إلهام

“التعاريف كثيرًا ما تجني على البحث الذي يؤدي إلى تصوير حقيقة واقعة من الوقائع”
― Anonymous

“حَسِب المرأةَ قومٌ آفةً من يُدانيها من الناسِ هلكْ ورآها غيرُهم أمنيَّةً فاز بالنعمةِ فيها من ملكْ فتمنَّى معشرٌ لو نُبِذَت وظلامُ الليل مشتدُّ الحلكْ وتمنَّى غيرُهم لو جُعِلتْ في جبينِ الليث أو قلب الفلكْ وصوابُ القولِ لا يجهلهُ حاكمٌ في مسلك الحق سلكْ إنما المرأة مرآةٌ بها كل ما تنظرهُ منك ولكْ فهي شيطانٌ إذا أفسدتَهَا وإذا أصلحتَهَا فَهْيَ مَلَكْ”
― Anonymous

“أفما كانت كل الأمم التي اندثرت واستُعبدت تمر أولًا في مرحلة تدني الأخلاق وانطلاق الشهوات عابثة بأشرف ما خلق الله في الإنسان.”
― Anonymous

“Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself. Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own. There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.”
― Anonymous