“One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish
fingernail."
Rabbi Yaacov Perrin (NY Daily News, Feb. 28,
1994, p.6)
July 30.
“I want to tell you something very clear: Don't
worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the
Jewish people, control America, and the Americans
know it." Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon (b. 1928)
July 29.
"Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on
this planet. We are as different from the inferior
races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to
our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle
at best. Other races are considered as human
excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior
races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our
leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our
feet and serve us as our slaves." Israeli Prime Minister
Menechem Begin (1913-1992), winner of the Nobel
Peace Prize(!)
(source:
http://www.johnkaminski.com/)
July 28.
"Whenever you find you are on the
side of the majority, it is time to pause and
reflect"
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
July 27.
"He therefore is the truest friend
to the liberty of his country who tries most to
promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and
influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen
into any office of power and trust who is not a wise
and virtuous man..."
Samuel Adams (1722-1803)
July 26.
"All those who seek to destroy the
liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that
war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish
it"
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
July 25.
"Suffering and joy teach us, if we
allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which
transports us into the soul and heart of another
person. ln those transparent moments we know other
people's joys and sorrows, and we care about their
concerns as if they were our own."
Fritz Williams
July 24.
"The worst enemy of truth and
freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes,
the damned, compact, liberal majority."
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
July 23.
"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 (1879-1955)
July 22.
"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 (b.1918)
July 21.
"He who joyfully marches to music
in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He
has been given a large brain by mistake, science 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 an ignorable 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 (1879-1955)
July 20.
“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 (1903-1950)
July 19.
"Strike against war, for without
you no battles can be fought! Strike against
manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other
tools of murder! Strike against preparedness that
means death and misery to millions of human beings!
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of
destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!"
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
July 18.
"No government can be long secure
without a formidible opposition. "
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
1804-1881
July 17.
"Let the people think they govern,
and they will be governed."
William Penn 1644-1718
July 16.
"Whenever a man casts a longing
eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
July 15.
'"Every day doctors have to deal
with people who are worn out and unable to stand up
to the life they lead. They generally assert that it
is impossible to alter the way they live, and
sincerely believe that their overwork is the product
of circumstance, whereas it is bound up with their
own intimate problems. It is ambition, fear of the
future, love of money, jealousy, or social injustice
that makes men strive and overwork, invent all sorts
of unnecessary tasks, keep late hours, take too
little sleep, take insufficient holidays, or use
their holidays badly. Their minds are overtense, so
that at night they cannot sleep and by day they
doubly fatigue themselves at their work."
Paul Tournier, M.D.
July 13.
"The power of the executive to
cast a man into prison without formulating any
charge known to the law, and particularly to deny
him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest
degree odious, and the foundation of all
totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
July 12.
"How is one to live a moral and
compassionate existence when one is fully aware of
the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one
finds darkness not only in one's culture but within
oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual
life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps
the irony in its unfolding and accepts
responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such
paradox." Barry
Lopez (b.1945)
July 11.
"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."
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), "Why Liberty?"
January 30, 1927
July 10.
"The trouble with most people is
that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes
rather than with their minds"
Will Durant (1885-1981)
July 09.
"It is also in the interests of a
tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not
be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves
by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks
that they have no time for rebellion."
Aristotle (384-322 BC) in Politics, J. Sinclair
translation, pg. 226, 1962
July 08.
"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. "
Ayn Rand (1905-1982) in "The Nature of
Government"
July 07.
"Government, when it is examined,
turns out to be nothing more nor less than a group
of fallible men with the political force to act as
though they were infallible."
Robert LeFevre (1911-1986), in his essay,
Aggression is Wrong
July 06.
"It is dangerous to be right in
matters on which the established authorities are
wrong."
Voltaire - [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
July 05.
"A new fascism promises security
from the terror of crime. All that is required is
that we take away the criminals’ rights -- which, of
course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear
we begin to feel a sense of security from the new
totalitarian state." Gerry
Spence, Lawyer and author. Source: Give Me
Liberty, 1998
July 04.
"The most potent weapon in the
hands of the oppressor is the mind of the
oppressed."
Steve Biko (1946-1977)
July 03.
"Today, America would be outraged
if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order;
tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially
true if they were told that there were an outside
threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated,
that threatened our very existence. It is then that
all peoples of the world will plead with world
leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one
thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented
with this scenario, individual rights will be
willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their
well being granted to them by their world
government."
Henry Kissinger (1923-), Bilderberg meeting,
Evian-les-Bains, France, 1992
July 02.
"The world is governed by
personalities very different to what people
that cannot see further than their eyes, believe"
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) - (Statesman)
July 01.
“It is proof of a base and low
mind for one to wish to think with the masses or
majority, merely because the majority is the
majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is
not, believed by a majority of the people.”
Giordano Bruno