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“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

“the book is silent so long as you need silence, eloquent whenever you want discourse. he never interrupts you if you are engaged, but if you feel lonely he will be a good companion. he is a friend who never deceives or flatters you, and he is a comrade who does not grow tired of you.”
― Jāḥiẓ

“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
― Malcolm X

“How sweet is mortal Sovranty!"—think some: Others—"How blest the Paradise to come!" Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest; Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum!”
― Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”
― John Keats, Books and Reading: A Book of Quotations

“The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes--or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two--is gone.”
― Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
― Sarah Kay

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
― Jonathan Swift

“هه‌موو كه‌سێك په‌نجه‌ره‌یه‌كی هه‌یه‌، چ بۆ سه‌یركردن چ بۆ خۆپیشاندان، لێیه‌وه‌ ده‌ڕوانێته‌ كۆمه‌ڵ، ئه‌و په‌نجه‌ره‌یه‌ش پێی ده‌ووترێت (پله‌ و پایه‌) جا ئه‌گه‌ر ئه‌و په‌نجه‌ره‌یه‌ له‌ باڵای نرخ و به‌های خۆی به‌رزتر بوو ئه‌وا به‌ (ته‌كه‌بور) باڵای نرخ و به‌های خۆی درێژ ده‌كات تاكو له‌م په‌نجه‌ره‌یه‌وه‌ ده‌ربكه‌وێت. به‌ڵام ئه‌گه‌ر له‌ باڵای هیممه‌تی ئه‌و نزمتر بوو ئه‌وا به‌ (ته‌وزرع) خۆی نزم ده‌كاته‌وه‌ و داده‌نه‌وێت و له‌و ئاسته‌دا ده‌بینێت و ده‌شبینرێت، پێوه‌ره‌ی مه‌زنایه‌تی له‌ مرۆڤی كاملدا ته‌وازوعه‌، به‌ڵام كه‌سانی بووده‌ڵه‌ و ناته‌واو پێوه‌ری بچوكیان ته‌كه‌بوره‌. ـ”
― Said Nursî, The Words 1

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.”
― Hamza Yusuf

“مه‌ترسی مانه‌وه‌ی خوێنده‌وار به‌ نه‌فامی و كه‌ڕ و لاڵ و كوێرانه‌ وه‌ك مه‌ترسی هیچ شتێكی دیكه‌ نیه‌”
― Ali Shariati

“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”
― Richard Shaull, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders. ”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“كۆمه‌لگه‌ی پیكهاتوو له‌ هاوولاتی وریا له‌ هاوولاتی هه‌میشه‌ به‌خه‌به‌ر چیتر ئه‌و كۆمه‌لگه‌ خه‌ووتووه‌ نیه‌ كه‌ واقعی كۆمه‌لایه‌تی سیاسی و ئابووری خۆی نه‌بینێت - به‌لكو له‌ هه‌ر چركه‌یه‌ك ده‌توانێ هه‌ستێته‌ سه‌ر پێ و چاره‌نووسی رووداوه‌كان دیاری بكات - كۆمه‌لگه‌ی له‌ سه‌ر پێ هه‌میشه‌ ئاماده‌ی چودێریكردنه‌”
― Dr.Adel Bakawan