Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.
This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.
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Osamu Dazai
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
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Bob Marley
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't...
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Jim Morrison
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It became clear to her that all men, however respectable in appearance and however elevated their position in society, were utter weaklings in front of a beautiful woman. - The Yacoubian Building, p. 42
Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt. On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires...
A racist is just an ignorant man afraid of people who are different from him.
Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.
