The only way to resist colonialism is through education.

A time will come when you're going to be numerous but your impact in the world will be like nothing

The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.

I am saying the same to Muslims in the global South, telling them: "Just ignore what is done." However, in the Southern countries they are not living in a comfortable society like you and me. They deal with unemployment, corruption, and surviving. For the majority of them, their religion is helping them survive.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

We can think of solutions in various theoretical ways, but it's not so on the ground. If they don't have a reference that helps them to belong, then they will end up excluding, and through that they get to feel that they belong on the basis of some narrow identity, language or color.

You can't have anything happening today within the petro-monarchies, is going to be too risky for the United States and the oil interests there.