Don't treat your friend and your enemy equally even if you reconcile with the second. That way your enemy doesn't scorn you and your friend doesn't look down on the meaning of friendship and its rights.
— Saddam Hussein Contemporary

Iraqi dictator

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Iraqi Information Ministry pamphlet "Saddam Hussein: Great Lessons, Commandments to Strugglers, the Patient and Holy Warriors"

Date / Period

Early 2000s (pamphlet published then, quotes from earlier speeches)

Category

Philosophical

Source

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-15-mn-hussein15-story.html

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