#ship

Without a sound legal system, a small group or even a single person can take control of an entire country. ↗

— Ji Li Jiang

#dictatorship #dictatorship

Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad. ↗

— Trevanian

#generalizations #politics #dictatorship

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority. ↗

— Gene Sharp

#dictatorship

A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#manhood #relationships #tenderness #love

She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better. ↗

— Tawni O'Dell

#hardship #self-hate #working-class #self-worth

Love doesn't always curl your toes sometimes it takes a bite right out of your soul. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#love #relationships #love

It seeems like so long ago but I'm sorry I yelled at you after the party" "I doubt it'll be the last time" he chuckles. "Phillip" "Well, at least I hope it won't be the last time because it would mean you weren't with me I roll my eyes at him. I don't get mad at him often. Just when he disagrees with me. "I'll always love my princess" He smiles."Even when she's mad at me. ↗

— Jillian Dodd

#humor #love #friendship

This next song is about when you get your heart broken and you try your best to glue it back together and you wake up one morning and you’re so happy because you realize, Oh my God, the tape’s holding! ↗

— Sara Quin

#heart-broken #heartbreak #love #relationships #sara-quin

Bricks are independent but can work well with other, tough to crack, fiercely loyal and put in the right spot will hold anything and everything that you’ve ever held dear with the greatest of ease. ↗

— Nicole McKay

#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny #humor

Warren made a noise, the first one I'd heard out of him since we'd come into the room. I'd have been happier if he hadn't sounded scared. "Easy, Warren," Adam told him. "You're safe here.” "If you die on us, you won't be," said Kyle with a growl that would have done credit to any of the werewolves in the room. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#funny #mercy-thompson #friendship