Top 272 Quotes & Sayings by Saudi Arabian Authors - Page 3

In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America?

Everything is possible; we just need to be hopeful and think of the world from a human perspective. The world is so small compared to the universe, so we shouldn't fight for petty things.

I'm a normal woman, a normal person, and I just want to drive.

I'm 60 years old, and I want to enjoy life, and I want to be free to speak for my country.

The development of oil and gas resources depends more on capital than labour, and exporting oil and gas neither generates maximum returns from these precious resources nor creates large numbers of jobs within the local economy. As a result, the benefits are typically not shared broadly across society.

My mother gave birth to me on the floor of our apartment in Mecca with only my toddler sister to help her because my father was at work and no male guardian was available to take her to a hospital.

A war between Saudi Arabia and Iran is the beginning of a major catastrophe in the region, and it will reflect very strongly on the rest of the world. For sure, we will not allow any such thing.

We will not continue to be in the post-'79 era. That age is over.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

People used to be unhappy that files and data of Aramco are undeclared, unclear, and not transparent.

We have large resources of uranium that we are exploring, and we are extremely encouraged.

I don't want to be a dissident. But in the same time, I don't want to go back home and be silent again.

I'm worried for a war to break out between Saudi Arabia and Iran, even though I rule it out.

I was a teenager in the 1970s and grew up in Medina, Saudi Arabia.

If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.

Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.

We have warned and continue to warn against calls for the division of Iraq, which come up now and then, calling for sectarian rights or minority freedoms.

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

The Arab world was ripe with hope during the spring of 2011. Journalists, academics, and the general population were brimming with expectations of a bright and free Arab society within their respective countries.

Osama bin Laden's hijacked planes not only attacked the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They also attacked Islam as a faith. They attacked the values of tolerance and coexistence that Islam preaches.

I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.

When I speak of the fear, intimidation, arrests, and public shaming of intellectuals and religious leaders who dare to speak their minds, and then I tell you that I'm from Saudi Arabia, are you surprised?

The United States would be the only honest broker in the international effort to restore peace and justice for all Syrians.

I have all points of strength, and I have the opportunities to increase our non-oil revenues in many sectors, and I have a global economic network.

Women's rights are nothing but a part of the bigger picture, which is human rights. Women are trusted with the lives of their kids, even serve as teachers and doctors, but they aren't trusted with their own lives.

All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

We should not label people who speak up, because it should not be the exception - it should be the norm. When you see something wrong, you speak up.

Saudi Arabia is the mother and father of political Islam.

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

The biggest danger of this terrorism and extremism is the tarnishing of the reputation of our beloved religion... We will not allow this to happen.

We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.

Saudi Arabia is blessed with energy from various sources, whether it's fossil in oil and gas, or renewables, wind and solar, that are extremely competitive.

When Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen erupted in March 2015, there was widespread Saudi popular support for it - including by me.

More attention should be given to the Arab world and the human rights abuse that is taking place every day in many countries in the Arab world.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

Many Saudi clerics believe that letting women drive means they will be free to leave the house whenever they like - something that will have a liberalizing and, therefore, unwanted effect on society.

We have developed a case of oil addiction in Saudi Arabia.

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

I champion a real campaign to tackle the rampant corruption that is draining Saudi resources, both financial and human.

That is life for a Saudi woman: wherever we go, whatever we achieve, we are the property of a man.

There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it.

If we want Saudi Arabia to progress, we have no choice but to embrace change.

We absolutely want to harness nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. There should be no doubt about Saudi Arabian intentions. Whatever we do is going to be under strict compliance with international agreements.

We have been influenced by you in the U.S. a lot. Not because anybody exerted pressure on us - if anyone puts pressure on us, we go the other way. But if you put a movie in the cinema and I watch it, I will be influenced.

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam.

We will not allow our country ever to be at the mercy of commodity price volatility or external markets.

We want to reach free energy markets, but with subsidy programmes for those with low income, and not to have the subsidy in the form of lowering the energy prices, but through other programmes.

We want to exert pressure on wealthy people.

My experiment in money exchange was the temptation to set up a bank. The absence of any Islamic banking was also another factor in establishing Al-Rajhi Bank, which is now the world's biggest Islamic lender by market value.

That is what I want: I want a better Saudi Arabia. I don't see myself as an opposition. I'm not calling for the overthrow of the regime, because I know it's not possible and is too risky, and there is no one to overthrow the regime. I'm just calling for reform of the regime.

True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.

I make a personal commitment to the direction and success of all the programs in which I invest. I make all major philanthropic decisions myself after taking account of a range of expert opinion.

My role as the energy minister is to implement my government's constructive and responsible role and stabilizing the world's energy markets accordingly, contributing to global economic development.

The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that's clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.

Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

Saudi men have sisters, mothers, and wives, and in my working experience, I have had tremendous support from Saudi men. I really don't think that Saudi women are oppressed or abused.