Ahmed Hegazy > Ahmed's Quotes

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
― Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.”
― Jim Morrison

“In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Burned

“Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is liable to be challenged, but one must draw a distinction between them, since two different and even opposing ideas are involved. By ‘patriotism’ I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality.”
― George Orwell

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

“غريب أمر الإنسان حقًا .. إن عيوبنا ككشافات سيارة نركبها .. لا نراها نحن أبدًا بينما هى تعمى عيون الآخرين الذين يقابلوننا .. و بالمثل نحن نرى كشافاتهم- أو عيوبهم - بوضوح تام قد يدفعنا إلى مطالبتهم بتخفيضها قليلاً .”
― أحمد خالد توفيق