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Abdul Butayban
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“When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of ‘greatness.’ ‘Greatness,’ it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the ‘great’ man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a ‘great’ man can be blamed.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions..”
― The Social Contract
― The Social Contract
“Fear dries a man’s mouth, and hate strangles him. That’s why hate has no great literature: real fear and real hate have no words.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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بسم الله وبعد: نظرًا لأن الكتب العربية في الوقت الحالي تضاف يدويًا من بعض الأخوة والأخوات شاكرين لهم جهودهم،في القراءة والإضافة،آمل أن تكون هذه المجمو ...more
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