Tarek

“In the 1950s kids lost their innocence.
They were liberated from their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave rise to a new term ---the generation gap.

In the 1960s, kids lost their authority.
It was a decade of protest---church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting. Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it.

In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self.
Self-image, Self-esteem, Self-assertion....It made for a lonely world. Kids learned everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a difference.

In the 1980s, kids lost their hope.
Stripped of innocence, authority and love and plagued by the horror of a nuclear nightmare, large and growing numbers of this generation stopped believing in the future.

In the 1990s kids lost their power to reason. Less and less were they taught the very basics of language, truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern world.

In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their imagination. Violence and perversion entertained them till none could talk of killing innocents since none was innocent anymore.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder

“يتضح أن الإسلام ثورة اجتماعية، يقاتل فيها المظلومون عن حقهم في الحياة. وهم أيضا إنما يقاتلون المترفين لكي يحققوا نظام العدالة و المساواة بين الناس و ينشروا بينهم أمر الله. هذه هو الحق الذي فهمه علي بن أبي طالب وجاهد في سبيله. فالأمر ليس جهادا في سبيل الفتح و الغلبة كما ظنَّ معاوية ومن لف لفَّه من وعاظ السلاطين ، والإمام علي إذن لا يعتم بمصلحة الدولة بقدر اهتمامه بمصلحة الشعوب التي تحكمها تلك الدولة”
― علي الوردي, مهزلة العقل البشري

“It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.”
― murray rothbard

“يـاعاقد الـحاجبين على الجبين اللجين
إن كنت تقصد قتلى قـتلتني مـرتين
مـاذا يـريبك مني ومـاهممت بـشين
أصُـفرةٌ في جبينى أم رعشة في اليدين
تَـمر قـفز غزال ٍبين الرصيف وبيني
وما نصبت شباكي ولا أذنت لـعيني
تـبدو كأن لاتراني ومـلء عينك عيني
ومـثل فعلك فعلي ويلي من الأحمقين
مولاي لم تبق مني حـياً سوى رمقين
صبرت حتى براني وجدي وقرب حيني
ستحرم الشعر من وليس هـذا بهين
أخاف تدعوالقوافي عليك في المشرقين”
― بشارة الخوري