Quotations Page

C. J. Cherryh:

''Ignorance killed the cat;
curiosity was framed!''

Retired Lt general, Fabio Mini, on

US' Groundhog Day dollar cycles:

''The first 32 month interval.. begins with large

amounts of money entering financial markets.

It causes interest rates to fall, greater access

to credit and increased productivity by those

in the world who have taken advantage of

the liquidity. So... wealth increases, and

there are significant “economic booms”.

''But this wealth cannot be left in the hands of

the beneficiaries. So begins the second 32

month interval, in which the dollars must

return to the US. The monetary flow

decreases, interest rates increase,

US securities become profitable,

and new investments flow to

U.S. companies.

''This dollar cycle, is completed in 64 months,

during which the U.S. profits - both from the

roller coaster imposed on global finance

- and from speculation based on the

capital's return.''

The Global Times:

''Washington should understand: that, for a great
power... the decline of ideas is more dangerous

than that of strength. In an era of multi-polarity

and globalization in the 21st century, the US is

still thinking about finding tools from the Cold

War toolbox, thinking every day, about how to

contain other countries, pulling "small gangs"

and engaging in group confrontation, which

will only harm themselves... and will

eventually be abandoned by

the times.''

Jody Williams:

''I believe in both my right and my responsibility

to work to create a world that doesn't glorify

violence and war, but where we seek

different solutions to our common

problems.''

Mr. J. Bolton, leading neocon:

“It is a big mistake for us to grant any validity

to international law - even when it may seem

in our short-term interest to do so - because

over the long term, the goal of those who

think that international law really means

anything, are those who want to

constrain the United States.”

Jean de La Bruyère:

Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous

riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it

would not suit us; they have given for them, their peace

of mind, their health, their honour and their conscience;

this is rather too dear, and there is nothing to be made

out of such a bargain.

C. J. Cherryh:

''Nothing's hopeless, except never trying.''

Finian Cunningham:

''Russia is seen as an obstacle -- to Western control

over the strategically vital Eurasian continent. The

prize of Eurasia has long been coveted by Western

imperialists -- from the British Empire’s Sir Halford

Mackinder... to US strategist, Zbigniew Brzezinski.

As Krainer notes... it was this imperial calculation
by the Anglo/US capitalists that led to the building
up of Nazi Germany, as a bludgeon to destroy the

Soviet Union and purportedly give the empire

-builders, global hegemony. This imperial

machination led to World War II, and the

greatest conflagration in human history

with as many as 85 million dead. The

Soviet Union and China... accounted

for more than half of the death toll.''

Alex Krainer:

''The foundational principle of the conflict between
Russia and the U.S. and Britain, is the struggle for

control of the Eurasian landmass, which has been

the empire builders’ overarching imperative ever

since Halford Mackinder explicitly formulated

it, in 1904, in his Heartland Theory.''

Assistant Sec. of State for European

and Eurasian Affairs, Wess Mitchell:

“The central aim of the administration’s foreign policy

is to defend the US domination of the Eurasian land-

mass as the foremost US national security interest

...and to prepare the nation for this challenge.”

Alex Krainer:

''Now, if Russia reasserts itself as the dominant power

in Eastern Europe, this pretty much check-mates the

empire’s global ambitions - so containing Russia and

limiting its influence in Europe, is absolutely critical

and I think they will not give up on this, even at the
price of a nuclear war.''

Ernestine Rose:

''Silence is consent. And silence, where life and liberty

is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay

the destroyer's hand, and do not do so, is as

criminal as giving actual aid to the
oppressor, for it answers
his purpose.''

W. E. B. Du Bois:

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more

convenient season. It is today, that our best work can

be done - and not some future day or future year.”

Paulo Coelho:

''The wise are wise only because they love.

The fools are fools, only because they

think they can understand love.''

Financial analyst Mauro Bottarelli:

“A state of semi-permanent health emergency

is preferable to a vertical market crash that

would turn the memory of 2008, into a

walk in the park.”

Obafemi Awolowo

''Violence never settles anything right: apart from

injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause.

It lingers on long after the object of hate has

disappeared from the scene, to plague the

lives of those who have employed it

against their foes.''

Randy Martin, U.S.-based analyst:

“Russia has set forth what it requires for its vital

national security. Russia will explain to the US

what it requires, and it will expect a legal

agreement. Anything short of that will be

ominous for the West. If the US & NATO

do not move quickly --- to ensure the

security that Russia expects, then

Moscow will move expediently...

to put a nuclear dagger to their

throat. It will include submarine

tactical nuclear weapons with

strike capabilities - within

seconds, cruise missiles

- within minutes and the

obliteration of Western

space defenses... and

electronic warfare -

that renders naval

and air defense

useless.”

Jonathan Cook:

''If you want to be treated like a grown-up, an active

and informed participant in your society... rather

than a blank sheet, on which powerful interests

are writing their own self-serving narratives

you need to be... doing as much critical

thinking as possible and especially on

the most important topics of the day.

The corporate media isn't our friend.

Its coverage of the pandemic, is not

there to promote the public good.

It's there to feed our anxieties to

keep us coming back for more...

...and to monetize that distress.

The only cure for this sickness?

A lot more critical thinking.''

Cleveland Amory:

“You can give of your talent, you can give

of your possessions, or you can give

of yourself. For God's sake,

give something.”

Anna Kingsford:

''There are too many men and women; there

is too little Humanity. There is a dearth of

understanding, of nakedness of spirit.

All of us are over-dressed; no man

knows what heart beats in his

neighbour's bosom.''

Ken Saro-Wiwa:

''In my innocence of the false charges I face here....

in my utter conviction I call upon the Ogoni people,

the peoples of the Niger delta, and the oppressed

ethnic minorities of Nigeria to stand up now and

fight fearlessly and peacefully, for their rights.

History is on their side. God is on their side.

For the Holy Quran says in Sura 42, verse

41: “All those that fight when oppressed

incur no guilt, but Allah shall punish
the oppressor.” Come the day.''

Chris Hedges:

''This moment in American history is what Antonio Gramsci

called the “interregnum”—the period when a discredited

regime is collapsing but a new one has yet to take its

place. There is no guarantee that what comes next

will be better. But this space, which will close
soon, offers citizens the final chance to
embrace a new vision and a
new direction.''

William Colby:

''I’m William Colby and I was the head of the CIA.

The job of intelligence is to warn us of dangers

to our military. Now, the Cold War is over - and

the military threat is far less. Now it’s time to

cut our military spending by 50 percent and

invest the money in our schools, health

care, and our economy.''

Samora Machel:

''Imperialist exploitation and an unjust

international economic order,

are a cause of war.''

Vladimir Putin:

''If you are impotent, then you are aggressive.''

Al Sharpton:

''My message to everyone: the next time

you hear about migrant children near

the border, just picture them as your

own. Then think what you would

want our government to do.''

Paulo Coelho:

''When a person really desires something,

all the universe conspires to help that

person to realize his dream.''

John Neal:

''Kites rise against, not with the wind.''

Claudette Werleigh:

“Everyone wants revenge, but no one thinks about

how vengeance brings more vengeance. When we

start talking, we realize we have more in common.

Until we realise that the people are suffering, and

put these interests to one side, then the situation

will go on.”

James Morris Lawson Jr.:

''Remember that the way to get this revolution off the ground

is to forge the moral, spiritual and political pressure, which

the President, the nation and the world, cannot ignore.''

Tariq Ali:

''Torture, encouraged from above, became a fact of life [in

occupied Iraq]. Perhaps some good liberal apologist

for Blair will soon explain how democratic torture

is much nicer than authoritarian torture.''

Chris Hedges:

''The glitz and propaganda, the ridiculous obsessions

imparted by our electronic hallucinations.... and the

spectacles that pass for political participation, mask
the deadly ecological assault by the corporate state.
The worse it gets, the more we retreat into self-
delusion. We convince ourselves... that global

warming does not exist. Or, we concede that

it exists, but insist that we can adapt. Both

responses... satisfy our mania for eternal

optimism, and our reckless pursuit of

personal comfort. In America, when

reality is distasteful we ignore it.

But reality will soon descend

like the Furies to shatter

our complacency and,

finally our lives. We,

as a species, may

be doomed. And

this is a bitter,

bitter fact for

a father....

to digest.''

Peng Liyuan:

''A child’s exam result, is never as important

as teaching a child how to be grateful and

a good human being!''

Jean de La Bruyère:

''A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself;

his aim is so exalted, that riches, office, fortune,

and favour cannot satisfy him. He sees nothing

sufficient to engage his affections and to

render it deserving of his cares and his

desires. ... The only thing that might

tempt him, is that kind of honour

which should attend a wholly

pure and unaffected virtue;

but men rarely grant it, so

he does without it.''

Julius Nyerere:

''Take every penny you have set aside for

aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK,

explaining to people the facts and

causes of poverty.''

Bruce Lee:

''Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement,

un-rhythmic movement, as we... are constant

change. Things live, by moving, and gain

strength, as they go.''

Raymond Williams:

“We can overcome division,

only by refusing to be

divided.”

James Morris Lawson Jr.:

''I do not wish to minimize the gains we have made thus far.

But it would be well to recognize that we've been receiving

concessions, not real changes.''

Samora Machel:

''The rich man's dog gets more in the way of

vaccination, medicine and medical care,

than do the workers upon whom the

rich man's wealth is built.''

(Sir) Walter Scott:

''We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling
and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves... to

consider everything as moonshine... compared
with the education of the heart.''

James Welch:

''Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were

always looking for outsiders... to somehow come in
and fix things. But now, they seem to realize: that
they're the only ones who can save themselves.''

Two bloggers:

''Julian Assange... is martyred for the Truth in

journalism and politics. He needs maximum

support now, to defeat the MSM and Deep

State and bring it to real justice!''

''8 Billion People, Millions of Journalists and

Leaders .. All remaining Silent with No

Concerted Voice or Protest .. May

God forgive your Souls''

Eleanor Roosevelt:

''Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In

small places, close to home -- so close and so small

that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.

Unless these rights have meaning there... they have

little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen

action, to uphold them close to home, we shall

look in vain for progress in the larger world."

Ray Dalio, US billionaire investor and

hedge fund financier who predicted

the 2008 financial collapse and the

long Covid-19-related recession:

“History has shown [that] when the causes

that people are behind are more important

to them than the system, the system is

in jeopardy,”

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani:

''It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy

products of the countries that are in a

state of war with Islam and Muslims..

for example, Israel. if your religion

does not prevent you, may

your humanity.''

Liu Yang:

''I believe in persevering. If you

persevere, success lies ahead

of you.''

Zhang Yixing:

“The home of every soul is not among another's

glory... but should be within another's soul.”

Evo Morales:

''We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve.

We act according to a universal law that

consists of three basic principles:

do not steal, do not lie and

do not be idle.''

Jean de La Bruyère:

''If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that

are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?''

Chris Hedges:

''The reality of empire rarely reaches the American public.

The few atrocities that come to light, are dismissed as

isolated aberrations. The public is assured: what has

been uncovered will be investigated and will not take

place again. The goals of empire, we are told by a

subservient media and our ruling elites, are

virtuous and noble. And the vast killing

machine grinds forward, feeding, as it

has always done, the swollen bank

accounts of defense contractors

and corporations.. that exploit

natural resources and cheap

labour around the globe.''

Víctor Jara:

''US imperialism understands very well the magic

of communication through music, and persists

in filling our young people with all sorts of

commercial tripe.''

''With professional expertise they have taken certain

measures: first, the commercialization of the so-

called ‘protest music’; second, the creation of

‘idols’ of protest music, who obey the same

rules and suffer from the same constraints

as the other idols of the consumer music

industry – they last a little while, and

then disappear.''

''Meanwhile, they are useful in neutralizing the innate spirit

of rebellion of young people. The term ‘protest song’, is

no longer valid, because it is ambiguous and has been

misused. I prefer the term ‘revolutionary song’.''

James Morris Lawson Jr.:

''I say we must have a movement that brings those troops

home and launch a crusade to transform our school

buildings, we launch a crusade to see to it that

every citizen has adequate and affordable

housing, we launch a crusade to make

universal health care. We need not

soldiers anymore in the world.

We've had enough of them

in western history.''

Psychologist Albert Ellis:

“Even injustice has it's good points.
It gives me the challenge of being
as happy as I can... in an
unfair world.”

Chris Hedges:

''There are no constraints left... to halt America’s slide into a
totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The

media have been debased and defanged by corporate

owners. The working class has been impoverished

and is now being plunged into profound despair.

The legal system has been corrupted, to serve

corporate interests. Popular institutions, from

labour unions to political parties, have been

destroyed or emasculated by corporate

power. And any form of protest... no

matter how tepid.. is blocked by an

internal security apparatus that is

starting to rival that of the East

German secret police... The

mounting anger and hatred,

coursing through the blood

-stream of the body politic,

make violence and counter

-violence inevitable. Brace

yourself. The American

empire is over. And the

descent is going to be

horrifying.''

Alexis de Tocqueville:

“The American Republic will endure
until the day Congress discovers
that it can bribe the public

with the public's money.”

Marguerite Higgins:

“I thought then, how much more matter-of

-fact the actuality of war is, than any of
its projections in literature. The
wounded seldom cry - there
is no one with time and
emotion to listen.”

Marshall Berman:

''To be modern.... is to find ourselves

in an environment that promises us

adventure, power, joy, growth,

transformation of ourselves

and the world --- and at the

same time that threatens

to destroy.. everything

we have... everything

we know, everything

we are.''

Julius Nyerere:

''If real development is to take place,

the people have to be involved.''

Raymond Williams:

“To be truly radical, is to make hope possible,

rather than despair convincing. It is then, in

making hope practical, rather than despair

convincing... that we must resume and

change and extend our campaigns.“

(Sir) Walter Scott:

''To be ambitious of true honour, of the true glory
and perfection of our natures.... is the very

principle and incentive of virtue. For he
that does good - having the unlimited
power to do evil - deserves praise,
not only for the good which he

performs, but for the evil
which he forbears.''

William Faulkner:

''Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and

truth and compassion, against injustice and lying

and greed. If people all over the world… would

do this, it would change the earth.''

UN declaration:

''…while democracies share common features,

there is no single model of democracy and

democracy does not belong to any

country or region...''

Fidel Castro:

''The equal right of all citizens --- to health, education,
work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing
...that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we
began our struggle, in addition to those which

emerge.... from our dreams of justice and
equality for all inhabitants of our world
--- is what I wish.... for all.''

John Neal:

"There is no greater humbug in the minds of men, than
this obsequious bowing... to men of high station. The
great thinkers of the world, are the workers of the
world, the producers of the world."

John Quincy Adams:

''Heaven has given to every human being

the power of controlling his passions,

and if he neglects or loses it, the

fault is his own, and he must

be answerable for it.''

Martin Luther King Jnr:

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness,

only light can do that. Hatred cannot

drive out hate, only love can do that.”

Peter Fraser:

''Every one of our countries are sovereign states

and the more independent we are, the more we

realise we are interdependent.''

About Cuba, by Fidel Castro:

''There is not Communism or Marxism,

but representative democracy, and

social justice, in a well-planned

economy.''

Jean de La Bruyère:

Modesty is to merit, what shade is

to figures in a picture... it gives it

strength and makes it stand out.

Munshi Premchand:

''The world assumes... that we are very happy...
with high mansions, fine carriages, servants

and attendants, huge investments... and

concubines. But he who is without the
honour and strength of the soul,

can be anything but happy.''

Bal Gangadhar Tilak:

"Religion and practical life are not different. To take

renunciation, is not to abandon life. The real spirit

is to make the country your family --- and work

together --- instead of working only for your

own. The step beyond, is to serve

humanity, and the next step
is to serve God."

Randa Farah, Associate Professor, Western Ontario:

“It is totally unacceptable that in the 21st century, this

scale and level of brutality against the Palestinians

unleashed on a daily basis and for over 7 decades
is met with barely a whisper from the so-called
‘international community.’ The silence in the
world is heard loudly in Palestine and is a
black page in humanity’s history, and
more so in the history of the Arab

-Islamic world.”

“I am utterly dismayed and shocked --- although not

entirely surprised --- by the level and depth of the

complicity and treachery of the Gulf oligarchies.

Who would have thought that the oil wealth that

could have been used for the development of

the Middle East and North Africa and for the

well-being of millions of people, is today,

used to empower Zionist colonization

in Palestine and to promote US and

imperial interests?”

Gustav Stresemann:

''Here, we encounter two conflicting concepts, with

which we must come to grips in our time: the idea

of national solidarity and the idea of international

cooperation. To contrast national solidarity and

international cooperation, as two opposites...

seems foolish, to me. The ''great men'' of a

nation, reach out to all mankind. They are

unifying, not divisive; internationally

conciliating, and still great,

nationally.''

(Sir) Walter Scott:

''I have heard men talk about the blessings of
freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any
wise man would teach me what use to
make of it, now that I have it.''

Mary Ritter Beard:

“In matters pertaining to the care of life

there has been no marked gain over

Greek and Roman antiquity.”

Hermann Hesse:

''I have always believed, and I still believe,

that whatever good or bad fortune may

come our way, we can always give it

meaning and transform it into

something of value.''

Amelia Boynton Robinson:

''Only until all human beings begin to recognize

themselves as human beings will prejudice be

gone forever. People ask me what race I am,

but there is no such thing as race. I just

answer: "I’m a member of the

human race."

Alexis Tsipras:

''Austerity is not part of the European treaties;

democracy and the principle of popular

sovereignty are.''

Jean de La Bruyère:

''Not to be able to bear with all bad-tempered people

- with whom the world is crowded - shows that a

man has not a good temper himself.''

Huey Long:

''I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black

and white, they all gotta have a chance.

They gotta have a home, a job, and a

decent education for their children.

'Every man a king' —
that's my slogan."

Jean de La Bruyère:

''There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth,

to whom interest and gain, are what glory and virtue
are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure,
but to acquire money.''

Claudette Werleigh:

“I have been blessed to have worked both in rich

countries and one of the most impoverished

ones, at grassroots level and at top level.

I have learned... that we all need to

acknowledge our differences, to

accept the other as equal and

to cooperate, in order to

improve life.”

Nong Duc Manh:

''The war against terrorism...... should not be used

to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.

We need to identify concrete terrorist targets ---

and do no harm to civilians.''

Alexis de Tocqueville:

“Tyranny in democratic republics, ignores the body and

goes straight for the soul. The master no longer says:-

You will think as I do, or die. He says: You are free not

to think as I do. You may keep your life, your property

and everything else. But from this day forth you shall

be as a stranger among us. You will retain your civic

privileges, but they will be of no use to you. For if

you seek the votes of your fellow citizens, they

will withhold them, and if you seek only their

esteem, they will feign to refuse even that.

You will remain among men... but you will

forfeit your rights to humanity. When you

approach your fellow creatures, they'll

shun you as one who is impure. And

even those who believe in your

innocence will abandon you,

lest they, too.. be shunned,

in turn. Go in peace, I will

not take your life... but...
the life I leave you with
...is worse than death.”

Lee Camp:

''A large 2014 Princeton study looked at 1,779 policy
initiatives and found that the American public has

zero impact --- on what gets passed through

Congress. What we, the American people

want, has no influence on American

policy. The politicians tell you, it

does. They act like they care.

But nothing you and I want

...ever gets done.''

Mary Ritter Beard:

“The 'trade agreement' has become a rather distinct feature

of the American labour movement. ...It is based on the idea

that labour shall accept the capitalist system of production

and make terms of peace with it.”

Edgar Guest:

The lectures you deliver

may be wise and true,

But I'd rather get my lessons

by observing what you do.

I may not understand

the high advice you like to give,

But there's no misunderstanding

how you act and how you live.

Steven Wright:

''I can't wait to be arrested... and go all the way to the
witness stand. "Do you swear to tell the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, so help you, God?" "Yes,
you're ugly. See that women in the jury? I'd really
like to sleep with her. Should I keep going.... or
are you going to ask me questions?"

Anna Kingsford:

''No man who aims at making his life an harmonious whole,

pure, complete, and harmless to others, can endure to

gratify an appetite at the cost of the daily suffering

and bloodshed of his inferiors in degree, and of

the moral degradation of his own kind. I know

not which strikes me most forcibly in the

ethics of this question... the injustice,

the cruelty, or the nastiness of flesh

-eating. The injustice is to the

butchers, the cruelty is to the

animals and the nastiness,

concerns the consumer.''

Alexis de Tocqueville:

“I do not know if the people of the United States

would vote for superior men, if they ran for

office, but there can be no doubt
that such men do not run.”

Marguerite Higgins:

''There is much pretence in our everyday life,

and - with a skilful manner - much can be

concealed. But with a shell whistling at

you there is not much time to pretend

and a person’s qualities are starkly

revealed.''

Father Wresinski:

''Wherever men and women are condemned to live

in extreme poverty, human rights are violated. To

come together to ensure that these rights be

respected, is our solemn duty.''

Alexis Tsipras:

''There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes...

but at least they had humanity at the centre of their thinking.''

Cleveland Amory:

“What this world needs is a new kind

of army --- the army of the kind.”

Basil, fool for Christ:

''Why abstain from meat,

when you murder men?''

John Neal:

''The frontier people pick a quarrel with the Indians.

No declaration of war follows; no ceremony; but,

forth goes General [Andrew] Jackson ------ or

general somebody else; wasting and firing

the whole country. A truce follows: a

ceding of the conquered country ---

for the protection of the whites.

No people, ancient or modern

..have been so deplorably

oppressed, belied, and

wronged, in every

possible way."

John Quincy Adams:

''Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud,

is the only maxim which can ever preserve

the liberties of any people.''

Bill Waterson:

''The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in

the universe --- is that it has never tried to contact us.''

Ken Saro-Wiwa:

''We all stand before history. I am a man of peace,
of ideas. Appalled by the denigrating poverty of
my people, who live on a richly endowed land,
distressed by their political marginalization
and economic strangulation, angered by
the devastation of their land, their

ultimate heritage, anxious to
preserve their right to life
and to a decent living.''

José Rizal:

''The people no longer have confidence
in their former protectors, now their
exploiters and executioners.
The masks have fallen.''

Nikolay Chernyshevsky:

''To renounce progress... is as silly
as to renounce the Earth's force
of gravitation.''

Woody Guthrie:

''I would like to see every single soldier on every single side,

just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your

rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and

say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich

folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.''

Walid Jumblatt:

''The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes

and goes. Today it is Islam. According to

this plan or ideology of the born-again

Christians who formed an alliance

with Zionism, Islam is

the monster.''

Stephen Karganovic:

''The in-your-face European Parliament human rights

prize nomination of señora Añez, for the notable

accomplishment - of serving as provisional

head of state in an illegal coup regime

- which deposed the legitimately

elected President - should be

enough... to give the whole

game away, shouldn’t it?''

Eric Zuesse:

''The rich have inculcated into the public

a respect for the rich, and a contempt

for the poor.''

Jeremy Hardy:

''Capitalism is a great idea in theory,

but in practice, it just doesn't work.''

Al Sharpton:

''It seems some have chosen to ignore or

have simply forgotten... the big-picture

vision... promoted by Dr. King and his

kin. I do believe the Democrat party

has moved... far to the right. I do

believe that the party has a bunch

of elephants running around in

donkey clothes.''

Fidel Castro:

''They talk about the failure of socialism

but where is the success of capitalism

in Africa, Asia and Latin America?''

Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:

''We once formed a human chain

around Jerusalem, joining

hands and calling

for peace.''

Bertha von Suttner:

''One of the eternal truths is that happiness

is created and developed in peace, and

one of the eternal rights, is the

individual's right to live.''

Chalmers Johnson:

“As militarism, the arrogance of power, and the

euphemisms required to justify imperialism,

inevitably conflict with America’s

democratic structure of

government and distort

its culture and basic

values, I fear that

we will lose our

country.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne:

''Happiness is not found in things you possess,

but in what you have the courage to release.''

W. E. B. Du Bois:

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed

by colour, race, or poverty. But with all,
we accomplish all, even Peace.”

Elias Canetti:

''The planet's survival has become so uncertain

that any effort, any thought, that presupposes

an assured future, amounts to a mad gamble.''

President Erdogan:

''Nobody can tell Turkey

what defense systems

it can buy,''

Blogger:

''The other side of the coin

is that nobody can tell
the US... what
to sell.''

Mary Ritter Beard:

“Those who sit at the feast will continue to

enjoy themselves... even though the veil

that separates them from the world of

toiling reality below, has been lifted

by mass revolts and critics.”

Mark Twain's “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”:

''Each of the world’s strongest nations, is proceeding

with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand

and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in

the other.''

Cuban leader, Díaz-Canel:

''As long as this world order prevails,

the noblest goals will remain

a chimera.''

Walid Jumblatt:

''The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's

historic lie - that the reason for invading

Iraq was weapons of mass destruction

- is that everything is being doubted.''

Marshall McLuhan:

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a

hallucinating idiot... for he sees what no one

else does: things that, to everyone else,

are not there.”

Jean de La Bruyère:

''We must laugh before we are happy,

for fear we die before we laugh at all.''

Carl Jung:

''In my case, Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my

having to climb down a thousand ladders, until

I could reach out my hand to the little clod

of earth that I am.''

President Putin:

"We should have modernised sooner, instead of

sticking our heads into buckets of sand,
leaving our butt exposed for
anyone to kick".

Cuban leader, Díaz-Canel:

''Building the world we dream of is an enormous task,

but it is possible, if we renounce selfishness and

work together to transform the current unjust

international order into a more just,

democratic and equitable one

in which, at last, no one is

left behind.''

Vladivostok taxi driver:

"Russia not my country.... USSR my country.

In USSR everyone same, everyone friends.

Now, if you are rich and I am poor, you

cannot be my friend".

Lion Feuchtwanger:

“It is easy to possess a conscience, Monsieur,

when one only needs to talk or write about it.

But the man who has to act, is constantly

faced with the necessity, if he wishes to

deal justly with one person, of being

unjust to somebody else.”

Research published in recent days by Levada Centre:

''While one in six Russians, want to move toward

“democracy according to the model of Western

countries,” around 18% said “the current

system” was preferable.''

''49% of respondents said they would happily return

to “the Soviet system, like we had until the 1990s.”

and 30% of 18-24 year olds said that
this is also their preferred option.''

Alexis de Tocqueville:

“... everybody feels the evil... but no one has

courage or energy enough to seek the cure”

Bulgarian communist Georgi Dimitrov

Mihaylov, defined fascism as follows:

''Comrades, fascism in power... was correctly described

by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee

of the Communist International, as the open terrorist

dictatorship of the most reactionary, most

chauvinistic and most imperialist

elements of finance capital.''

UN Secretary-General António Guterres:

''Let us commit to safeguarding the principles of

equality, participation and solidarity, so that we

can better weather the storm of future crises.''

Mary Ritter Beard:

“Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive,

nothing can be understood.”

Munshi Premchand:

''Trust, is the first step to love.''

Carl Jung:

''Where love rules, there is no will to power;

and where power predominates, there,

love is lacking. The one is the

shadow of the other.''

W. E. B. Du Bois:

“Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make

hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs;

they do great and beautiful things. And shall we

not best guide humanity, by telling the truth

about all this, so far as the truth

is ascertainable?”

Jorge Amado:

''It is a very risky thing for anyone to go about

proclaiming the truth, simply because he

finds himself in possession of concrete

documentary proofs, or on the

evidence of his own eyes,

which is always over-

estimated. Love is

not to be proven

or measured. It

exists and that

is enough.''

Mary Ritter Beard:

“Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy...

has a social setting: in time, in a geographical location,

in a political economy, in a matrix of interests, and

knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon

like a balloon without moorings. It is not

produced in a vacuum and, being

creative, it does not work in a

vacuum. Nurtured on things

experienced and things

known, it reaches out

toward the unknown

like a flower on a

stalk... growing

out of the soil.”

Fidel Castro:

''The fact is, when men carry the same ideals

in their hearts, nothing can isolate them -

neither prison walls, nor the sod of

cemeteries. For a single memory,

a single spirit, a single idea, a

single conscience, a single

dignity, will sustain

them all.''

Basil, fool for Christ:

''Imitate the earth, O man. Bear fruit, as she does, lest

you prove inferior to that which is without life. She

produces her fruits, not that she may enjoy them,

but for your service. You do gather for yourself

whatever fruit of good works you have strewn,

because the grace of good works returns to

the giver. You have given to the poor... and

the gift becomes your own and comes back
with increase. Just as grain that has fallen
on the earth becomes a gain to the sower,
so the loaf thrown to the hungry man
renders abundant fruit thereafter.

The end of your husbandry.. is the

beginning of the heavenly sowing.

‘Sow,’ it is written, ‘to yourselves

in righteousness.’ 'Why then are

you distressed? Why do you

harass yourself... in your

efforts to shut up your

riches in clay and

bricks? ‘A good

name is rather

to be chosen,

than great

riches.’''

Munshi Premchand:

''Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields
grow grains, but they are consumed by the world.
Cows give milk, but she doesn't drink it herself -
that is left to others. Clouds send rain, only to

quench the parched earth. In such giving,
there is little space for selfishness.''

George Sand:

''No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are

some revolutions which humanity accomplishes

without quite knowing how, because it is

everybody who takes them in hand.''

Francis Hutcheson:

''Men have been Laughed out of Faults

...which a Sermon could not reform.''

Walid Jumblatt:

''We are all happy, when U.S. soldiers

are killed, week in and week out.
The killing of U.S. soldiers in
Iraq, is legitimate and
obligatory.''

G. K. Chesterton:

''The purpose of Compulsory Education,

is to deprive the common people
of their commonsense.''

Marshall McLuhan:

“We become what we behold. We shape our

tools, and thereafter, our tools shape us.”

G. K. Chesterton:

''Education is simply the soul of a society

as it passes from one generation

to another.''

UN Secretary-General António Guterres:

''The nuclear menace is once again on the rise.

A complete ban on nuclear testing is an

essential step in preventing the

qualitative and quantitative

improvement of nuclear

weapons... and in

achieving nuclear

disarmament.''

Bal Gangadhar Tilak:

"Life is all about a card game.
Selecting the right cards, is
not in our hand. But playing
well with the cards in our
hand... determines

our success."

Investigative journalist Kit Klarenberg:

''Analysis by Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) has

found that weapons made by numerous UK companies,

with receipts running into billions, have been used in
the [Yemen] war. In fact, over half of the equipment

used in bombing raids, is UK-supplied.. including

Typhoon and Tornado aircraft, Paveway bombs

and Brimstone and Stormshadow missiles.

Without exaggeration, every day, Yemen

is hit by UK-made bombs, dropped by

UK-made planes, which are repaired

and serviced on Saudi soil by UK

contractors, including RAF

engineers, and flown by

UK-trained pilots.''

Clara Zetkin:

''The capitalists speculate on the two

following factors: the female worker

must be paid as poorly as possible

and the competition of female

labour must be employed to

lower the wages of male

workers as much

as possible.''

George Sand:

''Life in common, among people who love

each other, is the ideal of happiness.''

Jean de La Fontaine:

''People must help one

another; it is nature's

law.''

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Karl Grossman:

''The U.S. nuclear weapons “modernization” program

violates the disarmament component of the Non-

Proliferation Treaty. Major objectives of the NPT

- an international treaty which took effect in
1970 - include preventing the spread of
nuclear weapons and achieving
nuclear disarmament. It is
putting the world on
the brink.''

Lion Feuchtwanger:

“Those who came from internment camps in Belgium

told how they had been transported across France

in sealed cars. No one had paid any attention to

the trains and the occupants had been left

without food or water. Their Belgian

guards had robbed them

of everything they

possessed.”

George Carlin (may he Rest In Peace):

''The flag is a symbol, and

I leave the symbols to

the symbol-minded."

Poet:

''The Russians, Chinese

and the English like tea.

I'm Welsh. I'll take cofi.''

Kit Klarenberg:

''In March, the United Nations ruled that Yemen remained

the world’s “worst humanitarian crisis” and that up to

80% of the population – including over 11 million

children – remained in need of urgent human-

itarian assistance. Yet, Yemen is very, very

rarely mentioned in the Western media,

and the UK’s absolutely fundamental

role in sustaining the bloodshed...

even more seldomly.''

Jeremy Corbyn:

“Britain, was responsible for the training of

the Afghan army; Britain set up an officer

training corps of the Afghan army - and

the result was not a good one.”

Clara Zetkin:

''The most important immediate task, is the formation

of a United Front of all workers, in order to turn back

fascism... in order to preserve for the enslaved and

exploited, the force and power of their organization

as well as to maintain their own physical existence.

Before this compelling historical necessity, all

inhibiting and dividing political, trade union,

religious & ideological opinions.. must take

a back seat. All those who feel themselves

threatened, all those who suffer, and all

those who long for liberation... must

belong to the United Front against

fascism and its representatives

in government.''

Nathaniel Hawthorne:

''No man for any considerable period

can wear one face to himself, and

another to the multitude, without

finally getting bewildered as to

which may be the true.''

Journalist Matt Taibbi:

“Every image coming out of Afghanistan this

past weekend, was an advertisement for
the incompetence, arrogance, and
double-dealing nature of
American foreign

policy leaders.”

Richard Medhurst:

"The only people who think Afghanistan was a failure

are people who don’t own stocks in Halliburton,

Raytheon and Boeing. Afghanistan was a

blistering success for them."

Matt Taibbi:

''The look of genuine shock on the faces of people

like Tony Blinken this weekend, should tell people

around the world something important about the

United States: in addition to all the other things

about us that are dangerous, we lack

self-knowledge.''

George Carlin:

"America is one big lie, and
you're a fool to believe it."

Jeremy Hardy:

''The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage

similar to that moment at your child's party -

where you realise you've forgotten to give

the other parents a pick up time.''

Sun Tzu:

"He will win whose army is animated

by the same spirit, throughout all

its ranks."

Anacharsis Cloots:

''What is man's chief enemy?

Each man is his own.''

Clara Zetkin:

''... reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class,

they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened

with, by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush

capitalism and to emancipate the workers from

their tyranny.''

Sukarno:

This twentieth century has been a period of terrific

dynamism. Perhaps the last fifty years have seen

more developments and more material progress

than the previous five hundred years. Man has

learned to control many of the scourges
which once threatened him.

He has learned to consume distance. He has learned

to project his voice and his picture across oceans

and continents. He has probed deep into the

secrets of nature and learned how to make

the desert bloom and the plants of the

earth increase their bounty. He has

learned how to release the

immense forces locked in
the smallest particles

of matter.

But has man's political skill marched hand-in-hand with

his technical and scientific skill? Man can chain

lightning to his command -- can he control the

society in which he lives? The answer is No!

The political skill of man, has been far

outstripped by technical skill, and

what he has made, he cannot
be sure of controlling.

The result of this is fear. And man gasps for safety and

morality. Perhaps now more than at any other moment

in the history of the world, society, government and

statesmanship need to be based upon the highest

code of morality and ethics. And, in political
terms, what is the highest code of
morality? It is the subordination
of everything, to the well-

being of mankind.

But today we are faced with a situation where the well-being

of mankind is not always the primary consideration. Many

who are in places of high power think, rather, of

controlling the world.

Mark Twain writing in response to the

U.S.'s occupation of the Philippines:

''But it was impossible to save the Great Republic.

She was rotten to the heart. Lust of conquest

had long ago done its work; trampling upon

the helpless abroad, had taught her, by a

natural process, to endure with apathy

the like at home; multitudes who had

applauded the crushing of other

people’s liberties, lived to
suffer for their mistake,
in their own persons.''

Che Guevara:

''I am not a liberator. Liberators, do not

exist. The people liberate themselves.''

G. K. Chesterton:

''I would maintain that thanks are

the highest form of thought, and

that gratitude is happiness,

doubled by wonder.''

Giacomo Leopardi:

''The world laughs at things it would
really prefer to admire, and, like
Aesop's fox, it criticizes
things it covets.''

Nelson Mandela:

''It is easy to break down and destroy.

The heroes, are those who make

peace and build.''

Mary McLeod Bethune:

''We have a powerful potential in our youth,

and we must have the courage to change

old ideas and practices, so that we may

direct their power toward good ends.''

Leading world virologist, Professor Luc Montagnier:

"It is the vaccines that are causing the variants

and, in all countries, the curve of vaccination,

is followed by the curve of deaths."

Hilaire Belloc:

''There is not anything... that can so suddenly

flood the mind with shame as the conviction

of ignorance --- yet we are all ignorant of

nearly everything there is to be known.''

Adam Michnik:

“I am not a capitalist; I am a socialist

who is unable to forgive socialism,

that it did not work.”

W. E. B. Du Bois:

“You are not and yet you are:
your thoughts, your deeds,
above all, your dreams,
still live.”

Patch Adams:

''Anyone can do it — BE RADIANT! Make the decision.

I want to be an agent of change to a loving world —

so I will be radiant.''

G. K. Chesterton:

''The Christian ideal has not been tried and

found wanting; it has been found difficult

and left untried.''

Hermann Hesse:

''If time is not real, then the dividing line
between this world and eternity,
between suffering and bliss,
between good and evil,
is also an illusion.''

Richard Bach:

''It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you

can manage it, that you might somehow be

happy. Until you make room in your life for

someone as important to you as yourself,

you will always be searching and lost.''

Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

''Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.''

Giacomo Leopardi:

''I get up and I bless the light thin clouds

and the first twittering of birds,

and the breathing air

and smiling face

of the hills.''

U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge:

“The Philippines are ours forever. And just beyond

the Philippines are China’s illimitable markets.
We will not retreat from either. We will not
repudiate our duty in the archipelago.
We will not abandon our opportunity
in the Orient. We will not renounce
our part in the mission of our race
as the trustee under God of the
civilization of the world.”

Che Guevara:

''Above all, always be capable of feeling

deeply, any injustice committed against

anyone, anywhere in the world. This, is

the most beautiful quality in a

revolutionary.''

George Carlin:

''We are a nation of sheep, and

someone else owns the grass.''

Harry Schwarz:

''I believe people are not free - if all they can do is cast

a vote every five years to decide who should govern

them. What does it mean to a man in a shack built
by himself, with no amenities, and not knowing
where his next meal is coming from, to vote?

Paul Laurence Dunbar:

Slight was the thing I bought,

small was the debt I thought,