Ibrahim Quotes

Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?' ~ Mo Ibrahim

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief. ~ Ibrahim Babangida

Cort Lindahl discovered that the Great Pyramid [points to] Mecca and wrote about it in his books. And I hereby shed more light onto that by revealing that it even points to almost the same direction which the Black Stone points at! The Black Stone is located at the Kaaba's eastern corner; the corner from which the rotation of the pilgrimage around the Kaaba starts. It is as if the facade in front of the low wall of the Kaaba were pointing to the Great Pyramid's direction, or more accurately, the Great Pyramid does indeed point at the exact direction by which the Kaaba was mounted. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

Governance is everything. Without governance we have nothing ~ Mo Ibrahim

Momo: [reading Ibrahim's will] This is my will and testament. I, Ibrahim Demirdji, hereby leave all my goods to Moses Schmitt, my son Momo because he chose me as his father and because I've given him everything I've learned in this life. Now you too will know what's in my Koran, Momo. It's all there is to know. ~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Some people imagine that by returning to tradition, you will renew it. This is not true, for by returning to tradition, you renew nothing. But by setting out from it and adding to it, you renew its power, because only by addition can you prepare the future path for the living sap within it. ~ Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

War, is the emancipation of man; abortion, is the emancipation of woman. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

Taking the path with the least resistance does NOT mean take any opportunity that comes to you. Some opportunities are traps! ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

It is therefore clear that the five perceptions (i.e., the five senses) just like the other kinds of perceptual powers manifest the Divine Identity, which is the First Beloved and the Perfect Goal of man. Asf r, I, 1, p. 118 ~ Ibrahim Kalin

Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward. ~ Mo Ibrahim

The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated guys - the Germans and Japan - were out. The occupied countries had no voice. That was fine in '45, but today, Germany rules Europe, frankly. They are driving Europe but have no voice. ~ Mo Ibrahim

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. ~ Mo Ibrahim

Ibrahim feels an overwhelming desire for her, for the soft of her body, the warmth of it. This urge silences the other voice in his mind, the one that asks insistently, and seeks, and seeks. ~ Parnaz Foroutan

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure. ~ Ibrahim Babangida

Don't let western authors and evangelists fool you, Europeans were NOT killing witches; they were killing WOMEN. If the criminal act was allegedly that of sorcery/witchery, we would have seen similar accounts and charges against men to justify these narratives! They were indeed killing the WOMEN. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail. ~ Mo Ibrahim

Knowledge evolves, understanding matures and wisdom progresses. Don't be so hung up on what you think you know. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

Numbers speak, drawings visualize. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

People never confess to failure. They should. ~ Mo Ibrahim

If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it. ~ Mo Ibrahim

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values. ~ Ibrahim Babangida

It's not insane to imagine that sometimes even horrible people are searching for a way out of their own darkness. ~ Tahereh Mafi

All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is. ~ Mo Ibrahim

Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers. ~ Ibrahim Rugova

I built Kosovo for 10 years. ~ Ibrahim Rugova

Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa or is going back to Africa. ~ Mo Ibrahim

First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry. ~ Ibrahim Rugova

To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa. ~ Mo Ibrahim

In ancient Egypt, PI was the Giza Plateau Constant (GPC) that was defined using the two equinoxes. It originally was a temporal invariant, and not a spatial one. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

Haven't you ever thought of living
unconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth,
close to pears and the mossy dark,
far from human voices and fire?

- On İbrahim Balaban's Painting "Spring" ~ Nâzım Hikmet Ran

True love is like wine, it gets stronger with age. ~ Farid F. Ibrahim

Roma are defined (by Europeans) as the Indian Gypsies; and Jews are defined (by Semites) as the European and Russian Gypsies. Both are treated as illegal immigrants, however, The Lord has His own equation and judgement. And only Caesar is foolish enough to dare and confront it. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions. ~ Ibrahim Babangida

The ancient Egyptian calendar is Precessionally Sexagesimal (Besides being theologically/decanally decimal). That means that the toggling between its "enhanced" Civil Calendar (i.e., 365 days yearly) and the geometrical Original Calendar (i.e., 360 days yearly) is based on the precession of the equinoxes (rather than being solely anchored in the solar system); where 148 squared over 365 equals to 60; and 148 multiples of 360 over 365 equals to the height of the Great Pyramid. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization. ~ Ibrahim Rugova

The Aryan Psyche has been abstractly split into an indivisible duality: One that inheriting(ly) basks in Mother Nature and another that plagiaristically aches towards a Semitic heavenly father. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there. ~ Mo Ibrahim

GOD made you a masterpiece, stop treating yourself like a shattered piece. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

Then Mattie journeyed away from her home toward freedom and her family, leaving behind the bones of generations of her ancestors and their captors ~ Laila Ibrahim

Expectation is faith in motion: you expect the things you hope for to happen. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. ~ Ibrahim Babangida

Time has scratched its mark all over the Giza Plateau! ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet. ~ Fawzi Ibrahim

You won't get perfect by beating yourself up; you'll only get dented. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

Prior to modern times, the term 'Islamic' (Islami in Arabic) was almost never used to define the provenance, status, or substance of things. There was no such thing as 'Islamic art', 'Islamic economics', or even 'Islamic law.' ... The encounter with the modern West, however, ultimately changed the status of 'Islamic.' Inasmuch as the rise of the West converted the achievements of Darwin, Descartes, and Hegel from mere English, French, or German achievements into explicitly 'Western' ones, it also engendered the need for a parallel convention for demarcating the non-Western 'other.' The Western provenance of the modern neologism 'Islamic' is perhaps best revealed in its tendency to connote geography and ethnicity. 'Islamic', in other words, connotes not simply that which is related to or a product of Islam as a religion but that which relates to a particularly non-European people in a non-European part of the world. In this capacity, it carries both a descriptive and a prescriptive force... For no modern Muslim nor non-Muslim would include the likes of such Arab Christians as Michel Aflaq or San' Allah Ibrahim among the 'thinkers of Islam.' Rather, in Western parlance, the modern 'Islamic' began as an instrument to demarcate the boundary between the west and a particular set of 'others.' In Muslim hands, it would go on to evolve into a full-blown signifier of normative Islam and a tool for delineating the boundary between it and Islam. Its added utility, moreover, as a mechani ~ Sherman A. Jackson

The Word of God is not divine, it is an attribute of The Divine. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

If man conceptually gives people the freedom to make their own choices (without transgressing the limits of their own boundaries into the domains of the others) alongside leaving them to decide the adequate paces of these journeys, then she/he can guarantee the threads of this methodology to eventually converge at The Lord's Law. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

When facts give way to faith, then and only then do you unlock the possibilities within. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education. ~ Mo Ibrahim

Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one. ~ Mo Ibrahim

Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul. ~ Wim Wenders

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people. ~ Ibrahim Babangida

Life is depend on luck
And luck depends on you ~ Heaven Ibrahim Khan

Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool. ~ Mo Ibrahim

I never saw my mother again, but I carried her with me always. ~ Laila Ibrahim

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies. ~ Ibrahim Babangida

When you can share the lessons you learnt through tears and heartache and others find life in it and are better off for it, then beauty has come out of those ashes. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society. ~ Mo Ibrahim

For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come. ~ Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

Own your mistakes, learn from them; apologize if you have to, and then, be unapologetically you. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem. ~ Mo Ibrahim

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves. ~ Abdullah Ibrahim

The least we can say about the Great Pyramid of Giza is that it certainly was an observatory of the heavens. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

Pray for me and I am blessed today, teach me to pray and I will see you in heaven ~ Farid F. Ibrahim

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein. ~ Mo Ibrahim

We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency. ~ Mo Ibrahim

Christians are free to serve and obey God since they are loved, justified, redeemed, reconciled, forgiven, saved, and sustained to the end! ~ Ibrahim Emile

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints. ~ Mo Ibrahim

There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people. ~ Mo Ibrahim

Psalm 29:10 is another reminiscent literary reference to the ancient Egyptian heritage of the Jews' cow-worship faith ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had for breakfast. There was no real media. ~ Mo Ibrahim

It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there will be some type of opposition, when you scratch the surface, often there is a tremendous level of bigotry and stereotyping in the opposition. ~ Ibrahim Hooper

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized. ~ Ibrahim Rugova

Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend. ~ Ibrahim Babangida

They say: Philosopher's Stone; I hear: Lot's Wife! ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

As impossible as it may sound, but the CEC uses a calibration gear of 1,000 teeth to project a one day's measure of time (PI) onto a right triangle alongside the speed of light value (x=2.99792458) while uttering thereby the time it takes light to reach Earth coming from the Sun (8.3 minutes). ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen. ~ Mo Ibrahim

Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity. ~ Mo Ibrahim

As explained above, those who believe in the theory of
evolution think that a few atoms and molecules thrown into
a huge vat could produce thinking, reasoning professors
and university students; such scientists as Einstein and
Galileo; such artists as Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra
and Luciano Pavarotti; as well as antelopes, lemon trees,
and carnations. Moreover, as the scientists and professors
who believe in this nonsense are educated people, it is
quite justifiable to speak of this theory as "the most potent
spell in history." Never before has any other belief or idea
so taken away peoples' powers of reason, refused to allow
them to think intelligently and logically, and hidden the
truth from them as if they had been blindfolded. This is an
even worse and unbelievable blindness than the totem
worship in some parts of Africa, the people of Saba worshipping
the Sun, the tribe of Prophet Ibrahim (as) worshipping
idols they had made with their own hands, or the
people of Prophet Musa (as) worshipping the Golden Calf.

In fact, Allah has pointed to this lack of reason in the
Qur'an. In many verses, He reveals that some peoples'
minds will be closed and that they will be powerless to see
the truth. Some of these verses are as follows:
As for those who do not believe, it makes no difference
to them whether you warn them or do not warn them,
they will not ~ Harun Yahya

I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office. ~ Mo Ibrahim

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject. ~ Ibrahim Babangida

Do not allow a gentleman to overhear you speaking about courtship, literature, or politics. ~ Laila Ibrahim

The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration. ~ Mo Ibrahim

To summarize all of this, we have the following: (1) Archaeologists discovered 7 pits for boats around the Great Pyramid. (2) The longest of which is 44 meters; it is called the solar barque. (3) That boat (hypothetically speaking) needs [230/44]*4 steps to complete one single rotation (which looks like a square around the pyramid). (4) It therefore covers a distance which equals to the pyramid's height if it completes seven full rotations around the pyramid's base. (5) This mimics the application of Kaaba; even though the Kaaba has no dimensional merit for its structure (according to pure orthodox Islamic tradition) but the number seven is dominant and serves as an evidence that Egypt tried to plagiarize Adam's heritage and remodeled its theology accordingly. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide? ~ Mo Ibrahim

I am going to meet everyone, including the KLA, to find out what they think. ~ Ibrahim Rugova

The Coupling Equation between the GPG and its KC is that of a Cube with a side length of 2.99 squared (that has the value of the ratio of the GPG's base width over its height in RC units). This Cube delivers a pyramidal geometry (based on this Coupling Equation) which has a base length of a tropical year measure. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

Algiz literally means 'the roots, branch', and it also means 'to cut'. Its link to ancient Egyptian 'Ka' is unmistakable. The origins of Santa Claus are found there long before the 'family tree' tradition got transmitted into Babylon. Even on the circular zodiac of Dendera, there is a cut leg piece of a bull alongside a crab running parallel to the Christmas Axis. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

Jews are non-Israelites and YHWH is the god of the non-Semitic Jews, and was NOT The God of the Semitic Israelites. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem. ~ Mo Ibrahim

The astronomical age of Pisces began around the time of Christ, and so says Dendera's circular zodiac. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy ... it doesn't work. ~ Mo Ibrahim

Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out. ~ Ibrahim Babangida

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it. ~ Mo Ibrahim

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications. ~ Ibrahim Babangida

The angles of the upper two shafts in the Great Pyramid of Giza act together as one ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim

The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed. ~ Mo Ibrahim

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. ~ Ibrahim Babangida

Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of influence. Such is the way in which historical forces operate: the give and take between nations, as between cultures, is no simple exchange ~ Jabra Ibrahim Jabra