Controversial 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.

A one-party system of government is an effective and safe instrument only when it operates in a socialist society.

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.

The answer to the terrorism of the left and the right is not social and economic reform, but police and military action.

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

If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

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.

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

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.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

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).