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“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

tags: crime, double-standards, hypocrisy, politics, power, war-crimes

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“This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.”
― Kafka Franz, Diaries, 1910-1923

tags: artist-s-imagination, creative-imagination, creative-process, inner-world, world-building, writing

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“It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: america, independence, islam, united-states, us

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“The Sufi Islam practiced in northern India is quite different from the Shi'a Islam practiced in Lebannon, which in turn is different from the Sunni Islam practiced in Pakistan. Even within a single branch of Islam there are customs and practices that vary by region and across time. Thus, the Islam of seventh-century Arabia is different from the Wahhabism that exists today in Saudi Arabia.”
― Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire

tags: deepa-kumar, islam, islamaphobia, muslims, sufi

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“Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: keep-going-going, life-lessons, morality

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