Ali Al-Wardi: Quotes about people

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

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

“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”

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

“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”

“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”

“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”

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

“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”

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

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