Since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
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In Iran, we see the mask of the State ripped away: it drinks the blood of its own people to prolong its own agony. But bullets cannot kill the spirit of freedom. Let this fire destroy the prison of despotism, and let the people trust neither the tyrants in turbans nor the 'liberators' in uniforms — let them take their destiny into their own hands!