Best 9 quotes of Wael Ghonim on MyQuotes

If you want to liberate a government, give them the Internet.

Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me.

Our revolution is like Wikipedia, okay? Everyone is contributing content, [but] you don't know the names of the people contributing the content. This is exactly what happened. Revolution 2.0 in Egypt was exactly the same. Everyone is contributing small pieces, bits and pieces. We drew this whole picture of a revolution. And no one is the hero in that picture.

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

There are no heroes; we are all heroes on the street.

I stressed that I did not want to be treated like a hero. I was only one member of the revolutionary masses who had fulfilled his duty towards his country. It was easy to write, rant, and mobilize people using the internet. The real heroes of this revolution were the people who had died and been injured.

Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.

The regime's policies, whether intentionally or unintentionally, had engendered a sharp divide between Muslims and Christians, in spite of the fact that generations of Muslims and Coptic Christians had lived together peacefully in the past. The regime was good at utilizing this divide to create a perception that without Mubarak in power, Egyptians would break out into sectarian warfare. As a result, Mubarak managed to market his police state successfully to the international community as the lesser of two evils.

The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.