Top 325 Taliban Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Never short of guns and guerrillas, Afghanistan has proven fertile ground for a host of insurgent groups in addition to the Taliban.
While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.
Know what the Taliban leaders like to do for fun? Just sit around and get bombed.
Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.
As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.
I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result
Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban.
Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.
The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.
I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.
The dynamics of the Taliban now appear to be very different and complex, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they attack governments and mainstream parties.
The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone.
The recent wave of Taliban attacks has made clear that the international community must not waiver in its support for a stable, secure and prosperous Afghanistan.
If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?
I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban.
I think the morale of Taliban fighters has been affected adversely as a result of the lack of success.
There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad.
I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
I recommended to the president [George Bush] that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the ones who attacked the United States of America on 9/11.
Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.
The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.
I have to say that I saw terrorists in 2002, went to Islamabad, Pakistan, and met women who were supporting this ideology. I call them the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary back then.
The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.
Announcing a withdrawal date, that was wrong. The Taliban may not have watches, but they do have calendars.
In principle, there is nothing wrong with the United States negotiating directly with the Taliban.
Believe me, having a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban.
It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet war.
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
We need to put in proper safeguards. How are we going to feel if somebody leases to the Taliban?
After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
The leaders of the Taliban said today that killing bin Laden won't solve the problem. But, you know, it couldn't hurt.
What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?
For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.
I knew that my interest lied in international stories. I was interested in how women were living under the Taliban, for example.
I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.
The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo.
Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering.
There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.
Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.
When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime.
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
When the Taliban was ruling Afghanistan, women were not allowed to go to school, to work, or even leave the house without a male chaperone. The greatest moment was when that ended.
It is very much in America's national security interests to ensure that the Taliban do not dominate Afghanistan and that neither ISIS nor al Qaeda continues their growth in the country.
People always assume I was in a motorcycle wreck. My response to them: no, Taliban.
For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.
Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them.
All civilian politicians in Pakistan are puppets of the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), military, and the Taliban.
It is in Pakistan's own interest that the Afghan army is able to fight effectively against the Taliban, which is more likely if they continue to have American advisers at their side.
I would like people to have an appreciation for what happened to women under the Taliban, as in 'A Thousand Splendid Suns.' I hope they get a sense of how connected we all are.
Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency.
Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets.
I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
The SEALs rarely call the Taliban 'terrorists' because they respect them as worthy opponents.
I have a lot of security - I lost my mother to the Taliban because of a lack of security - and that explains partly why I can be so vocal.
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
The first time I visited Afghanistan in May 2000, I was 26 years old, and the country was under Taliban rule. I went there to document Afghan women and landmine victims.