The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come, and we cannot approach it with a modicum of intelligence if we start out from a position of hatred.


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It is the Brazilian port with greatest infrastructure.
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The idea is to make the chambers speak to the governments to implement these proposals.
MICHEL ALABY
As an example of the cooperation existing among the governments, the idea is also to establish and i...
MICHEL ALABY
It was a courtesy visit. He is a very pleasant and intelligent man.
MICHEL ALABY
According to the statistics agency of the Chinese government, China invested US$ 7 billion in Sudan ...
MICHEL ALABY
We exported commodities to Somalia.
MICHEL ALABY
She showed interest in learning about the profile of the Brazilian companies so that they may partic...
MICHEL ALABY
Not only between the Arab nations and Brazil, but also with the countries of South America. This is ...
MICHEL ALABY
When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push ...
MICHEL GONDRY
For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it ...
MICHEL ONFRAY
A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury ...
MICHEL FABER
That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking c...
MICHEL GONDRY
By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which h...
MICHEL FABER
Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find...
MICHEL ONFRAY
All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that...
MICHEL GONDRY
My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his pro...
MICHEL FABER
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The mo...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it&#...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from m...
MICHEL FABER
Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that sa...
MICHEL FABER
I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - ...
MICHEL FABER
I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Bro...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director....
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
There seems to be a new Palestinian and Israeli political reality, despite the many complications an...
MICHEL SABBAH
A new Israeli and Palestinian political landscape is taking shape.
MICHEL SABBAH
Many may ask how can we celebrate Christmas and be cheerful with the wall imprisoning us.
MICHEL SABBAH
The Palestinian people should regain their liberty and land with a state and a capital and the Israe...
MICHEL SABBAH
This wall must not exist. One day it will not exist.
MICHEL SABBAH
This position and the confiscation of lands have no reason at all. (The wall) doesn't benefit the se...
MICHEL SABBAH
The beginning of the Palestinian freedom is also a beginning of reconciliation between the two peopl...
MICHEL SABBAH
God has brought together Jews, Christians and Muslims to this holy land. No human power can change i...
MICHEL SABBAH
Many evils are surrounding us. The main one is the absence of peace,
MICHEL SABBAH
Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who...
MICHEL FABER
Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternali...
MICHEL FABER
The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pi...
MICHEL FABER
Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, part...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
Impeachment is allowed under Brazil's Constitution.
MICHEL TEMER
Every time there's an institutional issue like impeachment, there's concern from the outside...
MICHEL TEMER
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do le...
MICHEL FABER
The mines have claimed many victims on the allied side.
MICHEL DIATTA
When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to ...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
I was born in Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg, in the southwestern part of the Federal Republic of Germany...
HARTMUT MICHEL
What we're seeing, I think, is a drive toward becoming a low-cost supplier.
ALAN MICHEL
Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideol...
CHARLES MICHEL