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#1

“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. (Cambridge University Press (September 29, 1989)”
― Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

tags: criminal-justice, criminal-justice-system, injustice

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#2

“The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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#3

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
― William Penn

tags: justice

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#4

“Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
― William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own

tags: justice, law

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#5

“Bu dağlarda bin kere ölmeden, bir kere dirilemezsin.”
― Yaşar Kemal, İnce Memed 4

tags: bandit, banditry, death, mountain

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#6

“İnsan evrende gövdesi kadar değil, gönlü kadar yer kaplar.”
― Yaşar Kemal

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#7

“For now, we live in the mall, but I think it's closing soon.”
― Grafton Tanner, Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts

tags: capitalism, communism, critical-theory, socialism, vaporwave

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#8

“...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

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#9

“I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am”
― John Newton

tags: i-am, inspirational

448 likes

#10

“Call me Ishmael.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: first-sentence, introduction, opening-lines, sobriquet

327 likes

#11

“If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!”
― victor hugos, Les Misérables

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