Quotes about egypt
egypt order greek
Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt. Camille Paglia
egypt japan white
Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.
egypt personality lines
Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.
egyptians reverse
We approached the Egyptians first. It was kind of the reverse of normal. ... At first they had to be convinced.
egypt recipes ingredients
It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients. David Brooks
egypt white giving
President Obama invited John McCain to the White House to give his opinion on Egypt, specifically what it's like to be a mummy. Bill Maher
egypt fifth land officers seven
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
egypt iran america
Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti-Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab states have lost respect for him. Dennis Prager
egyptians meetings order others since worked
Since then, I have worked tirelessly in all my meetings with Egyptians and others in order to do so, Ariel Sharon
egypt other-cultures play
I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead. ... Education itself - which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people - sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour ... It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
egyptian liable monarchy
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. Anthony Sampson
egypt uprising israel
There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started. Anthony Weiner
egypt skills needs
Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research. Aristotle
egyptian elections favor leading liberal organize others saying time
I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely. Elliott Abrams
egyptians invade suddenly worried
I am not worried that the Egyptians will suddenly invade Ethiopia. Nobody who has tried that has lived to tell the story. Meles Zenawi
egyptian eldest exotic family living married members outside prestige son western woman
We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my childhood, we were the only members living outside of Egypt. So between my father's prestige as the eldest son and my own exotic pedigree, I basked in the spotlight. Shereen El Feki
egyptians
Egyptians are always and will always be supportive of their Palestinian brothers, all Palestinians. Mohammed Morsi
egypt london madrid
We've only recently turned the corner on the Sept. 11 attacks being blamed on Jews and Israelis, as well as almost every other terrorist attack, whether in London, Madrid, Bali or Egypt. Abraham Foxman
egypt development today
We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that I discussed today: civic society development, education and economic development. Colin Powell
egypt people lotuses
Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Anita Diament
egypt people development
While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they also felt less and less provided for. Dalia Mogahed
egypt forth hand land shall stretch
He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
egyptian means people restore rule talk
I think the Egyptian people need to restore confidence that Americans, the U.S., means what they say when they talk about democracy, rule of law. Mohamed ElBaradei
egyptian travel
What is Egyptian cotton, and why would I travel with my own sheets? Russell Crowe
egyptian historical jet mind months mount six spending visit
I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal. Megalyn Echikunwoke
egyptians longer organized remarkable
It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media. Barton Gellman
egypt great human power
Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital. Ahmed Zewail
egypt enriched fortunate knowledge passion true
Personally, I have been enriched by my experiences in Egypt and America, and feel fortunate to have been endowed with a true passion for knowledge.
egypt governance guided islamic majority minority protection values work
Secularism will not work in Egypt any more than theocracy. What will work is governance that is guided by the Islamic values of the majority with protection of the minority rights.
egyptian excited importance people science succeeded
I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages.
egyptians people wider
I can tell you that the majority of the Egyptians I know, they think of a much wider spectrum of people than the Muslim Brotherhood.
egyptians freedom tasted
The Egyptians have grown in confidence, they've tasted freedom, and there's no way back.
egyptian freedom people protected whether
I do not want to see the whole Egyptian people feel protected by my presence. They really have to fight for their freedom whether I'm there or not.