Syrian War Quotes

“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.”
― Aberjhani, The American Poet Who Went Home Again

“Refugees are not like you and me. They are you and me. That terrible river of the wretched and damned flowing through Europe is my family. And there is no time in the future in which they might be helped. The only time we have is now.”
― Richard Flanagan, Notes on an Exodus

“I propose that we change its abbreviation from ISIL or ISIS into a new name that contains the initial letters of each country or lobby that contributed to its existence.”
― Louis Yako

“At times it seems as if the whole world has become a refugee and the few of us, who are privileged enough to wake up to the sound of an alarm clock instead of a siren, those of us who are enveloped by a veil of safety many of us fail to appreciate, have become desensitised to the migrating numbers, to the images of the dead, shrugging them away as a collective misery that this ailing part of the world must endure.”
― Aysha Taryam

“The most important thing is our dignity. If we have that we can survive on bread and water.”
― Richard Flanagan, Notes on an Exodus

“Meaning of the "White House" to the war victim children of Syria or Palestine is nothing but just a white-painted house. Perhaps, they imagine Casper lives there...or maybe some dead people. They really don't have time to think about it. Because they are busy discovering their own bloody limbs along with their parents' dead bodies from the ashes of their burnt homes.”
― Munia Khan

“الصراع في سورية ليس بين أغلبية (تُصنف أنها سُنيّة) وأقلية (هي العلوية)، لم يكن كذلك منذ البداية، ولم يصبح كذلك، ولن يكون كذلك. وبالتالي، مهما فعلت السلطة، ومهما كانت ردة فعل العلويين، يجب الانطلاق، في كل تحليل وموقف، من أن الصراع هو صراع الشعب (بكل تكوينه) ضد السلطة الناهبة والمستبدة. وأي موقف يتجاوز ذلك سيكون خروجاً عن الثورة، والتحوّل إلى استثارة الصراع الغريزي (الأعمى) ضد السلطة، بغض النظر عن نتائجه.

السلطة ليست طائفية، وهذا ليس تبريراً لها، لأنها أسوأ من ذلك، هي سلطة مافيا وحشية. ولا شك في أنها عملت على استثارة غريزة الطائفة، لكي تستغلها في دفاعها هي عن سلطتها، بعد أن كانت قد استغلت فقرها، واضطهادها التاريخي، لكي تحوّلها إلى أداة في بنية سلطتها. وبالتأكيد، استغلت "المشاعر الطائفية". لكن الهدف ليس الطائفة، بل حماية السلطة التي نهبت المجتمع، كل المجتمع، بما في ذلك الساحل.”
― سلامة كيلة, التراجيديا السورية الثورة وأعداؤها

“One small boy jumps over a table, pulls his jumper and shirt up, and turns his back to us to show where shrapnel wounded him when he was three. His classmates shriek with laughter.”
― Richard Flanagan, Notes on an Exodus

“Syria has long been on the ‘axis of evil’ list and a pretext to intervene militarily in that country, without causing public outrage like that caused in Iraq and Afghanistan, had to be manufactured. If a reason for military action in Syria didn’t exist, it had to be invented.”
― Louis Yako

“Freedom is meant for all, but earned by those who are willing to rise above the darkness of fear and indignity...”
― Husam Wafaei, Honourable Defection

“To all those who were born without homes, lived without names, and died without graves.
And to those who were born twice, died several times, but are still alive.”
― Hasan Almossa, I Was Born Twice: Stories of Syria's Tears