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Tamim Ansary
“Once the ruling elite stopped depending on the traditional economy for tax revenues, they no longer needed allies in that world. Even in totalitarian dictatorships, the power elite have to propitiate some domestic constituency. But in these oil-rich Muslim states, they could diverge from the masses of their people culturally without consequence. The people they did need to get along with were the agents of the world economy coming and going from their countries. Thus did “modernization” divide these “developing” societies into a “governing club” and “everyone else.” The governing club was not small. It included the technocracy, which was not a mere group but a whole social class. It also included the ruling elite who, in dynastic countries, were the royal family and its far-flung relatives and in the “republics” the ruling party and its apparatchik. Still, in any of these countries the governing club was a minority of the population as a whole, and the border between the governing classes and the masses grew ever more distinct.”
Tamim Ansary, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes

Tamim Ansary
“Omar directed the Umma for ten years, and during that time he set the course of Islamic theology, he shaped Islam as a political ideology, he gave Islamic civilization its characteristic stamp, and he built an empire that ended up bigger than Rome. Any one of these achievements could have earned him a place in a who’s who of history’s most influential figures; the sum of them make him something like a combination of Saint Paul, Karl Marx, Lorenzo di Medici, and Napoleon.”
Tamim Ansary, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes

George Orwell
“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.”
George Orwell, Animal Farm

George Orwell
“Four legs good, two legs better! All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.”
George Orwell, Animal Farm

George Orwell
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
George Orwell, 1984

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