Ikhlak

“The Joker: Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve.”
― Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight

“Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?”
― Osip Mandelstam

“It's this way:
being captured is beside the point
the point is not to surrender.

- It's This Way”
― Nâzım Hikmet, Poems of Nazım Hikmet

“Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.”
― Ossip Mandelstam