Thomas Friedman Quotes About Awakening

Quotes about: Awakening

• When people get frustrated, it's when they feel they are living in a context that deprives them of dignity, deprives them of justice and deprives them of the freedom to realize their full potential, and that to me is what the Arab awakening was all about. I think it applied to every country, and so I have been an unmitigated supporter of it.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Thinking, People

• The Arab awakening was like watching elephants fly: something you didn't expect, something you haven't seen before, "Wow, elephants fly."

  Thomas Friedman

  Elephants, Awakening, Wow

• The Arab awakening has been, up to now, a lot about freedom from dictatorial regimes - Syria, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Bahrain and Egypt. But once you got freedom from, then you need freedom to. Freedom from is about destroying things. Freedom to is about constructing things, constructing the rule of law.

  Thomas Friedman

  Egypt, Law, Needs

• There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.

  Thomas Friedman

  Political, Energy, Climate

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

• I think the Arab awakening has changed everything and I think a lot will depend on what people there ask of us, may be nothing, it may be a lot. I think that really depends how they find their voice and what they see as their real interest, and hopefully that would be for more schools and not more tanks.

  Thomas Friedman

  Real, School, Thinking

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

• I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human longing for dignity, for justice and for freedom. I think that applies to young people in Saudi Arabia as much as to young people in Egypt, Tunisia, or Yemen, or Libya, or Syria. If I were in Saudi Arabia, I would be getting ahead of this and looking for ways to appreciate those aspirations and align my country with them.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Thinking, Egypt

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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