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Quotes by Algerian Authors
"Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me."
"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."
"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."
"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
"Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious."
"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."
"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."
"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."
"But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan."
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."
"Afghanistan is a land-locked country."
"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."
"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."
"Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority."
"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."
"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."
"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."
"So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players."
"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot."
"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."
"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."
"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."
"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."
"I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America."
"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 words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences."
"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."
"Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there."
"The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years."
"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 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."
"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."
"These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt."
"We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs."
"Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee."
"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."
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