Mohammed Hany > Mohammed's Quotes

“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“The erasure of the personality is the fatal accompaniment to an existence which is concretely submissive to the spectacle’s rules, ever more removed from the possibility of authentic experience and thus from the discovery of individual preferences. Paradoxically, permanent self-denial is the price the
individual pays for the tiniest bit of social status. Such an existence demands a fluid fidelity, a succession of continually disappointing commitments to false products. It is a matter of running hard to keep up with the inflation of devalued signs of life. Drugs help one to come to terms with this state of affairs, while madness allows one to escape from it.”
― Guy Debord, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle

“We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.”
― W H Auden, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

“The bulk of the advertising directed at children today has an immediate goal. “It’s not just getting kids to whine,” one marketer explained in Selling to Kids, “it’s giving them a specific reason to ask for the product.” Years ago sociologist Vance Packard described children as “surrogate salesmen” who had to persuade other people, usually their parents, to buy what they wanted. Marketers now use different terms to explain the intended response to their ads—such as “leverage,” “the nudge factor,” “pester power.” The aim of most children’s advertising is straightforward: Get kids to nag their parents and nag them well.”
― Noam Chomsky, Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power

“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”
― Lewis Mumford

“I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“إن قيمة كل واحد منا على قدر ايمانه بنفسه”
― علي شريعتي, النباهة والاستحمار

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

“فليتك تحلو والحياة مريرة
وليتك ترضى والأنام غضابُ

وليت الذي بيني وبينك عامر
وبيني وبين العالمين خرابُ

إذا صح منك الود فالكل هين
وكل الذي فوق التراب ترابُ”
― أبو فراس الحمداني

“I am a man and what I have to recapture is the whole past of the world, I am not responsible only for the slavery involved in Santo Domingo, every time man has contributed to the victory of the dignity of the spirit, every time a man has said no to an attempt to subjugate his fellows, I have felt solidarity with his act. In no way does my basic vocation have to be drawn from the past of peoples of color. In no way do I have to dedicate myself to reviving some black civilization unjustly ignored. I will not make myself the man of any past. My black skin is not a repository for specific values. Haven’t I got better things to do on this earth than avenge the blacks of the 17th century?

I as a man of color do not have the right to hope that in the white man there will be a crystallization of guilt towards the past of my race. I as a man of color do not have the right of stamping down the pride of my former master. I have neither the right nor the duty to demand reparations for my subjugated ancestors. There is no black mission. There is no white burden. I do not want to be victim to the rules of a black world. Am I going to ask this white man to answer for the slave traders of the 17th century? Am I going to try by every means available to cause guilt to burgeon in their souls? I am not a slave to slavery that dehumanized my ancestors. It would be of enormous interest to discover a black literature or architecture from the 3rd century B.C, we would be overjoyed to learn of the existence of a correspondence between some black philosopher and Plato, but we can absolutely not see how this fact would change the lives of 8 year old kids working the cane fields of Martinique or Guadeloupe. I find myself in the world and I recognize I have one right alone: of demanding human behavior from the other.”
― Franz Fanon

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
― Che Guevara

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“هناك احتمال آخر لتتويج مسعانا بغير الهزيمة، ما دمنا قررنا أننا لن نموت قبل أن نحاول أن نحيا ..”
― رضوى عاشور, أثقل من رضوى: مقاطع من سيرة ذاتية

“I’ve wrestled with alligators,
I’ve tussled with a whale.
I done handcuffed lightning
And throw thunder in jail.
You know I’m bad.
just last week, I murdered a rock,
Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick.
I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.”
― Muhammad Ali

“ما أكثر الناس لا بل ما أقلهم ،، والله يعلم أني لم أقل فندا
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إنّي لأفتح عيني حين أفتحُها ،، على كثير ٍ و لكن
لا أرى أحدًا !”
― دعبل الخزاعي

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

“عندما يفهم الشرقي أنه من جنس أدنى في الدرجة الثانية ويعتقد أن الغربي من الجنس الأعلى و في الدرجة الأولى وصانع للثقافة ، فإن علاقته به ستشبه علاقة الطفل بأمه ، علاقةمن هذا الصنف سوف تقوم تلقائياً بين المستعمَر ((بفتح الميم)) والمستعمِر ((بكسرها)) ، فالمستعمر يسمي دولته "الوطن الأم" ، أما الآسيويون والأفارقة فهم أطفل مفتقرون إلى التربية عليهم أن ينشئوا في حجره ، وفي جدلية سوردل تقوم هذه العلاقة : العلاقة بين الأم والطفل ، فالأم تنهر طفلها ، والطفل يلوذ بحضن الأم خوفاً منها وطلباً للأمان ، وهذه الجدلية تمحو نفسها بنفسها وتصير عامل جذب وتبعية ، وعندما يحس الشرقي أنه غثاء وهباء ، منتسب إلى دين منحط ، ومنتم إلى عرق ثقافته و جمالياته وفنونه وأشعاره و نظمه الاجتماعية وتاريخه وشخصياته التاريخية ومفاخره الماضية كلها منحطة وأنه لا يملك شيئاً قط ، يحس تلقائياً بالعار ، ويتهم نفسه بأنه من عرق منحط ومن أجل أن يدفع هذه التهمة عن نفسه ، يتشبه بالغربي حتى يقول بعد ذلك : لست من هذا العرق المتهم ، إنني من صنفكم ويتظاهر بأنه يشبهه ، يشبهه في الحياة والسلوك والتصرفات والحركات والسكنات والزينة وأسلوب العيش”
― Ali Shariati, العودة إلى الذات

“لا شئ يُعجبني
أريدُ أن....أبكي”
― محمود درويش, روائع الأعمال الشعرية: محمود درويش

“أمطري لؤلؤاً جبال سرنـديب
وفيضي آبار تكرور تبـرا
أنا إن عشت لست اعدم قوتاً
وإذا مت لست اعدم قبـراً
همتـي همة الملوك ونـفسـي
نفس حر ترى المذلة كفـراً
وإذا ما قنعت بالقـوت عمري
فلماذا أزور زيـداً وعمـراً”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي

“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, censured, commanded… noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished… drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed… repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed… mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
― Pierre Joseph Proudhon

“أنت أبداً تَنسىَ نفسَك وقَدْرَك عند كلامِك في الله، واعتراضِك عليه، ولو ذكرتَ مقدارَك بالإضافةِ إليه؛ تكلّمتَ كلاماً صغيراً بحَسَبك، ولا تتكلم كباراً بقول: (لِمَ؟ وكيفَ؟ ولو صنعَ هذا لكان أحسنَ وأتقن ولو قال كذا لكان افصح) .. العامّةُ تقول: "لعنَ اللهُ صبيّاً أكبرَ من أبيه"، ولكن ما أوقع اللعنَ في حقِّ عبدٍ أكبرَ من سيّدِهِ، ومخلوقٍ يتكبّرُ على خالقِهِ، ومُحكَّمٍ يَتحاكمُ على مُحكِّمِهِ ! ، ما بلغَ علمُك إلى الحد الذي يزري على علومِ الشرع، وتدابيرِ هذا الربِّ سبحانه وتعالى ؟! ، ولكن هذا كله وأمثاله دخلَ من باب جهلِك بنفسِك، ولو علمتَ مقدارَك لعلمتَ مقدارَ صانعِك، إمّا تعظيماً لنفسِك فعَظِّمْ مَنْ صَنَعَها، أو استزراءً لها؛ فلا تتحاكمْ على مُحكِّمِها؛ فأنت في كلا الحاليمِ - مُعظِّماً لنفسِك أو مُعلِّلاً لها - لا ينبغي أن تَبدُرَ منك بادرةُ اعتراضٍ عليه، ولا تتحاكمْ، لكن يجبُ عليك بحُكم الصيغةِ أن تُسْلِمَ لأفعالِهِ، وتُحكِّمَ حِكمتَه.”
― أبو الوفاء بن عقيل, صيد الخواطر