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“Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed” almost always exists. The worker is constantly in fear of losing his job. Since unemployed and poorly paid workers do not provide a profitable market, the production of consumers’ goods is restricted, and great hardship is the consequence. Technological progress frequently results in more unemployment rather than in an easing of the burden of work for all. The profit motive, in conjunction with competition among capitalists, is responsible for an instability in the accumulation and utilization of capital which leads to increasingly severe depressions. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals which I mentioned before.”
― Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ويمضي العمر.. يا عمري
وأشعر أن في الأيام يوما.. سوف يجمعنا
وأن الحب رغم البعد سوف يزور مضجعنا
وأن الدهر بعد الصد سوف يعود يسمعنا
ويمسح في ظلام العمر شكوانا.. وأدمعنا”
― فاروق جويدة, ويبقى الحب

“أتساءل متى تنتهي هذه الرقابة التي أمارسها على ذاتي عبر أعين الآخرين؛ لماذا دائماً هذا الخزي الذي لا ينقطع؟”
― عزيز محمد, .الحالة الحرجة للمدعو ك

“من المهم أن تذكَر نفسك باستمرار أنه يمكن للأمور أن تكون أسوأ.”
― عزيز محمد, .الحالة الحرجة للمدعو ك

“أجر خطوة ثقيلة خلف الأخرى، كجندي جريح يسحب إصابته في معركة؛ لكني لا أحارب شيئاً، فمن أين يأتي كل هذا التعب؟”
― عزيز محمد, .الحالة الحرجة للمدعو ك

“هذا كل ما يتطلّبه الأمر، لحظة تافهة كهذه، يدرك المرء بعدها، للمرة الأولى وللأبد، عناءَ أن يكونَ نفسه.”
― عزيز محمد, .الحالة الحرجة للمدعو ك

“ثمة في داخلي ما راح ينفتح، راغباً في المزيد من الاتصال، كأن نوبة بكاء واحدة كانت كافية لتنقلني إلى هذه المنطقة الرخوة من الوجود. لكني لطالما كنت أفتقر لهذه القدرة على التواصل، حتى مع الله. وانغلاقي هذا لم يكن عفوياً تماماً، بسبب طبيعتي وحدها، بل تطلّب إصراراً من جهتي للمداومة عليه. لقد ولدت منطوياً، ثم كافحت بكل غرائزي الدفاعية، عاماً بعد عام، كي أعزل نفسي أكثر. درّبت نفسي على الاستغناء، وأقصيتها بحائط من الجفاء عن الآخرين، وكأنما سأحميها بهذا من مسببات التأثر. ولا أدري أي قوة ظننت أني أجنيها بهذا طيلة تلك الأعوام، فالحياة لم تكن خفيفة أبداً ولا خالية من الهشاشات، والأشياء ظلت تتراكم على القلب كالرّان، خصوصاً أشدها ضآلة.”
― عزيز محمد, .الحالة الحرجة للمدعو ك

“There are certain clues at a crime scene which by their very nature do not lend themselves to being collected or examined. How's one collect love, rage, hatred, fear...? These are things that we're trained to look for.”
― james Reece

“Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.”
― Edward W. Said

“I met a girl
who holds me
like she is fighting
for me
in her sleep.
If you ever decide to age,
love, invite me.
I’ll retire my bones
to make you tea,
and read you poetry.”
― Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.”
― James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin

“كل رغبة تبعث في داخلي رغبة مضادة، بحيث، مهما فعلت، لا أجد قيمة إلا لما لم أفعل.”
― Emil Cioran

“علمتني الأشواقَ منذ لقائنا
فرأيتُ في عينيكِ أحلامَ العُمر
وشدوتُ لحناً في الوفاءِ .. لعله
ما زال يؤنسني بأيامِ السهر
وغرستُ حُبكِ في الفؤادِ وكلما
مضت السنينُ أراهُ دوماً .. يزدهر
وأمامَ بيتكِ قد وضعتُ حقائبي
يوماً ودعتُ المتاعبَ والسفر
وغفرتُ للأيامِ كُلَّ خطيئةٍ
وغفرتُ للدنيا .. وسامحتُ البشر”
― فاروق جويدة, حبيبتي لا ترحلي

“I never ought to, while I have you to cheer me up, Marmee, and Laurie to take more than half of every burden," replied Amy warmly. "He never lets me see his anxiety, but is so sweet and patient with me, so devoted to Beth, and such a stay and comfort to me always that I can't love him enough. So, in spite of my one cross, I can say with Meg, 'Thank God, I'm a happy woman.'" "There's no need for me to say it, for everyone can see that I'm far happier than I deserve," added Jo, glancing from her good husband to her chubby children, tumbling on the grass beside her. "Fritz is getting gray and stout. I'm growing as thin as a shadow, and am thirty. We never shall be rich, and Plumfield may burn up any night, for that incorrigible Tommy Bangs will smoke sweet-fern cigars under the bed-clothes, though he's set himself afire three times already. But in spite of these unromantic facts, I have nothing to complain of, and never was so jolly in my life. Excuse the remark, but living among boys, I can't help using their expressions now and then." "Yes, Jo, I think your harvest will be a good one," began Mrs. March, frightening away a big black cricket that was staring Teddy out of countenance. "Not half so good as yours, Mother. Here it is, and we never can thank you enough for the patient sowing and reaping you have done," cried Jo, with the loving impetuosity which she never would outgrow. "I hope there will be more wheat and fewer tares every year," said Amy softly.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. ”
― George Orwell

“وَلَقَد ذَكَرتُكِ والرِّماحُ نَواهِلٌ - مِنّي وبِيضُ الهِندِ تَقطُرُ مِن دَمي
فَوَدَدتُ تَقبيلَ السُيوفِ لأَنَّها - لَمَعَت كَبارِقِ ثَغرِكِ المُتَبَسِّمِ”
― عَنتَرة بِن شَدّاد

“فلا ترْضى بمنقَصَة ٍ وَذُلٍّ
وتقنعْ بالقليل منَ الحطام
فَعيْشُكَ تحْتَ ظلّ العزّ يوْماً
ولا تحت المذلَّة ِ ألفَ عام”
― عنترة بن شداد

“إِذا لَعِبَ الغَرامُ بِكُلِّ حُرٍّ
حَمِدتُ تَجَلُّدي وَشكَرتُ صَبري
وَفَضَّلتُ البِعادَ عَلى التَداني
وَأَخفَيتُ الهَوى وَكَتَمتُ سِرّي”
― عنترة بن شداد

“لا تَـسقِني مـاءَ الـحَياةِ بِذِلَّةٍ بَـل فَاِسقِني بِالعِزِّ كَأسَ الحَنظَلِ
مـاءُ الـحَياةِ بِـذِلَّةٍ كَـجَهَنَّمٍ وَجَـهَنَّمٌ بِـالعِزِّ أَطـيَبُ مَنزِلِ”
― عنترة بن شداد, ديوان عنترة بن شداد

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead