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“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
― Bob Marley

tags: said-it-first

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“Even in systems that have multiple moderating institutions, the chief executive almost always has considerable power. But what happens when that executive is not mentally fit to hold office? What if he begins to make decisions that threaten the well-being and security of the realm?”
― Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

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“Populism may look like an embrace of the have-nots, but in reality it is a form of cynical exploitation. The unscrupulous leader has no actual interest in bettering the lot of the poor. Surrounded from birth with great wealth, his tastes run to extravagant luxuries, and he finds nothing remotely appealing the lives of underclasses... But he sees that they can be made to further his ambition.”
― Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

tags: henriad, politics, shakespeare

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“Assume nothing, question everything.”
― James Patterson, Cat & Mouse

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“Shakespeare believed that . . . tyrants and their minions would ultimately fail, brought down by their own viciousness and by a popular spirit of humanity that could be suppressed but never completely extinguished. The best chance for the recovery of collective decency lay, he thought, in the political action of ordinary citizens. He never lost sight of . . . the hungry citizen who demanded economic justice. 'What is the city but the people?”
― Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

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