Quotes
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.
This is my homeland no one can kick me out.
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
Since we cannot defeat Israel in war; we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.