Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes


What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. - Tahar Ben Jelloun


We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side. - Tahar Ben Jelloun


We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. - Tahar Ben Jelloun


We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world. - Tahar Ben Jelloun


To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power. - Tahar Ben Jelloun


This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. - Tahar Ben Jelloun


There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. - Tahar Ben Jelloun


There are very few great poets in the world. - Tahar Ben Jelloun


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


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