General Sayings

It was not clear to me that our course was unjustified. Even now I am not sure how historians will allocate the responsibility for the war.

The multi-party system is divisive and a newly independent state needs the energy and enthusiasm of all the people to move forward.

No one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim.

It's hard to be impartial to the man [Musharraf] who exiled me and threw my husband in prison.

We look up to you as an example of our fight against communism.

I had been chosen by the gods, that I was of divine essence and therefore entitled to rule Egypt.

If a man takes a woman to wife, but has no intercourse with her, this woman is no wife to him.

We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless, but as a useless character.

If my own son were guilty like you, I should lead him with my own hands to the stake.

I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

Although women can have even more potential and more talent than man, they always lack in judgment.

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings.

Then welcome fate! 'Tis true I perish, yet I perish great: Yet in a mighty deed I shall expire, Let future ages hear it, and admire!

The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong).