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Thoughts
for Today February 2006 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * February 28.
"Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of the
colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than
bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital
quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to
change. Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of
others, or strikes out against injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of
hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and
daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of
oppression and resistance." February 27.
"One of the intentions of corporate-controlled media is to instill in people a
sense of disempowerment, of immobilization and paralysis. Its outcome is to turn
you into good consumers. It is to keep people isolated, to feel that there is no
possibility for social change." February 26.
"...it is a government by the corporations, for the
corporations." February 25.
"Those who give up essential liberty, to purchase a
little temporary safety, deserve neither February 24.
"He who allows oppression, shares the crime." February 23.
"Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not
intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective
citizens competent to do their own thinking." February 22.
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and
oppressions of body and mind will vanish like the evil spirits at the dawn of
day." February 21.
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they
misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace" February 20.
"A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will
always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities
represented by their property." February 19.
"A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army
of mourners, and an army of thieves." February 18.
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to
see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most
wretched sort of life as paradise"
"Setting a good example is a far better way to spread
ideals than through force of arms" February 16.
"One of the intentions of corporate-controlled media is to instill in people a
sense of disempowerment, of immobilization and paralysis. Its outcome is to turn
you into good consumers. It is to keep people isolated, to feel that there is no
possibility for social change." February 15.
"When everyone is thinking the same, no one is thinking." February 14.
"War against a foreign country only happens when the
moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."
"The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of
its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst war in American history.. Our
military men and women, were not called to defend America but rather to attack
Iraq. They were not called to die for, but rather to kill for, their country.
What more unpatriotic thing could we have asked of our sons and daughters.?"
"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the
truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak,
the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls." February 11.
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little,
to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to
believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act
on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even
if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of
national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in
him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise
have worried about it
"A radical is one who speaks the truth." February 09.
"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact
amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will
continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits
of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." February 08.
"I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers
attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success,
even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. Fiat justitia,
pereat coelum. My toast would be, may our country be always successful, but
whether successful or otherwise, always right." February 07.
"Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is
capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to
think, and this they consider freedom." February 06.
"It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or
bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want." February 05.
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate
inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases,
while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest
periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. " February 04.
"If you realise that all things change, there is
nothing you will try to hold on to."
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds;
February 02.
"The whale depends on the plankton, not the plankton on the whale." February 01.
"The key to 'power' is persuading those you depend upon that they're |
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