Yamen

“In recent decades, aspiration has been heavily wrapped up not in what we aim to do, achieve or create but in what we can afford to buy.
Young adults and teenagers have been under more and more pressure to be successful with fewer means to do so. Brands have aggressively told us that the road to contentment is through consumption.”
― Symeon Brown, Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy

“الفلسفة تبقى بعد كل شيء, امتدادًا لفكر صاحبها وتعبيرًا عن توجهاته ومواقفه؛ إنها أمر شخصي بحت ولدينا من الفلسفات قدر ما لدينا من الفلاسفة.”
― فراس السواح, دين الإنسان: بحث في ماهية الدين ومنشأ الدافع الديني

“But in the influencer economy, drama is always to be monetised, and so on 5 April 2019, a tearful Jessy took out her camera, fixed her ponytail and began to record a monologue for YouTube with the caption ‘STOP REPORTING MY INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT’:”
― Symeon Brown, Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy

“فى قاموسى الكافر، ثمة كلمة واحدة مقدسـة: الصداقة”
― Milan Kundera, La festa dell'insignificanza