Aly Montaser

“Try mentally to travel to a faraway place, if not necessarily in order to move your world – though how splendid that would be! – but to see it clearly for what it is. Doing so will grant you the opportunity to retain your freedom. And to remain a free spirit as you grow up and make your way in this world, it is essential that you cultivate a rare but crucial freedom: the liberty that comes from knowing how the economy works and from the capacity to answer the trillion-dollar question: ‘Who does what to whom around your neck of the woods and further afield?”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism

“Our egos divide the world into positive and negative, good and bad. Most aspects of our shadows, these qualities that we see as “negative,” would in fact be valuable strengths if we made them conscious. Characteristics that look immoral, barbaric, or embarrassing to us are the “negative” side of a valuable energy, a capacity we could make use of. You will never find anything in the unconscious that will not be useful and good when it is made conscious and brought to the right level.”
― Robert A. Johnson, Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth

“War appears to be as old as Mankind, but peace is a modern invention.”
― David Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine—Understanding Modern Warfare Today

“أبى .. تبهت ذكراه بكرور السنين وأشعر بالأسى كلما أكتشفت أننى لم أعد قادرا على استدعاء لون عينيه، وأعود إلى أوراقى القديمة لأتثبت أنه مات ضحى يوم الأثنين قائظ الحرارة فى شهر يوليو البغيض.”
― مصطفى بيومى, إنسان