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“يجب ألا يعتقد أحد أن مجتمعا مثاليا سيظهر فور سقوط نظام الحكم الديكتاتوري، فسقوط الحكم الديكتاتوري هو بمثابة نقطة البدء التي تتيح، تحت ظروف حرية أفضل، المجال لبذل جهود طويلة الأمد لتطوير المجتمع وتلبية حاجاته الإنسانية بشكل أفضل. ستستمر المشاكل السياسية والاقتصادية والاجتماعية الخطيرة لسنوات طويلة، وهو ما يتطلب تعاون الكثير من الناس والجماعات على إيجاد حل لها.”
― جين شارب, المقاومة اللاعنفية: دراسات في النضال بوسائل اللاعنف

“Anti-Christian sentiment is vehemently enforced in the Quran, as the book emphatically preaches that the crucifixion of Jesus never occurred, “they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them.”32 However, this cornerstone of Islamic theology is proven to be a lie as ancient secular and Jewish sources (Flavius Josephus and Tacitus) in Judea documented Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection - this happened 600 years before Muhammad was even born. Yet,”
― J.K. Sheindlin, The People vs Muhammad - Psychological Analysis

“Love in the Quran is very capricious. Culturally, love in Islam should only be given to someone if they are also a Muslim and loves you back; which is contradictory to the Bible for which Muhammad claimed was an extension of the Quran. In total, out of the whole Quran, only about 5 verses pertain to nonmaterialistic and unconditional love. Of these 5, 3 refer to loving Muslims only while the 4th commands love for Allah. The final is a reference to charity which is to be given explicitly to Muslims only.29 It’s understandable now why Muslim women refuse to shake hands with unbelievers, and why treaties between Muslim and non-Muslim countries never last.”
― J.K. Sheindlin, The People vs Muhammad - Psychological Analysis

“There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world today. Of course not all of them are radicals. The majority of them are peaceful people. The radicals are estimated to be between 15-25%, according to all intelligence services around the world. That leaves 75% of them - peaceful people. But when you look at 15-25% of the world Muslim population, you're looking at 180 million to 300 million people dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization. That is as big as the United States. So why should we worry about the radical 15-25%? Because it is the radicals that kill. Because it is the radicals that behead and massacre. When you look throughout history, when you look at all the lessons of history, most Germans were peaceful. Yet the Nazis drove the agenda. And as a result, 60 million people died, almost 14 million in concentration camps. 6 million were Jews. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. When you look at Russia, most Russians were peaceful as well. Yet the Russians were able to kill 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. When you look at China for example, most Chinese were peaceful as well. Yet the Chinese were able to kill 70 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. When you look at Japan prior to World War II, most Japanese were peaceful as well. Yet, Japan was able to butcher its way across Southeast Asia, killing 12 million people, mostly killed by bayonets and shovels. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. On September 11th in the United States we had 2.3 million Arab Muslims living in the United States. It took 19 hijackers - 19 radicals - to bring America down to its knees, destroy the World Trade Center, attack the Pentagon and kill almost 3000 Americans that day. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. So for all our power of reason, and for all us talking about moderate and peaceful Muslims, I'm glad you're here. But where are the others speaking out? And since you are the only Muslim representative in here, you took the limelight instead of speaking about why our government - I assume you're an American (the Muslim says yes) - As an American citizen, you sat in this room, and instead of standing up and saying a question, or asking something about our four Americans that died and what our government is doing to correct the problem, you stood there to make a point about peaceful, moderate Muslims. I wish you had brought ten with you to question about how we could hold our government responsible. It is time we take political correctness and throw it in the garbage where it belongs.” - Brigette Gabriel (transcript from Benghazi Accountability Coalition - Heritage Foundation)”
― J.K. Sheindlin, The People vs Muhammad - Psychological Analysis

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“If the government turns a blind eye to striking union members who use violence against employers or “scabs” (strike breakers), while at the same time the government stands ready to use its police power to prevent management from hiring armed personnel to disperse the picketing union members, then the union is implicitly allowed to set its own minimum wage rate for the firm being targeted. The economic effects are the same as with an explicit government-imposed minimum wage: institutional unemployment, which in such cases falls disproportionately on lower-skilled workers outside of the union.”
― Robert P. Murphy, Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action

“We can anticipate Mises's ultimate conclusion: There is no viable third system. People must choose between capitalism and socialism.”
― Robert P. Murphy, Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action

“Economics deals with society's fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.”
― Robert P. Murphy, Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action

“For example, if the U.S. government suddenly imposed a requirement that employers grant all workers a minimum of two hours each day for lunch, then labor-intensive industries would suffer. Foreign manufacturers—who would be exempt from U.S. labor laws—could easily undercut U.S. manufacturers in products where the United States had originally employed a large number of workers. Rather than enjoying a longer lunch break, many of these workers would be thrown out of work immediately. There would be no question, even in the short run, that the pro-labor legislation had actually hurt many of the people it was designed to help.”
― Robert P. Murphy, Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action

“Putting aside the concerns about the intentions of the rulers and the incentives for the workers, socialism cannot work because the central planner(s) would lack market prices and hence would have no way of determining, even after the fact, if their “rational” plan for production made an efficient use of resources.”
― Robert P. Murphy, Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action

“يظن معظم المتخصصين في العلوم الاجتماعية أن المنهج نفسه — « المنهج العلمي » — ينبغي تطبيقه في مجالاتهم أيضًا . لكن المشكلة تكمن في أن الأشياء التي يدرسونها لديها عقول بكل ما تحمله الكلمة من معنى . وقد تبين أنه من العسير للغاية وضع مجموعة من القوانين الموجزة التي يمكنها أن تتنبأ بدقة بسلوك الأشخاص في مختلف الظروف . ففي العلوم الاجتماعية — لا سيما علم الاقتصاد — تكون الأمور أكثر تعقيدًا بكثير بحيث يستحيل في كثير من الحالات إجراء تجربة علمية منهجية موجَّهة حقًّا .”
― Robert P. Murphy, Lessons for the Young Economist

“من الأسباب المهمة وراء هذه الفجوة — بين نجاح العلوم الطبيعية والمكانة الرفيعة التي تحتلها من جهة ، وبين الثمار المتواضعة للعلوم الاجتماعية ومعاداة البعض لها من جهة أخرى — أن الأشياء موضع الدراسة في العلوم الطبيعية بسيطة إلى حد ما ، وسلوكها يبدو محكومًا بمجموعة محددة من القوانين . ومن ثمَّ ، يمكن أن تعتمد العلوم الصلبة على تجارب موجَّهة من أجل تقييم نظرياتها . ولهذا السبب نجد الفيزياء أقل عرضة للوصول إلى الطريق المسدود الذي يظن كثيرون أنه حدث مع علم نفس فرويد أو اقتصاد كينز . أيضًا تضع نظريات الفيزياء تكهنات بشأن الأشياء في العالم المادي . وسيكون من العسير جدًّا على نظرية جديدة أقل شأنًا أن تسود في أحد العلوم الصلبة ( كالفيزياء مثلًا ) ، لأن قلة شأنها ستتضح مرارًا وتكرارًا فيما يُجرى من تجارب . وقد جاهر أينشتاين بالاعتراض على بعض التأثيرات الفلسفية لنظرية الكم ، لكن ما من عالم فيزياء واحد ( بمن فيهم أينشتاين نفسه ) استطاع أن يشكك في صحة تكهنات النظرية فيما يتعلق بالقياسات التجريبية التي أجريت على الجسيمات دون الذرية .

ولأن الجسيمات دون الذرية لا عقل لها ( على حد علمنا ) ، فإنه لفهم سلوكها — لفهم طبيعة الجسيمات دون الذرية — ليس مطلوبًا من أي نظرية فيزيائية سوى أن تتنبأ بأقصى قدر من الدقة بما ستفعله هذه الجسيمات في مختلف الظروف . والآن ، ينبغي أن نوضح أن الأمور ليست بهذا القدر من البساطة عندما يتعلق الأمر بالتطبيق الفعلي للفيزياء اليومية . يمكن لنظرية واحدة أن تعطي تكهنات أفضل من خلال بضع تجارب ، في حين يمكن لنظرية أخرى أن تكون أكثر بساطة وتأثيرًا . وهناك بعض الفيزيائيين الذين يعتقدون في النظرية الأكثر تأثيرًا ، ويبحثون عن أخطاء محتملة في التجارب التي تلقي بظلال الشك على نظريتهم المفضلة . ومع ذلك ، فإنه في العلوم الصلبة وعلى المدى الطويل دائمًا ما تكون الغلبة للنظرية التي تعطي تكهنات أفضل على نحو أكثر تنظيمًا ووضوحًا من النظريات المنافسة الأخرى .”
― Robert P. Murphy, Lessons for the Young Economist

“ولسبب ما يبدو أنه حتى أعظم العباقرة في العلوم الاجتماعية يمكنهم أن يقودوا العلوم التي يتخصصون فيها إلى نهايات مسدودة ، بحيث يبدأ الكثيرون من الخبراء في المجال نفسه ( وأيضًا عامة الناس ) في الاعتقاد أن أحدث ما توصل إليه العلم حتى الآن ما هو إلا مضيعة للوقت . سوف يتفق الكثيرون أن « الطب النفسي كان على صواب … إلى أن ظهر سيجموند فرويد » أو أن « علم الاقتصاد أخذ منحنى بعيدًا كل البعد عن الصواب بعد ظهور جون ماينارد كينز على الساحة الاقتصادية » . لكن لن تجد أحدًا يقول : « قدَّم إسحاق نيوتن الكثير من الإسهامات الرائعة في الفيزياء إلى أن ظهر أينشتاين غريب الأطوار وأتى عليها . »”
― Robert P. Murphy, Lessons for the Young Economist

“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
― Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays

“Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.”
― Thomas Sowell

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“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

“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

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year. I feel I know you so well that I couldn't have known you better if we'd been friends for twenty years. You won't fail me, will you? Only two minutes, and you've made me happy forever. Yes, happy. Who knows, perhaps you've reconciled me with myself, resolved all my doubts.

When I woke up it seemed to me that some snatch of a tune I had known for a long time, I had heard somewhere before but had forgotten, a melody of great sweetness, was coming back to me now. It seemed to me that it had been trying to emerge from my soul all my life, and only now-

If and when you fall in love, may you be happy with her. I don't need to wish her anything, for she'll be happy with you. May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky