within him the yearning to return, weak or insistent according to his nature. For this cruel land can cast a spell which no temperate clime can match.”
― Wilfred Thesiger

“When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear”
― S.F. Chandler, We the Great Are Misthought

“There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, “Who is here the sheykh?” he would answer him “I am he.”
― Charles Montagu Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta, Volume 1

“Yes. I'm an Israeli citizen living in a dream world; a Jewish princess in Arabia, I should have listened to my own children. For God’s sake. Egypt is not my country!”
― Linda Ruth Horowitz, While the Sands Whisper

“Descendants of de Clieu's original plant were also proliferating in the region, in Haiti, Cuba, Costa Rica, and Venezuela. Ultimately, Brazil became the world's dominant coffee supplier, leaving Arabia far behind.”
― Tom Standage, A History of the World in 6 Glasses

“نحن أمة أنتجتها العولمة فلا هوية لها ولا أخلاق و قريباً لن يكون لها دين ، حينها ستخرج من المعادلة و تشطب من الذاكرة فإما أن ترتضي أسيرة لأعدائها ، أو تكمل حياتها خلف الأسوار”
― محمد الكتبي

“Western notions of individual autonomy and rule of law simply do not apply in the desert. An attack on one tribesman is an attack on all, and in a landscape where a murderer can quickly and quietly slip away, it matters little whether the accused is guilty or innocent. His entire clan is held accountable for thar—retribution. The resulting skein of honor and revenge, so familiar in the modern Middle East, is eternal, seemingly without beginning and without end. When the first recourse of victims is to their cousins, and not to the police or to an independent judicial system, poverty and political instability are the usual outcomes.”
― William J. Bernstein, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

“In the fourteenth century, Arabs like IB had headed for the Sultanate of Delhi, drawn by its immense wealth. In the twentieth, however, the demographic tide had turned: the Gulf is now as much Indian as Arab.”
― Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

“- No tak. Z miłości. To współczuję. Jak miłość się skończy, zostaniesz z niczym - mówi na odchodnym. Nie zdążam zaprzeczyć. Dziewięć lat później przekonam się, że miała rację.”
― Agata Romaniuk, Z miłości? To współczuję. Opowieści z Omanu

“In Arabia - Arabia Desert - at the time of the prophet Muhammad, other prophets also preached: Maslama of the tribe of the Banu Hanifa in the Yamama, the very heart of Arabia; and Hanzala ibn Safwan; and Khalid ibn Sinan. Maslama's God was ar-Rahman, 'the Merciful'; today Muslims pray to Allah, ar-Rahman. Khalid ibn Sinan was sent to the tribe of 'Abs; for a time, he was followed, but then he was lost. Prophets are not always false simply because they are overtaken, and swallowed up, by history. Men of worth have always roamed the desert.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“Even in times of the most entrenched rationalism, there lives in every man a little Alexander who never managed to conquer his Eudaimon Arabia.”
― Thorkild Hansen, Arabia Felix The Danish Expedition