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Quotes by Algerian Authors
"From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so."
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."
"Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious."
"Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us."
"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."
"In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies."
"Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet."
"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden."
"Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice."
"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
"Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority."
"My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation."
"But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed."
"The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences."
"However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another."
"I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America."
"You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up."
"What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something."
"Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago."
"There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people."
"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."
"Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties."
"Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence."
"People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money."
"I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks."
"Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia."
"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."
"It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime."
"The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations."
"The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that."
"Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee."
"I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech."
"There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart."
"Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there."
"Afghanistan is a land-locked country."
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