Muhammad Moneib

“Hunger is the best cook.”
― Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio

“The difference between Middle Eastern and Western economic approaches can be seen even in their distinctive forms of corruption, from which neither society is exempt. In the West, one makes money in the market, and uses it to buy or influence power. In the East, one seizes power, and uses it to make money.”
― Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East

“Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.”
― Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio

“We are the prisoners of the mechanical orgy pursued inside the earth, for we have dug mines, underground galleries through which we sneak in a band beneath the cities that we want to blow up.”
― André Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism