“Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to he forced to work for someone else, just as to he a master is to live on someone else's work In antiquity, just as in Asia and in Africa today, as well as even in a part of America, slaves were, in all honesty, called slaves. In the Middle Ages, they took the name of serfs: nowadays they are called wage earners. The position of tins latter group has a great deal more dignity attached to it, and it is less hard than that of slaves, but they are nonetheless forced, by hunger as well as by political and social institutions, to maintain other people in complete or relative idleness, through their own exceedingly hard labor. Consequently they arc slaves. And in general, no state, ancient or modern, has ever managed or will ever manage to get along without the forced labor of the masses, either wage earners or slaves, as a principal and absolutely necessary foundation for the leisure, the liberty, and the civilization of the political class—the citizens.”
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“إنهم يعرفون، ولكن من السهل إلهاء الناس بالحكايات ياباشا.”
― السلطان الفاتح - فتح القسطنطينية
― السلطان الفاتح - فتح القسطنطينية
“أنت تعرف أن مايميز الرجل العظيم عن غيره هو ركضه وراء أحلامه بحب واندفاع.”
― السلطان الفاتح - فتح القسطنطينية
― السلطان الفاتح - فتح القسطنطينية
“يا مَوْتُ قدْ مزَّقْتَ صَدْري
وقَصَمْت بالأَرزاءَ ظَهْرِي
ورمَيْتَني مِنْ حالقٍ
وسَخِرْتَ منِّي أَيَّ سُخْرِ
فلَبِثْتُ مرضوضَ الفؤادِ
أَجرُّ أجنحتي بذُعْرِ”
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وقَصَمْت بالأَرزاءَ ظَهْرِي
ورمَيْتَني مِنْ حالقٍ
وسَخِرْتَ منِّي أَيَّ سُخْرِ
فلَبِثْتُ مرضوضَ الفؤادِ
أَجرُّ أجنحتي بذُعْرِ”
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“أليست أكبر نعمة يتمتع بها الإنسان هي معرفته أنه مسكين؟”
― السلطان الفاتح - فتح القسطنطينية
― السلطان الفاتح - فتح القسطنطينية
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