Quotes by Algerian authors

Algeria is a country with a rich social heritage as well as an intricate background, formed by centuries of foreign rule, political unrest, and also social adjustment. As a result, Algerian estimates commonly reflect the struggles and triumphs of the Algerian people, as well as their strength and also determination when faced with hardship.

From renowned authors and also thinkers to day-to-day Algerians, the country's quotes are marked by a deep feeling of pride in their culture, their background, and also their identity. Whether revealing expect the future or reflecting on the obstacles of the past, Algerian prices estimate offer an unique viewpoint on the human experience as well as the withstanding spirit of the Algerian individuals.

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Abdelaziz Bouteflika

"If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium"

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Statesman

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

"Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet"

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Statesman

"In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

"I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity"

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Statesman

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

"A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage"

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Statesman

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

"A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal"

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Statesman

"There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"Afghanistan is a land-locked country"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

Ahmed Ben Bella

"I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

Ahmed Ben Bella

"Algeria is not breaking up"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

Ahmed Ben Bella

"Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

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