Fethullah Gulen Quotes

Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

Venezuela has changed forever.

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

What starts in the Middle East never stays in the Middle East..

We've had to pull out of so many countries in Northern Africa.

I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

Egypt is going through difficult times and we cannot allow it to carry on.

The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.

So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.

Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.

Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.

Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

I don't want to be a propagandist or say that Pakistan is just great. There are problems, but it is a much more complex place than we are given to believe.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected.

I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests.

We have a country that is in a very delicate situation.

Democracies are often run by ethnically based groups prepared to do terrible things to other ethnic groups... or they can be very corrupt, dominated by elites...

My job was to nurture the frail plants of democracy in Europe against anarchy or Communism. And Communism was the pit into which all governments were in danger of falling when frantic peoples were driven by the Horsemen of Famine and Pestilence.