Izzeldin Abuelaish famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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...you shouldn't hate something you don't know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.
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It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can’t expect an unhealthy person to think logically.
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Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.
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Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.
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It is true that the sky was always beautiful but I don't remember marvelling at sunset or gazing at the dawn of a new day. Survival does not allow time for poetic reflection.
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For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.
-- Izzeldin Abuelaish
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This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
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All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here
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Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?
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I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, Giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy: I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
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Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.
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The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
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Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.
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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
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