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last updated: November 28, 2023

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.
-- Robert Fisk

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Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
-- William Hague

Source : "Syria Death Toll Rises As Tanks Pound Residential Neighborhoods", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2011.

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Bashar Assad clearly doesn't want to hear anything that impugns his government.
-- Michael Isikoff

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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“The world is rather shot to pieces (end of World War II), 1945), but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war evaporates, distinguished boredom sits down again on the dignified old overstuffed chairs.. ..May I report about myself that I have had a truly grotesque time, brim-full with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger, and again and again work - in spite of everything (using his bed sheets as canvas”

Source : "Max Beckmann". Book by Stephan Lackner, 1983.
“Like having your own licence to print money.”
“You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I always felt more like a girl than a boy, I don't know. Music was very important to me, movies were not important. I was not dreaming of becoming a film director.”
“The best vision is insight.”
“I have but one thought in my heart for the young folk of the Church and that is that they be happy. I know of no other place than home where more happiness can be found in this life. It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home.”
“It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.”

Source : Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.131, Melville House
“I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.”
“So I think if we want to turn the table around, more than thinking about how can we starve the Islamic State in terms of money, we should think about how can we maximise the amount of resources that we have in order to secure ourselves. For us, instead of bombing so much, which is extremely expensive, perhaps, you know, we should use some of that money in order to protect ourselves.”
“People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.”