Quotes by : Amin Maalouf

I no more believe in simplistic solutions than I do in simplistic identieties. The world is a complex....

People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels,....

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent....

let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that....

Can we reconcile indefinitely these two imperatives: the desire to preserve every individual's special....

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers....

The twentieth century will have taught us that no doctrine in itself is necessarily a liberating force:....

You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't....

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading.....