Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Davan Yahya Khalil

Quote by Davan Yahya Khalil

“If the caged birds think whoever scattering grains for them that person is their deity, what should we Kurds call the person who will grantee us an independence.”

Quote by Davan Yahya Khalil

Create image

Author

Davan Yahya Khalil

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Davan Yahya Khalil. more

You May Also Like

“The history of Kurdistan doesn’t just tell us why it hasn’t become independent so far. It also helps to make the case for Kurdistan’s independence. It is a desire founded, not just on some passing modern whim in that direction, or on spurious claims to natural and obvious borders, but on a sustained historical focus and desire by its people, on pre-existing promises, on the need for protection from the kind of atrocities that have historically been perpetrated against the Kurds, and on the rather artificial way in which Kurdistan has been denied its existence in the past.”

IndependentIndependenceKurdistan
Author:Davan Yahya Khalil
Create image

“I walked home with a lighter step, for that night had knocked something loose in me, something long overdue to be knocked. At long last, I saw that group for what they were, with a few exceptions - a queer assortment of layabouts and late risers, most overdrawn at the bank or at least cutting into principal, only interested in who's going in the drawer at the Maidstone Club or their wedge on the fifteenth hole at Pebble Beach or dressing down the staff about a bit of shell in the lobster while shoveling canapés in. Jinx had done me a favor, freed me of any lingering allegiances to New York Society, snipped my fear of being on their bad side.”

ValuesWealthFreedomCourageIndependencePrivilege
Book:Lilac Girls
Create image

“Our reverence for independence takes no account of the reality of what happens in life: sooner or later, independence will become impossible. Serious illness or infirmity will strike. It is as inevitable as sunset. And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained?”

IndependenceSicknessAgeingInfirmity
Book:Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Create image