Yasser Fathy

“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
― Honore de Balzac

“It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

“I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden