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Aiman Haris
https://www.goodreads.com/haristotle
if you are hungry and frightened, and you are offered either bread and security or the concept of democracy, the choice is not difficult.
Probably applies to Malaysia as well. What most leftists in Malaysia miss out on is that education takes time, and is a long term solution. You can't expect to tell someone "this is the right way" and expect them to process and understand easily. Same with democratic values and good governance.
“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“[T]he prime purpose of the occupation was not to take land or push people from their homes. It did that too of course, and effectively, but overall, with its checkpointed and its walls and its prisons and its permits, it functioned as a giant humiliation machine, a complex and sophisticated mechanism for the production of human despair.”
― The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
― The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
“It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols—bigotry and fanaticism—worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad’s original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.”
― No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
― No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
“Does the difference matter? someone else asked. Does it matter whether the law seeks to protect you because you are an individual or because of the group of which you happen to be a member? That question floated around the room, and it has remained with me ever since.”
― East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
― East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
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