Jamal Khashoggi Quotes

In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?

Insecurity threatens liberty.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.

We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

I have grown up in Delhi in a way, and I keep coming here often. But, and I am sorry to say, I'll always be nervous when in Delhi. In my college days, I have had my bum pinched around so many times. So yes, in Mumbai, I can just walk around and do what I want to do, but in Delhi I'll always be scared.

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

All at present is quiet in Paris. There are Socialist risings in many parts of the country, but all these will do the President [coup leader Louis Napoleon] good, and strengthen his hands, for even the people who have been treated with indignity will pardon him if their châteaux are saved from an infuriated and brutal peasantry.

A lot of people are scared to come visit my hometown, but to me, violence is everywhere, man.

The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.

I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I'd run away from those schools. They'd catch me. They'd bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was - it was terrible.

The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

Throughout my entire life, I have lived in the shadow of the dictatorship. It denied me safety and security.

Fear hems us in, stops us from thinking clearly, and prevents us from either challenging oppression or engaging calmly with the impersonal fates.

I felt so contained at home. I always really felt like I couldn't be myself at home, so I was always quiet. I remember I used to sit in my room and listen to Bone Thugs and close the door.