"We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field."

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Nicholas D. Kristof

#Spring Quotes #Israel Quotes #Oil Quotes

“As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope.”

Source : "Women of the revolution" by Fatma Naib, www.aljazeera.com. February 19, 2011.
“I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.”
“All things are beautiful seen through the eyes of love.”
“With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.”
“The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.”
“Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.”
“How does God save His people from the pleasure of sin? The answer is, â€œBy imparting to them a nature which hates evil and loves holiness.â€ This takes place when they are born again, so that actual salvation begins with regeneration. Of course it does; where else could it commence? Fallen man can neither perceive his desperate need of salvation, nor come to Christ for it, till he has been renewed by the Holy Spirit.”
“The luxury of one's own opinion.”

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