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“أتذكر ما قالته لى فى تلك الأثناء "لقد سألت بعض أصدقائى عبر الإنترنت عن القاهرة فأخبرونى أن القاهرة شوارعها قذرة !" .. قلت لها "لن أنكر أن شوارع القاهرة بعضها قذرة .. ولكن قلوب أهلها نظيفة”
― الثورة 2.0
― الثورة 2.0
“كان دائماً الخوف من الفشل هو أكثر ما يُحركنى لأن أُقاوم وأبذل مجهوداً أكبر”
― الثورة 2.0
― الثورة 2.0
“أحياناً أشعر أننا كمصريين تربينا على الخوف من الوقوع فى قبضة الشرطة السرية أكثر من الموت ذاته”
― الثورة 2.0
― الثورة 2.0
“هل يفرق موت الإنسان فى سن الثلاثين أو الأربعين أو الخمسين أو السبعين من عمره ; بقدر ما يفرق ما قدَّمه هذا الإنسان فى دنياه من رسالة؟”
― الثورة 2.0
― الثورة 2.0
“The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power”
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“نحن نستطيع " كان هو السلاح المهم ضد "مفيش فايدة" و "مفيش حاجة هتتغير”
― الثورة 2.0
― الثورة 2.0
“كلما أشركتَ الناس فى محاولة التوصل لحل لمشكلتك , كلما زادت فُرص نجاحِك”
― الثورة 2.0
― الثورة 2.0
“كان غياب البديل فى رأيى أحد خطط الأنظمة القمعية لإقناع الشعوب أنهم يحصلون على أفضل المعروض. وكان النظام المصرى ينفذ هذه الخطة بإحكام, أى شخص له شعبية أو يمكن أن يبزغ كبديل يجب أن يُقضى, أو يتم تشويهه.”
― الثورة 2.0
― الثورة 2.0
“السُّلطة المُطْلقة مفسدة مُطلقة !”
― الثورة 2.0
― الثورة 2.0
“The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.”
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
“اكبر مشكلة ان اللى قدامك يقول " انا عارف مصلحتك اكتر منك .. عشان انا عندى خبرة اكتر منك " .. ويختزل صوتك ورايك ويحرمك من المشاركة والتفكير وإنك تغلط وتتعمل .. وده واحد من الاسباب الرئيسية لتاخرنا وتخلفنا كبلد”
― الثورة 2.0
― الثورة 2.0
“باحبها عشان الحياة فيها مش روتينية ،، تصحى الصبح وماتعرفش يومك عامل ازاي ،، ممكن تصحى الصبح تلاقي تليفون يجيلك زي اللي جالي من حضرتك فيه استدعاء لأمن الدولة”
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“ستظل الثورة المصرية مدينة لكل من ألقي حجر في المياة الراكدة وقتما كان هذا مغامرة غير محوبة بكل ما تعنيه الكلمة. كانوا وقتها يهتفون ثورة ثورة حتي النصر ثورة في كل شوارع مصر. وكأنهم كانوا يؤمنون أن هذه البلاد سيحدث بها ثورة عاجلا أم أجلا وسيكونون هم في الصفوف الأولي.”
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
“بدأ الأمن يدرك مخاطر الوقفة حتي ولو كانت صامتة, فقد حولنا الصمت الذي هو في الطبيعي ضعف الي قوة.”
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
“كان لسلاح الخوف الذي أستخدمته أجهزة الأمن المصـرية علي المدي الطويل أثر في الأجيال السابقة , ولكن هذا السلاح وضح جلياً أنه غير مٌجد مع الشباب الأكثر حماسة ورغبة في المخاطرة ”
― الثورة 2.0
― الثورة 2.0
“The Egyptian revolution will remain indebted to everyone who tossed a stone into the still waters at a time when doing so risked beating, and arrest, or worse.”
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
“Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.”
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
“I stressed that I did not want to be treated like a hero. I was only one member of the revolutionary masses who had fulfilled his duty towards his country. It was easy to write, rant, and mobilize people using the internet. The real heroes of this revolution were the people who had died and been injured.”
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
“our collective participation on the Jan25 is the beginning of the end-- the end of silence, acceptance, and submission to all that is happening in our country, and the beginning of a new page of coming forward and demanding our rights. Jan25 is not a revolution in the sense of a coup, but rather a revolution against our government to let them know that we have taken interest in one another's problems and that we shall reclaim all our rights and will not be silent anymore.”
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
“The Internet is not a virtual world inhabited by avatars. It is a means of communication that offers people in the physical world a method to organize, act, and promote ideas and awareness.”
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power, A Memoir
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power, A Memoir
“The regime's policies, whether intentionally or unintentionally, had engendered a sharp divide between Muslims and Christians, in spite of the fact that generations of Muslims and Coptic Christians had lived together peacefully in the past. The regime was good at utilizing this divide to create a perception that without Mubarak in power, Egyptians would break out into sectarian warfare. As a result, Mubarak managed to market his police state successfully to the international community as the lesser of two evils.”
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
“(State Security may not have been full of computer geniuses, but still, I had to be careful).”
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power, A Memoir
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power, A Memoir
“Huge numbers of people decided to take to the streets, some for no other reason than just to find out what was happening.”
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power, A Memoir
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power, A Memoir


