Ayad Allawi Quotes

I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation.

Ayad Allawi

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• We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Injustice

• Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Up
  • Live
  • You

• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Country

• Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Freedom
  • Marriage
  • Defense

• I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Communication

• Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Freedom
  • Gun
  • Empowerment

• Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Freedom
  • Blind
  • Conscious

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Lose

• The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Duty

• I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Freedom
  • Enjoy
  • Page

• Our duty is to be patient.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Duty
  • Patient
  • Be Patient

• The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Earth
  • Freedom
  • Spiritual

• I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Think
  • Freedom
  • Fight

• Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Power
  • Freedom

• As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

  

  Barry White
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Me

• Metaphysics has as the proper object of its enquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Freedom

• There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Freedom
  • Perfect
  • Appearance

• Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvard of Islamic thought. He also had a long history of guiding terrorist groups.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Long
  • History
  • Islamic

• But you said you no longer care for the world's opinion," I said to him, "nor will I.

  

  Valerie Martin
  • Opinion
  • Care
  • Said

• We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Political

• I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Like
  • Idea
  • Bird

• I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation.

  

  Ayad Allawi
  • Freedom
  • Duty
  • Reconciliation