Quotes About Shia And Sunni

#1. Today, the Muslim world is injured and corrupt people who are the enemies of all Muslims are trying to cause disunity in the Islamic world by intensifying ethnic difference and separating people under names such as 'Shia and Sunni', 'Arabs and non Arabs'.

Ali Khamenei

#2. Just a few thousand Hezbollah fighters set two countries on fire all by themselves. Don't discount what bloody mayhem and hell a few thousand armed Druze, Christians, and Sunni can do if they decide to go hunting Shia in revenge for destroying their country.

Michael Totten

#3. There are some things that could hold it together, notably oil revenues. But at the moment, the much vaunted surge has had a measure of success primarily, to my mind, because Sunni and Shia Iraqis hate and fear each other more these days than they hate and fear the Americans.

Patrick Cockburn

#4. I don't care about the size of the roles, or how they're marketed or billed or anything like that. I would love to be a part of stories that tell us about where we've come from, where we are, where we're going - with great directors.

Matt Bomer

#5. I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

Simon Hoggart

#6. I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.

Warren Buffett

#7. Sooner or later, you've gotta sleep. Then I'll kill you." His laugh did not improve her mood at all.

Suzanne Wright

#8. I think indeed our response on counterinsurgency needs to be finely tuned to the needs of Afghanistan. This is not Iraq. We don't have a Sons of Iraq here. We don't have the same divisions here that we had between Sunni and Shia.

Rahm Emanuel

#9. To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have this we cannot change the regime.

Jalal Talabani

#10. Do not get attached to worldly things and pursuits. Be in the world, but do not let the world be in you.

Sathya Sai Baba

#11. The most complete gift of God is a life based on knowledge.

Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib

#12. The more we ignore Assad and negotiate an appeasement with Iran, the more Sunni and Shia extremists will multiply and flood Syria.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#13. Just as certain Cold War binaries were collapsing, new binaries of Sunni versus Shia or Arab versus Kurd were being created by the new occupation force. It's the corruption of that moment that I am really interested in.

Elliott Colla

#14. Shia phobia or Sunni phobia ... we never hear about this. They murder each other!

Manfred Gerstenfeld

#15. If the Sunni and Shia, or those nations that surround Saudi Arabia and those nations that gather around Tehran or Iran fight each other, that is the trigger that will bring about the War of Armageddon.

Louis Farrakhan

#16. There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. It doesn't work. It needs to break up into three parts.

John Kasich

#17. In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign on Russia, we can already see, after six months of fighting, that he has made one of the outstanding blunders in history.

Winston Churchill

#18. This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.

David Petraeus

#19. You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.

Rod Stewart

#20. Syria is a multi-confessional state: in addition to Sunni and Shia Muslims, there are Alawites, Orthodox and other Christian confessions, Druzes, and Kurds.

Sergei Lavrov

#21. I've lived in Egypt among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha'is and Sunni and Shia.

Nawal El Saadawi

#22. A Muslim just follows Allah. Sunni-Shiah? That's farga, the groups - Allah discourages this in the Quran, you know, never ever form the groups.

Michael Muhammad Knight

#23. You know, since the 6th century, Sunni and Shia have been fighting.

John Kasich

#24. I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.

Wale

#25. I came from a tough neighborhood. I used to be a 'dirty Greek.'

Telly Savalas

#26. Is there a downside to eating well and getting in shape?

Heidi Murkoff

#27. The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces.

Richard Dawkins

#28. Religious distinctions are deeply important for many of the problems in today's Middle East, particularly between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq.

Max Fisher