Source: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 15 (p. 396)
“Better a century of tyranny than one day of chaos.”
Kitab al-Siyasa al-Shar'iya, as quoted in Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Oxford University Press, p. 19.
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