"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you
give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of
justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
" J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring"
29.
"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and
reasoning as fear." Edmund Burke
28.
If you call yourself an American that means
that you have embraced the constitution, because that is what an
American is. A citizen of the United States of America is
someone who has sworn an oath of allegiance to that document, to
the words, to the ideals of that document. Right now we have
citizens who don't even understand what that document is. Scott Ritter - June 23, 2005, Scott Ritter Traprock Peace
Center at the Woolman Hill Meeting House
27.
... the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of
great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of
corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of
protecting corporate power against democracy. Alex Carey
26.
[I]n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it
is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the
executioners. Albert Camus
25.
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the '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 us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty." Albert Einstein
24.
“Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but
according to who does them. There is almost no kind of
outrage-----torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the
bombing of civilians-----which does not change its moral color when it
is committed by ‘our’ side. … The nationalist not only does not
disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable
capacity for not even hearing about them.” George Orwell
23.
"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives,
and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will
be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the
streets. We will control ourselves." Howard Zinn, historian and author
22.
It's
undeniable what they'd have you to think.
It's indescribable, it can drive you to drink Bob Dylan
21.
Because we fear the responsibility for our actions, we have allowed
ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves. Contrary to the stirring
sentiments of the Declaration of Independence, we now pledge "our Lives,
our Fortunes and our sacred Honor" not to one another for our mutual
protection, but to the state, whose actions continue to exploit,
despoil, and destroy us Butler D. Shaffer
20.
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should
therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could
hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to
declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny William Ellery Channing
19.
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real
tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." Plato
18.
The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of
the people Frank Kent
17.
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments Napoleon Bonaparte: French Emperor (1769-1821)
16.
'Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. Unknown
15.
“[Very] soon, every American will be required to register their
biological property in a National system designed to keep track of the
people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By
such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which
will affect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency.
Every American will be forced to register or suffer not being able to
work and earn a living. They will be our chattel, and we will hold the
security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant
under the scheme of secured transactions.
Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading
to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain
economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges. They will
be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to
make us a profit and they will be non the wiser, for not one man in a
million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two would
figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all,
this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and
debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges.
This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest
expectations and leave every American a contributor or to this fraud
which we will call “Social Insurance.” Without realizing it, every
American will insure us for any loss we may incur and in this manner;
every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly.
The people will become helpless and without any hope for their
redemption and, we will employ the high office of the President of our
dummy corporation to foment this plot against America.” Edward Mandell House, Private meeting with Woodrow Wilson, US
President 1913-1921
14.
"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country
is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificually
induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant
propaganda of fear." General Douglas MacArthur, Speech, May 15, 1951
13.
"Beat me with the truth, don't torture me with lies" Author - Unknown
12.
"A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new
master once in a term of years." Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)
Political theorist, activist, abolitionist Source: The Constitution of
No Authority (Boston: 1870), p. 28.
11.
"Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything
we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What
seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and
strength, if faced with an open mind." Henry Miller (1891-1980) American writer
10.
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always
glorify the hunters African Proverb
9.
'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 ... 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 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
8.
ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves
who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that
they cannot separately plunder a third Ambrose Bierce
7.
Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your
liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as
they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy,
chicanery and cowardice John Adams
6.
"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.
McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of
the U.S. Air Force F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe
for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the U.S. Army,
Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps." Thomas Friedman
5.
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is
dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and
find criticism subversive Henry Steele Commager - (1902-1998) Historian and author
4.
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and
murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind
George Orwell
3.
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.
2.
"No one
has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies." Salvador de Madariaga - (1886-1978 ), Spanish writer, diplomat, and
historian, noted for his service at the League of Nations
1.
"It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when
we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return." Socrates 469 - 399 BC