Afghan Quotes

Afghan Quote of the day

Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.

We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.

The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it.

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.

Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time.

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.

Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.

The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

Hospitality is one of the things the Afghan population is famous for, but nobody says that anymore. Now they're terrorists - and they're not. They're people.

Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.

I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about refugees, focusing more and more on the situation with Afghan refugees.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

They [U.S. soldiers] are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.

The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual traveler and claim my Afghan identity.

To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with.

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.

I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much, but it's starting to come out, and some of the fiction is really good.

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.

Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.

I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.

"Come on," I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear.

We've been able to build up the Afghan security forces and stabilize it.

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.

It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera.