Mohammed Omar Quotes

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

War is the second worst activity of mankind, the worst being acquiescence in slavery.

I am ready to fight. My people are killed, my horses stolen; I am satisfied to fight.

I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

That cause was one of the worst for which men have ever fought..

Everybody in Afghanistan ought to know we’re coming in and hells coming with us.

You may kill me, but don’t think that I am the only white man in the country. There are many others who will be willing to avenge my death, and let me tell you that in less than two years from now there won’t be an Arab left in the entire country now held by your people.

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

There is a time for all things—a time to preach, and a time to fight, and now is the time to fight.

To the uncircumcised, son of the uncircumcised, Desbordes, may Allah confound and bring ruin to your friends … No one is more of a malefactor, no one more of a traitor, no one more wicked than you. You say that you only wish to open up a road for trade. This is false and contrary to sense and reason. Your desire is to destroy the country, to close the trade routes and make war on believers….The day when we meet, the birds of the air will not need to look elsewhere for their food.

The march of history is accompanied by a steady flow of bodies into the abattoir of hate.

We confused the warriors with the war.

Mexicans!... It would appear that justice had fled from this world, leaving you to the caprice of your oppressors, who have become each day more furious toward you.... My part is taken, the voice of revelation whispers ... that the Lord will enable me, with powerful arm, to fight against our enemies.

Some day, one state will take up arms against another

Between the people and their enemies there can be nothing in common but the sword; we must govern by iron those who cannot be governed by justice; we must oppress the tyrant...

We are told that the American soldier does not know what he is fighting for. Now at least he will know what he is fighting against.

All those against the revolution must disappear and quickly be executed.