Hafez al-Assad quotes

Hafez al-Assad quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.”
-- Hafez al-Assad

Source : "Six Days of War". Book by Michael Oren, p. 293, April 18, 2002.

#Dust Quotes #Skulls Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“In my case dust has become Gold”
“DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.”
“Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.”
“...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.”

Source : Alberto Moravia (2011). “Boredom”, p.5, New York Review of Books
“Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar!”
“No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.10, A&C Black
“When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”

Source : "Noted with pleasure". The New York Times Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1984.
“Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.”
“Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.”
“I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.”

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