Ahmed Medhat

“الشيطان في عقلك وليس في جسد المرأة”
― ليلى المطوع

“The apparatus of corrective penality acts in a quite different way. The point of application of the penality is not the representation, but the body, time, everyday gestures and activities; the soul, too, but in so far as it is the seat of habits. The body and the soul, as principles of behaviour, from the element that is now proposed for punitive intervention. Rather than on an art of representations, this punitive intervention must rest on studied manipulation of the individual:'I have no more doubt of every crime having its cure in moral and physical influence...'; so, in order to decide on punishments, one 'will require some knowledge of the principles of sensations, and of the sympathies which occur in the nervous system'. As for the instruments used, these are no longer complexes of representation, reinforced and circulated, but forms of coercion, schemata of constraint, applied and repeated. Exercises, not signs: time-tables, compulsory movements, regular activities, solitary meditation, work in common, silence, application, respect, good habits. And, ultimately, what one is trying to restore in this technique of correction is not so much the juridical subject, who is caught up in the fundamental interests of the social pact, but the obedient subject, the individual subjected to habits, rules, orders, an authority that is exercised continually around him and upon him, and which he must allow to function automatically in him. There are two quite distinct ways, therefore, of reacting to the offence: one may restore the juridical subject of the social pact, or shape an obedient subject, according to the general and detailed form of some power.”
― Michel Foucalut

“الحياة كلمة لبنانية و التجارة كلمة سورية و اللامبالاة كلمة مصرية”
― أنيس منصور, على سفر

“فكما انه ليس من صالح الوصي ان يبلغ الأيتام رشدهم، كذلك ليس من غرض المستبد أن تتنور الرعية بالعلم”
― عبد الرحمن الكواكبي, طبائع الاستبداد ومصارع الاستعباد