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Quotes about war/politics/kurdistan

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"When equality is against the law, rebellion is your duty"

"They got money for war, but cant feed the poor" - 2pac shakur

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." ~John F. Kennedy, 1961


"I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: Mother, what was war?" ~Eve Merriam

"Guerilla is not a sign of a bad community but a sign of a bad government"

"What is taken with violence, should be taken back with violence"

nice, really liked the "When equality is against the law, rebellion is your duty"

Balci wrote:nice, really liked the "When equality is against the law, rebellion is your duty"

Yeah, its my favourite, dont know where i found it though

Some kurdish proverbs that I am fond of:

Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.
Kind words will unlock an iron door.
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.
Of evil grain no good seed can come.

Comerd wrote:Some kurdish proverbs that I am fond of:

Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.
Kind words will unlock an iron door.
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.
Of evil grain no good seed can come.

It looks nice

If you can, can you please translate the metaphors of it?

I want to understand it a little more to see what it means.

K4L_2007 wrote:

Comerd wrote:Some kurdish proverbs that I am fond of:

Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.
Kind words will unlock an iron door.
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.
Of evil grain no good seed can come.

It looks nice

If you can, can you please translate the metaphors of it?

I want to understand it a little more to see what it means.

Naturally, I can't say exactly what is meant by these proverbs but I can write how I interpret them which is why I like them.

Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.
This can be interpreted in many different ways but I understand it as it saying that one should listen and learn, think about it and when you are done you say what your conclusions are.

Kind words will unlock an iron door.
I like this one a lot as it says that kindness can help you a lot in life, which in the proverb are "iron doors".

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Do not do something that will affect you later. (Negatively of course because there is nothing good about being hit by an arrow )
Example: Do not lie because sooner or later it will cause problems for you.

When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.
Cats eating their own kittens is pretty rare (I think) so this means that even though the cats wants to eat her kittens, she "tells" herself that they are mice. This is kind of psychological. Example: I tell my sister to throw the garbage bag. I say that because I am too lazy to throw it myself, BUT I tell myself that I am telling her so she "learns to do it by herself". So I hide my own intentions with a better one so I don't feel as bad about myself for being lazy.

Of evil grain no good seed can come.
If something is evil, nothing good can come out of it. "Grain" and "seed" are symbolical in this proverb.



I also found a new one. It's an Arab proverb.
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

thankyou

Its indeed really nice proverbs

LIFE IS A BOX OF CHOCOLATE YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOUR GOING TO GET...

haha xD

jihan_jan wrote:LIFE IS A BOX OF CHOCOLATE YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOUR GOING TO GET...

hmm, you get may get.... chocolate??

probably... probably

I love this one,

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -
-- Martin Luther King Jr.