He is not strong and powerful who throweth
people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger: Muhammad
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Believe nothing just because a so-called
wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally
held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe
nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing
just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself
test and judge to be true.: Buddha - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta
November 28, 2004
"One of the world's greatest problems is
the impossibilty of any person searching for the truth on any subject
when they believe they already have it." Dave Wilbur
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"It's not a matter of what is true that
counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." Henry Kissinger
November 26, 2004
We should never forget that everything
Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian
freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't
Wait, 1963
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As long as the world shall last there will
be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs
would last forever: Clarence Darrow
November 24, 2004
The degree of civilization in a society
can be judged by entering its prisons: Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Russian novelist, 1821-1881
November 23, 2004
When people speak to you about a
preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I
have come to hate war. War settles nothing: Dwight David Eisenhower - 34th president of the United States,
1890-1969
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The most shocking fact about war is that
its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that
these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of
politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own: Aldous
Huxley - English novelist and critic, 1894-1963
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Only the winners decide what were war
crimes.: Gary Wills - Author
November 22, 2004
The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this
world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which,
fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will
against all others: Adolf Hitler (German chancellor, leader of the Nazi party, 1889-1945)
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"Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20
years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to
destroy him." : King Baudouin I: King of Belgium
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"Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's
conflicts." Mary Robinson: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
(Retired)
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"Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains
the greatest enemy of peace." : Lester B. Pearson
November 20, 2004
We first fought the heathens in the name
of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism.
Our excuses for global domination always change: Serj Tankian
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What our leaders and pundits never let
slip is that the terrorists -- whatever else they might be -- might also
be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they
have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are
people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or
religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their
terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States . . .
William Blum
November 19, 2004
"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of
people who know each other but don't massacre each other" Paul Valery quotes (French poet, essayist and critic, 1871-1945)
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"War is like a big machine that no one really knows how to run and when
it gets out of control it ends up destroying the things you thought you
were fighting for, and a lot of other things you kinda forgot you had."
: Anonymous
November 17, 2004
A time will come when a politician who has
willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure
of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is
not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake
their own: H.G. Wells
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The soul of our country needs to be
awakened . . .When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act
contrary to leaders: Veterans Fast for Life
November 15, 2004
"The most brilliant propagandist technique
will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind
constantly...it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over
and over.": Josef Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister
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"The process [of mass-media deception] has
to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient
precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it
a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies
while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become
inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back
from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of
objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which
one denies - all this is indispensably necessary.": George Orwell in the book 1984
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Like the effect of advertising upon the
customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the
feeling of insignificance of the individual voter: Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and social philosopher, 1900-1980
November 14, 2004
Justice in the life and conduct of the
State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of
the citizens Plato : Ancient Greek philosopher (428/427-348/347 B.C.)
November 13, 2004
We have now sunk to a depth at which the
restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men: George Orwell, author of the book '1984'
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Political language. . . is designed to
make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an
appearance of solidity to pure wind: George Orwell
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The nationalist not only does not
disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a
remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them: George Orwell
November 12, 2004
First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I
wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a
Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a
Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak
up for me. -Pastor Martin Neimoller: Concentration camp Survivor
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An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about
life. He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me...It is a
terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear,
anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt,
resentment, inferiority, lies, pride and superiority. The other wolf
stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility,
kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth,
compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside of you and
every other person too."
They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his
grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee simply
replied..."The one I feed."
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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already
earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him
the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be
done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable
love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and
ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an
action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but
an act of murder." Albert Einstein
November 10, 2004
Let those who would die for the flag on the field of battle give a
better proof of their patriotism and a higher glory to their country by
promoting fraternity and justice: Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893: - Inaugural Address, 1889
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of
resistance: Thomas Paine
November 9, 2004
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in
moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification
for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith
November 7, 2004
" If you want to carry off a colossal
humbug just get all the fools in town on your side. The fools are the
majority in any town." Mark Twain
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"You tell me where a man gets his corn
pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is." Mark Twain
November 6, 2004
We're not a democracy. It's a terrible
misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that.
In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy." : Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General
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"Of all forms of tyranny the least
attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the
tyranny of plutocracy" : John Pierpont Morgan
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"The real truth of the matter is, as you
and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the
government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson." : Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Fascism should more appropriately be
called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."
: Benito Mussolini
November 4, 2004
Only when the last tree has died and the
last river has been poisoned
and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat
money. Cree proverb
November 3, 2004
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can
only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they
will steal your Honor. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation,
is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons
who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on
their way to the poorhouse:
Mark Twain
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"The National Government will regard it as
its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity
and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on
which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the
foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of
national life." Adolf Hitler, My New World Order, Proclamation to the German Nation
at Berlin, February 1, 1933
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"I'm often amazed at the way politicians,
who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt
to discover what the public thinks, are certain they know precisely what
God's views are on everything.": Simon Hoggart
November 2, 2004
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the
murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring
lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?: Kahlil Gibran
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied
propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it: Mohandas Gandhi
November 1, 2004
War ... should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and
treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap
its fruits. James Madison (1751-1836)
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the
indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of
justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. Haile Selassie
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