Mohammad Chabarek > Mohammad's Quotes

“To die hating them, that was freedom”
― George Orwell, 1984

“ونحنُ لم نحلم بأكثر من حياةٍ 'كالحياة'!.”
― محمود درويش

“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

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate”
― John Lydon

“فحتى عندما لا نبصر نورا في نهاية النفق يجب أن نؤمن بأن النور لابد أن يظهر ”
― أمين معلوف, موانئ المشرق

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown”
― Norman Foster

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Revenge. Sweet lasting revenge. And now it was time for all of us to get a taste.”
― Lorenzo Carcaterra, Sleepers

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.”
― Gustave Le Bon, سيكولوجية الجماهير

“Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings”
― Vitruvius

“I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality”
― Zaha Hadid

“If you weren't an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect”
― Norman Foster

“سيكون مؤسفاً لشعب ما، أياً كان، أن يمجد تاريخه أكثر من مستقبله”
― أمين معلوف , In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

“قانون الأكثرية ليس دائمًا مرادفًا للديمقراطية والحرية والمساواة بل هو أحيانًا مرادف للطغيان والاستعبدا والتمييز العنصري .. وعندما تعاني إحدى الأقليات من القمع، لا يحررها الاقتراع العام بالضرورة بل قد يضيق عليها الخناق”
― أمين معلوف, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

“لقد علّمنا القرن العشرون أنه لا يوجد عقيدة تحريرية بذاتها، فكلها يمكن أن تنحرف، وكلها يمكن أن تشذ، وكلها أيديها ملطخة بالدماء، الشيوعية والليبرالية والقومية وكل الديانات الكبرى وحتى العلمانية. لا أحد يحتكر التعصب، وبالعكس لا أحد يحتكر ما هو إنساني.”
― أمين معلوف, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

“إذا كنت تقرأ فقط الكتب التي يقرأها الجميع؛ فستفكر فقط كما يفكّر الجميع.”
― هاروكي موراكامي

“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt