مُعتصِم

“بلقيسُ..
كانتْ أجملَ المَلِكَاتِ في تاريخ بابِِلْ
بلقيسُ ..
كانت أطولَ النَخْلاتِ في أرض العراقْ
كانتْ إذا تمشي ..
ترافقُها طواويسٌ ..
وتتبعُها أيائِلْ ..”
― نزار قباني, قصيدة بلقيس

“إن العلماء ينتمون إلى عصرهم فقط، أما الشعراء فإنهم ينتمون لكل العصور”
― علي عزت بيجوفيتش, الإسلام بين الشرق والغرب

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
― Anatole France

“It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto