Abbas Abouzeid

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?
Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.
Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours
Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.

When once you hear the roses are in bloom,
Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;
Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-
These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.”
― Omar Khayyám

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

“ليتني حجر
لا أحنُّ إلى أيِّ شيء
فلا أمسِ يمضي،
ولا الغَدُ يأتي
ولا حاضري يتقدَّمُ أو يتراجعُ
لا شيءَ يحدُثُ لي!”
― محمود درويش