Aysha Taryam Books & Quotes

“In the face of mass atrocities, we stand in mass indifference rationalized by logic that sees us through the day.”

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“What is worse than indifference is when people’s nationalism allows for the conscious rationalisation of brutality as part of a political balance sheet. It is but a grave oversight when people shift their responsibility towards moral values for the duty to obey.”

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“Morality is man’s only trustworthy guiding tool and empathy is that natural instinct in which without it the world would be a much darker place to inhabit.”

Trust Morality Empathy Intuition Moral Philosophy Aysha Taryam Natural Instincts

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“One’s love for his country is a very sacred emotion that is intertwined with their sense of moral obligation and is an essential part of one’s identity.”

Love Country Emotion Identity Patriotism Nationalism Patriotic Moral Philosophy

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“The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.”

Philosophy Politics Democracy Revolution Dictatorship Egypt Dictators Arabspring

Book:The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

Source: The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

“Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.”

Philosophy Politics Democracy

Book:The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

Source: The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.”

Philosophy Politics Journalism Writers Writers On Writing

Book:The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

Source: The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

“Evil does not just arise from nothingness, most of the time it is nurtured by society’s failure to activate its moral standards”

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“The current war on Gaza has since silenced almost 35,000 voices, shut 35,000 eyes and maimed thousands more, many of whom no longer possess the ability for expression. Yet art has a way of transcending, even flourishing, through pain; one even dares to say that pain is its greatest muse, and in Palestine pain has become part of everyday life.”

Art War Poetry Israel Writers Freedom Of Speech Muse Palestine Gaza

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“Israel’s well documented systematic targeting of truth seekers is a grave crime against humanity. It is an inexcusable eradication of a people’s interaction with the hideousness of their reality.”

Art War Israel Writers Freedom Of Speech Palestine Gaza

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“Maya Angelou spoke of why the caged bird sings and of the courage it takes for literature to crush racism and face trauma. Angelou said the caged bird sings when his wing is bruised and he beats his bars to be free, here’s hoping that every cage be broken through and every bruised wing be healed by the joy of freedom so that it could soar. There are no gardens in prison for the poet to see yet his words make the cage bloom.”

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“How difficult it has become to decipher the truth from the fictitious, to trust one’s own eyes over the art of image distortion. Information is power and if readings have taught us anything, it is that power inevitably corrupts.”

Power Information Power Of Words Distortion Image Fake News Information Age Information Overload

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“The West’s credibility as a reference for all things human rights related has waned and is now almost non-existent. The war on Gaza has cost them more than just weapons, it has set the West back hundreds of years and tarnished their image as the leaders of humanity.”

America Humanity Human Rights Israel Palestine Ideologies Western Ideals

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“As humanity progressed it built machines that can do away with its hands and now, it is building programs that eventually aim to do away with its brains, the one thing that no other species on this planet can challenge.”

Humanity Technology Artificial Intelligence Chatgpt Aysha Taryam

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“We have built and now are training our obsolescence, we are training AI to effectively take away our jobs, infiltrate the way we educate our future generations and eventually, from where we stand now who knows what eventually, but if evolution has taught us anything it has taught us that survival is for the fittest.”

Humanity Technology Society Evolution Artificial Intelligence Chatgpt

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“Viciousness is part of the world we live in, some of us choose to ignore it with the rationalisation of wanting only positivity to flow our way. How selfish we have become! That the pain of others has become a hindrance to the fulfilment of our positive selves.”

Culture Justice Positive Positive Thinking Judgment Victim Rape Rape Culture Victim Blaming Viciousness

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“His request to those listening was to start every day knowing that each minute lost is one that they will never get back and use that thought to drive them forward. This is what resonates most with this writer about our beloved Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid, he is a force of positive energy that the world is in dire need of. Therefore, when people ponder about what it is that makes the government of the United Arab Emirates different one can safely reach the conclusion that, Mohammed Bin Rashid is the difference.”

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“Humanity is and must remain unconditional in the face of political, financial and personal gain.”

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“Complacency has taken the place of outrage and demands for justice have been substituted for trending hashtags and unified profile pictures.”

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“Today, while the cyber world rages with ideologies and passionate moral perspectives, the streets remain comatose, echoing nothing but silence.”

Politics Revolution Empathy Social Media Protest Morals Moral Responsibility Aysha Taryam Cyber World

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“Empathy is man’s greatest moral virtue, the force behind humanity’s paramount achievements and the creator of unbreakable connections; it is also under threat of extinction.”

Philosophy Psychology Empathy Morals Moral Responsibility Empathy Quotes

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“We are here, in an era of the strong, one that rewards a means to an end mentality, where qualities like empathy and compassion have been downgraded to attributes of weakness and gullibility.”

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“Humanity is fallible and every single one of us is capable of sin but if it were not for the hopes of one day being redeemed none of us will seek to understand our flaws and make the effort to rectify the damage our actions have made.”

Sin Mistake Redemption Cancel Culture Aysha Taryam

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“In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.”

War Body Humanity Human Beings Sea Identity Dignity Injustice Human Rights Migration Casualties Refugees Refugee Crisis Casualties Of War

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“If you are blessed with your health in these times, then embrace the feelings that you are faced with, try to deal with them for there is a blessing in every tragedy and we must find it in order to endure.”

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“Yet the true significance of war lies not only in its destruction, but in its revelations. War strips away diplomatic theatre and exposes the underlying architecture of alliances — their strength, their limits, and their sincerity.”

War Allies Diplomacy

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“Equating a pro-Palestinian stance to an anti-Semitic one is rendering the cause undignified by smearing it with an unjustifiable hatred for another. It is a cowardly way out of a real debate and a productive dialogue.”

War Democracy Israel Protest Palestine Gaza Antisemitism

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“The words have forasken us but we continue to write because the brave souls of Gaza continue to bleed. It is as if we are part of an endless funeral procession. The grief comes in waves, it ebbs and flows but mostly it crashes onto our hearts with great force and leaves us breathless. Helpless.”

War Grief Israel Genocide Palestine Gaza Aysha Taryam Survivor Guilt

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“Here lies the truth of this grave injustice. Those who survive are far more gone that those who perished.”

War Injustice Trauma Ptsd Aysha Taryam

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“Wars survived leave lasting scars and genocides witnessed will never let you go.”

War Genocide Ptsd Aysha Taryam

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“History will remember this war on Palestinian civilians and their displacement as the moment the world woke up to the Zionist plans of occupation and expansion.”

War Israel Genocide Palestine Gaza Zionism Aysha Taryam

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“Eradicating ‘terrorism’ is one vague mission we have heard repeated in this region, yet history has shown that America and its Western allies have used this excuse to wage massive wars only to never actually achieve this so-called mission.”

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“The Arab poet Silm Al Khaser wrote “He who watches people dies of worry” and his words have never been more potent than in today’s world where all people do is watch others and cater to them in return.”

Social Media Obsession Instagram Stalking Arab Poet Silm Al Khaser

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“One must hesitate when calling these protests pro-Palestinian because in that labelling, we lose their truth. They are protests against senseless killings, they are a rejection of regimes that support occupation and a cry for an end to war as a pathway to peace. These protests are pro-humanity in its true sense of the word, an all-encompassing humanity that is not cherry-picked by the powers that be. They are protests against hypocrisy and for a right to life.”

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“And so it is inevitable that the day has come when we write about privacy with such nostalgia, analysing it as we would some unearthed fossil of a creature our human eyes had never fallen on.”

Social Media Nostalgia Privacy Social Media Behaviour

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“The word feminism has become synonymous with man-hating when in fact it has more to do with women than men.”

Feminism Women S Rights Gender Equality

Book:The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

Source: The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

“Every woman, hell, every man should be a feminist, that is the only way to render this word obsolete.”

Feminism

Book:The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

Source: The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

“Women’s rights remain a continuous battle around the globe; where education as a basic right is nothing but a dream and where possession of their own bodies is a debatable matter.”

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“Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise.”

Culture Violence Discipline Domestic Violence Domestic Abus

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“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage and unabashed in its cruelty.”

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“Social psychologists have likened the effects of COVID-19 to that of the great World Wars for the characteristics are all there down to the sirens and curfews; it is after all a life-altering event that has blanketed the world with uncertainty and an unfathomable restriction on personal freedoms.”

Freedom Mental Health Coronavirus Covid 19 Virus Quarantine Aysha Taryam Self Isolation

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“The ambiguity shrouding this whole crisis makes it all the more difficult for the mind to adjust to, runners can only pace themselves if they know how far the finish line is and yet in this race our finish line is just a prediction, an educated guess.”

Uncertainty Coronavirus Covid 19 Pandemic Covid19 Epidemic Aysha Taryam

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“This traumatic episode in history is proving to be one twisted psychological experiment on a massive scale, a testing whose effects on the mind will be studied for years to come for we know that after trauma comes the post-traumatic episodes and the world needs to be ready to help those of us who will need to be mentally supported once the worst is behind us.”

Mental Health Trauma Mental Illness Coronavirus Covid 19 Ptsd Covid19 Aysha Taryam Self Isolation

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“Aloneness seems to be the greatest byproduct of this invisible enemy for whether or not a person has been infected the condition is one of separation, a self-imposed isolation. Be it out of fear or guilt you are expected to stop your life in its tracks and confine yourself willingly and against all natural instincts to the walls that house you.”

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“One dares to say that only a pandemic of this scale could have slowed down the rat race yet this too will prove beneficial to some of us and a sheer torture to others for the mirror that COVID-19 has forced us to look into is one that has no cracks, it reflects reality in its harshest form and unless we truly look, and come out the other side changed human beings, all this agony would have been for nothing.”

Coronavirus Covid 19 Pandemic Epidemic Rat Race Aysha Taryam Self Isolation

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“The long-term effect of Hillary’s loss could be more beneficial to the future of America than one might think. For if Obama’s reign placed hope in the hearts of the young and instilled in them a belief that differences must be embraced then Hillary’s crushing defeat has awakened them to the harsh realities of a hopeful indifference and raised their voices in opposition of all those ideals that would not only darken their future but the future of the entire world.”

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“One sits at her desk as the world outside catches fire and cities continue to burn, people continue to run for their lives - refuge is unattainable but we cannot tell them that, for the cruelest thing a helpless person could do is to tell those in a tragedy that hope, although visits them, is a stingy guest who brings with it nothing else, no rescue or cure.”

War Hope Peace Tragedy Crisis Aysha Taryam

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“So, a mistake is made, a word is spoken out of turn, a cultural norm is broken, and all is fair in the pursuit of cancelling this person, erasing them off the face of the earth, banishing them to a world of shame and regret.”

Mistake Social Media Bullying Cancel Culture Social Media Behavior Canceled

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“Bewildered by the sheer amount of information we have devised a way that has made us the most sorted culture we have ever been, categorised by apps and search engines we are no longer hiding from the other, we are blind to it.”

Information Apps Fake News Information Age Search Engine Applications Search Engine Optimization Sorted Culture

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“If Syria is to rise from the ashes it needs a united Arab world which has one thing on its agenda, not the falling of a dictator for we have seen many of those fall, but the reemergence of a prosperous Arab nation, one that is not reliant on foreign aid but is self-sustained and set on its way to become powerful once again.”

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