To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.

Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.

The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular. There was not a single Islamic slogan. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now they want to divide the revolution, and religion is a very strong weapon.