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“Those who can make people believe absurdities, can make people commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

“We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them. ”
― Vladimir Putin

“It's better to be hanged for loyalty than rewarded for betrayal”
― Vladimir Putin

“Vladimir Putin pledges no allegiance to to the democratic articles of faith, but he does not explicitly renounce democracy. He disdains Western values while professing to identify with the West. He doesn’t care what the State Department puts in next year’s human rights report, because he has yet to pay a political price in his own country for the sins reported in prior years. He tells bald lies with a straight face, and when guilty of aggression, blames the victim. He has convinced many, apparently including the American president, that he is a master strategist, a man of strength and will. Confined to Russia, these facts would be sobering, but Putin, like Mussolini nine decades ago, is watched carefully in other regions by leaders who are tempted to follow in his footsteps. Some already are.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

“How can you save face when you have disfigured so many in life?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Hide behind your own ego and you will find that you are scared of your own reflection.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Even a wild animal understands cruelty.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Intentionally rude and vulgar, he took pleasure in the discomfort of others.”
― Daniel Silva, The Cellist

“Racism will continue to thrive until we see ourselves as one. Black people stuck in Ukraine are being subjected to racism even as they attempt to flee to safety in Poland during a time of war, Black people are treated with complete and utter contempt. We should all be condemning this.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Would you let a madman push your button.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Z" is now the new "666" in the world.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“After Putin's war crimes in Ukraine, I feel about Putin about the same as I feel about Nazis.
The only good Putin is a dead Putin!”
― @AnonymousXgHOST

“Earlier, I cited Oswald Spengler’s chilling century-old prophecy that “the era of individualism, liberalism and democracy, of humanitarianism and freedom, is nearing its end. The masses will accept with resignation the victory of the Caesars, the strong men, and will obey them.â€� This is the real danger posed by Putin: that he will be a model for other national leaders who want to retain their grip on power indefinitely, despite political and legal constraints.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

“In the United States, the dominant analytic framework for explaining international relations today is realism. ... Those deploying this model to explain Russia’s behavior today...offer several prescriptions for how to defuse the current Russia-Ukraine crisis:

Freeze NATO expansion and Russia will be content.
Offer face-saving concessions that give Russia tangible gains and the threat of war will subside.
Don’t arm Ukraine because that will fuel escalation and trigger a Russian invasion.

If Putin thought like us, maybe some of these proposals might work. But Putin does not think like us. He has his own analytic framework, his own ideas and his own ideology â€� only some of which comport with Western rational realism.”
― Michael McFaul

“Racism will continue to thrive until we see and threat ourselves as humans. Black people stuck in Ukraine are being subjected to racism even as they attempt to flee to safety in Poland during a time of war. Black people are treated with complete and utter contempt by white supremacists all over the world. We should all be condemning this barbaric act.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Awake, arise, and treat the Putin pandemic, like you treated the Covid pandemic.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The only people who can end Putin's reign of terror for good, are not the governments of the world, but the citizens of the world. Sisters and brothers of planet earth, if you stay silent now, the blood of countless innocents will be on your hands. Awake, arise, and treat the Putin pandemic, like you treated the Covid pandemic.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“War or Peace?
My ego can't live in peace, but it can thrive in war.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“It is the apes who control the mind of man.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“A war of words will allow more dialogue than what a war with bullets ever will.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Atrocities are a way of life when you're human.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Cowards will always commit war crimes.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Sanctions haven't stopped the killings. They've only made the invaders more desperate to win.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“What will be your legacy to the world?
The orphans that you have fathered in your name.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“If, as Ilyin maintained, voting was just an opening to foreign influence, then Putin's job was to make up a story about foreign influence and use it to alter domestic politics. The point was to choose the enemy that best suited a leader's needs, not one that actually threatened the country. Indeed, it was best not to speak of actual threats, since discussing actual enemies would reveal actual weaknesses and suggest the fallibility of aspiring dictators. When Ilyin wrote that the art of politics was “identifying and neutralizing the enemy,â€� he did not mean that statesmen should ascertain which foreign power actually posed a threat. He meant that politics began with a leader's decision about which foreign enmity will consolidate a dictatorship. Russia's real geopolitical problem was China. But precisely because Chinese power was real and proximate, considering Russia's actual geopolitics might lead to depressing conclusions.
The West was chosen as an enemy precisely because it represented no threat to Russia. Unlike China, the EU had no army and no long border with Russia.”
― Timothy Snyder (author)

“As critics fall, one must wonder at the luck of those that they were so critical of.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“If aggression pays off, aggressors will take note.
-- Kaja Kallas, Estonia Prime Minister”
― Kaja Kallas

“Heroes don't have an ego, but dictators do.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“It should by now be clear to Americans that any Power, whether Napoleonic France or Hitlerian Germany or some other madly ambitious power of the future, which goes on the warpath in Europe and attempts to dominate that Continent, automatically endangers the peace and security of the rest of the world and is sure, sooner or later, to involve the United States in a horribly costly overseas conflict.”
― Carlton J.H. Hayes, Wartime Mission In Spain 1942-1945

“Putin wants to resurrect the USSR or something similar, with him front and centre. He resents us cosying up to the West, doesn't want us in the EU or NATO, wants people to be nostalgic for the old days. He wants us back in the fold.”
― A.J. Liddle, No Harm Done