“What makes a bourgeoisie is not its attitude, taste, or manners. It is not even its aspirations. The bourgeoisie is above all the direct product of precise economic realities.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth
“لا.. لست يائساً. قال ابن خلدون ولعله محق، أننا نعيش زمن اضمحلال. ولكن إذا لم يعمل المرء شيئاً في مثل هذا الزمن، ففي أي زمن سيعمل؟! سألتِ كم سنصمد! وأقول لك: إننا سنصمد حتى يتغير شيء في هذه الأمة، لا بد أن يتغير شيء وإلا فقدنا حقنا في الوجود.”
― منمنمات تاريخية
― منمنمات تاريخية
“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe”
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“there is no glory in punishing”
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
“The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
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