This collection holds 91 arab world quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Paul Wolfowitz, Mona Eltahawy and Richard Engel.

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The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

Too many have rushed in to explain the Arab world to itself.

Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.

A free and democratic Arab world aligns with America's security interests.

Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.

My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.

In general, the Arab world is an artistic hub that has such a variety, whether it be music, film, poetry.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

Toward the Palestinians, Israel can only give. But when dealing with the entire Arab world, Israel can get a lot.

The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.

The regime of Bashar al-Assad will inevitably go down. And its collapse will be loud not only in Syria but across the Arab world.

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

Criticism of the Middle East should not be directed only at Saudi Arabia. Human rights abuses are happening throughout the Arab world.

One sure way to ruin American credibility in the Arab world is to sit silently in Damascus and look like you're part of the Assad show.

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.

We all should respect Chris Stevens, who dedicated his life to trying to improve relations between the Arab world and the western world.

The ayatollahs are trying to unite the whole Arab world against Israel by saying that Israel is something that should be brought to an end.

The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

Successful nations make a point of trying to learn from their neighbors. The Arab world has been taught over generations only to hate theirs.

Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.

The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Instead of trying to bring freedom to the Arab world, couldn't we just concentrate on trying to fend off the European Union and defending our own porous borders?

What we need to do is we need to come to grips with this cancerous form of the Islamic religion that is breaking down the Arab world order, and that is very clear.

Being a longstanding partner of the Arab world, we in India are also deeply concerned with the rise of fanaticism, extremism, and terrorism in parts of the region.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

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.

I've been involved in ties with elements in the Arab world for years now. They wish to establish relations with Israel, but they cannot do so while there is no peace process.

In the 1920s, big names in the Arab world spoke of Scheherazade as an example for intellectuals fighting for their rights. She was a fighter for the right of free expression.

I think it's time we start chipping away at the stereotypes in Hollywood about the Middle East, and the Arab World, because it's one of the most beautiful regions in the world.

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel and the difficulty with the Palestinian issue.

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

Before I die, I will preach to the Muslims in the Arab world. I will preach in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. I will preach in Tehran. I will do it under the umbrella of God. And see its impact.

Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.

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