Quotes by Egyptian Authors

There is no alternative to action, and that requires faith. The issue is how we are to mold for ourselves a belief system that is worthy of life.

Naguib Mahfouz

The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.

Wael Ghonim

Make sure you don't carry the burden of the whole world on your shoulders, just in case someone needed them to cry.

Nema Al-Araby

When you have a dream and someone makes promises they keep breaking, it is hard to recover. You lose hope.

Yasmine El Rashidi

The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though...

Ramez Naam