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معالم في الطريق

by Sayyid Qutb

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الفكر العربي في عصر النهضة ١٧٩٨-١٩٣٩

by Albert Hourani

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الإسلام وأصول الحكم

by علي عبد الرازق

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Omar’s Quotes

“Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

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“Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals…”
― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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“Every society has the criminals it deserves.”
― Emma Goldman, Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings & Speeches

tags: anarchism, criminal, emma-goldman, politics, society

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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: art, capitalism, change, literature, power, resistance, writing

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“The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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