Usman Ahmad

“If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.”
― Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“The army is the only order of men sufficiently united to concur in the same sentiments, and powerful enough to impose them on the rest of their fellow-citizens; but the temper of soldiers, habituated at once to violence and to slavery, renders them very unfit guardians of a legal, or even a civil constitution.”
― Edward gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire