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“يحصل المرء على أول انطباع عن حاكم وعقله حين يري الرجال الذين حوله.”
― ميكيافيللى, The Prince

“الحرية الروحية، و هي التي لا يمكن سلبها من الإنسان، و هي التي تجعل الحياة ذات معنى و ذات هدف”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“لا تطلبي حرية أيتها الرعيه
لا تطلبي حرية..
بل مارسي الحرية
إن رضى الراعي... فألف مرحبا
و إن أبى
فحاولي إقناعه باللطف والرويه..
قولى له أن يشرب البحر
وأن يبلع نصف الكرة الأرضية!
ما كانت الحرية اختراعه
أو إرث من خلفه
لكي يضمها إلى أملاكه الشخصية
إن شاء أن يمنعها عنك
زواها جانبا
أو شاء أن يمنحها.. قدمها هديه
قولي له: إني ولدت حُرة
قولى له: إني أنا الحرية
إن لم يصدقك فهاتي شاهدا
و ينبغي في هذه القضية
أن تجعلي الشاهد... بندقيه!”
― أحمد مطر, لافتات - المجموعة الكاملة

“You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.”
― Vaclav Havel

“The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.”
― Václav Havel

“True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?”
― Václav Havel

“What else but a profound feeling of being excluded can enable a person better to see the absurdity of the world and his own existence, or, to put it more soberly, the absurd dimensions of the world and his own existence?”
― Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala

“For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.”
― Václav Havel, The Power of the Powerless

“Totalitarian ideology is able to blackmail man through his inner cowardice It threatens him into surrendering his innermost convictions in exchange for glamour and acceptance...”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorize, to salivate when the bell rings.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“The fear of freedom is the fear of assuming responsibility.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“الإنسان المتحرر هو الذي لا يشعر أبدا برغبة في فرض سيادته .ولو على كلبه”
― ناصر