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Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring, 2017
“I am not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.”
“It easier to use religion to mass-control people with shitty lives?”
“When you bend down once, you stay bent, you never stand tall again.”
“Ignorance, xenophobia, racism can transcend borders, cultures, and religions.”
“Having masses of people who think the same, talk the same,
and hate the same is much easier for maintaining control.”
“it was in their best interest to prop up imaginary enemies all the time to keep people distracted.”
“Human rights” became an infamous phrase. In the state-run media, they accused anyone supporting
human rights of using it as an excuse to create chaos to destroy the country from within.”
“The textbook of fear is the same everywhere.”
“The army never wanted change, not with so many interests, businesses, and powerful people involved. It was a system sixty years in the making. Removing Mubarak didn’t even touch the deep state that he was a disposable face of. The Muslim Brotherhood were never serious about the revolution either. They used it simply to come into power. They had no problem with the old regime as long as they were on top of it.”
“When you laugh, you are not afraid anymore.”
Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring, 2017
