Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that's how it works in a democracy.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
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What is the basic principle of democracy? In the end, it is loyalty to the nation. We Central Europeans know from historical experience that sooner or later, we will lose our freedom if we do not represent the interests of our citizens.
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Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.
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What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?
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As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that's how it works in a democracy.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
