Hamza Yusuf Quotes

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

When civil fury first grew high And men fell out they knew not why.

Nothing endurable can be produced on a soil soaked with blood and moved by violent agitations.

War is unsettling.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

Nor is heaven always at peace.

Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

There will be plenty of fighting in the coming years and in a magnitude far beyond this. Prepare yourself.

It was a bad looking mob. It was animated by the essence of revolution.

This don't go here. [A major riot ensued.]

The fires of discord are busy in every city. Redress is sought in the street, in demonstrations, parades and protests which create tensions and threaten violence. We face, therefore, a moral crisis as a country and as a people.

As soon as external wars have ceased the internal commence

Turkey is a plague spot … a breeder of wars

Revolutions rarely end up as positively as they begin.

The future is Afghanistan.

Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war.

I come from a place of lots of turmoil.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.