Ghassan Kanafani famous quotes

03-26-2025

My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.
-- Ghassan Kanafani

#Spring #Opposites #Political
The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.
-- Ghassan Kanafani

#Eras #Causes #Revolutionary
Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.
-- Ghassan Kanafani

#Commitment #World #Causes
You have something in this world, so stand for it.
-- Ghassan Kanafani

#World #This World
If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.
-- Ghassan Kanafani

#Expression #Arrogant #Human Rights
Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution.
-- Ghassan Kanafani

#Latin #Heart #America
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-- Ghassan Kanafani

#Writing #Blood #Palestine
Do not believe that man grows. No: he is born suddenly-a word, in a moment, penetrates his heart to a new throb. One scene can hurl him down from the ceiling of childhood on to the ruggedness of the road.
-- Ghassan Kanafani

#Believe #Heart #Men
بالدم نكتب لفلسطين We write with the blood for Palestine
-- Ghassan Kanafani

#Writing #Blood #Palestine

'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And there's the windflower chilly With all the winds at play, And there's the Lenten lily That has not long to stay And dies on Easter day.
[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents.
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.
A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.
Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Political development should start at the grassroots.

Ghassan Kanafani famous quotes

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