"It's strange that men should take up
crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest." Al Capone
January 30, 2005
No tree has branches so foolish as to
fight among themselves. Ojibway Tribe: Ojibway Trobe
January 29, 2005
I was a bombardier in WW 2. When you are
up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see
those without limbs or eyes. It was not till I read Hersey's Hiroshima
that I realized what bomber pilots do Howard Zinn
January 28, 2005
People have not been horrified by war to a
sufficient extent ... War will exist until that distant day when the
conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the
warrior does today John Fitzgerald Kennedy
January 27, 2005
There have been periods of history in
which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word
violence was never used.... Violence is shrouded in justifying myths
that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept
people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who
burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as
violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated
righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans
have ever committed Gil Bailie
January 26, 2005
How many does it take to metamorphose
wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is
murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it
is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get
people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human
beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take? Adin Ballou, The Non-Resistant, 5 February 1845
January 25, 2005
"If the citizens neglect their Duty and
place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted;
laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or
local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute
the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and
the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded." Noah Webster - (1758-1843) American patriot and scholar, author of
the 1806 edition of the dictionary that bears his name, the first
dictionary of American English usage.
January 24, 2005
"We cannot afford to differ on the
question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure.
Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient
service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep
him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity." Theodore Roosevelt - (1858-1919) 26th US President
January 23, 2005
"The nation in arms is virtually a
communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and
regimented behind the lines as much as on the front. Minds must be kept
loyal and at the right pitch of hate, so that successive drafts of
fighters are accepted without murmurings. Letters and newspapers must be
censored while the propaganda mill grinds on. As for decisions of
strategy and overall command, they must please many masters: dissenters
in the cabinet, the heads of the allied states and public opinion. Hence
failures must be disguised or concealed." Jacques Barzun: "From Dawn to Decadence", page 710. Harper Collins,
2000
January 22, 2005
"This so-called ill treatment and torture
in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the
people, and later by the prisoners who were freed . were not, as some
assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by
individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands
on the detainees." Rudolf Hess, the SS commandant at Auschwitz.
January 21, 2005
"We must not allow ourselves to become
like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we
will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have
done that.' Desmond Tutu
January 20, 2005
"Society everywhere is in conspiracy
against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a
joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing
of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture
of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is
its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and
customs." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (1841)
January 19, 2005
"History will have to record that the
greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the
strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good
people." Martin Luther King, Jr. who could have turned 76 today.
January 18, 2005
"I knew that I could never again raise my
voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without
having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the
world today -- my own government." Rev. Martin Luther King. 4 April 1967 Click here to listen -
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm
January 17, 2005
"Scientific societies are as yet in their
infancy. . . . It is to be expected that advances in physiology and
psychology will give governments much more control over individual
mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid
it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that,
after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the
rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their
schoolmasters would have wished. . . "
Bertrand Russell, "The Impact of Science on Society", 1953, pg 49-50
January 16, 2005
"The Press was protected so that it could
bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free
and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to
prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people." Justice Hugo L. Black - (1886-1971) US Supreme Court Justice
Source: New York Times v. Unites States (Pentagon Papers) 1971
January 15, 2005
"All the perplexities, confusion and
distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or
Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright
ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation." John Adams - (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
January 14, 2005
"Today the tyrant rules not by club or
fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in
the ways of utility and comfort." Marshall McLuhan - (1911-1980)
January 13, 2005
"...free enterprise, [is] a term that
refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit,
with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a
welfare state for the rich." Noam Chomsky
January 12, 2005
A nation can survive its fools, and even
the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at
the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner
openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his
sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of
government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in
accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their
arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of
all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in
the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body
politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear Marcus Tullius Cicero - (106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman,
Philosopher and Orator Date: 42 B.C. - Source: Speech in the Roman
Senate
January 11, 2005
"The Press was protected so that it could
bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free
and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to
prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people." Justice Hugo L. Black - (1886-1971) US Supreme Court Justice
- Source: New York Times v. Unites States (Pentagon Papers) 1971
January 10, 2005
"Live your life that the fear of death can
never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect
others in their views and demand that they respect yours. Love your
life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make
your life long and of service to your people. Prepare a noble death song
for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,
or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. Show respect to all people,
but grovel to none. When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the
light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and
for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault
lies in yourself.
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and
robs the spirit of its vision. When your time comes to die, be not like
those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their
time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives
over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero
going home." by Tecumseh (1768-1813) - Shawnee Chief
January 9, 2005
"A human being is a part of the whole,
called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated
from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This
delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal
desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must
be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in
its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving
for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a
foundation for inner security." Albert Einstein - (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize
1921
January 8, 2005
"As I watch government at all levels daily
eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government
largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent
to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom."
Lyn Nofziger - [Franklyn C. Nofziger] Press Secretary for
President Reagan
January 7, 2005
"...So long as the people do not care to
exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for
tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of
any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon
sleeping men." Voltaire - [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778) - Source:
Philosophical Dictionary, 1764
January 6, 2005
Justice is conscience, not a personal
conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who
clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize
also the voice of justice: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
January 5, 2005
"We stand for the maintenance of private
property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or
rather the sole possible economic order." Adolf Hitler
January 4, 2005
"Our only political party has two right
wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams
figured all that out back in the 1890s. 'We have a single system,' he
wrote, and 'in that system the only question is the price at which the
proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.'" Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
January 3, 2005
"A great industrial Nation is controlled
by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The
growth of the Nation and all our activities are in the hands of a few
men."
"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely
controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a
Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and
vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of
small groups of dominant men." Woodrow Wilson - From his Campaign Speeches, 1912
January 2, 2005
"We never see the smoke and the fire, we
never smell the blood, we never see the terror in the eyes of the
children, whose nightmares will now feature screaming missiles from
unseen terrorists, will be known only as Americans." Martin Kelly
January 1, 2005
"A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but
doesn't have an air force" Unknown
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