Malala Yousafzai Quotes

I don’t know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it’s the right of every human being.

What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.

In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.

I want to have fun, but I don’t quite know how.

We need to increase education budgets.

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

You cannot rely on other people’s support.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself… By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.

It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don’t often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, ‘What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?’

If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights…we are human beings and we make traditions.

It’s an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.

I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.