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“وإذا تتبعنا سيرة أبي بكر وعمر رضي الله عنهما مع الأمة، نجد أنهما مع كونهما مفطورين خير فطرة، ونائلين التربية النبوية لم تترك الأمة معهما المراقبة والمحاسبة ولم تعطهما طاعة عمياء.”
― عبد الرحمن الكواكبي, طبائع الاستبداد ومصارع الاستعباد

“ومن عجب أن أهل حارتنا يضحكون! علام يضحكون؟ إنهم يهتفون للمنتصر أياً كان المنتصر، ويهللون للقوي أياً كان القوي، ويسجدون أمام النبابيت، يداوون بذلك كله الرعب الكامن في أعماقهم. غموس اللقمة في حارتنا الهوان. لا يدري أحد متى يجيء دوره ليهوي النبوت على هامته.”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― Lord Byron

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

[The Minotaur]”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Let people be, boss; don't open their eyes. And supposing you did, what'd they see? Their misery! Leave their eyes closed, boss, and let them go on dreaming!”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“The mind speaks louder than the voice.”
― Erin Forbes, Fire & Ice: The Lost Dreamer

“Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient, that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him.”
― Ernest Renan

“A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.”
― Che Guevara

“The best form of saying is being”
― Che Guevarra, Passages de la guerre révolutionnaire : le Congo

“يقولون لي إذا رأيت عبدا نائما فلا توقظه لئلا يحلم بالحريه وأقول لهم إذا رايت عبدا نائما ايقظته وحدثته عن الحريه”
― Ernesto Guevara