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“Years later, while imprisoned as coalition detainees, some of Zarqawi’s senior lieutenants described the AQI leader’s desire to incite a global sectarian war by comparing him to the Joker, Heath Ledger’s character in the 2008 movie, “The Dark Knight,” whose central desire was “to watch the world burn.”30”
― United States Government US Army, The U.S. Army in the Iraq War Volume 1: Invasion Insurgency Civil War 2003 – 2006

“Nonetheless, Braudel’s definitional opposition of capitalism and market economy is misleading. Even in the early modern era, and even in its “upper echelon,” the kind of capitalism taking shape was characterized by a great deal of competition, profit and loss, rise and fall, opportunity and risk. It was rooted in the market economy and, as a rule, contributed not to the elimination of markets but to their becoming more universal. Essentially, this remains true to this day.”
― Jürgen Kocka, Capitalism: A Short History

“Qua story, it can only have one merit: that of making the audience want to know what happens next. And conversely it can only have one fault: that of making the audience not want to know what happens next.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

“the necessary thing from the socialists’ point of view is not egalitarian economic outcomes, but state control.”
― Kevin D. Williamson, Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism