"The university should be a place of critical inquiry, of intellectual freedom, of social responsibility."

"The intellectual must be a dissident, a critic, a voice of opposition."

"The main battle in the world today is between the forces of imperialism and the forces of liberation."

"The Orient is a stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage, a drama is played out in which the West is the sole actor."

"No one can deny the importance of geography in the formation of cultures and peoples."