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“Dickens has not seen it all. The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their only weapon against life, life is all that they have. This is why the dispossessed and starving will never be convinced (though some may be coerced) by the population-control programs of the civilized. I have watched the dispossessed and starving laboring in the fields which others own, with their transistor radios at their ear, all day long: so they learn, for example, along with equally weighty matters, that the pope, one of the heads of the civilized world, forbids to the civilized that abortion which is being, literally, forced on them, the wretched. The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their ‘vital interests’ are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the ‘sanctity’ of human life, or the ‘conscience’ of the civilized world. There is a ‘sanctity’ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. Dreadful indeed it is to see a starving child, but the answer to that is not to prevent the child’s arrival but to restructure the world so that the child can live in it: so that the ‘vital interest’ of the world becomes nothing less than the life of the child. However—I could not have said any of this then, nor is so absurd a notion about to engulf the world now. But we were all starving children, after all, and none of our fathers, even at their most embittered and enraged, had ever suggested that we ‘die out.’ It was not we who were supposed to die out: this was, of all notions, the most forbidden, and we learned this from the cradle. Every trial, every beating, every drop of blood, every tear, were meant to be used by us for a day that was coming—for a day that was certainly coming, absolutely certainly, certainly coming: not for us, perhaps, but for our children. The children of the despised and rejected are menaced from the moment they stir in the womb, and are therefore sacred in a way that the children of the saved are not. And the children know it, which is how they manage to raise their children, and why they will not be persuaded—by their children’s murderers, after all—to cease having children.”
Source: The Devil Finds Work: Essays
“Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.”
“Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.”
“Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.”
“Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.”
“Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.”
“Dickensian poverty tends to occur after Christmas in January. For it is then, with pockets empty, diary decimated and larder bare, that the general populace sinks into a collective pauper's hibernation until Valentine's Day.”
“Dickhead. He makes a beeline for Kate, not even seeing the other women who are right in front of him. Tunnel vision. He wants her bad.
Where have I seen the look on his face before? Oh, yeah. In the mirror.”
Source: Throb
“Dickinson had no voice in her own time, as a woman, so she stuffed her silent screams, more than eight hundred of them, in a drawer and waited for eternity hear. And eternity did hear.”
Source: Miss Subways
“Dickinson left the rostrum to applause, loud shouts of approval. Franklin was surprised, looked toward Adams, who returned the look, shook his head. The chamber was dismissed, and Franklin pushed himself slowly up out of the chair. He began to struggle a bit, pain in both knees, the stiffness holding him tightly, felt a hand under his arm.
“Allow me, sir.” Adams helped him up, commenting as he did so, “We have a substantial lack of backbone in this room, I’m afraid.”
Franklin looked past him, saw Dickinson standing close behind, staring angrily at Adams, reacting to his words.
“Mr. Dickinson, a fine speech, sir,” said Franklin.
Adams seemed suddenly embarrassed, did not look behind him, nodded quickly to Franklin, moved away toward the entrance. Franklin saw Dickinson following Adams, began to follow himself. My God, let’s not have a duel. He slipped through the crowd of delegates, making polite acknowledgments left and right, still keeping his eye on Dickinson. The man was gone now, following Adams out of the hall. Franklin reached the door, could see them both, heard the taller man call out, saw Adams turn, a look of surprise. Franklin moved closer, heard Adams say, “My apologies for my indiscreet remark, sir. However, I am certain you are aware of my sentiments.” Dickinson seemed to explode in Adams’ face. “What is the reason, Mr. Adams, that you New England men oppose our measures of reconciliation? Why do you hold so tightly to this determined opposition to petitioning the king?” Franklin heard other men gathering behind him, filling the entranceway, Dickinson’s volume drawing them. He could see Adams glancing at them and then saying, “Mr. Dickinson, this is not an appropriate time...” “Mr. Adams, can you not respond? Do you not desire an end to talk of war?” Adams seemed struck by Dickinson’s words, looked at him for a long moment. “Mr. Dickinson, if you believe that all that has fallen upon us is merely talk, I have no response. There is no hope of avoiding a war, sir, because the war has already begun. Your king and his army have seen to that. Please, excuse me, sir.” Adams began to walk away, and Franklin could see Dickinson look back at the growing crowd behind him, saw a strange desperation in the man’s expression, and Dickinson shouted toward Adams, “There is no sin in hope!”
Source: Rise to Rebellion
“Dicks don't have brains. It's why men get into trouble”
Source: Deep
“Dickward had the kind of smirk that would make women moan his name even when he was in another continent. He was happily married to Emilia LeBlanc-Spencer and strictly off the market. Shame they rocked the happily-in-love vibe.”
Source: Bane
“Dicle yine gözümde Tunalaştı.”
“Dico amore perché non ho altra parola per definire qualcosa di indefinibile. Non ho mai saputo e non so tuttora come abbiamo trovato quel punto di equilibrio in cui i nostri desideri si incontravano senza affrontarsi, senza che uno avesse il sopravvento sull’altro, senza che nessuno dei due ne fosse leso.
Non ho mai saputo e non so tuttora come raccontare quello stato di pienezza e di grazia, quell’inquietudine così simile alla perdita, quella sensazione di non essere più se stessi e di essere superati dall’altro, di dover essere all’altezza. Mi sono abbandonato a quell’amore. Non sono mai stato così libero. Non sono mai stato così bello. Volevo le sue braccia, il suo ventre, la sua bocca, la sua voce. Volevo il suo passato, il suo futuro, la sua presenza.”
Source: La Vie, après
“Dicono che due particelle possono avere un legame così forte da cambiare direzione nello stesso istante, a un milione di chilometri di distanza. Una danza cosmica che supera il tempo e lo spazio. Non sono abbastanza intelligente da sapere se è vero. Ma mi piace pensare che ogni momento possa essere così intrecciato, così unito per sempre a un altro che il tempo e lo spazio perdono di importanza. Nessun inizio e nessuna fine, solo due punti di una lunga orbita che fanno continuamente ritorno.”
Source: Goodbye Hotel
“Dicono che il colpevole non riesca a strapparsi più dal male che ha commesso. Dicono che il colpevole resti inchiodato al male.”
Source: I delitti della Medusa
“Dicono che la felicità si trova nelle piccole cose. Sapeste l'infelicità.”
Source: Non avevo capito niente
“Dictate the environment you want to be in.
Always be around people who make you better.
Be amongst those who inspire you”
“Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.”
“dictator with no legitimate claim to power”
“Dictatorial regimes in Africa and Latin America that aided America or European interests (resource extraction, investment privileges, strategic support in the cold war) and were, in return, propped up by Western protectors have been called “client fascism,” “proxy fascism,” or “colonial fascism.” One thinks here of Chile under General Pinochet (1974–90) or Western protectorates in Africa like Seko-Seso Mobutu’s Congo (1965–97). These client states, however odious, cannot legitimately be called fascist, because they neither rested on popular acclaim nor were free to pursue expansionism. If they permitted the mobilization of public opinion, they risked seeing it turn against their foreign masters and themselves. They are best considered traditional dictatorships or tyrannies supported from outside.”
Source: The Anatomy of Fascism
“Dictatorial regimes often manage to keep themselves in power because they are recognized by foreigners as representing the state and its people, and therefore as entitled to sell the country's natural resources and to borrow money in its people's name. These privileges conferred by foreigners keep autocrats in power despite the fact that they were not elected and do not rule in the interest of the population.”
“Dictators always look good until the last minutes.”
“Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.”
“Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.”
“Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.”
“Dictators are interesting, no?”
“Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.”
“Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.”
Source: From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
“Dictators are not strategists in the way I normally use that term. All the dictator cares about is survival. That means constantly worrying about the tactical response, "What do I do today, tonight, tomorrow morning, to stay alive?" Vladimir Putin doesn't care what happens a year or five years from now. He just cares about staying in the game. That is all he needs to survive.”
“Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.”
“Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.”
“Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956
“Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.”
“Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.”
“Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.”
“Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what conditions existed outside their boundaries, they could get the people to fight to stay in those conditions. It was the old adage: Convince a slave that he's free , and he will fight to maintain his slavery .”
Source: The Jewels of Aptor
“Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.”
“Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!”
“Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that of abstainers.”
“Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.”
“Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.”
“Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.”
Source: Treasury of Thought
“Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.”
Source: A Dictionary of Thought
“Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.”
“Dictators never invent their own opportunities.”
Source: Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization
“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”
“Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.”
“Dictatorship are based on a primitive psychological mechanism, namely on the creation of a climate of fear amongst the population, based on the brutal potential of the dictatorial regime. Totalitarianism, on the other hand, has its roots in the insidious psychological process of mass formation.”
Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism
“Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.”