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“في تاريخ مصر كان الأكثر انتماء والأكثر تضحية
...هم الفقراء الذين لا يملكون شيئا”
― أحمد عبد الله رزة, قضية الأجيال

“الخلاصة التى توصلنا لها بعد دقيقة فى هذا العالم هو أن هؤلاء القوم يتظاهرون بأنهم أحياء .. يتظاهرون بأنهم يأكلون لحماً و يتظاهرون بأنهم يشربون خمراً .. و بالطبع يتظاهرون بأنهم ثملوا و أنهم نسوا مشاكلهم ... يتظاهرون بأن لهم الحق فى الخطيئة و الزلل ..

يتظاهرون بأنهم بشر ...”
― Ahmed Khaled Towfik, يوتوبيا

“مصر أم الحضارة، تخلق نفسها في الحلم عبر القرون. تحملنا كلنا، أبناءها: الذين يبقون ويعملون من أجلها ويشكون منها، والذين يرحلون ويشتاقون لها ويلومونها بمرارة على مغادرتها”
― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love

“The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather, its activities continued strongly during the later centuries, particularly in Persia and other eastern lands of Islam, and it was revived in Egypt during the last century.”
― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Philosophy from its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy

“أي حديث عن العطاء الوطني يستلزم في نفس واحد الحديث عن الأخذ الوطني وأي مطالبة للمواطنين بأداء واجباتهم المجتمعية تستلزم بالتوازي اقراراًبحقوقهم الإنسانية فالمعادلة الوطنية لاتستقيم إلا هكذا .وماعدا ذلك هو
... لغوالخطابة الرسمية”
― أحمد عبد الله رزة, قضية الأجيال

“فيه ناس كتير أوي تخدمها الفضيحة وتكبر اسمها.. كمان الهجوم الجامد على الكبار يخليك تصدق أي حاجة على أي حد تاني.. لو جنب التخبيط في كام رجل أعمال على كام واحد بتاع سياسة, نزل خبر بيقول إن أمك بتشتغل في توظيف الأموال إنت نفسك هاتصدقهم .. فيه ناس الهجوم عليهم مكسب ليهم..ولازم يبقى غيه تنفيس”
― أحمد مراد, ڤيرتيجو

“نهضة مصر هي في إدارة رشيدة قائمة علي العلم والكفاءة والمصداقية والمحاسبة وليست في هرتلة ايديولوچية أو شعارات جوفاء”
― Mohamed ElBaradei

“Morning"

SUN

That awakens Paris

The highest poplar on the bank

On The Eiffel Tower
A tricolored cock
Sings to the flapping of his wings
and several feathers fall

As it resumes its course
The Seine looks between the bridges
For her old route

And the Obelisk
That has forgotten the Egyptian words
Has not blossomed this year

SUN”
― Vicente Huidobro, The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

“...he was one of the great intellectuals of the 1940s who completed
their higher studies in the West and returned to their country to
apply what they had learned there—lock, stock, and barrel—within
Egyptian academia. For people like them, “progress�� and “the West��
were virtually synonymous, with all that that entailed by way of positive
and negative behavior. They all had the same reverence for the
great Western values—democracy, freedom, justice, hard work, and
equality. At the same time, they had the same ignorance of the nation’s
heritage and contempt for its customs and traditions, which they considered
shackles pulling us toward Backwardness from which it was
our duty to free ourselves so that the Renaissance could be achieved.”
― Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building

“I
lived through beautiful times, Busayna. It was a different age. Cairo
was like Europe. It was clean and smart and the people were well
mannered and respectable and everyone knew his place exactly. I was
different too. I had my station in life, my money, all my friends were of
a certain niveau, I had my special places where I would spend the
evening—the Automobile Club, the Club Muhammad Ali, the Gezira
Club. What times! Every night was filled with laughter and parties and
drinking and singing. There were lots of foreigners in Cairo. Most of
the people living downtown were foreigners, until Abd el Nasser threw
them out in 1956.��
“Why did he throw them out?��
“He threw the Jews out first, then the rest of the foreigners got
scared and left. By the way, what’s your opinion of Abd el Nasser?��
“I was born after he died. I don’t know. Some people say he was a
hero and others say he was a criminal.��
“Abd el Nasser was the worst ruler in the whole history of Egypt.
He ruined the country and brought us defeat and poverty. The damage
he did to the Egyptian character will take years to repair. Abd el Nasser
taught the Egyptians to be cowards, opportunists, and hypocrites.��
“So why do people love him?��
“Who says people love him?��
“Lots of people that I know love him.��
“Anyone who loves Abd el Nasser is either an ignoramus or did
well out of him. The Free Officers were a bunch of kids from the dregs
of society, destitutes and sons of destitutes. Nahhas Basha was a good
man and he cared about the poor. He allowed them to join the Military
College and the result was that they made the coup of 1952. They ruled
Egypt and they robbed it and looted it and made millions. Of course
they have to love Abd el Nasser; he was the boss of their gang.”
― Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building

“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”
― Alaa Al Aswany

“If you can’t find good in your own country, you won’t find it anywhere
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The words slipped out from Zaki Bey, but he felt that they were ungracious
so he smiled to lessen their impact on Busayna, who had
stood up and was saying bitterly, “You don’t understand because
you’re well-off. When you’ve stood for two hours at the bus stop or
taken three different buses and had to go through hell every day just to
get home, when your house has collapsed and the government has left
you sitting with your children in a tent on the street, when the police
officer has insulted you and beaten you just because you’re on a
minibus at night, when you’ve spent the whole day going around the
shops looking for work and there isn’t any, when you’re a fine sturdy
young man with an education and all you have in your pockets is a
pound, or sometimes nothing at all, then you’ll know why we hate
Egypt.”
― Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building

“When I first arrived in Egypt many years ago, I looked at the tombs like a tourist. After being to them all so many times I was treated as a professor. Now when I go to look at a tomb they worry that I am thinking of moving in.”
― G. P. Warren

“كل شىء من حولى كئيب ممل يدعو إلى التململ والقرف، الغريب أنه، وفى تلك المرة بالذات، لم يكن السبب هو مرسى، أو ربما كان هو ولكن فى إحدى صوره أو أسبابه، يقفز إلى ذهنى أحياناً مصير مشابه لانكسار صلاح جاهين أو تحطم نجيب سرور أو الموت كمداً كما صلاح عبدالصبور، وربما عزلة جمال حمدان «لعلى أبلغ الأسباب».”
― هشام علام

“Today there is a deep longing in our culture to reconnect to this spiritual world, for we are not whole without it. But our longing cannot be satisfied by embracing religious belief alone, no matter how emotional the embrace, for our longing is at root a hunger and thirst for the experience of interior realities. If, however, we are to forge a new relationship to the invisible world of spirit based on experience, what will distinguish it from the past is the modern necessity that it be based on our own autonomy as free individuals, able to think, decide, and act for ourselves.”
― Jeremy Nadler

“ريقك بطعم العسل
إيه اللي قلبه مرار
كان نفسي أكون لك ولي
واطفي بإيدي النار
فستان زفافك دبل
ولا عاد فرح يرويه”
― محمد ربيع محمد, نظرة تانية للملامح ع الخريطة