Abdul Butayban

“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.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.”
― Gregory David Roberts, 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..”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract