Saeb Erekat Quotes

Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.

I'll say anything to live.

… a dangerous, unexampled, desperate resort.

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!

When there are no other options, people fight harder. If the choice is life or death they have nothing to lose.

Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.

You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided. More often it is a crisis invited.

Rats desert a sinking ship.

There are certain emergencies of nations, in which expedients, that in the ordinary state of things ought to be forborne, become essential to the public weal.

Desperate times require desperate measures. Violence is not only the answer. It is the only answer.

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

Here is no choice but either do or die.

John Wick is not a guy that asks for help, so when he goes to somebody for help, whoever that is, you know he's a serious cat.

I came to cinema for money. I had to settle a loan of Rs 10 lakh. I had no other go, so I thought I'd try my luck in films. I was earning Rs 25,000 at that time. It was not even enough for my family.

People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.

The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.

I don't remember myself to be a forefront fighter, but when pushed to a point with a wall behind me, there is only one way forward. Later you can call it a Rambo syndrome, but I never regret it, as it comes naturally to me, and in my mind, that is the only way.

I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge.

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.