“He has gone over to the majority.”

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

Women are one and all a set of vultures.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

Everyone will find what he’s looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.

While fortune lasts you will see your friend’s face.

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

The world wants to be deceived.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

Heaven is equally distant everywhere.

Nothing is falser than people’s preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

The majority of fighters now are Al-Qaeda. If you want to support them, you are supporting Al-Qaeda, you are creating havoc in the region, and if this region is not stable, the whole world cannot be stable.

What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.

We didn’t say that 80% [of terrorists], for example, or the majority or the vast majority, are foreigners. We said the vast majority are Al-Qaeda or Al-Qaeda offshoot organizations in this region.

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man’s daughter would not understand blues.

We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call “free Syrian army.” That’s what we said.