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“The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.”
― Leo Strauss

“One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.”
― Leo Strauss

“A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.”
― Leo Strauss

“For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.”
― Leo Strauss, On Tyranny

“But what is the core of the political? Men killing men on the largest scale in broad daylight and with the greatest serenity.”
― Leo Strauss, On Plato's Symposium

“أعطني حباً كأُمي ، أعطنِي وفاءً كقُربها لأُؤمِن بك .”
― فيروز محمد, فاء ديسمبر

“رحِم الله دموعاً
لم تنَم
أكثَر من كفوفٍ باردةٍ
لَم تأتِ .”
― فيروز محمد, فاء ديسمبر

“سأَدع لكِ كتفِي إن ضاقَت بِك المُدن يوماً .”
― فيروز محمد, فاء ديسمبر