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  • #1
    Rudyard Kipling
    “Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw. Oh, hear the call!—Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law!”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
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    Tobias Wolff
    “Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.”
    ― Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life
    tags: political, power, rebels, tyrants
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    Alaa Al Aswany
    “The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy.”
    ― Alaa Al Aswany, On the State of Egypt: A Novelist’s Provocative Reflections
    tags: dictator, dictatorship
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  • #4
    Bangambiki Habyarimana
    “Formally and officially we are equal before the law, we enjoy the same rights as citizens but informally and unofficially that's another matter altogether”
    ― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
    tags: dictatorship, freedom, freedom-of-choice, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-religion, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-quotes, liberty, liberty-quotes
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  • #5
    Can Küçükali
    “A Strongman is a person who denies that he is a strongman just because he allows others to tell him so. This is the mere reflection of an arrogance which implies that he shows mercy to dissidence although he does not have to. Such an emphasis to mercy by a statesman is in fact a clear indication of a dictatorial mind.

    Alıntı: Can Küçükali. “Me and the Strongman”. Apple Books.”
    ― Can Küçükali, Me and the Strongman
    tags: authoritarianism, dictator, dictatorship, discourse, dystopia, political-discourse, politics
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  • #6
    Anjan Sundaram
    “The big politicians escaped. They told us to kill but are now in five-star foreign prisons, with good food and televisions. We little people must bear the consequences for their decisions.”
    ― Anjan Sundaram
    tags: dictatorship, politicians, politics
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  • #7
    Abhijit Naskar
    “Whoever controls the narrative, controls the people.”
    ― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
    tags: democracy, dictatorship, geopolitics, international-relations, narrative, political-science, politics, propaganda, social-psychology, social-studies
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  • #8
    “If we don't stand up for others when they're persecuted, we lose the right to complain when it's done to us.”
    ― David Steinman
    tags: democracy, dictatorship, freedom, genocide, holocaust, human-rights, social-justice
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  • #9
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: child, god, man, message
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    Jennifer Wright
    “Whether plagues are managed quickly doesn't just depend on hardworking doctors and scientists. It depends on people who like to sleep in on weekends and watch movies and eat French fries and do the fantastic common things in life, which is to say, it depends on all of us. Whether a civilization fares well during a crisis has a great deal to do with how the ordinary, nonscientist citizen responds. A lot of the measures taken against plagues discussed in this book will seem stunningly obvious. You should not, for instance, decide diseased people are sinners and burn them at a literal or metaphorical stake, because it is both morally monstrous and entirely ineffective. But them a new plague crops up, and we make precisely the same mistakes we should have learned from three hundred years ago.”
    ― Jennifer Wright, Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
    tags: burned-at-the-stake, plagues, scientists, sinners
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  • #11
    Aaron Dries
    “Darkness fell, gathering sin.”
    ― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys
    tags: darkness, devil, evil, horror, night, scary, sin, sinners, suspense
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    Bangambiki Habyarimana
    “A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness”
    ― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
    tags: forgive, forgive-me, forgiven, forgiveness, forgiveness-quotes, saint, saint-quotes, sainthood, sin, sinner-quotes, sinners
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    Bangambiki Habyarimana
    “No one could preach if he seriously looked at his own sins.”
    ― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
    tags: preach, preach-what-you-do, preacher, preaching, preaching-gospel, preaching-quotes, sin, sinner, sinners, sinners-like-me
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  • #14
    Shannon L. Alder
    “You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: actions, anxiety, arrogance, bad-choices, best-friends, bias, blind, blindsighted, bullying, choices, commonsense, consequences, consequences-of-cruelty, consequences-of-desire, consequences-of-evil, coverups, cruelty, cyberbullying, enviousness, envy, faith, faithless-in-god, false, false-intentions, fear, forgiveness, friends, games, heartless, ignorance, injustice, insecurity, intentions, jealousy, justice, justified, justified-assumptions, knowledge, liars, lies, lies-we-tell-ourselves, logic, logical, logical-thinking, lust, lustful, neighbors, pain, paybacks, repentance, revelation, revenge, revengeful, rumors, sin, sinners, smoke-screens, speculation, stalkers, stereotypes, strangers, stupidity, uneducated, uneducated-mind, unjustified, unwise-friends, unwise-men, unwise-people, victims-of-abuse, victims-of-war, wisdom
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one.”
    ― shannon l. alder
    tags: christlike, commonsense, consequences-of-evil, end-results, future-prediction, intelligence, loving-one-another, ramifications, rescuers, results, saving-lives, search-and-rescue, sinners, truth
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  • #16
    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: evil
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  • #17
    Veronica Roth
    “Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
    tags: evil, good, knowledge, power
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  • #18
    Terry Pratchett
    “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
    tags: cruelty, evil, humanity, kindness
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  • #19
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: advice, dealing-with-people, friendships, guidance, life-and-living, people, relationships, thieves, warning, wisdom-quotes
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  • #20
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: human-nature, looters, looting, mercenaries, theft, thieves
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  • #21
    “You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
    tags: african-leaders, anas-ayemeyaw-anas, anti-corruption, bad-leaders, bribery, bribery-corruption, conflicts, continent, corruption, country, destroy, destroy-a-nation, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, money, nation, nations, personal-development, pockets, political, political-leaders, political-perversion, political-pockets, politics, say-not-to-corruption, self-improvement, steal, thief, thieves, violence, war
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
    tags: humor, stealing, thievery, thieves
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  • #23
    “IT'S NOT ABOUT HOW MANY THIEFS ARE AROUND
    THERE'S A DEARTH OF THOSE WHO STEAL GOODNESS

    बात ये नहीं कि कितने चोर पैदा हो गए हैं यहां
    अच्छी बात चोरी करने वालों की कमी ही रही
    - विनीत

    BAAT YEH NAHIN KI KITNE CHOR PAIDA HO GAYE HAIN YAHAN
    ACHHI BAAT CHORI KARNE WALON KI KAMI HI RAHI”
    ― Vineet Raj Kapoor
    tags: good, goodness, poetry, poetrycommunity, rekhta, shairi, shayari, thief, thieves, urdu-adab
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  • #24
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “I am against justice … whenever it is carried out by a mob.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: against, anti, at-fault, blameworthy, crime, criminal, culpable, delinquent, errant, erring, guilt, guilty, in-the-wrong, injustice, innocent, innocent-until-proven-guilty, justice, mob, mob-injustice, mob-justice, murder, murders, offending, peccant, presumption-of-guilt, presumption-of-innocence, rape, raped, rapes, raping, responsible, sinful, steal, thief, thieves, to-blame, witch, witchcraft, witches
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  • #25
    Robert Jordan
    “Thieves are always the most careful of their purses.”
    ― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams
    tags: thieves, yukiri, yukiri-sedai
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  • #26
    Mehmet Murat ildan
    “If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!”
    ― Mehmet Murat ildan
    tags: immoral-politicians, immoral-society, murat-ildan-quotations, politicians, politicians-quotes, thief, thief-society, thieves, to-the-death
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