Don't make fun of the despot

 

“The devil’s aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despot’s dread of a newspaper that laughs.”

~ Mark Twain from his essay “The American Press”

Politics + religion = ?

 

"I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's."
        ~ Mark Twain, Autobiographical dictation, 12 September 1907

[Image: The Mark Twain House & Museum, hat tip Mark Twain]

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