Shamseerkeloth

“when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“because, in my life, fate has never been unwilling to lend a hand.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

“Part of the solution to that problem was for one person, the chief, to exercise a monopoly on the right to use force.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel

“Ah, my dear friend, I cannot claim it as my own. It was Karla who said it to me the first time, and I have used it ever since. I am guilty of many crimes—of most crimes, to say the truth—but I have never claimed a cleverness that was not my own.’ ‘Admirable,’ I laughed.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram