Quotes by Afghan authors
I learned how to speak English watching television.
Azita Ghanizada
Actress
We are not a battlefield and we will not allow anyone to use our territory against any of our neighbour, but we will not allow our neighbours to use our territory this way either.
Ashraf Ghani
Former President of Afghanistan
The jury is out as to whether the Afghans are up to the task of protecting their people.
Khaled Hosseini
Afghan-American novelist
Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
Khaled Hosseini
Afghan-American novelist
No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
Hamid Karzai
Former President of Afghanistan
The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
Hamid Karzai
Former President of Afghanistan
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.
Khaled Hosseini
Afghan-American novelist
My books never go where I think they're going.
Khaled Hosseini
Afghan-American novelist
It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.
Khaled Hosseini
Afghan-American novelist
If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.
Hamid Karzai
Former President of Afghanistan
The first principle of tackling corruption is that you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it.
Ashraf Ghani
Former President of Afghanistan
I'm glad I wrote them when I did because I think if I were to write my first novel now, it would be a different book, and it may not be the book that everybody wants to read. But if I were given a red pen now, and I went back... I'd take that thing apart.
Khaled Hosseini
Afghan-American novelist
Money is not capital in most of the developing countries. It's just cash. Because it lacks the institutional, organizational, managerial forms to turn it into capital.
Ashraf Ghani
Former President of Afghanistan
If election is your goal, you're never going to engage in reform. Reform has to be your goal. Election is the means. You run for office in order to do something, not in order to perpetuate yourself.
Ashraf Ghani
Former President of Afghanistan
They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
Hamid Karzai
Former President of Afghanistan
There's no place for mob justice in Afghanistan.
Ashraf Ghani
Former President of Afghanistan
My father's mother really had a profound influence on me. She literally began her day with an hour of reading. But the most fundamental impact was education.
Ashraf Ghani
Former President of Afghanistan
My freshman year in college, I got a job working security. This was a high-tech building in Santa Clara, engineers coming in and out all the time.
Khaled Hosseini
Afghan-American novelist
Middle Eastern Muslim countries are not only important for Afghanistan due to common culture and faith, but also because of economic benefits.
Ashraf Ghani
Former President of Afghanistan
The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama.
Mohammed Omar
Afghan Islamic revolutionary
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