Wael Ghonim Quotes

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.

The Egyptian revolution will remain indebted to everyone who tossed a stone into the still waters at a time when doing so risked beating, and arrest, or worse.

باحبها عشان الحياة فيها مش روتينية ،، تصحى الصبح وماتعرفش يومك عامل ازاي ،، ممكن تصحى الصبح تلاقي تليفون يجيلك زي اللي جالي من حضرتك فيه استدعاء لأمن الدولة

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

"اكبر مشكلة ان اللى قدامك يقول " انا عارف مصلحتك اكتر منك .. عشان انا عندى خبرة اكتر منك " .. ويختزل صوتك ورايك ويحرمك من المشاركة والتفكير وإنك تغلط وتتعمل .. وده واحد من الاسباب الرئيسية لتاخرنا وتخلفنا كبلد"

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.

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.

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.