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It is then, according to Grotius, doubtful whether the human race belongs to a hundred men, or that hundred men to the human race:
“وقد قال أنطون تشيخوف ذات مرة: «لا توحد المحبة الناس، ولا الصداقة، ولا الاحترام، بقدر ما توحدهم ضغينة مشتركة لشيء ما».”
― قوانين الطبيعة البشرية
― قوانين الطبيعة البشرية
“Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole.”
― The Social Contract.
― The Social Contract.
“مستقبل الجنس البشري يعتمد على قدرتنا على تجاوز هذه النزعة القبلية، ومعرفة أن مصيرنا مرتبط بمصير الآخرين كلهم، فنحن نوع حي واحد، وكلنا ننحدر من الأسلاف أنفسهم، وجميعنا إخوة وأخوات، والفوارق بيننا هي في غالبيتها وهمٌ، وتصور وجود الفوارق هو جزء من جنون الجماعات، فعلينا النظر إلى أنفسنا كأننا جماعة واقعية كبيرة واحدة، نشعر بإحساس عميق بالانتماء إليها، ويتطلب منا حلُّ المشكلات التي صنعها الإنسان وتهددُ حياتنا التعاونَ على مستوًى عالٍ جدًّا، وأن تكون لدينا الروح العملية التي تفتقدها القبيلة.”
― قوانين الطبيعة البشرية
― قوانين الطبيعة البشرية
“The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.”
― The Social Contract.
― The Social Contract.
“My Creed
I do not choose to be a common man,
It is my right to be uncommon … if I can,
I seek opportunity … not security.
I do not wish to be a kept citizen.
Humbled and dulled by having the
State look after me.
I want to take the calculated risk;
To dream and to build.
To fail and to succeed.
I refuse to barter incentive for a dole;
I prefer the challenges of life
To the guaranteed existence;
The thrill of fulfillment
To the stale calm of Utopia.
I will not trade freedom for beneficence
Nor my dignity for a handout
I will never cower before any master
Nor bend to any threat.
It is my heritage to stand erect.
Proud and unafraid;
To think and act for myself,
To enjoy the benefit of my creations
And to face the world boldly and say:
This, with God’s help, I have done
All this is what it means
To be an Entrepreneur.”
―
I do not choose to be a common man,
It is my right to be uncommon … if I can,
I seek opportunity … not security.
I do not wish to be a kept citizen.
Humbled and dulled by having the
State look after me.
I want to take the calculated risk;
To dream and to build.
To fail and to succeed.
I refuse to barter incentive for a dole;
I prefer the challenges of life
To the guaranteed existence;
The thrill of fulfillment
To the stale calm of Utopia.
I will not trade freedom for beneficence
Nor my dignity for a handout
I will never cower before any master
Nor bend to any threat.
It is my heritage to stand erect.
Proud and unafraid;
To think and act for myself,
To enjoy the benefit of my creations
And to face the world boldly and say:
This, with God’s help, I have done
All this is what it means
To be an Entrepreneur.”
―
Husain’s 2025 Year in Books
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