The nature of tyranny and the wrestler of slavery - Abdul Rahman al-Kawakibi

Despotism turns the facts around in the minds, leading people to believe that the seeker of truth is immoral, the one who abandons his right is obedient, the complainant is corrupt, the prophet is an atheist, the poor idle is good, and - likewise - advice becomes curiosity, jealousy is enmity, magnanimity is arrogant, diet is foolishness, and mercy is a disease. He also considers hypocrisy to be politics, deception to be a gentle parent's gentleness, and villainy to be gentle!

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