Wael Ghonim Quotes

كان غياب البديل فى رأيى أحد خطط الأنظمة القمعية لإقناع الشعوب أنهم يحصلون على أفضل المعروض. وكان النظام المصرى ينفذ هذه الخطة بإحكام, أى شخص له شعبية أو يمكن أن يبزغ كبديل يجب أن يُقضى, أو يتم تشويهه.

our collective participation on the Jan25 is the beginning of the end — the end of silence, acceptance, and submission to all that is happening in our country, and the beginning of a new page of coming forward and demanding our rights. Jan25 is not a revolution in the sense of a coup, but rather a revolution against our government to let them know that we have taken interest in one another's problems and that we shall reclaim all our rights and will not be silent anymore.

كان دائماً الخوف من الفشل هو أكثر ما يُحركنى لأن أُقاوم وأبذل مجهوداً أكبر

"أتذكر ما قالته لى فى تلك الأثناء "لقد سألت بعض أصدقائى عبر الإنترنت عن القاهرة فأخبرونى أن القاهرة شوارعها قذرة !" .. قلت لها "لن أنكر أن شوارع القاهرة بعضها قذرة .. ولكن قلوب أهلها نظيفة

ستظل الثورة المصرية مدينة لكل من ألقي حجر في المياة الراكدة وقتما كان هذا مغامرة غير محوبة بكل ما تعنيه الكلمة. كانوا وقتها يهتفون ثورة ثورة حتي النصر ثورة في كل شوارع مصر. وكأنهم كانوا يؤمنون أن هذه البلاد سيحدث بها ثورة عاجلا أم أجلا وسيكونون هم في الصفوف الأولي.

السُّلطة المُطْلقة مفسدة مُطلقة !

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.

Huge numbers of people decided to take to the streets, some for no other reason than just to find out what was happening.

(State Security may not have been full of computer geniuses, but still, I had to be careful).

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power

I stressed that I did not want to be treated like a hero. I was only one member of the revolutionary masses who had fulfilled his duty towards his country. It was easy to write, rant, and mobilize people using the internet. The real heroes of this revolution were the people who had died and been injured.

The Internet is not a virtual world inhabited by avatars. It is a means of communication that offers people in the physical world a method to organize, act, and promote ideas and awareness.

بدأ الأمن يدرك مخاطر الوقفة حتي ولو كانت صامتة, فقد حولنا الصمت الذي هو في الطبيعي ضعف الي قوة.

أحياناً أشعر أننا كمصريين تربينا على الخوف من الوقوع فى قبضة الشرطة السرية أكثر من الموت ذاته

The regime's policies, whether intentionally or unintentionally, had engendered a sharp divide between Muslims and Christians, in spite of the fact that generations of Muslims and Coptic Christians had lived together peacefully in the past. The regime was good at utilizing this divide to create a perception that without Mubarak in power, Egyptians would break out into sectarian warfare. As a result, Mubarak managed to market his police state successfully to the international community as the lesser of two evils.