Ivan Zlatanov

“terrorists can be sure that the chorus of public opinion guarantees that their lives will be safe, their causes advertised, and they themselves confined in decent conditions until such time as they are rescued by other terrorists.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Anything to avoid contending with the possibility that all this killing wasn’t the result of a system abused, but a system functioning exactly as intended.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“When you have so many other people doing things for you professionally and personally, you stop taking responsibility for any of it.”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

“Terrorist schemes are usually plotted by clever people, and then carried out by manipulated morons.”
― Ben Macintyre, The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World