Rola Mahmoud Quotes

Dignity is the only one thing I have chosen over rules and benefits of slavery. I am not perfect because I chose to be myself; a human and this is the simplest form of dignity. ~ Rola Mahmoud

Every little thing in life comes with a price: while you're obliged to pay, objection is not an option. ~ Rola Mahmoud

We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life. ~ Mahmoud Darwish

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn't have at the beginning, big goals and objectives, you do the thing because you love it. ~ Mahmoud Reda

Put it on record
--I am an Arab
And the number of my card is fifty thousand
I have eight children
And the ninth is due after summer.
What's there to be angry about?

Put it on record.
--I am an Arab
Working with comrades of toil in a quarry.
I have eight childern
For them I wrest the loaf of bread,
The clothes and exercise books
From the rocks
And beg for no alms at your doors,
--Lower not myself at your doorstep.
--What's there to be angry about?

Put it on record.
--I am an Arab.
I am a name without a tide,
Patient in a country where everything
Lives in a whirlpool of anger.
--My roots
--Took hold before the birth of time
--Before the burgeoning of the ages,
--Before cypess and olive trees,
--Before the proliferation of weeds.

My father is from the family of the plough
--Not from highborn nobles.
And my grandfather was a peasant
--Without line or genealogy.
My house is a watchman's hut
--Made of sticks and reeds.
Does my status satisfy you?
--I am a name without a surname.

Put it on Record.
--I am an Arab.
Color of hair: jet black.
Color of eyes: brown.
My distinguishing features:
--On my head the 'iqal cords over a keffiyeh
--Scratching him who touches it.
My address:
--I'm from a village, remote, forgotten,
--Its streets without name
~ Mahmoud Darwish

Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I love this planet because Inspiration comes from everywhere. I named one of my books after a verse in a song I heard in my friend's car. ~ Mahmoud Shaker

Mahmoud Darwish wrote that "extreme clarity is a mystery." That sounds right to me. I don't want anyone hunting for anything ancillary to the true mystery. If that means risking being thought of as glib or dull or banal or stupid or whatever, I guess that will just have to be the way it is. ~ Matthew Zapruder

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority. ~ Mahmoud Abbas

I think everyone must settle for what is in the parameter of their own rights. No one must have an evil intention toward the territorial benefit or integrity of other nations. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten rid of those absolutism, gotten forward other different logics of looking at mathematics, and sort of turned the way we look at it as a science altogether after 800 years. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

And you became like the coffee,
In the deliciousness,
and the bitterness
and the addiction. ~ Mahmoud Darwish

He says I am from there, I am from here, but I am neither there nor here. I have two names which meet and part ... I have two languages, but I have long forgotten - which is the language of my dreams ~ Mahmoud Darwish

The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

They want time to move fast so they can paint their nails a provocative red and wear high heels that crack walnuts and make people jump. He wants time to slow down so he can prolong the enjoyment of walking among them, of being next to this self-contained beauty. ~ Mahmoud Darwish

Israel cannot continue to exist in an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity without threats and aggression. If this regime stays on one inch of Palestine's soil, it will continue its threats. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. ~ Mahmoud Abbas

Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my last
poem to my wife's heart. They laughed, and took from me
only the words dedicated to my wife's heart. ~ Mahmoud Darwish

Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II ~ Mahmoud Abbas

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Some segments within the American government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy, and its grips on the Middle East, in order to save the Zionist regime The majority of the American people as well as most nations and politicians around the world agree with this view. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces. ~ Mahmoud Abbas

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I believe that with the complete formation of the global Zionist network, they have seized control of the fate of the European governments, and of the US government. To the independent countries in the world, I would like to say: You should know that the influence of the Zionist network on your culture, your politics, and your economy is tantamount to a violation of your independence. They cling like ticks. The moment they gain influence, they never stop. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

No one has arrived. Leave me there
as you would leave a myth with any person who sees you
until he cries and rushes into himself, afraid of happiness. ~ Mahmoud Darwish

On this earth there is that which deserves life. ~ Mahmoud Darwish

When you build nations on someone's bones
what sense does it make to break them? ~ Emtithal Mahmoud

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. ~ Mahmoud Darwish

For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even the people of Europe and America despise the Zionists. They hate them. They feel humiliated by the Zionists, who are a burden on them. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Teresa blames herself for believing that she was indispensable to Mahmoud. Pride goeth before a fall. ~ Ann-Marie MacDonald

Five million Palestinians have not had a home for 60 years. It is amazing really: You have been paying reparations for the Holocaust for 60 years and will have to keep paying up for another 100 years. Why then is the fate of the Palestinians no issue here? ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Longing is the absent chatting with the absent. The distant turning toward the distant. Longing is the spring's thirst for the jar-carrying women, and vice versa. Longing allows distance to recede, as if looking forward, although it may be called hope, were an adventure and a poetic notion. The present tense is hesitant and perplexed, the past tense hangs from a cypress tree standing on its rooted leg behind a hill, enveloped in its dark green, listening intently to one sound only: the sound of the wind. Longing is the sound of the wind ~ Mahmoud Darwish

I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The Zionists are very much, very adventuresome, very much seeking to fabricate things, and I think they see themselves at the end of the line, and I do firmly believe that they seek to create new opportunities for themselves and their adventurous behaviors. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

It would be the simplest thing to say, my homeland is where I was born. But when you returned, you found nothing. What does that mean? It would be the simplest thing to say, my homeland is where I will die. But you could die anywhere, or on the border between two places. What does that mean? After a while the question will become harder. Why did you leave? Why did you leave? For twenty years you have been asking, why did they leave? Leaving is not a negation of the homeland, but it does turn the problem into a question. Do not write a history now. When you do that, you leave the past behind, and what is required is to call the past to account. Do not write a history except that of your wounds. Do not write a history except that of your exile. You are here - here, where you were born. And where longing will lead you to death. So, what is homeland? ~ Mahmoud Darwish