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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 05:52:00 AM
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Thoughts
for Today November 2005 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 30. “There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence (and that is) activism and overwork…The rush and pressure of modern life are a form of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence.
The frenzy of our activism
neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our inner capacity for
peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it
kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.” These are powerful words calling our busyness violence. In Chinese the symbol for busyness translates to heart killing. 29.
"Propaganda is persuading people to make up
their minds while withholding some of the facts from them." 28.
"Fascism is capitalism plus murder." 27.
"My father was a slave and my people died to
build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just
like you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that
clear?" 26.
"Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon
wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did
not commit suicide." 25.
"I believe that any man who takes the liberty
of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who
yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a
slave" 24.
"No man is great enough or wise enough for
any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us
is to restore our belief in our own guidance." 23.
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of
wolves" 22.
"The lie can be maintained only for such time
as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military
consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use
all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the
lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." 21.
Don't Let Anybody Fool You: Your Life today
is the way it is because of how you think and what you know (or don't know)
about the invisible world around you. 20.
"See, in my line of work you got to repeating
things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in ... to kind of
catapult the propaganda." 19.
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man and brave, and hated
and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him for then it costs
nothing to be a patriot." 18.
"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in
the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in
the Middle East." 17.
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press
... have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence- death - is
hidden from public view." 16.
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the
truth which men prefer not to hear 15.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their
prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true 14.
" ... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed
states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S.
benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of
ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency specialists.
Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations with little
notice in the national press. That allows the public to sustain its faith in a
just America, while hard-nosed security and economic interests are still
protected in secret. " 13.
"I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for
light and guidance . and one night late it came to me this way.. We could not
leave (the Philippines) to themselves--they were unfit for self-government--and
they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was..
There was nothing left for us to do but take them all and educate the Filipinos,
and uplift and Christianize them." 12.
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has
ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right
which they first of all strike down 11.
War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout
society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation
with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and
individuals which lack the larger herd sense 10.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own
are the same 9.
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its
voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."
8.
The War Prayer 7.
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where
they make a wilderness, they call it peace." 6.
Throughout the history of the United States, war has been the primary impetus
behind the growth and development of the central state. It has been the lever by
which presidents and other national officials have bolstered the power of the
state in the face of tenacious popular resistance 5.
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it
necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may
choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and you allow him to
make war at pleasure. If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary
to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop
him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us' but
he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.'" 4.
"If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom
of speech even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish,
inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them."
3.
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original
virtue. It is through disobedience that progress had been made, through
disobedience and through rebellion." 2.
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the
tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely
often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the
privilege of owning yourself." 1.
"During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it
has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism"
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