Farouk Zalatimo > Farouk's Quotes

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy, War Talk

“There are lots of women who are attracted to tyrannical men. Like moths to a flame. And there are some women who do not need a hero or even a stormy lover but a friend. Just remember that when you grow up. Steer clear of the tryant lovers, and try to locate the ones who are looking for a man as a friend, not because they are feeling empty themselves but because they enjoy making you full too. And remember that friendship between a woman and a man is something much more precious and rare than love: love is actually something quite gross and even clumsy compared to friendship. Friendship includes a measure of sensitivity, attentiveness, generosity, and a finely tuned sense of moderation.”
― Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

“Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.”
― Amos Oz

“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.”
― Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

“لا تعشقي فلسطينياً فإنه قد يموت بأي لحظة , رصاص بلاده كثير وطائش جداً, والسجن لديه مثل زيارة قريب ...عادية جداً ومكررة .”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“لأنه لا يُسمح لي بدخول القدس
قلت لإمرأة تقطن هناك: كوني عيناي”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“الذين نحبهم لا يموتون وان سار الناس جميعا بجنازات حقيقيه لهم .. هم فقط يصمتون للأبد”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“لا تعشقي فلسطينياً فإن لم يصبه الرصاص أو عتم السجن، أصابته الذكريات، نحن شعب لا ينسى.
لا تعشقيه أبداً فقد يصبح يوماً منفياً للأبد”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

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― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“إن الإنسان في حاجة إلى عامين ليتعلم الكلام،و إلى ستين عاماً ليتعلم الصمت.”
― رسول حمزاتوف, بلدي

“Any and all water is the color of drowning.”
― Emil Cioran