The sleeping past can animate the present. That is the virtue of memory.
Fatéma Mernissi, [1987] 1991
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Can we write a coherent work on Moroccan personality when what we know for sure is that the Moroccans are like any human beings of all times and places? Moroccans do not look alike and are prone to fits of temper and change of mind, depending on the circumstances; and they go through transformations from their birth owing to various conditions, which hinder their remaining in the same way of being.
Brahim Boutaleb, 2018
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Morocco is closer to the East than to the West in its spirit, concepts, reasoning, habits and cultures, religion and history. But we must not make a clear-cut distinction between the East and the West; the West is not only West, and the East is not only East; there is as much of the East in the West as of the West in the East.
Mohammed Abed al-Jabri [1967] 2017
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The plurality of enlightenments is the lesson we could learn from the Andalusian experience. […] It is necessary for a vibrant future culture to balance between Ibn Rushd and Ibn ʿArabī, between Ibn Bāja and Ibn Khaldūn, between philosophic rationality and gnostic “rationality,” and between spiritual solitary management and committed collective societal management.
Mohammed al-Masbahi, 2015
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The history of humanity is a history of liberty. […] Liberty is an existential necessity.
Allal al-Fassi, [1977] 2013
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What I call ideal democracy […] means that we have to choose for ourselves the best of democratic practices, namely the most suitable in terms of regime, the most convenient in terms of method, and the most useful in terms of fruits.
Mohammed Hassan al-Ouazzani, [1964–1972] 1993
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The struggle of the Arab intellectual has to be first and foremost a struggle for democracy.
Ali Oumlil, [1996], 1998
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To be authentic does not mean to be different; it means to make the other appear as a historical phase.
Abdallah Laroui, [2016] 2020
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Every speaker communicates in foreign languages through their own language […], I speak all languages in Arabic.
Abdelfattah Kilito, 2013
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To think now is to resist the mass media.
Abdessalam Benabdelali, 2019
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The world of tomorrow can be realized only through the collaboration of all, and for the sake of all, otherwise it is impossible to realize.
Mohammed Aziz Lahbabi, [1980] 1991
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We are still at the dawning of global thought.
Abdelkébir Khatibi, [1983] 2019
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Mankind without ethics is unsustainable.
Abderrahmane Taha, 2000.
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*The order of these citations is thematic, not chronologic.