Ghassan Kanafani Quotes

#1. If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

Ghassan Kanafani

#2. Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.

Ghassan Kanafani

#3. Why didn't you bang the sides of the tank? Why didn't you say anything?

Ghassan Kanafani

#4. You have something in this world, so stand for it.

Ghassan Kanafani

#5. The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.

Ghassan Kanafani

#6. Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution.

Ghassan Kanafani

#7. My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.

Ghassan Kanafani