Dee > Dee's Quotes

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.”
― Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage

“There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.”
― Cervantes, Don Quixote

“ساحلم لا لاصلح اي معنى خارجي
بل كي ارمم داخلي المهجور
من اثر الجفاف العاطفي ،،
حفظت قلبي كله عن ظهر قلب ،،
لم يعد متطفلا ومدللا
تكفيه حبة(اسبرين)كي يلين ويستكين”
― محمود درويش, جدارية

“هل أؤدي جيدا دوري من الفصل الاخير؟
و هل قرأت المسرحية قبل هذا العرض
أم فرضت علي؟
وهل أنا هو من يؤدي الدور
ام ان الضحية غيرت أقوالها
لتعيش ما بعد الحداثة , بعدما
انحرف المؤلف عن سياق النص
وانصرف الممثل والشهود”
― محمود درويش, جدارية

“كنا طبيعيين لو كانت نجوم سمائنا أعلى قليلاً من حجارة بئرنا .. والأنبياء أقل إلحاحاً ، فلم يسمع مدائحنا الجنودُ .”
― محمود درويش, جدارية

“هذا البحر لي
هذا الهواء الرطب لي
واسمي وان أخطأت لفظ اسمي على التابوت - لي ..
أما أنا - وقد امتلات بكل أسباب الرحييل
فلست لي .
أنا لست لي”
― محمود درويش, جدارية

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“ويل لأمة تكثر فيها المذاهب والطوائف وتخلو من الدين ، ويل لأمة تلبس مما لاتنسج ، وتأكل مما لاتزرع ، وتشرب مما لاتعصر ، ويل لأمة تحسب المستبد بطلا ، وترى الفاتح المذل رحيما ً، ويل لأمة لاترفع صوتها إلا إذا مشت بجنازة ، ولا تفخر إلا بالخراب ولا تثور إلا وعنقها بين السيف والنطع ..
ويلٌ لأمة سائسها ثعلب، و فيلسوفها مشعوذ، و فنها فن الترقيع و التقليد. ويلٌ لأمة تستقبل حاكمها بالتطبيل و تودعة بالصَّفير، لتستقبل آخر بالتطبيل و التزمير. ويلُ لأمة حكماؤها خرس من وقر السنين، و رجالها الأشداء لا يزالون في أقمطة السرير. ويلٌ لأمة مقسمة إلى أجزاء، و كل جزءي يحسب نفسه فيها أمة.”
― جبران خليل جبران

“I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“و النبي ياشتا
وحياة ولادك
البرد و الشبورة و الضباب
بلاش المرة دي لما تيجي
تيجي و تجيب لي
اكتئاب ..!”
― وليد طاهر, حبة هوا...

“لك حبي
وفقري و بهدلتي و أقساطي
وانحطاطي وإحباطي من مرتبي
اللي مش كافي و ذلي
ودلدله كتافي
...وعيني المكسوره أدام ولادي
من قصر الأيادي
وفؤادي”
― وليد طاهر, حبة هوا...

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

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Celebration of the Human Voice---

When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.”
― Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces

“The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“ما اثار اهتمامي في حواراتي مع السياسيين، ان من يبدأ يسارياً او قومياً يظل محسوباً على اليسار او القومية العربية حتى لو أصبح مليونيراً او صار من أركان الحكومة!”
― جمال ناجي, عندما تشيخ الذئاب

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451