Mohamed Ebrahim > Mohamed's Quotes

“في داخل كل مقموع يكمن طاغية صغير يتحين الفرصة لكي يمارس ولو لمرة واحدة الاستبداد الذى مورس عليه”
― علاء الأسواني, لماذا لا يثور المصريون؟

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Wish You Were Here

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.”
― Roger Waters

“I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.”
― Roger Waters

“All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
All that you slight
And everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.”
― Roger Waters

“لو سكت من لا يدري، لقلّ الخلاف بين الخَلق”
― أبو حامد الغزالي, فيصل التفرقة بين الإسلام والزندقة

“إذا كان المسلمون يعتقدون أن إسلام شخص مسيحي منفعة للإسلام فهذا اعتقاد واهم، وسببه شعور المسلمين بأنهم أقل قدرة وإمكانات وقوة في العالم، فهو نوع من التعويض، وفي مصر بالذات هو نوع من الشعور بالانتصار في واقع كله هزائم كأن لو أسلم مسيحي يبقى المسلمون بقوا أفضل وأحسن وكأنهم كسبوا معركة وأثبتوا أن الإسلام أفضل من المسيحية. هذه طبعًا مشاعر المسلمين محدودي الدخل ومحدودي العقل ومحدودي الانتصارات في الحياة. ثم وسط حالة فساد يرتع فيها الكل فهذه وسيلة للتطهر والتقرب من الله من وجهة نظرهم.
أما المسيحيون فيرون في تنصُّر مسلم معجزة نورانية تنتقم لهم من غطرسة وغرور المسلمين الذين يتعاملون كأنهم الأفضل والأعظم، وانتصارًا للأقلية في مواجهة الأغلبية التي تعذب النصارى بالتجاهل سواء بصوت الميكروفونات بالأذان والصلاة في أذن المسيحي وخطب الجمعة ودروس التليفزيون التي تُكفّر النصارى كل يوم، فلما ينجح المسيحيون في تنصير مسلم يبقى عيدًا وإعلانًا للنصر. وهذا كله لا تراه في أوروبا مثلًا [...] لماذا؟ لأنه مجتمع غير مهزوم، ولا يتخذ الدين والعقيدة بابًا للتعويض عن وضع اقتصادي مهبب أو حرية مخنوقة أو فراغ سياسي أو قلة قيمة وانعدام حيلة.”
― إبراهيم عيسى, مولانا

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.”
― Herbert Spencer

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority who can convict you of thought crime while you are asleep, who can subject you to total surveillance around the clock every waking and sleeping minute of your life, before you're born and, even worse and where the real fun begins, after you're dead. A celestial North Korea. Who wants this to be true? Who but a slave desires such a ghastly fate? I've been to North Korea. It has a dead man as its president, Kim Jong-Il is only head of the party and head of the army. He's not head of the state. That office belongs to his deceased father, Kim Il-Sung. It's a necrocracy, a thanatocracy. It's one short of a trinity I might add. The son is the reincarnation of the father. It is the most revolting and utter and absolute and heartless tyranny the human species has ever evolved. But at least you can f#$%ing die and leave North Korea!”
― Christopher Hitchens

“The life of Spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself untouched by devastation, but rather the life that endures it and maintains itself in it. It wins its truth only when, in utter dismemberment, it finds itself…Spirit is this power only by looking the negative in the face, and tarrying with it.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit