“These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.”

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

Algeria is not breaking up.

I spent 24 and a half years in prison

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well.

I’m optimistic because I’m pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all.

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16.

I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.

This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries – like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain – to occupy countries outside of Europe.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.

This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me.

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

I don’t have very complete scripts for my films. I have a general outline and a character in my mind, and I make no notes until I find the character who’s in my mind in reality.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.

Tycho, we’re about to achieve a tremendous victory we don’t want.” “We’ll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn’t fail when he tried to.” “Thanks.” Wedge & Tycho

Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.