Taliban Quotes
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Taliban Quotes & Sayings
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If a woman is wearing the burqa, it's not her wish. It's more that she feels secure from the Taliban, secure from acid if she were to show her face.
— Malina Suliman
The Afghans, despite their backwardness, are a friendly lot, but the Taliban are as barbaric as the Huns from the past.
— Sushmita Banerjee
The Taliban travesty, a noxious combination of Deobandi rigidity, tribal chauvinism, and the aggression of the traumatized war orphan.
— Karen Armstrong
The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.
— David Petraeus
The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.
— Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.
— Philip Hammond
Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.
— Imran Khan
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
— Peter Mullan
I spoke of the irony of the Taliban wanting female teachers and doctors for women yet not letting girls go to school to qualify for these jobs
— Malala Yousafzai
In 2008 alone, the Taliban bombed two hundred schools. Suicide bombings and targeted killings were regular occurrences.
— Malala Yousafzai
I knew that my interest lied in international stories. I was interested in how women were living under the Taliban, for example.
— Lynsey Addario
On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'
— Malala Yousafzai
Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided.
— Richard Engel
Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
— Malala Yousafzai
I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.
— Malala Yousafzai
We can't afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists.
— Condoleezza Rice
Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.
— Jacob M. Appel
The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets.
— Richard Engel
Now the Taliban will pay a price.
— George W. Bush
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.
— Steve Earle
The Taliban is the worst ... great heroin though.
— Creed Bratton
You've got the watches," say the Taliban, "but we've got the time.
— Steven Pressfield
As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.
— Allen West
The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
— Salman Rushdie
The Taliban is resilient.
— Leon Panetta
Allow the Taliban to open offices in Pakistan
— Imran Khan
I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
— Malala Yousafzai
I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.
— Malala Yousafzai
Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.
— Philip Hammond
The problem is, we have yet to convince the Taliban they are fellow passengers on spaceship Earth.
— Will Durst
We need to put in proper safeguards. How are we going to feel if somebody leases to the Taliban?
— William Shawn
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
— Keith Henson
Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban.
— Toby Keith
Announcing a withdrawal date, that was wrong. The Taliban may not have watches, but they do have calendars.
— Mitt Romney
The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.
— Amanullah Khan
Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.
— Greg Gutfeld
We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Taliban stands for student; own a pen not gun.
— Vinita Kinra
Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban.
— Barack Obama
I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.
— Eliza Griswold
What good is ye world when ye canst not livest hither.
— K. Hari Kumar
You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?'
— Robert M. Gates
For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
— Julian Fellowes
Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency.
— Bob Ainsworth
While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger
— Jack Straw
Living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts
— Kathy Lette
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
— Sam Harris
I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.
— Malala Yousafzai
The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.
— Philip Hammond
villages were regularly patrolled by the Taliban.
— Eric Blehm
Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering.
— Peter Bergen
The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn't stop our minds from thinking.
— Malala Yousafzai