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Ali Al-Wardi was an Iraqi Social Scientist specialized in the field of Social history.

✵ 23. October 1913 – 13. July 1995
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Famous Ali Al-Wardi Quotes

“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”

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Ali Al-Wardi Quotes about people

“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”

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

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

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“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”

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“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”

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Ali Al-Wardi Quotes about ideas and thoughts

“Advancement is very costly for the society, it’s not just an idea that occurs to philosophers, but the result of the interaction and collision between conservatism and futurism. If everybody were conservationists, the society would become inert like that of ants and bees, time flies and they never change”

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“People have finally realized that human knowledge can never grow unless all opinions are respected. it’s the only way for them to interact in a crucial environment for new ideas to be born”

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Ali Al-Wardi Quotes

“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”

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

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“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”

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

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“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”

Ali Al-Wardi

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

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“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”

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“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”

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“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”

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“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”

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

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“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”

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“A rebel is born, a rebel is dead and in his death many others come to life. This is how we get revolutionists one generation after another”

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“Leaders are no saints, they’re just people like us”

Ali Al-Wardi

“It’s not weird when people differ in their preferences and tastes, but it shocks me when they fight because of this difference”

Ali Al-Wardi

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