Quotes - Yasser Alsharkawy (Alexandria, 06, Egypt) Showing 1-30 of 64

#1

“The ocean can be yours; why should you stop
Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew?
The secrets of the sun are yours, but you
Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.”
― Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār, The Conference of the Birds

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#2

“How strange it was that man could neither brook
The presence nor the absence of his look!”
― Farid Attar, The Conference of the Birds

tags: beauty, inspirational, truth

13 likes

#3

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

150585 likes

#4

“الفاتحة للعسكري … قلع الطربوش و عمل ولي”
― Naguib Mahfouz, أولاد حارتنا

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#5

“و من عجب ان اهل حارتنا يضحكون, علام يضحكوون ؟ انهم يهتفون للمنتصر ايا كان المنتصر, و يهللون للقوي ايا كان القوي, و يسجدون امام النبابيت يداوون بذلك كله الرعب الكامن في اعماقهم.”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا

tags: استبداد, الجبن, الشجاعة, ظلم

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#6

“الناس يعبدون القوة، حتى ضحاياها!”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا

tags: الخوف, القوة

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#7

“ومن عجب أن أهل حارتنا يضحكون! علام يضحكون؟ إنهم يهتفون للمنتصر أياً كان المنتصر، ويهللون للقوي أياً كان القوي، ويسجدون أمام النبابيت، يداوون بذلك كله الرعب الكامن في أعماقهم. غموس اللقمة في حارتنا الهوان. لا يدري أحد متى يجيء دوره ليهوي النبوت على هامته.”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا

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#8

“انهم بهتفون للمنتصر أيا كان المنتصر ويهللون للقوى أيا كان القوى ويسجدون امام النبابيت، يداوون ذلك الرعب الكامن فى أعماقهم. غموس اللقمة فى حارتنا الهوان...”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا

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#9

“إن الذى يشقي لإسعاد الناس لا يهون عليه سفك دمائهم”
― Naguib Mahfouz, أولاد حارتنا

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#10

“ولكن آفة حارتنا النسيان.”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا

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#11

“كيف يتسنى للحب و السلام أن يعيشا بين الفقر ونبابيت الفتوات!”
― Naguib Mahfouz, أولاد حارتنا

55 likes

#12

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: patriotism, politics

5992 likes

#13

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

tags: philosophy, politics

4293 likes

#14

“أى نظام من أنظمة الحكم يستحيل ديكتاتورية إذا طبق فى مصر.”
― نجيب محفوظ, القاهرة الجديدة

92 likes

#15

“ويل للناس من حاكم لا حياء له.”
― نجيب محفوظ, Arabian Nights & Days

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#16

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism

3146 likes

#17

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational

3871 likes

#18

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
― Voltaire

tags: guilt

1282 likes

#19

“وتعلمني الخبرة مع الأيام ان حارتنا تقدس طائفتين : الفتوات والبلهاء .

وتحوم أحلام صباي حول طائفتين .
أحلم حينًا بالفتوة وجلالها ،
وأحلم حينًا بالبلاهة وبركاتها !”
― نجيب محفوظ, حكايات حارتنا

9 likes

#20

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16088 likes

#21

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

8454 likes

#22

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7143 likes

#23

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history

3092 likes

#24

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: conscious, rebel

2146 likes

#25

“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: orthodoxy

894 likes

#26

“To die hating them, that was freedom.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: die, freedom, hate

713 likes

#27

“Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, big-brother, george, george-orwell, government, orwell

458 likes

#28

“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: power

512 likes

#29

“What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#30

“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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