Hamza Lgouchi

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. I see that the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more refined and enduring. And all men of my age, here and over there, throughout the whole world see these things; all my generation is experiencing these things with me. What would our fathers do if we suddenly stood up and came before them and proffered our account? What do they expect of us if a time ever comes when the war is over? Through the years our business has been killing;—it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of life is limited to death. What will happen afterwards? And what shall come out of us?”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
― Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

“وأنت تعد فطورك، فكر بغيرك... (لا تنس قوت الحمام)
وأنت تخوض حروبك، فكر بغيرك... (لا تنس من يطلبون السلام)
وأنت تسدد فاتورة الماء، فكر بغيرك... (من يرضعون الغمام)
وأنت تعود الي البيت، بيتك، فكر بغيرك... (لا تنس شعب الخيام)
وأنت تنام وتحصي الكواكب، فكر بغيرك... (ثمة من لم يجد حيزا للمنام)
وأنت تحرر نفسك بالاستعارات، فكر بغيرك... (من فقدوا حقهم في الكلام)
وأنت تفكر بالآخرين البعيدين، فكر بنفسك... (قل: ليتني شمعة في الظلام)”
― محمود درويش