Timur Lenk, who killed 100,000 prisoners at Delhi in 1398 and built two towers of skulls in Syria in 1400 and 1401.


“It may be that the reason we love nature is because it expresses neither jealousy nor hatred toward us.”
― Kappa
― Kappa

“It is more difficult to defend oneself than it is to defend others. If anyone doubts this, they merely have to observe a lawyer.”
― Kappa
― Kappa

“Pride, lust, doubt — for three thousand years, all our sins have stemmed from these three things. As well as all our virtues.”
― Kappa
― Kappa

“Well, since I’d been feeling so depressed, I thought I’d try looking at the world upside down. But turns out, it’s exactly the same.”
― Kappa
― Kappa

“When a nation can’t admit to the process through which it builds hegemony, how can anything but delusion be a reality?”
― Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
― Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
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