Jan Morris Quotes

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

Even if the Right says that Um Al-Fahm should be outside Israel, this is impossible.

Sometimes, recently Israeli-Palestinian conflict is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was. Every decent man had to be against fascism, period. It is not as simple as apartheid or colonialism or racism or misogyny. It is not simple because the Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country, about the size of New Jersey.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.

The Palestinian national movement is not an Islamic religious movement.

Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.

The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

The people of Kashmir are our people, and we will do everything to ensure they are a part of the process of making India an economic superpower.

The Kurdish people are a partner for the Israeli people.

I'm not an expert on India-Pakistan relations, but, Pakistan is big enough without Kashmir and India too is big enough without Kashmir.

Kashmir is ours, Kashmiris are ours, and Kashmiriyat is also ours.

Without resolving Kashmir dispute, lasting peace cannot be maintained in the region.

Do you really think that the Catalans will end their struggle for their right of self-determination because of a legal decision?

It's preferable for the Palestinians to become citizens of the state than for us to divide the country.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.

Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both countries [Pakistan and India]. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.