“Red tape has killed more people than bullets...”

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”

“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”

“War was a central theme in maths books too. School books - because the Taliban printed books soley for boys - did not calcualte in apples and cakes, but in bullets and kalasnikovs. Something like this: 'little Omar has a kalasnikov with three magazines. There are twenty bullets in each magazine. He uses two thirds of the bullets and kills sixty infidels does he kill with each bullet?”

“You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own”

“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.”