"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
Topic(s):
War
More From Tahar Ben Jelloun
- "Emigration is no longer a solution; it’s a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they’re knocking on doors that are not open."
- "Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price."
- "My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don’t have to leave."
More In War
- "War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always."― Sophocles
- "Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion."― Norman Schwarzkopf
- "We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves."― Albert Camus