Ali Al-Wardi citáty

“Social life is merely a web of reciprocal hypnosis where people hypnotize each other without ever realizing it”

“People live in a very ignorant way, they’re so taken by their quiet senses that they never realize the action going on in the universe around them, and this is only because they trust their senses that only show them a very tight spectrum of the occurring events”

“It’s weird how Muslim Authors despise trade when their religion considers it as a pillar of faith”

“A dignified man prefers to be feared and respected rather than being loved”

“Human mind is capable of making up excuses to justify actions no matter how bad they were”

“People left Ali when he was alive and only remembered him and held him dear after his death, and this is a tragedy”

“Man is made to forget his defects and remember his charms in a very exaggerated way”

“Tyranny doesn’t move the people unless it was accompanied with complains from oppression”

“The real reason behind the advancement of science is that it questioned everything and threw away the old tendencies inerting knowledge because of unquestionable opinions”

“Asking a tyrant for justice is just like asking a crazy being for sanity, a crazy person considers himself the only sane being among all people”

“Preachers have created for us patterns of behavior unattainable for humans, they then left us chasing them as if we were chasing a dream”

“What’s special about our time is that the ultimate truth has lost its value and is now replaced by relativity: what I believe is true might be wrong from your own perspective”

“Advancement of a society doesn’t come cheap, it’s the result of the interaction and collision between conservatism and futurism”

“People will mock anything new if it goes against their values and beliefs, once they get used to it they defend it as hard as they used to ridicule it”

“Legislations are just a way to reach a certain social goal, the problem is that people focus on the words and forget the spirit of the text”

“Renovating thoughts does not mean ranting with new terms, it’s the change in the way we build those thoughts in the first place”

“Compliments can be very useful, they give a people a good image about themselves thus enabling them to face their struggles”

“Mohammed’s Prophecy became a toy in the hands of the sultans, and people forgot that he was the sultans’ fiercest enemy”

“People don’t revolt because they have been tyrannized, they revolt when they feel the tyranny, for the feeling of oppression is worse than oppression itself”

“Humans have super senses that appear sometimes in their dreams and sometimes in their daily lives”

“Our experiences have taught us that no matter how silly it may look today, it might become correct at some point in the future when the criteria used for evaluation are changed”

“The more a person believes he’s free to think, the more I believe he’s a slave of his thoughts”

“The problem with this life is that it’s impossible to find something that does good on one side without causing harm on the other and vice versa”

“A simple word, randomly mentioned by a passing man can hold such a value in a person’s mind, it persuades him to turn his life into a series of attempts to achieve what he randomly heard”

“We all commit mistakes. If a man is loved, he’s forgiven, but if he’s hated, then society would turn his deeds into sins”

“Literature gets its magic because it echoes inside peoples’ hearts and hits them on the right nerve. This is what makes some pieces immortal”

“A real author gets his best pieces of literature from narrow alleys and dirty houses”

“A savior or a prophet is a person who comes with a simple idea, but uses it to change the world”

“One of the conditions for the advancement of a society is having someone opposing and questioning every achievement. This is how a society creates a positive struggle that will lead to a positive change”