Ahmad Youssef > Ahmad's Quotes

“We are following with great concern the preparations of the crusaders to launch war on the former capital of Muslims...and to install a puppet government...

Fight these despots. I remind you that victory comes only from God.

The fighting should be in the name of God only, not in the name of national ideologies nor to seek victory for the ignorant governments that rule all Arab states, including Iraq.

[bin Laden's message: fight the 'crusaders']”
― Osama bin Laden

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“ليس الشديد بالصرعة؛ إنما الشديد الذي يملك نفسه عند الغضب
The strong person is not the good wrestler. Rather,the strong person is the one who controls himself when he is angry.
(Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 73, #135)”
― Anonymous

“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”
― Paulo Coelho

“If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
― Adolf Hitler

“Imagination is the highest form of research.”
― Albert Einstein

“من كان مرباه بالعسف والقهر من المتعلمين أو المماليك أو الخدم سطا به القهر، وضيّق على النفس فى انبساطها، وذهب بنشاطها، ودعاه إلى الكسل، وحُمِلَ على الكذب والخبث وهو التظاهر بغير ما فى ضميره خوفـًا من انبساط الأيدى بالقهر عليه، وعلّمه المكر والخديعة لذلك، وصارت له هذه عادةً وخُلُقـًا، وفسدت معانى الإنسانية التى له من حيث الاجتماع والتمرن، وهى الحَمِية والمدافعة عن نفسه ومنزله، وصار عيالاً على غيره فى ذلك، بل وكسلت النفس عن اكتساب الفضائل والخُلُق الجميل، فانقبضت عن غايتها ومدى إنسانيتها، فارتكس وعاد فى أسفل السافلين.”
― ابن خلدون, مقدمة ابن خلدون

“Without God all things are permitted.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“Life is a constant process of dying.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
― George Washington

“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses