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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“القرآن لا يفسر نفسه بنفسه، و الإسلام لا يطبق نفسه بنفسه، و إنما يتم ذلك من خلال المسلمين..وما أسوأ ما فعل المسلمون بالإسلام”
― فرج فودة, الحقيقة الغائبة

“عليهم أن يجاهدوا في نفوسهم هوى السلطة و زينة مقاعد الحكم، و أن يجتهدوا قبل أن يجهدوا الآخرين بحلم لا غناء فيه، و أن يفكروا قبل أن يكفّروا، و أن يواجهوا مشاكل المجتمع بالحل لا بالهجرة، و أن يقتصدوا في دعوى الجاهلية حتى لا تقترن بالجهل، و أن يعلموا أن الإسلام أعز من أن يهينوه بتصور المصادمة مع العصر، و أن الوطن أعز من أن يهدموا وحدته بدعاوى التعصب، و أن المستقبل يصنعه القلم لا السواك، و العمل لا الاعتزال، و العقل لا الدروشة، و المنطق لا الرصاص، و الأهم من ذلك كله أن يدركوا حقيقة غائبة عنهم، و هي أنهم ليسوا وحدهم..جماعة المسلمين”
― فرج فودة, الحقيقة الغائبة

“إن الذين قتلوا الأقباط في ديروط أو فرج فودة في مصر الجديدة لم يفعلوا ذلك لأنهم جلسوا ففكروا ملياً في التفسير الصحيح لهذه الآية أو تلك, أو في الموقف الفقهي الصحيح للإسلام تجاه أصحاب الديانات الأخرى , بل انصاعوا لأهواء وضغوط سياسية و اقتصادية شتى جمّلت في أعينهم تفسيراً غاية في الغرابة للدين .”
― جلال أمين, وصف مصر في نهاية القرن العشرين

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”
― Stephen Hawking

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
― Terry Johnson, Insignificance

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
― Georg Hegel

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”
― HEGEL

“I am nothing but I must be everything.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
― Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World

“I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me ”
― Freddie Mercury

“I was born to love you
with every single beat of my heart.
I was born to take care of you
every single day of my life.”
― Freddie Mercury

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
― Winston Churchill

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs