Arab Proverb Quotes

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

The most demeaning sin is to remain weak in the world. It not only destroys us, but also incites others to attack us with violence.

… without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.... Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Might was the measure of right.

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?

Russia has been too weak, and the weak get beaten.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being.

No one will have mercy on those who cannot defend themselves in the Middle East.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.