Omar Hafiz > Omar's Quotes

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
― Winston Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“People don't resist change. They resist being changed.”
― Peter Senge

“The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.”
― Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

“When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“إن الحضارة والثقافة بضاعة لا تصدر ولا تستورد. ليست الحضارة والثقافة هي الراديو والتلفزيون والثلاجة تنقل من هناك إلى هنا ثم توصل بالكهرباء فتعمل. الحضارة والثقافة توجدان بإعداد الأرض والعمل فيها بصبر ودراسة ووعي ومعرفة. بتغيير الإنسان وتغيير الفكر مع معرفة أرضية المكان الذي نعيش فيه وجوه، باختيار البذور اختيار الثمار وتعهدها بالرعاية، ومعرفة أنواع الثمار وتناسبها مع احتياجاتنا ومع الفائدة التي نريد.
إن الحضارة التي تصدر وتستورد عبارة عن :
تكرار مستمر لخدعة تستلفت الأنظار لكنها خادعة وكاذبة ولا تصل إلى نتيجة أبداً، هذا مع وجود ما يبدو أنه قطع لطريق مائة سنة في ليلة واحدة، واولئك الذين يتصورون أنه يمكن في الحضارة والثقافة قطع طريق مائة سنة في ليلة واحدة، أما أنهم لا يفهمون، وأما أنهم يريدون أن ألا يفهم الأخرين”
― علي شريعتي

“ربما ننفق كل العمر كي نثقب ثغرة..ليمر النور للأجيال مرة”
― أمل دنقل

“مِن السقوطِ أن يُسَخِّرَ المَرْءُ مواهبَه العظيمة من أجْلِ غايةٍ تافهة”
― محمد الغزالي

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
― Victor Hugo

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
― Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
― Pablo Picasso

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“كان مُحمّد -عليه الصلاة والسلام- إذا حزبه أمر صلّى , كذلك إذا حزب الأمر نفساً , رجعت لمن تُحب , فخفّ وقرها ,وانفرج كربها ,وأنست بعد وحشة , واهتدت بعد حيرة ..”
― عباس محمود العقاد, عبقرية محمد

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

“And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream

“هكذا, ولد نوع جديد من البشر: الإنسان المبرمج ويعني هؤلاء الذين يشبهون العقول البشرية بالكموبيوتر, متناسيين أن خاصية الإنسان هي طرح الأسئلة النهائية, وقبلها اسئلة لماذا وما الأهداف النهائية.”
― Roger Garaudy, حفارو القبور: الحضارة التي تحفر للإنسانية قبرها

“ثمة هزيمة داخلية في الفكر العربي تجعل من الغرب المرجعية الوحيدة ومصدر المعرفة الأوحد.”
― عبد الوهاب المسيري, رحلتي الفكرية في البذور والجذور والثمر: سيرة غير ذاتية غير موضوعية

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Suddenly the TV reveals itself for what it really is; a video of another world, ultimately addressed to no one at all, delivering its own message.”
― Jean Baudrillard, America

“Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.”
― Jean Baudrillard

“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void. We are back in the Byzantine situation, where idolatry calls on a plethora of images to conceal from itself the fact that God no longer exists. That's why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of a presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

“Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

“America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth. Having known no primitive accumulation of time, it lives in a perpetual present.”
― Jean Baudrillard, América