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“نعم ، يضنيني الحنين . ولكن ليس إلى الوطن وحده . أحن لزمن، لزمن مضى ولن أعيشه من جديد ، أبداً. أشتاق لعاشق كان لي، ولن يكون لي من جديد ...أبداً.”
― أهداف سويف, زينة الحياة

“ذكرياته أوضح في مخيلتها من ذكرياتها هي. لم يكن لها حتى ذكريات، لم يكن لها ماض، وفي لحظات الهلع، وراء باب الحمام الموصد، كانت تجزم بأن ماضيه يلتهم حاضرها.”
― أهداف سويف, زينة الحياة

“I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for... Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are noncoercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom.”
― Edward W. Said

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Karl Marx

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Man, in the traditional sense of the term corresponding to insān in Arabic or homo in Greek and not solely the male, is seen in Islam not as a sinful being to whom the message of Heaven is sent to heal the wound of the original sin, but as a being who still carries his primordial nature (al-fitrah) within himself, although he has forgotten that nature now buried deep under layers of negligence.”
― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity

“اللهم امنحني السكينة لأتقبل الأشياء التي لا أستطيع تغييرها، والشجاعة لتغيير الأشياء التي أستطيع تغييرها والحكمة لمعرفة الفرق بينهما.”
― عصام يوسف

“كلّهم يتحدّثون عن ِالطريق ، يقولون : تجد نفسكَ على الطريق ! وهُم لا يعرفون منَ الطريق إلا لونها الأسود وأرصِفتها !”
― Ghassan Kanafani, رجال في الشمس

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

“In newsreels or news-photos, the Arab is always shown in large numbers. No individuality, no personal characteristics or experiences. Most of the pictures represent mass rage and misery, or irrational (hence hopelessly eccentric) gestures. Lurking behind all of these images is the menace of jihad. Consequence: a fear that the Muslims (or Arabs) will take over the world.”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism