إلهام

“Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself. Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own. There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.”
― Anonymous

“الرجل الذي يمسخ حبه الواحد شهوات متعددة، والمرأة التي تتقصف متهتكة ماسخة هيكل نسمات الله مركعًا لنفايات البشر من عباد الخيانة والطيش، إنما هما آدم وحواء مطرودين من الجنان إلى أرض الجهود المضيَّعة والآلام المحتمة، ومَنْ يدري أن حديث معصية الأبوين ليس رمزًا لخيانة الحب، تلك الخيانة التي تنزل اللعنة بمرتكبيها وبأبنائهم من بعدهم … ويلٌ للرجل الذي يهدم بيديه سعادته وسعادة أبنائه، وويل للمرأة التي تدنس منبت أطفالها.”
― Anonymous

“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“التعاريف كثيرًا ما تجني على البحث الذي يؤدي إلى تصوير حقيقة واقعة من الوقائع”
― Anonymous