Amal Katrib

“President Dwight Eisenhower expressing astonishment and alarm on discovering that fully half of all Americans have below average intelligence);”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Palestinianism was for Said a condition of chronic exile, exile as agony but also as ethical position. To remain aloof from the group while honouring one’s organic ties to it; to exist between loneliness and alignment, remaining always a bit of a stranger; to resist the resolution of the narrative, the closing of the circle; to keep looking, to not feel too at home.”
― Isabella Hammad, Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

“It will always remain incomprehensible that our generation, which has shown itself so great by its discoveries and inventions, could fall so low in the realms of thought.”
― Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought

“By acquiescing in an act that can cause such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished as a human being.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring