Abdul Butayban

“He who knows the reader, does nothing for the reader.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“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

“It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“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