“Revolutions are not made with rose water.”
“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”
“Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.”
“The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day”
“Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again. It flowed, like water.”
“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.”