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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
“Resting here until day breaks And shadows fall And darkness disappears Is Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanches.”
― Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
― Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
“There are four cross-cutting characteristics that are common to the strongman style: the creation of a cult of personality; contempt for the rule of law; the claim to represent the real people against the elites (otherwise known as populism); and a politics driven by fear and nationalism.”
― The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World
― The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World
“How dare you slumber in the shade of complacent safety,” he said to those who were present, “leading lives as frivolous as garden flowers, while your brothers in Syria have no dwelling place save the saddles of camels and the bellies of vultures?”
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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