"Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination."

-- Ryszard Kapuscinski

#War Quotes #Hypocrisy Quotes #Long Quotes

“My favorite movie villain? Oh, that's easy. Hannibal Lecter.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.”

Source : Robert Lowell (1969). “Notebook 1967-68”
“The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled.”
“I see ... a pile of skulls and bones. For the first time since my arrival, what I see before me is too painful, and I break down completely. These are my relatives, friends and neighbors, I keep thinking ... It is a long time before I am calm again. And then I am able, with my bare hands, to rearrange the skulls and bones so that they are not scattered about.”
“All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.”
“In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.”
“The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.”
“Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.”

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