Quotes About Pashtuns

#1. This advice, although good, was totally inapplicable to my case.

Mary Shelley

#2. It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns, where desertification proceeds at a steady, implacable crawl even in the consciences and intellects of men.

Yasmina Khadra

#3. Pashtuns are famously independent, primed to exchange their hoes for weapons at the first sign of an affront or invader.

Douglas Wissing

#4. We Pashtuns are split between Pakistan and Afghanistan and don't really recognize the border that the British drew more than 100 years ago.

Malala Yousafzai

#5. I don't really want to get married. I've got my career, my friends - my life is very, very full. It's nice to go out to dinner with a man and have fun, but I wouldn't rush into anything because I don't think it's right to bring another man into the house with my four children.

Jerry Hall

#6. My father wanted us to be inspired by our great hero, but in a manner fit for our times - with pens, not swords. Just as Khattak had wanted the Pashtuns to unite against a foreign enemy, so we needed to unite against ignorance.

Malala Yousafzai

#7. I could see clearly that this growing belligerence was an aberration, coming not from intention, but from the Fear.

James Redfield

#8. [Rahmat Shah Sayel] described what was happening in Afghanistan as a 'war between two elephants' -the US and the Soviet Union- not our war, and said that we Pashtuns were 'like the grass crushed by the hooves of two fierce beasts

Malala Yousafzai

#9. It is true that we are interested in scale but there are very sound reasons for this.

Lakshmi Mittal

#10. We Pashtuns love shoes but don't love the cobbler; we love our scarves and blankets but do not respect the weaver. Manual workers made a great contribution to our society but received no recognition, and this is the reason so many of them joined the Taliban - to finally achieve status and power.

Malala Yousafzai

#11. We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

Tess Gerritsen

#12. Love is a process in which ego is lost and infinity is experienced.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#13. As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.

Stephen Kinzer