Ibrahim al-Jaafari quotes

“We are taking additional measures to ensure security and stability in Tal Afar and to restore its people's rights”
-- Ibrahim al-Jaafari

#Rights Quotes #People Quotes #Afar Quotes

“You have given us something more than money, you have given us a lot of your sons, your children that were killed beside our own children in Iraq. Iraqi people are insistent on going along the path for their economy and their security, but we do need the help of other countries who will help us, to stand beside us.”
-- Ibrahim al-Jaafari

Source : "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. June 24, 2005.

#Country Quotes #Children Quotes #Son Quotes

“Iraq is not only fighting to defend itself, but also to defend all countries of the world, especially as these foreign fighters that are fighting for Daesh, they come from more than 100 countries. So, very humbly, we say that we are defending ourselves and all countries of the civilized world, and we are defending democracy.”
-- Ibrahim al-Jaafari

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

#Country Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Countries Of The World Quotes

“Daesh will not stop at Iraq. It will extend its hands and arms into different parts of the world.”
-- Ibrahim al-Jaafari

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

#Hands Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Different Quotes

“The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one another’s rights and feelings; awareness of one another’s needs.”

“I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.”

“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.”

“We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“I hope that Beyond the Robe helps you to feel closer to the monks and nuns and to better understand their immense potential to provide leadership in their world and further insight into ours. Instead of simply admiring them from afar, let's all get close enough to really listen.”

“In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.”

Source : Cynthia Leitich Smith (2010). “Tantalize”, p.310, Candlewick Press