Quotations Page

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,

Poor was the loan at best -

God! but the interest!

Belarus' President, Alexander Lukashenko:

“The crazy European politicians directing a
hybrid war against us, Russia and even
China, isn’t just creating a hotbed of
tension: they are pushing for a
3rd world war.”

Blogger:

''The cabals' world order is crumbling, with

stagnant economies, low birth rates, high

debt, and major social problems. They

are surviving, on printing money out

of thin air. The US and its European

vassals..... are desperate to save

capitalism.... as all scams have

failed. Now they are provoking

nuclear states Russia and

China into WW3 ... for

a global reset.''

Basil of Caesarea:

'''But whom do I treat unjustly,' you say, 'by keeping what

is my own?' Tell me, what is your own? What did you

bring into this life? From where, did you receive it?

It is as if someone were to take the first seat in the

theatre, then bar everyone else from attending so

that one person alone, enjoys what is offered for

the benefit of all in common - this is what the

rich do... They seize common goods - before

others have the opportunity and then claim

them as their own - by right of preemption..

For if we all took only what was necessary

to satisfy our own needs --- giving the rest

to those who lack, no one would be rich,

no one would be poor, and no one

would be in need.''

Hermann Hesse:

''Eternity is a mere moment,

just long enough for a joke.''

Mark Twain:

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world

is being run by smart people who are

putting us on, or by imbeciles who

really mean it."

Steven Best:

''In the aftermath of 10,000 years of incessant growth

and endless wars, that humanity waged upon itself,

other species, and the earth, we now live amidst

unsustainable global capitalism, and a system

of growth that is driving natural systems to

an irreversible tipping point.''

John Quincy Adams:

''It is of no use to discover our own faults

and infirmities, unless the discovery

prompts us to amendment.''

Che Guevara:

''How easy it is to govern, when one

follows a system of consulting the

will of the people, and one holds

as the only norm all the actions

which contribute to the well

being of the people''.

Blogger:

''It was a big mistake on the part of the Cuban

government, to restore diplomatic ties with

washington and allow the maniacs to open

up an embassy in Cuba, they can now see

the results.''

Blogger:

''Russia and China should quickly

come to the aid of Cuba, before

the US and the west, take

the island.''

Daniel Berrigan:

''The God of life summons us to life;

more, to be lifegivers, especially

toward those who lie under

the heel of the powers.''

Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:

''As we speak, the tens of thousands who have been

wounded or permanently disabled, are in pain: let

peace heal their wounds. As we speak, the eyes

of thousands of Palestinian refugees, deportees

and displaced persons since 1967, are haunting

us, for exile is a cruel fate: bring them home.''

Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

''What wisdom can you find...

that is greater than kindness?''

Che Guevara:

''The true revolutionary is guided by a

great feeling of love. It is impossible

to think of a genuine revolutionary

lacking this quality.''

John Hersey:

''What has kept the world safe from the bomb

since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the

sense of fear of specific weapons, so

much as it's been memory. The

memory of what happened

at Hiroshima.''

Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:

What requiem can be sung, for trees uprooted

by army bulldozers? And, most of all, who can

explain to those whose lands are confiscated

and clear waters stolen, the message

of peace?

Mimi Smith:

"The guitar's all right John,

but you'll never make a

living out of it".

Zhu Xi:

''To fully investigate the spiritual

and understand transformation

is the flourishing of virtue.''

Arnold Wesker:

''If the electrician who comes to mend my fuse blows it

instead, so I should stop having electricity? I should

cut off my light? Socialism is my light, can you

understand that?''

Sirimavo Bandaranaike:

"As a woman and mother,

I call upon the nations of

the world to desist from

violence in their

dealings with

each other."

Alexander Lebed on, if NATO begins

expanding through Eastern Europe:

"World War Three will start. Civilized and uncivilized

states will be destroyed, everybody and everything."

José Emilio Pacheco:

''We are all hypocrites. We cannot

see ourselves or judge ourselves

the way we see and judge others.''

Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

''You forget that the fruits belong to all

and that the land belongs to no one.''

Thomas Jefferson:

''Honesty is the first chapter

in the book of wisdom.''

Recently deceased US Senator, Mike Gravel:

“Politicians are corrupt and they’re basically cowards

because we have a system that is set up - where you

give me money to help me get elected and when

I’m elected, I will vote for your economic

interest - that is bribery, and that’s the

foundation of our system in

this country.”

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:

''Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.''

Rahul Verma:

''Emergency situations prove to

us all: who are real in their
soul and face.''

Richard Bach:

''Every gift from a friend, is

a wish for your happiness.''

Blogger:

''I am an MRI Tech and I see the damage these

vaccines do. Doctors are not reporting the

link. People with no medical history, are

dying and facing debilitating sideffects.

Expect more problems in 3-5yrs, this

is how long effects take to show up,

but don't expect any links to the

vaccine to be shown and, since

the drug companies have

immunity... it really

doesn't matter.''

Harry S. Truman:

''Experience has shown... how

deeply the 'seeds of war' are

planted by economic rivalry

and social injustice.''

Victor Bello Accioly:

“Political reform is important, but no reform will

be greater than promoting popular awareness.”

Alice Salomon, about pre-nazi Germany:

“On the one hand, it was touching how families

make survival possible, for themselves, in the

face of inflation, depression & unemployment

- how they work, do business, experience joy,

celebrate parties and worry about the future

of their children...

“On the other hand, it is shocking how dullness,

monotony, political ignorance, can arise, under

socially & economically narrow & unfavorable

conditions.”

Zhu Xi:

''The petty person considers small goodness

as unbeneficial, and doesn't do it. He takes

small badness as unharmful, and doesn't

avoid it. Thus badness accumulates and

cannot be concealed, and crimes

become great and cannot be

undone.''

Mary Wollstonecraft:

''The beginning is always today.''

Frithjof Schuon said, in his early youth,

4 things always moved him profoundly:

“The holy, the great, the beautiful,
and the childlike”

John Hersey:

''It's a failure of national vision when

you regard children as weapons,

and talents as materials you

can mine, assay, and

fabricate for profit

and defense.''

UNICEF's Eastern & Southern Africa
Regional Director, Mohamed Fall:

''Children and youth are continuing brave efforts to help make

the world a better place, from addressing injustice, to taking

climate action. I appeal to governments, leaders, teachers,

parents and communities, to join them: and push harder:

in fulfilling the promises we have made to them in the

UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. This

Convention, compels us -- to act in the best

interests of the world’s youngest citizens --

and this, must be a primary consideration,

at all times. The world needs to approach

it with that healthy dose of impatience,

that youth brings --- especially as

we’re seeing hard earned

development gains...

slip away.''

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:

''Beauty is truth's smile when

she beholds her own face in

a perfect mirror.''

Che Guevara:

''Those who kill their own children and discriminate

daily against them because of the colour of their

skin; those who let the murderers of blacks

remain free, protecting them, and further-

more... punishing the black population

because they demand their legitimate

rights as free men --- how can those

who do this... consider themselves

guardians of freedom?''

G. K. Chesterton:

''The cosmos is about the smallest hole

that a man can hide his head in.''

Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:

''And what do we tell the loved ones... of those killed

by army bullets? How do we answer the questions

and the fear in our children's eyes? For one out of

three Palestinian children under occupation has

been killed, injured, or detained in the past four

years. How can we explain to our children that

they are denied education... our schools, so

often closed by army fiat? Or why their life

is in danger --- for raising a flag in a land

where even children are killed or jailed?''

Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:

''As we speak, thousands of our brothers and sisters are

languishing in Israeli prisons and detention camps,

most detained without evidence, charge, or trial,

many cruelly mistreated and tortured in

interrogation, guilty only of seeking

freedom, or daring to defy the

occupation. We speak in

their name and we say:

set them free.''

Robert Burton:

''Every man has a good and a bad angel

attending on him in particular, all his

life long.''

Daniel Berrigan:

''Because we want the peace with half a heart

and half a life and will, the war, of course,

continues -- because the waging of war,

by its nature, is total - but the waging

of peace, by our own cowardice,

is partial.''

Joke by upjoke.com:

''What do you get, if you ask a politician

to tell 'the truth, the whole truth, and

nothing but the truth'?''

3 different answers.

Alexander Lebed:

"If you don't tell the truth, you can end up

with a pile of bodies, in a sea of blood."

June Callwood:

"If any of you happen to see an injustice,

you are no longer a spectator, you are a

participant, and you have an obligation

to do something."

Graça Machel, Expert of the UN Secretary-General:

''Millions of children are caught up in conflicts

in which they are not merely bystanders,

but targets."

Daniel Berrigan:

''I don't know a more irreligious attitude,

one more utterly bankrupt of any

human content, than one which

permits children to be

destroyed.''

John Denver:

''There's an aspect of human nature in which we want

to think we're better than somebody else. They're a

different colour. They speak a different language.

They have a different name for the Creator.

Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me

to hate them, to try to get some of their

land or some of their resources.''

Former US Secretary of State,

Madeleine Albright, Dec. 2005:

"It is unfair, that a single country possesses

territories such as Siberia and the Far East,

in which, a few states... may be installed."

Kojo Tovalou Houénou:

I am ignorant of the problem as a whole, otherwise I should

have presented it. But I shall content myself with giving you

a history of its successive phases in Europe --- and shall

content myself with telling you rapidly and briefly: that

the problem arose at the moment of the discovery of

America, when Europeans, intoxicated by glory,

adventure, and above all by rapine, sought to

conquer new territories which did not

belong to them.

They destroyed the aborigines - exterminated them! Then,

terrified at the void they had created around them, and

being themselves incapable of labour, they turned to

Africa, for workmen. It was Africa that furnished

contingents for penal labour... this Africa, with

whose unhappy history you are unacquainted

but which, some day... one of her sons will

outline for you in darts of fire, a monument

of shame, for that civilization, of which,

you boast.

Without humanity, there is no civilization!

Simone Weil:

''As soon as men know that they can kill

without fear of punishment or blame,

they kill; or at least they encourage

killers, with approving smiles.''

Patch Adams:

''I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't

change from a society that worships money and power,

over to one that worships compassion and generosity,

there is no hope for human survival, this century.''

Jessie Street:

''Vital changes of policy have been

brought about by moral pressure.''

Nicholas Murray Butler:

"All the problems of the world

could be settled easily, if men

were only willing to think. The

trouble is that men very often

resort to all sorts of devices,

in order not to think -- since

thinking is such hard work"

F. Bacon’s scientific method
defined in ‘New Instrument’:

''Three main steps:

1st, a description of facts;

2nd, a tabulation or classification of those

facts, into three categories – instances of

the presence of the characteristic under

investigation, instances of its absence,

or instances of its presence in

varying degrees;

3rd, the rejection of whatever appears,

in the light of these tables, not to be

connected with the phenomenon

under investigation, and the

determination of what is

connected with it."

Patch Adams:

''Medical professionals are a lot more comfortable

calling it 'depression', than calling it 'loneliness."'

Cesar Chavez:

''It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives

do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act
of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to

sacrifice ourselves for others, in a totally

non-violent struggle for justice.''

Sirimavo Bandaranaike:

''The women of Sri Lanka have never been chattels,

never been in enforced servitude to the male sex.

Whatever ‘servitude’ we render, is voluntarily

undertaken, because there is a deep rooted

respect for the dual and different roles of

father and mother in our society.''

Thereza (from Coisa Mais Linda):

“You don’t realize how

strong you are, until
you have to be.”

Maxim Gorky:

''Everybody, my friend, everybody lives

for something better to come. That's

why we want to be considerate of

every man - Who knows what's

in him, why he was born and

what he can do?''

Randal Cremer:

"The world has passed through a long night of tribulation

and suffering, millions of our fellow creatures have been

sacrificed to the demon of war; their blood has

saturated every plain and dyed every ocean.

But courage, friends, courage! The

darkness is ending, a new day

is dawning, and the future

is ours."

Blogger:

''The people in Yemen should know

that Israel surrendered to Hamas

after Hamas fired 15 Rockets at

Dimona Nuclear Site that came

so close to hitting it,

Bi Bi Panicked.''

ZeroHedge, May 14th, 2021:

''Hamas Targets Israeli Oil And Nuclear Facilities

With Rocket Attacks. Hamas' militant wing, the

Al-Qassam Brigades, announced... earlier this

week that it is deliberately targeting Israel's

secretive Dimona nuclear reactor site,

known as the Shimon Peres Negev

Nuclear Research Centre, which

lies east of the Gaza Strip, far

into the Negev Desert.''

''It was on Wednesday that Qassam Brigade spokesmen

said they were "directing a rocket strike involving 15

rockets for Dimona" - and, since then, it appears

rockets have fallen generally in the southerly

area - but there's since been no reports of

direct hits anywhere on the complex, or

damage to the site.''

US magazine News-week:

"On Tuesday (May 11th), at least one rocket appeared

to score a direct hit, damaging an Ashkelon facility

connected to the Trans-Israel pipeline running

from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea."

"The military wing of Palestinian Islamist movement

Hamas has targeted Israel's nuclear facility, key oil

facilities and other sites across the country, amid

a violent escalation between the two sides."

Former Pfizer vice president and

chief scientific officer, Dr Yeadon:

''I know enough about biotechnology, to know that you can

easily create, shall we say, pathogens, which do not look

like they are related to what you have done. What’s even

more horrifying, is you can separate them in time, so an

injection which will later make you ill or kill you, can be

separated, by design, in time, from that event. So you

might die a year later of liver cancer or something...

and you would not connect that. And, if you can

imagine... making a smorgasbord of different

pathogens, so not everybody is going to die

of the same thing, you, literally, could do

away with big slices of the population,

if you want. And we could all be

running around like headless

chickens.This is an attempt

on global de-population.''

Huey P. Newton:

''I do not think that life will change for the better,

without an assault on the Establishment, which

goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.''

Cesar Chavez:

''When we are really honest with ourselves,

we must admit: our lives are all that really

belong to us. So it is how we use our

lives, that determines the kind of

men we are.''

From 'Looking Backward' by Edward Bellamy:

''In the first place, it was firmly and sincerely believed

that there was no other way in which Society could

get along, except the many pulled at the rope and

the few rode, and not only this, but that no very

radical improvement was even possible, either

in the harness, the coach, the roadway, or the

distribution of the toil. It had always been
as it was, and it always would be so. It
was a pity, but it could not be helped,
and philosophy forbade wasting

compassion, on what was

beyond remedy.''

Tony Benn:

''The nature of the economic system should be

a matter for public choice --- and free market

capitalism should not be accepted without

any discussion of the rich variety of

alternatives... ''

Túpac Amaru II:

"I have acted, only against the mentioned abuses, and to

preserve the peace and well-being of Indians, mestizos,

mambos, as well as native-born whites and blacks."

Alex Rubinstein, independent reporter:

''It’s important to remember that many of the early

leaders of NATO, were Nazis. To this day, NATO

has continued to support neo-Nazis in

countries like Ukraine, while NATO

states that hold permitted rallies

honoring Nazi collaborators...

are only just now cancelling

the marches, because of

the coronavirus, rather

than stopping the

glorification

of Nazism.''

Chinese idiom translated from Mandarin:

"Read till old and learn till old"

Edward Young:

''Truth never was indebted to a lie.''

Aretha Franklin:

''You cannot define a person on just one thing.

You can't just forget all these wonderful and

good things a person has done, because

one thing didn't come off the way you

thought it should come off.''

Blogger, on an elderly Asian lady being kicked

viciously in the head... as watchers filmed it:

''The US has morally collapsed -- to the

level of animal survival instincts. This

is the result of decades of rampant

capitalism, consumerism, and

putting profits before people.

Only murdering sociopaths

would want to live there!''

May 13th, in Russia Today (RT):

''Russia, along with the US, is one

of only a handful of nations, that

recognizes Jerusalem as the

capital of Israel.''

Jonathan Swift:

“I never wonder to see men wicked,

but I often wonder to see them

not ashamed.”

From 'Looking Backward' by Edward Bellamy:

''The organization of society with you, was such, that

officials were under constant temptation to misuse

their power for the private profit of themselves, or

others. Under such circumstances, it seems

almost strange that you dared entrust

them with any of your affairs.''

William Hazlitt:

''An honest man speaks the truth, though it may

give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.''

Tony Benn:

''I believe the more difficult the circumstances,

the more people will be inclined to trust those

in charge at the moment.''

Yanis Varoufakis:

''So, how did these rulers manage to maintain their power,

distributing surplus as they pleased, undisturbed by the

majority? By cultivating an ideology which caused the

majority to believe, deep in their hearts, that only
their rulers had the right to rule.''

William Hazlitt:

''The least pain in our little finger, gives us

more concern and uneasiness, than

the destruction of millions of our

fellow-beings.''

Norman Finkelstein:

“Apart from my parents - every family member,

on both sides, was exterminated by the Nazis.”

Norman Finkelstein:

The Zionists, indeed, learnt well from the

Nazis. So well, that it seems that their

morally repugnant treatment of the

Palestinians - and their attempts to

destroy Palestinian society within

Israel and the occupied territories

- reveals them as, basically, Nazis

with beards and black hats.”

Thomas Jefferson:

''The care of human life and happiness, and

not their destruction, is the first and only

object of good government.''

Caitlin Johnstone:

''The mainstream media are keeping the general public

ignorant of the possibility of, and dire necessity for...

detente. We are meant to take it as a given, that the

only option available, is to continue increasing

aggressions with these two nuclear powers.

This is a lie, and it is insane. Detente

absolutely is an option. We do not

''need'', to keep risking all life on

earth with this psychotic game

of nuclear Russian roulette,

every day, just because a

few powerful sociopaths

have decided the US

empire must retain

supremacy at

all cost.''

Dilma Rousseff:

''I'm proud to have lied. Lying under torture isn't easy.

In the face of torture, a person with dignity lies.

Enduring torture is very difficult ... The pain is

unbearable; you can not imagine how painful.

I am proud to have lied, because I saved my

comrades from the same torture and

from death.''

Thomas Paine:

''We have it in our power to

begin the world over again.''

Bianca Jagger:

''Americans need to understand the

significance of having their civil

liberties dismantled. It doesn't

just affect terrorists and

foreigners, it affects

us all.''

Ernestine Rose:

''If you allow one single germ, one single

seed of slavery to remain in the soil of

America... that germ will spring up,

that noxious weed will thrive, and

again, stifle the growth, wither
the leaves, blast the flowers,
and poison the fair fruits
of freedom.''

Charles Edward Russell:

"As the Standard Oil article in the Atlantic became the

armory of every person willing to fight for industrial

freedom, so Wealth Against Commonwealth in later

years became the great storehouse of information

to which numbers of able campaigners habitually

resorted for their facts. Probably millions of men

read or heard Mr. Lloyd's ideas... without being

aware of the real authorship. But I judge that

with this condition, he was well content.
No man ever entered such a fight with
a smaller share of personal vanity to

gratify... He desired that his country-

men should be informed of existing

conditions, but not that he himself

should gain fame or rewards."

Mohamad Safa, a Lebanese diplomat:

"If the U.S. saw what the U.S. is doing

in the U.S., the U.S. would invade the

U.S. to liberate the U.S. from the

tyranny of the U.S."

Vladimir Vysotsky:

“I always try to find the good in people.

They will show the bad, themselves.”

April 28th, 2021, Sergey Lavrov:

''I cannot speak and make guesses on behalf of
the Ukrainian party & the President of Ukraine

Vladimir Zelensky, because, by all indications,

his main goal is to stay in power. He is ready

to pay any price, such as pandering to neo-

Nazis and ultra-radicals, who continue to

brand the Donbass self-defence fighters

as terrorists.''

Eric Zuesse:

''Instead of fearing to be held to account, like the

Nazis were at Nuremberg, America’s tyrants face

no such international prosecutions whatsoever.

Only good leaders become assassinated in

America. The Deep State gets rid of them.

Today’s American Government, is clearly

fascist - and not like Franco was fascist

but like Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito

were fascist: imperialistic fascists.''

US president, John Tyler:

''Our wise men flattered us into the adoption

of the banking system, under the idea that

boundless wealth would result from the

adoption.''

Nicholas Murray Butler:

"The US is in sore need today of an aristocracy

of intellect and service. Because such an

aristocracy does not exist in the popular

consciousness; we are bending the

knee to the golden calf of money"

Kojo Tovalou Houénou:

''Without humanity there is no civilization!''

Bertolt Brecht:

''All the world says: 'yes, we know what’s written

in the books, but now let’s see what our eyes

tell us'. For time is short and the unknown

surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to

live unthinking and happy, calmly

bearing oppression.. and only

learning wisdom with age.''

Carlos Saavedra Lamas:

''War, implies a lack of comprehension

of mutual national interests; it means

the undermining -- and even the end --

of culture.''

UN Secretary-General António Guterres:

''We must act decisively to protect our planet

from both the coronavirus & the existential

threat of climate disruption.''

Vik Muniz:

“The really magical things are the ones that happen

right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep

looking for beauty, but it is already there.

If you look with a bit more intention,

you see it.”

Edward Bellamy:

''Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another

word for the dissipation of energy;- while combination, is

the secret of efficient production; and not until the idea

of increasing the individual hoard, gives place to the

idea of increasing the common stock, can industrial

combination be realized, and the acquisition of

wealth, really begin.''

Proverbs 26:17:

''Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own

is like one who takes a passing dog by

the ears. ''

Phil Ochs:

''The fortunes of the entire world, may well ride

on the ability of young Americans.. to face the

responsibilities of an old America, gone mad.''

James Madison Jr.:

''Knowledge will forever govern ignorance;

and a people who mean to be their own

governors, must arm themselves with

the power which knowledge gives.''

CIA's John Brennan:

''The only language

bullies understand,

is a bleeding nose.''

Lucan:

''As great edifices collapse of their own weight,

so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of

prosperous states.''

John Denver:

''There has never been a time on Earth like we see today.

What we need are more ways to experience our inter-

connectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So,

in this quickening light, with the dawn of each

new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer

struggle. Let us ever become.. who we most

want to be. As we begin to be who we truly

are, the world will be a better place.''

Albert Schweitzer:

The first step in the evolution of ethics,

is a sense of solidarity with other

human beings.''

Writer Whitney Webb:

“What they want, is for you to get used to

the idea of ratting out your neighbours.”

Soame Jenyns:

''Those who profess outrageous zeal for the liberty
and prosperity of their country, and at the same
time infringe her laws, affront her religion
and debauch her people, are but
despicable quacks.''

Ibn Hazm:

''If you attend, only behave like a man wishing to

expand his knowledge and seeking a higher

reward from God. Do not act like a man

content with what he holds... who is

waiting for a 'weakness' (from some-

one) to criticize (it or him), or for an

oddity to raise. This will be acting

like vile people, who have never

mastered science.''

Richard Price:

''The noblest principle in our nature, is the regard to

general justice, and that good-will which embraces

all the world.''

Naom Chomsky:

''We may recall that ...Winston Churchill authorized

the use of chemical weapons "against recalcitrant

Arabs as an experiment," denouncing the

"squeamishness" of those who objected

to him "using poisoned gas against

uncivilised tribes," mainly Kurds,

a policy he strongly favoured,

expecting that it "would

spread a lively terror."

''For England itself, he had somewhat different plans.

As Home Secretary in 1910 he had secretly proposed

sterilization of 100,000 "mental degenerates" and the

dispatch of tens of thousands of others to state-run

labour camps so as to save the "British race" from

inevitable decline if its "inferior" members are

allowed to breed, ideas that were within the

bounds of enlightened opinion of the day,

but have been kept secret in Home
Office files because of their
sensitivity, particularly
after they were

taken up by
Hitler.''

Frank Herbert:

''Power does not corrupt... What it does

do, however, is attract the corruptible.''

Blogger:

''Reports in the '90s, before the non-stop post 911 era

shut down decent scientific social studies, proved

that abusers are attracted to jobs like cops,

teachers, doctors, nurses, social workers

and banking... and anywhere money is

handled, such as benefits offices and

AP departments\treasury, passport

offices, DMV and information

technology.''

Dmitry Kozak, President Vladimir Putin’s

deputy chief of staff --- who is Ukrainian:

“I support those assessments that exist within Ukraine,

that the start of hostilities is the beginning of the end

for the country. This is a self-inflicted shot, a shot

not in the leg, but in the temple.”

Seymour Hersh, honest US writer:

''The day after 9/11, we should have gone to Russia.

We did the one thing that George Kennan warned

us never to do - to expand NATO too far.''

James Otis Jr.:

''What must be the wealth that
avarice, aided by power,
cannot exhaust!''

John Cruddas, British MP:

''Labour has broken its covenant
with the working class.''

Persius:

''You pray for good health and a body that will be

strong in old age. Good - but your rich foods

block God's answer and tie his hands.''

Jonathan Swift:

''Vision is the art of seeing
what is invisible to others.''

Matthew Ehret:

''The only pathway to avoiding the collapse of the financial

system & a thermonuclear war, is to be found in imposing

Natural Law, vigorously, upon the claimed “debts” which

Wall Street, & the City of London, wishes to have bailed

out. The expression of this Natural Law takes the form

of the restoration of Glass-Steagall laws across the

trans-Atlantic economies - eliminating the $1.5

quadrillion debt bomb, before it explodes - and

returning to the principles of national banking

for all countries. Under such a reform, and by

joining in common interest with other states

in the Eurasian zone --- a commitment to

progress and security can be realized,

and such poisonous agendas as the

Great Reset, can be avoided.''

Thaddeus Stevens, US House of Representatives:

''I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own.

If they had -- you would have horrible pictures of

the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.''

Nicholas Murray Butler:

''The world is divided into three kinds of people:

A very small group that makes things happen;

a somewhat larger group that watches things

happen; and a great multitude that never

knows what has happened.''

Aretha Franklin:

''I think, it would be a far greater

world if people were kinder and

more respectful to each other.''

This, from The Australian, the Murdoch

owned national newspaper of Australia:

“Zhao is a piss and wind functionary --- a bureaucrat

perfectly suited to serving a totalitarian government.

Wolf warrior? More a propaganda panda. Think of

Squealer from George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, the

obsequious manipulator, who, at the behest of

his master, Napoleon, spreads disinformation

throughout the socialist collective to bolster

the supremacy of his fellow pigs.”

Autralian blogger:

''Three Australian PM's who sought better tries with Asia

were ousted with the help of the US & UK. Those who

obediently follow the US are rewarded with lucrative

positions brokered by the US.''

Casanova:

''The man who has sufficient power over himself

to wait until his nature has recovered its even

balance, is the truly wise man, but such

beings are seldom met with.''

Germaine Greer:

''Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have

always died out; it's one of the most charming

things about them.''

On the West's terror on China, Finian Cunningham:

''Due to the 2-decade-old US-led war in Afghanistan

there has been a serious problem for the Chinese

authorities - from the radicalization of the Uyghur

population. Thousands of fighters from Xinjiang

have trained with the Taliban in Afghanistan, &

taken their “global jihad” to Syria, and Central

Asian countries. It's their stated objective: to

return to Xinjiang & liberate it as a caliphate

of East Turkestan, separate from China.''

Top French Military Commander

Colonel Jacques Hogard:

''This NATO aggression against Serbia over Kosovo in

1999, constitutes a violation of international law, a

violation of respect for the sovereignty of States,

a violation of intangible respect of borders.''

Albert Schweitzer:

''Example is not the main thing

in influencing others. It is the

only thing.''

In 1787, Virginia governor, Edmund Randolph:

“Our chief danger, arises from the democratic

parts of our constitutions.”

Winston Churchill:

"The best argument against democracy

is a five-minute conversation with the

average voter."

'Reply from average voter:

''Talk about the pot

calling the kettle black.''

Reply from woke US person:

''Excuse me but the correct

term now is Kettle of Color.''

Reply from average voter:

''Excuse me, but the 'correct'

term now, is kettle of colour,

but I prefer to keep it black.''

Charles W Pickering:

"A healthy democracy requires a decent society;

it requires that we are honorable, generous,

tolerant and respectful."

Huey P. Newton:

''During those long years in Oakland public schools,

I didn't have one teacher who taught me anything

relevant to my own life, or experience. Not one

instructor ever awoke in me a desire to learn

more or to question or to explore the worlds

of literature, science, and history. All they

did was try to rob me of the sense of my

own uniqueness and worth, and, in the

process, nearly killed my urge to

inquire.''

Jack London:

“And who knows what Romance, what Adventure, what Love,

is lurking around the next turn of the road, ready to leap out

on us, if we’ll only travel that far?”

Huey P. Newton:

''I think what motivates people is not great

hatred, but great love... for other people.''

Putin, in his January 27th 2021 Davos speech:

''We are ready for this, we want this, and we will strive

to make this happen. But love is impossible, if it is

declared only by one side. It must be mutual.''

Yevgeny Zamyatin:

“I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things

that are aware of themselves and conscious of their

individuality, are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore

teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth, might as
well not even be there. Isn't it clear that
individual consciousness is
just sickness?”

Frank Harris:

''Since Luther, we have been living

in a centrifugal movement, in a

wild individualism, where all

ties of love and affection

have been loosened...''

In his book, Killing Hope, author and journalist William Blum:

''The United States remains committed to its all- too- familiar

policy of establishing and/or supporting the most vile

tyrannies in the world, whose outrages against their

own people confront us daily in the pages of our

newspapers: brutal massacres; systematic,

sophisticated torture; public whippings;

soldiers and police firing into crowds;

government supported death squads;

tens of thousands of disappeared

persons; extreme economic

deprivation...''

Ludwig Quidde:

''The security of which we speak, is to be attained

by the development of international law, through

an international organization, based on the

principles of law and justice.''

Professor, S. Eastern Norway University, Glenn Diesen:

''Liberal hegemony as a value-based international order

contradicts the concept of a rules-based order. A rules
-based system infers the consistent application of

international law, while a values-based system

endows the liberal hegemon with the

prerogative of a selective and

inconsistent application

of international laws

and rules.''

An editor at Russia in Global Affairs journal, Glenn Diesen:

''The West will insist on maintaining that liberal hegemony

- due to a commitment and belief in liberal values, among

elites (although that is no longer uniform) - while Russia

and China will reject a value-based system instrumental

to imposing an untenable unipolar order. There is no

going back, as the world has moved on, although

the West is not yet ready to move forward.''

James Allen:

''Men are anxious to improve their circumstances,

but are unwilling to improve themselves; they

therefore, remain bound.''

Simone Weil:

''The only way into truth, is through

one's own annihilation; through

dwelling, for a long time, in a
state of extreme and total
humiliation.''

Gamal Abdel Nasser:

“The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days

in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines,

separating and isolating countries from one

another. No country can escape looking

beyond its boundaries, to find the

source of the currents which

influence how it can live

with others.”

Benito Juárez:

''Among individuals, as among nations,

respect for the rights of others,

is peace.''

Arundhati Roy:

“Historically... pandemics have forced humans to

break with the past & imagine their world anew.

This one is no different. It is a portal, a gate-

way, between one world and the next.”

Gabriel García Márquez:

''It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams

because they grow old, they grow old because

they stop pursuing dreams.''

Thomas Paine:

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must

guard even his enemy from oppression; for, if he

violates this duty, he establishes a precedent,
that will reach to himself."

Blogger:

''Two weeks to Flatten the Curve,

they said. This is a long
two weeks...''

Poet:

''You will not hear one doctor say,

an apple a day keeps the doctor

away''

Randal Cremer:

''All the vested interests, and people who profit by war,

will, with the journals they control, resolutely oppose

any reduction of armaments.''

Nina Simone:

''I’ll tell you what freedom is to me. No fear!''

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan:

"Today’s world is travelling in some strange direction.

You see that the world is going toward destruction

and violence. And the speciality of violence, is to

create hatred among people, and fear. I am a

believer in non-violence, and I say, that no

peace or tranquillity will descend upon

the people of the world, until non-

violence is practiced, because

non-violence is love, and it

stirs courage in people."

Jiddu Krishnamurti:

''It is no measure of health -- to be well-

adjusted to a profoundly sick society.''

Swami Vivekananda:

“Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.”

In 2014, after US sanctions on Russia's space

industry, the then deputy PM, Dmitry Rogozin:

''The US should use a trampoline

to send its astronauts to space.''

In 2020, after a SpaceX launch, Elon Musk:

“The trampoline is working!”

Now, chief of Russia's Space Agency,

Roscosmos, in 2021, Dmitry Rogozin:

“Apparently, the trampoline

only works so-so.”

Proverbs 24:17 New King James Version:

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,

And do not let your heart be glad

when he stumbles;

Bertolt Brecht:

“The first time it was reported that our friends were

being butchered, there was a cry of horror. Then a

hundred were butchered. But when a thousand

were butchered and there was no end to the

butchery, a blanket of silence spread.

When evil-doing comes like falling

rain, nobody calls out "stop!"

Stephen Gaskin:

“Enlightenment --- is getting off

your tail and doing something.”

Louis Bromfield:

''This other war, the war on the destruction of natural assets,

is one that will never be finished. Our weakness in this vast

war is largely ignorance --- that most of our citizens do not

realize what is going on under their very feet.''

Jakob Wassermann:

“The way individuals live together: the truth of each individual

is only the truth of his own narrow perspective. The entirety

of mankind and of human qualities is always seen through

a prism, where its colours are broken. Observation is so

utterly different from experience; there is no hope of

fusing their contradictions, as the I and the not I

have been foes, from the world's beginning.”

Mao Zedong:

''I have witnessed the tremendous energy

of the masses. On this foundation, it is

possible to accomplish any task

whatsoever.''

''Joe'' Biden:

“I think it’s about time we stop... apologizing for

our support for Israel... It is the best $3 billion

investment we make. Were there not an

Israel, the United States of America

would have to invent an Israel,

to protect her (sic) interests

in the region.”

Alessandro Manzoni:

''Bullies, oppressors, and all men who do violence

to the rights of others are guilty, not only of their

own crimes, but also of the corruption they

bring into the hearts of their victims.''

Boris Gryzlov, Russia's Contract Group delegation

head, regarding Donbass becoming part of Russia:

[Kiev's actions are] "absolutely irresponsible

and aggressive." [and] "set themselves up

for its certain implementation."

Eva Bartlett, Canadian independent journalist,

& activist. Reach her on Twitter @EvaKBartlett:

''Western media have, predictably, remained silent

on Ukraine's crimes, painting the defenders of

Donbass as “pro-Russian separatists” - with

no context as to what people in Donbass

actually want. From what I heard there,

all they want, is autonomy from the

criminal government in Ukraine

and, above all, an end to

the war.''

Linus Pauling:

''The way to get good ideas

is to get lots of ideas - and

throw the bad ones away.''

Muhammad Ali:

''My way of joking, is to tell the truth.

That's the funniest joke in the world.''

Peter De Vries:

''Everybody hates me because

I'm so universally liked.''

Angela Walker, about Joe Biden:

“Well, I worked for him and I can tell you

he is incompetent and in it for power,

the compassion image is

bulls**t optics.”

Stephen Gaskin:

''Now, truth’s a funny trip, because if you really up and

try to do it, there’s going to be some resistance. If you

are going to try to speak some truth, there’s going to

be somebody around who’s got a hand in the till or a

skeleton in their closet, or an ace up their sleeve,
or some extra ego in their back pocket.... who is
not going to want you to talk. There are various

ways that they’ll try to keep you from talking,

and you have to pay attention to them. If you

start to say something that’s true, insist on

saying it until you’re finished saying it.
Do not let yourself be interrupted
when you are speaking truth,
because it cheapens the
truth, to let it be
interrupted.''

''It is also possible to be a pain in the rear about truth,

or anything else. I have been helped sometimes by

an old yogic saying, “Truth is good, but it also

needs to be helpful, necessary, and kind.”''

Charles Sumner:

''Senators undertake to disturb us.. by reminding us of

the possibility of large numbers swarming from China;-

but the answer to all this is very obvious & very simple.

If the Chinese come here they will come for citizenship

or merely for labour. If they come for citizenship, then,

in this desire, do they give a pledge of loyalty to our

institutions; and where is the peril in such vows?

They are peaceful & industrious;- how can

their citizenship be the occasion
of solicitude?

Zbigniew Brzezinski, in 1970:

“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance

of a more controlled society. Such a society would be

dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional

values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost

continuous surveillance over every citizen and

maintain up-to-date complete files containing

even the most personal information about

the citizen. These files will be subject to

instantaneous retrieval by

the authorities.”

George Thomas "Mickey" Leland:

''I am as much a citizen of the world, as I am of this country.

To hell with those people who are critical of what I am able

to do, to help save people’s lives.... I don’t mean to sound

hokey, but I grew up on the Christian ethic, which says

we are supposed to help the least of our brothers.''

Hazrat Inayat Khan:

''It is not meant at all that people should be able to

perform wonders or miracles;- it is only intended

that they should live a fuller life & become real

human beings... in order to bring about better

conditions in the world. What do we want?..

We want human beings. It is not necessary

that everyone should become religious, or

exceedingly pious, or too good to live. We

want wise men in business, in politics, in

education, in all walks of life; those who

do not live only on the surface and

those who do not believe only in

matter, but who see life, both

within & without. It is such

souls, who will produce

beauty; it is such souls

who will harmonize the

world... who will bring

about the conditions

we need today.''

Prince Philip of Mountbatten in a 1988 interview::

“The more people there are, the more resources

they will consume, the more pollution they will
create, the more fighting they will do. We have
no option.... If it is not controlled voluntarily, it
will be controlled involuntarily, by an increase
in disease, starvation and war. In the event
that I am reincarnated, I would like to
return as a deadly virus, in order to
contribute something to solve
overpopulation.”

Dr Richard Price:

''What has the love of their country hitherto been

among mankind? What has it been but a love of

domination; a desire of conquest, and a thirst

for grandeur and glory, by extending territory,

and enslaving surrounding countries? What

has it been but a blind and narrow principle,

producing in every country a contempt of

other countries, and forming men into

combinations and factions against

their common rights and liberties?

''What was the love of their country among the Jews,

but a wretched partiality to themselves and a proud

contempt of all other nations? What was the love of

their country among the old Romans? We have

heard much of it; but I cannot hesitate in

saying that, however great it appeared

in some of its exertions... it was, in

general, no better than a principle

--- holding together a band of

robbers, in their attempts

to crush all liberty,
but their own.''

George Washington:

''If the freedom of speech is taken away

then dumb and silent we may be led,

like sheep to the slaughter.''

World tennis champion Novak

Djokovic's dad, Srdjan Djokovic:

"All normal people in the world love him.

Have you ever wondered why he plays

best in China? He feels love there, real

love – something he is not allowed to

experience in the west. In the west

they think that only they exist, but

they are only a fifth of the world.

The western media... have only

focused on Federer and Nadal,

and didn't pay any attention
to Novak. That was the
only way to stop him.''

Medvedev:

“Just to tell you a small story, I first practiced with

Novak when I was 500 or 600 in the world. He was

already number one and had just won Wimbledon.

I thought, ‘OK, he’s not going to speak to me'

- because the guy was a god for me. I was

really shy, [but] he was talking to me like

I was a friend. He’s never changed - he’s

always been a great sport, and a great

friend. He’s a great guy.”

Nikos Kazantzakis:

''What a miracle life is, and how alike are

all souls, when they send their roots

down deep and meet and are one!''

CEO of Pento Portfolio Strategies, Michael Pento:

“What is going to happen when the multiple trillions of dollars

in junk bonds, that have been pushed to the lowest yields to

treasuries ever, the lowest nominal yields ever, blow up?

The entire fixed income market, which is exponentially

bigger than GameStop, is about to blow, due to

insolvency and inflation. Watch out!”

Ella Josephine Baker:

“One of the things that has to be faced, is the process of waiting

to change the system - how much we have got to do - to find out

who we are, where we have come from and where we're going.”

Nikos Kazantzakis:

''Nothing is nearer to us than heaven.

The earth is beneath our feet, and

we tread upon it, but heaven is

within us.''

Dan Glazebrook:

''Enter Hadi - “empire’s man”, as Blumi puts it. Vice President

under Saleh, for almost two decades, Hadi... was a reliable

regime stooge, but without Saleh’s growing impertinence.

Ordained by the priesthood of global capital, his official

mandate was to embark on a process of 'reconciliation'

and prepare the country for elections. Instead, he made

a deal with the Muslim Brotherhood, which allowed him

to sideline the country’s two main popular movements

- Ansar Allah in the north, and Hirak, the separatist

movement in the South - and proceeded to steam-

roller the country into membership of the WTO.

''This process required the usual - long discredited – “shock

therapy”, of unrestrained privatization. Hadi immediately

privatized 11 of the 12 main sectors of the economy,

with 78 of 160 “subsectors” listed for immediate

“liberalization”. At the same time, he exposed

Yemen’s private sector to instant “free market”

competition from global multinationals, costing

thousands of jobs. In other words, says Blumi,

Hadi “proceeded to literally sell off Yemen, to

Saudi and Qatari interests...under no legal or

electoral pressure, Hadi’s government was

the ideal vehicle to plunder Yemen”.

Sayyed Nasrallah to Israelis:

''Stop Playing with Fire, We

are in the Resistance Era.''

Germaine Greer:

''Even crushed against his brother in the

Tube, the average Englishman pretends

desperately, that he is alone.''

Ramiro Funez, political commentator:

''The illusion known as the "American Dream" has been unveiled.

The year 2020, which is symbolic of clear vision, has exposed

the multiple and interconnected crises bringing down the US

empire. The house of cards is crumbling before our own eyes.

Poverty and unemployment... are skyrocketing. Homelessness

is rising. Police killings & foreign occupations are intensifying.

the infrastructure is crumbling. Meanwhile, the United States -

the richest and most powerful country on the planet - has the

highest COVID-19 infection and death rates. To top it off, the

myth that true political change in the US comes from the

ballot box, is being dispelled. Election season calamity,

a symptom of growing political instability, is rocking

the foundations of the so-called "American Dream",

like an earthquake. Millions of immigrant families

(including my own) are now realizing that the

United States is a crumbling empire. If
we want futures marked by peace &

prosperity, we should not look to

Washington and Wall Street.
We should look to Tehran,
Beijing, and Caracas.''

Edmond François Valentin About:

''Marriage, in life, is like a
duel in the midst of a battle.''

A Palestinian:

"Don't ever blame the Jews for the evil deeds of Zionists;

they are not the same people. The Jews walk with God,

and the Zionists walk with the Devil."

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov:

“Those people who are responsible for foreign policy

in the West do not understand the need for mutually

respectful conversation. Probably, we should just

stop communicating with them for a while.”

Sardar Patel:

''Faith is no good in the absence of strength.

Faith and strength, both are essential to

accomplish any great work.''

Ibn Hazm:

''The use of science in the practice of virtue, is

considerable: the man who knows the beauty
of virtue, will follow it, however possible.

Knowing the evil of wrong, he will avoid it,
however possible. He listens to worthy
praise, and keeps his distance from
unworthy praise.

From this, it is derived that science has a

part in every virtue, and that ignorance

has a part in every vice.

A man who is illiterate and who still
practices virtue, must be extremely
pure, a virtuous being.

This is the state of Prophets, because
God conveyed goodness to them,
without them acquiring it

from men.''

Bertolt Brecht:

''The worst illiterate is the political illiterate,

he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor

participates in political events....

He doesn’t know the cost of life,

the price of a bean, of a fish, of

the flour, of the rent, of the

shoes and of the medicine,

all of which, depends on

political decisions.''

''The political illiterate is so stupid, that he is proud

and swells his chest, saying that he hates politics.

The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political

ignorance, is born the prostitute, the abandoned

child, and, the worst thieves of all, the bad

politicians, the corrupted flunkies of the

national and multinational companies.”

Thomas Paine:

''Suspicion, is the companion of mean

souls, and the bane of all good society.''

August Strindberg:

“I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need

to become a savage and create a new world.”

Robert Norton Noyce:

''If ethics are poor at the top, that behaviour

is copied down through the organization.''

Malcolm Kendrick, doctor, author

and GP in the NHS in England:

''During January, it has been reported, more than 450 people

were catching Covid-19 every day while in hospital in

England for other medical reasons. Which means

that, over the course of the month, nearly one

in 10 people in hospital were infected.

One in 10… 10 percent...

''This figure is also likely to be significantly underestimated.

My own experience is that hospital managers are

extremely keen to find any possible explanation

for a positive test, other than that their patient

caught it while in hospital. They must have

got it at home, or in the ambulance, or in

a care home, etc.''

Sinclair Lewis:

"When fascism comes to America

it will be wrapped in the flag

and carrying a cross."

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan:

"The British feared a nonviolent Pashtun more than a

violent one. All the horrors the British perpetrated
on the Pashtuns had only one purpose:
to provoke them to violence."

Blogger, replying to Biden's speech claiming
US ''moral leadership'' of the whole world:

‘moral leadership & defend democracy’....

It's not April yet, and this fool is cracking

jokes... But it was a funny one: "moral
& democracy" - Haaaaaaaaaaaa.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

Almeida Garrett:

''I ask the political economists and the moralists

if they have ever calculated the number of

individuals who must be condemned to

misery, overwork, demoralisation,

degradation, rank ignorance,

overwhelming misfortune

and utter penury, in

order to produce

one rich man.''

Simone Weil:

''When once a certain class of people

has been placed by the temporal

and spiritual authorities outside

the ranks of those whose life

has value --- then nothing

comes more naturally

to men than murder.''

Ilya Tsukanov:

''Recently CBS asked what US citizens

think is the biggest threat to the USA.

57% of those surveyed, named other

people in the US. Only 7% think that

the biggest threat is other states.''

Dr. Thomas M. Lister:

''The only country that stands in the way of their goal of a

Zionist Rothschild's New World Order, is Russia; & that's

because President Vladimir Putin, is her leader. Should

President Putin be removed from power, what Zionists

have done to the US & the Middle East, they will then

do to Mother Russia, because real Jews & Christians

within Russia, will not have the power to stop them.''

Sardar Patel:

''The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the

bottom, but if it has the wholehearted co-operation of

all on board, it can be safely brought to port.''

Franklin D. Roosevelt:

''If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science

of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all

kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.''

Persius:

''Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust,

a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death;

the hour flies.''

Rudyard Kipling:

“There is no sin so great as

ignorance. Remember this.”

José Martí:

''He who could have been a torch
& stoops to being a pair of jaws

is a deserter.''

André Gide:

''Everything has been said before... but since

nobody listens, we have to keep going back

and beginning all over again.''

Jane Fonda:

''Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war

on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not

surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're

defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And

wounded beasts are always dangerous.''

Sir Gerald Kaufman, UK MP, after visiting Gaza in 2009:

"My grandmother was ill in bed, when the Nazis came to her

home town. A German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My

grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers

murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present

Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the

continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of

Jews in the Holocaust, as a justification for their

murder of Palestinians."

Blogger:

''Corbyn's labour was a threat to certain people

and it has been dealt with. Starmer and the

blairites now own the party.

I wonder what Hardie and Bevan might have said

if someone told them that, in 2020, their labour

party would be governed by a right wing,

titled, millionaire zionist.......

And Labour keep sending me emails

begging for money....... hahahahaha''

Arnon Soffer, adviser to PM Ariel Sharon in
2004, said, of the "Palestinian problem":

"We will have to kill and kill
and kill. All day, every day."

Syrian President Bashar Assad to Syria's press in 2019:

''All US presidents commit crimes and end up taking the

Nobel Prize and appear as a defender of human rights

& the ‘unique’ & ‘brilliant’ US or Western principles,

but all they are, is a group of criminals who only

represent the interests of the USA's lobbies of

large corporations in weapons, oil & others.

Trump speaks with transparency to say,

'We want the oil.' I tell you, he [Trump]

is the best US president. Why? Not

because his policies are good.. but

because he's the most transparent

US president. What do we want...
more than a transparent foe?”

Adam Phillips:

A guy goes in to see a psychologist.

He says, "It seems I can't make any

friends. Can you help me, you

fat slob?"

As the Chinese say farewell to Donald,

the most common words and phrases

under the Global Times posts include:

''Destruction, dishonest, selfish, populism,

McCarthyism, unilateralism, protectionism,

anti-globalization, untrustworthy, messy,

crazy, arrogant, uncertainty, low-credit,

funny, laughable, gravedigger of US

hegemony, and enemy to pro-US

sycophants.''

Martin Luther King Jr.:

''It is either nonviolence or nonexistence and the alternative

to disarmament, the alternative to a greater suspension in

nuclear tests, the alternative to strengthening the United

Nations and thereby disarming the whole world, may

well be a civilization plunged into the abyss of

annihilation.''

Frank B. Kellogg:

''It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each

other in building armaments and never use them.

History demonstrates the contrary, and we

have but to go back to the last war, to

see the appalling effect of nations

competing in great armaments.''

Patrice Lumumba wrote to his wife

and children days before his death

after the CIA and Belgian torture:

"No brutality, mistreatment or torture has broken me

because I prefer to die with my head held high, with

unshakable faith and deep trust in the future of my

country, than to live in submission and trampling

on sacred principles."

Martin Luther King Jr.:

''It is not enough, to say we must not wage war.

It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.''