T. E. Lawrence Quotes

What takes place in America today was caused by the flagrant interference on the part of successive American governments into others’ business. These governments imposed regimes that contradict the faith, values, and lifestyle of the people.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

The industrialized world was dominating the processes of change in the Third World, in particular in the Islamic world. And, that domination resulted in educational processes that were shaped by the First World.

How can you call upon us to abolish the clash of civilizations, while America violently attacks Muslims in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and in all corners of the world? …. America is interfering in our religion, in our traditions and in our privacies. This contradicts the Koranic verse: "They will not stop fighting you until they turn you back from your faith if they can.

Ironically, even as Westerners feel threatened by Islam, most in the Muslim world feel themselves besieged by the West.

To the Left, Islam's anger and hatred of the West is understandable because they have legitimate grievances against us.

Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military interventions around the world? Want to undermine governments that are raising their people up from poverty because they don't conform to the tastes of Upper West Side intellectuals? Use human rights as your excuse!

Stay away from non-Muslims. They are all liars.

Secularism is the experience of the Western culture and thought. Insisting on spreading it to places where the underlying intellectual background, and the political and social reasons for its appearance are lacking, is clearly a mistake, regardless of being desirable or not.

Historians in the future will surely wonder what went so wrong when the United States, for the first time ever, focused its foreign policy on the Islamic world.

I think that there is a limit on how far you can export democracy.

We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization.

The things and ways the West took to the rest have become the ways of the world.

While modern changes were intrinsic to Western historical development, they were largely seen by Muslims as alien and enforced.

The West has been leading a crusade against the Muslims for a thousand years.

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.