Ghassan Quotes

#1. Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome is an opportunity to fight your way to the stronger person you will become.

Reba Riley

#2. When the world is to come to it's final destruction the powerful will always reason of peaceful nuclear programs which in my own words is a shameful chapter to start when the world has already been destroyed.

Auliq Ice

#3. 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

#4. Mr. Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith's opposite.

John Irving

#5. I tend to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack.

Zach Galifianakis

#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. 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

#8. It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.

Gary Player

#9. I would like to be someone like Steve Martin. That's the path I'd like to follow.

Carrot Top

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

Ghassan Kanafani

#11. For when we read, don't we summon the past into the present? Hold out our hand and invite an author to sit with us for a time?

Ari Berk

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

Ghassan Kanafani

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

Ghassan Kanafani

#14. 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.

Libba Bray

#15. 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

#16. I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.

Katharine Hepburn

#17. My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#18. Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which turns into violence. International Solidarity Movement activists are attempting to confront the exploitation of power and to bring back hope to the powerless.

Ghassan Andoni