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“ويبدو أن هناك رجال لا يمكن قتلهم إلا من الداخل”
― غسان كنفاني, رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his "normal" contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves.”
― Erich fromm, The Art of Being

“أشعـر أنني أريد أن أقـول لكـ فقط أحبــك , ومن ثم أبـكي
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أبكـي لأنـها تعبـر عن الكثـير ولأنها تختصـر الكثـير

ولأن الأطفـال حين يعـجزون عـن التعبير يبكون

ويرددون كلمة واحـدة غير مفهومة ومبهمة”
― جبران خليل جبران

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
― Jim Morrison

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

“مكن تعريف الشمولية الحديثة بأنها: "عملية تأسيسِ حربٍ أهلية قانونية من خلال تطبيق «حالة الاستثناء»"، بما يُتِيحُ التصفية الجسدية ليس فقط للخصوم السياسيين، بل لشرائح كاملة من المواطنين تعتبرهم السلطة، لسببٍ أو لآخر، غير قابلين للاندماج في النظام السياسي. منذ ذلك الحين، بات الخلق الطوعي لحالة طوارئ دائمة، حتى وإن كانت غير مُعلنةٍ –ربما- على الصعيد الفني للمصطلح، أحد الإجراءات الضرورية الهامة التي تلجأ إليها الدول المعاصرة، حتى تلك المُسمَّاةِ دولاً ديمقراطية”
― Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception

“حين يموت من نحبه يموت شئ فينا , هذة هى الحياة , سلسلة طويلة من الموت . يموت الآخرين , فتموت أشياء فى دواخلنا , يموت من نحبهم , فتموت أعضاء من أجسادنا , الإنسان لا ينتظر موته , بل يعيشة , يعيش موت الآخرين داخله , و حين يصل الى موته , يكون قد بتر الكثير من أجزائه , و لم يبق منه إلا القليل”
― إلياس خوري, Gate of the Sun

“A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another....

One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object -- and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

“لا وجود إلا لعلامة واحدة تشهد على أننا فهمنا كل شيء : أن نبكي بلا سبب !”
― إميل سيوران