Aretha Franklin:
''We all require and want respect,
man or woman, black or white.
It's our basic human right.''
''I think women and children and older
people, are the three least-respected
groups in our society.''
William Hazlitt:
''The more we do ------------- the more we can do.
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour
in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn
your person, maintain your health, your
beauty and your animal spirits.''
John Kessel:
''But that was the nature of love: one did not offer it with any
assurance that it would change the world, even if in the end
it was the only thing that could.''
Daniel Berrigan:
''Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices
like starvation, disease, illiteracy --- and political
and economic servitude ------ we spend a trillion
dollars on war - until hatred and conflict have
become... the international pre-occupation.
The arms race is worse than it ever was,
the dumping of creation ---- down a
military rat hole ---- is worse than
it ever was ---- the wars across
the earth ---- are worse than
they ever were....... I don't
know what more to say:
I mean we are all going
to die in a world - that
is worse than when
we entered it.''
Tim Wise:
''Too often ---- systems of oppression turn those
who are the targets of the oppression, against
one another.''
Nicholas Murray Butler:
''Optimism is essential to achievement
--- and the foundation of courage and
true progress.''
Horace Mann:
''If any human seeks for greatness,
let them forget greatness and ask
for truth, and they will find both.''
Alexander Nevsky
(Saint Alexander):
"Whoever will come to us with a
sword, from a sword will perish."
Cesar Chavez:
''To be a human is to suffer for others.
God help us to be humans!''
Thierry Mariani:
''Let's be clear: these loans will never be repaid.
Today, Ukraine is bankrupt, its financial
breathing is supported by Western
countries. We are told, "These
are not donations, these are
loans." But these loans will
never be repaid. So in fact
the European Union is,
quite imperceptibly....
getting into debt......
to finance Ukraine.''
Gustav Stresemann:
''Mankind advances ---
only through struggle.''
Gennady Zyuganov:
''I would like to remind those who push Byelorussia toward chaos
and rehearse the scenario of a Russian Maidan in its cities,
humiliate our Motherland, slander our common past, mock
our heroic deeds and insult the Russian World: you are
playing with fire! Russians and Byelorussians cherish
the ideas of justice. They loathe the principles of
greed and gain. As long as the great spirit of
Victory is alive in us, we are able rise from
any inferno and darkness, overcome any
crisis and score new historic victories.''
Anacharsis Cloots:
''Bad mind, bad heart.''
Myrlie Louise Evers-Williams:
''Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in
a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend,
instead of a white robe.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
''Under the cover of civilization, men are hunted like deer,
plundered, robbed, killed; and these horrors..... are
presented afterwards - in eloquent orations - as
blessings. Hypocrisy and knavery are added
to crimes!''
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
''The more elevated the soul,
the broader the outlook.'
'Seyed Hassan Nasrallah:
“A number of Zionist officials ---- have said
that all this carnage, acts of terror, and
barbaric actions --------- have one main
objective ----- which is subjugation.
They are trying to say... that the
cost of demanding one's right
is very costly.”
Johnny:
''Since at least 1900 - roughly - the peoples of the West
have been subject to the most intense brainwashing
and misinformation campaign - that only went into
overdrive after WWII. I mean, it's crazy. Hopefully
we will all wake up - before it is too late. Russia
- is awake. China - is awake. The resistance is
awake. I pray that the west really wakes up.''
Johnny:
''I laugh - at the description 'Judeo-Christian.' If most
Christians realize that a STANDARD Jewish prayer
--- is that Jesus is in a boiling vat of shit up to his
neck, or that Jews regularly spit on Christians,
this facade would end. If most Christians
also understood, that Jesus is the
second most revered prophet
in Islam, a lot of views
would change.''
Thomas Jefferson:
''It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own
debts as it goes. A principle which - if acted on -
would save one-half of the wars of the world.''
Daniel Berrigan:
''The sponsors of war ---- closely resemble the weapons they
create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines,
rockets and tanks --- rather than protect 'widows and
orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed
precisely --- to create 'widows and orphans',
to transform strangers into enemies and
enemies into corpses. You just have
to do what you know is right.''
V. I. Lenin:
''The oppressed are allowed, once every few years,
to decide which particular representatives of the
oppressing class are to represent and repress
them in parliament. Democracy is
indispensable to socialism.'
'US Democrat Representative, Rashida Tlaib, of Michigan:
“I grieve for the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday,
today and every day. I am determined as ever, to fight for
a just future where everyone can live in peace, without
fear and with true freedom, equal rights, and human
dignity. The path to that future --- must include
- lifting the blockade, ending the occupation,
& dismantling the apartheid system, that
creates.. the suffocating, dehumanizing
conditions that can lead to resistance.
The failure to recognize the violent
reality of living under a siege,
occupation, and apartheid,
makes no one safer.”
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
''Assimilate! Or, if you avow your weakness, let them go and
give them autonomy... There is no shortage of organizing
geniuses in Africa.''
Peter Berresford Ellis:
"I write - as someone who fully supports
Celtic cultural, political and economic
independence. Nor do I disguise the
fact that I am a socialist."
“Once the languages disappear, then Celtic
civilization will cease to exist, and the
cultural continuum of 3,000 years,
will come to an end.”
“It will be no natural phenomenon. It will
be as a result of centuries of a careful
policy of ethnocide.”
Claudette Werleigh:
''There is no ready-to-use formula to put an end to violent
conflicts — not just one magical, unique and universal
way to build peace. But, fortunately, there are some
basic and sensible rules, which, if followed, can
help to establish and strengthen a peaceful
environment. It is important, that people
do not see money, as a solution. First,
it is not going to solve any problem.
It can help people to solve one or
two issues -- but it will not be a
permanent situation. Second,
when you give money --- you
are not empowering people
you are only responding to
emergencies. You will not
be in a position to build.''
G. K. Chesterton:
''Tradition --- means giving votes to the most
obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is
the democracy of the dead. Tradition
refuses to submit to that arrogant
oligarchy, who merely happen
to be walking around.''
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
''What we call real estate - the solid ground to build
a house on - is the broad foundation, on which,
nearly all the guilt of this world rests.''
Albert Schweitzer:
''Success --- is not the key to happiness. Happiness is
the key to success. If you love what you are doing -
you will be successful.''
Jon Cruddas, UK MP for Dagenham & Rainham:
''It’s a really interesting question ....it's cropping up in
other local policies --- whether you can walk around
with a can of Special Brew; how people look after
their dogs; and what about if you burgle a home
and get caught, should your wife and child get
chucked out of public housing while you are
in prison --- has a covenant been broken?
These things - are right on the frontline
of this liberal-communitarian debate.''
Gamal Abdel Nasser:
“What was taken by force can
only be restored by force.”
Josh Paul, ex--State Department’s
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs:
“I believe to the core of my soul that the response
Israel is taking, and with it the American support
both for that response -- and for the status quo
of the occupation - will only lead to more and
deeper suffering for both the Israeli and the
Palestinian people and is not in the long
term American interest.”
Ramakrishna:
"Rain-water never stands on high ground, but
runs down to the lowest level. So also the
mercy of God remains in the hearts of
the lowly, but drains off from those
of the vain and the proud."
Claudia Jones:
''The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty,
stands in New York Harbour. Her back is
squarely turned on the USA. It’s no
wonder, considering what she
would have to look upon.
She would weep, if she
had to face this way.''
William Faulkner:
“Some things.. you must always be unable to bear.
Some things --- you must never stop refusing to
bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonour and
shame. No matter how young you are or how
old you have got. Not for kudos, and not for
cash: your picture in the paper nor money
in the bank either. Just --- refuse to
bear them.”
Gamal Abdel Nasser:
“We are awaiting aggression by Israel and any supporters
of Israel. We will make it a decisive battle and get rid of
Israel once and for all... This is the dream of
every Arab.”
President Sukarno of Indonesia:
''Make the "Live and let live" principle, and the "Unity in
Diversity" motto, the unifying force which brings us all
together - to seek in friendly, uninhibited discussion,
ways and means by which each of us can live his
own life, and let others live their own lives, in
their own way, in harmony, and in peace.''
Eve Ensler:
''If you are connected to your own internal being,
it's very hard to be screwing and destroying and
hurting another human being, because you'll be
feeling what they're feeling. If you're separated
--- it's not a hard thing to do at all.''
US geo-strategist George Kennan, in 1997:
“Expanding Nato --- would be the most fateful error
of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era.”
Nong Duc Manh:
''All countries, big or small, strong or weak,
are equal members of the United Nations.''
Mark Twain:
“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity
of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers
his brethren about him --- and goes forth in cold
blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.”
Dario Fo:
''Real socialism - is inside man. It was not born
with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in
the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.''
Gabriel Garcia Marquez:
''It is not true that people stop
pursuing dreams because
they grow old, they grow
old because they stop
pursuing dreams."
David T. Dellinger:
''The way of life that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
and is reported to have roasted alive a million people in
Tokyo overnight, is international and dominates every
nation of the world - but we live in the US, so our
struggle is here. With this way of life -- death
would be more appropriate -- there could be
no truce --- or quarter. The prejudices of
patriotism, the pressures of our friends
and fear of unpopularity and death ---
should not hold us back any longer.
It should be total war against the
economic political and social
system which is dominant
in this country.''
Lion Feuchtwanger:
“Though physical courage is a common phenomenon in our day
and age, moral courage is a thing that is correspondingly rare.”
Jean de La Fontaine:
''Man is so made, that, when anything
fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.''
Bruce Lee:
''Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the
beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and
fierce, but still only light and flickering. As
love grows older, our hearts mature, and
our love becomes as coals...... deep-
burning and unquenchable.''
Che Guevara:
''Better to die standing, than
to live on your knees.'
'Edward Young:
''Tomorrow is the day...... when
idlers work, and fools reform.
Procrastination is the thief
of time.''
Tony Benn:
''I think there are two ways in which people
are controlled. First of all frighten people
and secondly, demoralise them. An
educated, healthy and confident
nation, is harder to govern.''
Clara Zetkin:
''When the men kill --- it is up to us women to fight for the
preservation of life. Who profits from this war? Only a
tiny minority in each nation --- the manufacturers of
rifles and cannons --- of armour-plate, and torpedo
boats, the shipyard owners ---- and the suppliers
of the armed forces' needs. In the interests of
their profits --- they have fanned the hatred
among the people --- thus contributing to
the outbreak of the war. The workers
have nothing to gain from this war -
but they stand to lose everything
that is dear to them.''
George Washington:
''Observe good faith and justice toward all
nations. Cultivate peace and harmony
with all.''
Josiah Henson:
''In the estimation of the illiterate, besotted poor whites
who constituted the witnesses of such scenes in
Charles county, Maryland, the man who did not
feel rage enough at hearing of "a nigger"
striking a white, to be ready to burn
him alive, was only fit to be
lynched out of the
neighbourhood.''
Horace Mann:
''Be ashamed to die
until you have won
some victory for
humanity.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
''The balance sheet of colonization shows that depopulated
France has lost over half the inhabitants of her Colonies.
These are facts that the chloroforming Ministers dare
not communicate to the public.''
Quentin Skinner, historian:
''The lack of freedom... suffered by those who advise the
powerful, may - of course - be due to coercion or force.
But the slavish behaviour typical of such counselors,
may, equally well be due, to their basic condition of
dependence, and their understanding of what their
clientage demands of them. As soon as they begin
to 'slide into a blind dependence upon one who
has wealth and power', they begin to desire
'only to know his will', and eventually
'care not what injustice they do, if
they may be rewarded'.''
Víctor Jara:
''With the power that comes from the people
We must make ---- a better homeland
Together and united we must strike
At power, at power, at power.''
Saint Vladimir the Great:
“The world is filled with people who are
no longer needed and who try to make
slaves of all of us and they have their
music... and we have ours.”
Nikolay Chernyshevsky:
''If a person is inclined to look for something,
he finds it wherever he looks. Even if there
is no trace of it at all, he still finds clear
evidence. Even if there’s not even a
shadow --- still he sees, not only a
shadow of what he’s looking for,
but everything he’s looking for.
He sees it in the most un-
mistakable terms, and
these terms become
clearer with each
new glance and
every new
thought.''
Mark Twain:
''Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose
you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself.''
Huey P. Newton:
''The United States is already antique.''
Ravi Shankar:
“Don't Fall in love, Rise in Love!”
Thomas Carlyle:
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
Gennady Zyuganov, Chairman of the CC CPRF:
''Standing in the way of our fraternal aspirations, are the
selfish interests of transnational capital, epitomized, by
the USA, and its NATO allies. Seeking to prevent global
capitalism from sinking into a full-scale crisis they are
using sundry mechanisms of hybrid wars, broadening
their expansion ---- and fomenting managed chaos.
The tentacles of this octopus have already got a
stranglehold on Ukraine. The Bandera clique
was brought to power in Kiev, in order to
impose economic bondage on the
fraternal country, to strengthen
the anti-Russian alliance in
Eastern Europe and form
the “Baltic-Black Sea
cordon sanitaire.''
Cuba's leader, Diaz-Canel, speaking at the UN:
"This mid-term review of the 2030 Agenda --- takes place at
a time of extremely critical juncture -- in which developing
countries face multiple challenges & an unjust economic
order that perpetuates inequalities and poverty. We will
reach 575 million people living in extreme poverty by
2030. By that date - barely a third of countries will
manage to halve national poverty levels. We will
not end hunger as agreed -- at the current pace,
none of the 17 SDGs will be achieved, and over
half of agreed goals, will be unmet. Therefore
- a better global sovereign debt architecture,
with the participation of the South ------- is
necessary. It will allow for fair, balanced,
and development-oriented treatment ---
and I ask the United Nations to firmly
reject unilateral trade restrictions --
incompatible with the agreements
of the WTO.''
Thomas Jefferson:
''I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of
our monied corporations... which dare, already, to
challenge our government to a trial by strength,
and bid defiance to the laws of our country.''
Tim Wise:
''What whites have rarely had to think about —
because -- being the dominant group, we are
so used to having our will done, with a little
effort at least -- is that, maybe the point is
not victory, however much we all wish to
see justice attained and injustice routed.
Maybe our redemption, comes from the
struggle itself. Maybe it is in the effort,
the striving for equality and freedom,
that we become human.''
Emily Greene Balch:
''Probably people always feel.... that they are living in
a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken
perhaps, in thinking that this is an era of
particularly momentous change,
rapid and proceeding at an
ever quickening rate.''
''We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we
not only undergo events, we in part cause them
or at least influence their course. We have not
only to study them, but to act.''
''Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in
China, do not ask themselves how real is liberty
among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant,
in capitalist society.''
''We have lived through the flood time of fascism,
and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course
at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste
--- beyond all computation.''
''It is natural to try to understand one's own time
and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.
A major one which no one can overlook, is
technological and based on inventions
and discoveries which have altered
the whole basis of production and
deeply affected social relations.''
''These wars appear also to have given its death blow
to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form,
under which, weaker peoples were treated as
possessions, to be economically exploited.
At least we hope that such colonialism
is on the way out.''
''A dark and terrible side of this sense of community
of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny
which, in these days of atomic weapons, darkens
men's minds all around the globe.''
''The question... whether the long effort to put an
end to war can succeed without another major
convulsion, challenges not only our minds,
but our sense of responsibility.''
''Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal
and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable
principles, face change full of courage,
courage based on faith.''
Andrés Manuel López Obrador:
"Conquest and colonization are signs
of backwardness, not of civilization,
less, of justice."
Dennis Kucinich:
''The tax code is not the only area where the
administration is helping the rich get richer
and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155
billion for an unnecessary war, driven
by fear.''
Harry Schwarz:
''Laws alone, are not enough to ensure that freedom is
safeguarded. What is required, is a spirit of freedom
among the people concerned. There must be an
atmosphere of respect, a feeling of belonging
together, an atmosphere of harmony with
fellow beings.''
Ukrainian Defense Ministry decree:
''People with HIV and schizophrenia, are subject to
mobilization. The health requirements for sending
conscripts of "marines" and "paratroopers" have
also been simplified.
List of diseases (incomplete), with which
their carrier can be on the front line:
2-b - clinically cured tuberculosis;
4-b - viral hepatitis with minor dysfunction;
5-b - asymptomatic HIV;
13-c - endocrine system diseases
with minor dysfunction;
14-c - mild short-term painful
manifestations of mental disorders;
17-c - neurotic, stress-related and somatoform
disorders (phobic, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive
adaptation), neurasthenia, (reactions to
severe stress) with moderately
pronounced, short-term
manifestations;
21-in - slowly progressive diseases
of the central nervous system;
22-c - episodic and paroxysmal disorders.''
US news report:
''The "Mission: Readiness" new report, based on U.S.
Department of Defense data, says 77% of young
Americans 17 to 24 years old are ineligible for
military service, a 6-percentage-point
increase.... since 2017. The most
prevalent disqualification rates
are overweight (11%), drug
and alcohol abuse (8%),
and medical/physical
health (7%)."
Bertha von Suttner:
''Seek not good from without: seek it
within yourselves, or you will never
find it.''
Alexis de Tocqueville:
“It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have
entirely renounced the habit -- of managing their
own affairs ---- could be successful in choosing
those who ought to lead them. It's impossible
to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise
government... can ever emerge from the
ballots of a nation of servants.”
Mary Ritter Beard:
“Action without study - is fatal.
Study without action, is futile.”
Mary McLeod Bethune:
''Without faith, nothing is possible.
With it ------ nothing is impossible.''
Chelsea Manning:
''We need to stop hoping that our systems will right
themselves. We need to actually take the reins of
government and fix our institutions. We need to
save lives, by making change at every level.''
Claudette Werleigh:
“The widening gap is not only between
rich and poor nations, but also
between classes within a
same single country,”
Peter Fraser:
''It is for us now, to see that we go forward
in the same spirit of co-operation, in the
same spirit of mutual assistance, with
the same spirit of justice between
nation and nation and man and
man ------ as our boys went
forward to fight for us
and as our people
have worked
for us.''
John Magufuli:
"These people occupied government positions
but had no qualifications... they robbed us,
just like other common criminals."
United Nations' General Assembly:
“Nuclear disarmament and the total
elimination of nuclear weapons ---
are the only absolute guarantee
against the use or threat of
nuclear weapons.”
Seán MacBride:
''Keep under strict surveillance and control
those secret establishments which within
your government structures --- seem to
regard themselves as above the law.''
Dennis Kucinich:
''We have weapons of mass destruction - we have
to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon
of mass destruction. Homelessness is
a weapon of mass destruction.
Unemployment is a weapon
of mass destruction.''
Bruce Lee:
''If you spend too much time thinking about a thing,
you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite
move, daily, toward your goal.''
Jean de La Bruyère:
''There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason
and good advice, and wilfully go wrong, for fear of
being controlled.''
Andrés Manuel López Obrador:
''The most important priority is neither the United States
nor the American continent. What is truly important, is
to build here on this earth the kingdom of justice and
universal brotherhood and sisterhood.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
''I regret very much. at a time when France is passing
through such a critical period, to be obliged to make
a strong denunciation of her Colonial Policy, which
today encompasses almost entirely every phase
of the problem of the Negro race.''
Xi Jinping:
''Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams
...will not come true by themselves. We need to be
down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold
the idea --- that working hard is the most
honorable, noblest, greatest and
most beautiful virtue.''
Leonardo Boff:
''Today we are in a new phase of humanity. We all
are returning to our common house, the Earth:
the people, the societies, the cultures and
religions. Exchanging experiences and
values, we enrich ourselves and we
complete ourselves - mutually.''
Cesar Chavez:
''We learned many years ago, that the
rich may have money, but the poor,
have time.''
Mark Twain:
“Why is it right that there is not a fairer division of the spoil
all around? Because laws and constitutions have ordered
otherwise. Then it follows that laws and constitutions
should change around and say there shall be a
more nearly equal division.”
Hilaire Belloc:
The microbe is so very small:
You cannot take him out at all.
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar:
''It is ironic, that the accumulation of arms
is one of the few expanding industries in
a period of economic depression
and gloom.''
James Madison Jr.:
''If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting
a foreign enemy.''
George Carlin:
''I think people should be allowed to do
anything they want. We haven't tried
that for a while. Maybe this time
it'll work.''
1960's UK PM, Harold Wilson:
''Selsdon Man --- is designing a system of society
for the ruthless and the pushing, the uncaring.
His message to the rest is ------ you're out on
your own.''
Augustine of Canterbury:
''The confession of evil works --- is
the first beginning of good works.''
Huey Long:
''We swapped the tyrant 3,000 miles away
for a handful of financial slaveowning
overlords, who make the tyrant of
Great Britain seem mild.''
Paul Laurence Dunbar:
''Poor conceited humanity!
Interpreters of God indeed.''
President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni:
“One facet of neo-colonialism and colonialism was
Africa being confined... to producing only raw
materials, crops, like coffee, and minerals.
This issue -- is the biggest factor why the
African economies are stunted; they do
not grow ---- because all the value is
taken by other people. So, what I
want to propose to Russia and
China, is to discourage as a
policy the importing of raw
materials from Africa and
to instead work with the
Africans, to add value
at source.”
President of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré:
“A slave that does not rebel does not deserve pity.
The African Union (AU) must stop condemning
Africans who decide to fight against their
own puppet regimes of the West.”
Richard Steven Hacks:
''Ukraine's army could collapse literally at any moment.
The fact that it appears incapable of launching
effective attacks of any significant size in
this "offensive" - which is the definition
of “combat effectiveness” - appears
to bear that out.''
Yanis Varoufakis:
''Unemployment & low economic activity have been held
up as proofs of insufficient competition, to be fought by
the magic of ‘deregulation’ - the releasing of bankers &
oligarchs, from government restraints. If deregulation
does not work --- more privatization is thought to be
able to do the trick instead. When this fails it must
have been the fault of the labour market --- which
must be liberated from the interference of trade
unions and the impediment of social security
benefits. And so it goes on.''
John F. Kennedy:
''Peace is not impracticable, and war is not inevitable.
Never bring an adversary to a choice between
a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.'
Paul Laurence Dunbar:
''Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in
Washington is a promise, rather than a
fulfillment. But it is worthy of note for
the really excellent things which
are promised.''
Richard Price:
''Though our immediate attention -------- must be employed
in promoting our own interest - and that of our nearest
connexions; yet we must remember that a narrower
interest ought - always - to give way to a more
extensive interest. In pursuing particularly
the interest of our country, we ought to
carry our views beyond it. We should
love it ardently, but not exclusively.
We ought to seek its good ----- by
all the means that our different
circumstances and abilities,
will allow; but, at the same
time we ought to consider
ourselves as citizens of
the world & take care
to maintain a just
regard --- to the
rights of other
countries.''
Investigative historian, Eric Zuesse:
Did you know, before you read it here, that there was any
such thing as the “Rule Against Perpetuities” and that it
had been what broke the back of feudalism in ancient
England? And did you know that, increasingly, ever
since 1986, America has reverted to this ancient
feudal system that locked-in status on the basis
of birth, locked it in, in perpetuity, for all future
generations of the ‘Nobility’ (though, without
any aristocratic titles to go along with it, so
that the U.S. regime can still pretend not
to BE an aristocracy)? The US ------ is
increasingly becoming the world’s
stand-out model of dictatorship,
locked-in -- by caste. It’s
increasingly.. winner-
take-all, and keep-
it-forever.''
RAND report --- “Executive Summary:
Weakening Germany, strengthening
the U.S.” January 25th, 2022:
''The only feasible way to guarantee Germany’s rejection
of Russian energy supplies, is to involve both sides in
the military conflict in Ukraine. Our further actions
in this country --- will inevitably lead to a military
response from Russia. Russians will, obviously,
not be able to leave unanswered the massive
Ukrainian army pressure ---- on the
unrecognized Donbas republics.
That would make it possible to
declare Russia an aggressor
and apply to it, the entire
package of sanctions...
prepared beforehand.''
Al Sharpton:
''When people discuss the 1960s and the great
Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic
terms - as if there wasn't immense work put
in and as if there wasn't immense sacrifice
that took place. But none of those battles
were easily fought and won; there were
sustained movements behind them.''
John Neal:
"The poor and the rich, are taxed under the militia law
- to defend the property of the rich man. The rich of
course, do not appear in the field. The poor do.
The latter cannot afford to keep away;
the former can."
President Putin:
“They wanted Russian soldiers to kill each other, so
that soldiers and civilians would die, so that in the
end, Russia would lose, and our society would
break apart and choke on bloody civil strife.
They rubbed their hands, dreaming of
getting revenge for their failures at
the front and during the so-called
counteroffensive, but they
miscalculated.”
Former CIA operative, Larry C. Johnson:
''The potential for the war in Ukraine to escalate dramatically
remains high. It does not appear that there is any leader of
the NATO members who can talk some sense to Poland’s
President Duda. Are the people of Poland --- ready for
World War III?''
C. J. Cherryh:
''There are three kinds of people I've found:
those who think the universe is good,
those who believe it's corrupt, and
those who don't want to think
about it any more than they
can help. I prefer the
first two.''
Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:
“By ordering the deployment of 3,000 more reservists to
Europe, US President Joe Biden is preparing to fight
Russian forces on the ground in Ukraine. I want
people to understand, what this troop
mobilization is about. It’s about
preparing for a ground war
with Russia”
André Gide:
''There are many things that seem impossible,
only so long as one does not attempt them.'
'Washingtonpost.com July the 7th, 2023:
“President Biden has approved the provision of U.S. cluster
munitions for Ukraine, with a drawdown of the weapons
from Defense Department stocks. The move... will
bypass US law prohibiting the production, use or
transfer of cluster munitions with a failure rate
of more than 1 percent...''
Robert Kennedy junior, June the 19th, 2023:
''The pattern here is clear. Not only is the
administration deceiving the American
people about the motives for this
costly and tragic war, but by
continually escalating it,
they put the whole
world at risk
of nuclear
conflagration.''
Bertha von Suttner:
''The instinct of self-preservation in human society
- acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives
in the human mind, is rebelling against the
constantly refined methods of
annihilation and against
the destruction of
humanity.''
Frithjof Schuon:
''The sacred - that which is immutable, inviolable and
thus infinitely majestic -- is in the very substance of
our spirit and our existence. The world is miserable
because men live beneath themselves; the error
of modern man, is that he wants to reform the
world... without having either the will or the
power to reform man ----- and this flagrant
contradiction ----- this attempt to make a
better world on the basis of a worsened
humanity, can only end... in the very
abolition of what is human.. and,
consequently, in the abolition
of happiness too.''
Frithjof Schuon:
''Reforming man means binding him again to Heaven,
reestablishing the broken link; it means tearing him
away from the reign of the passions, from the cult
of matter, quantity and cunning and reintegrating
him into the world of the spirit and serenity, we
would even say: into the world of sufficient
reason.”
Bruce Kent:
''We need a group campaigning on military
expenditure, to be active in every part of
this country ....that means hard and
imaginative work, and energy.''
Julius Caesar:
''And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch
and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed,
the leader will have no need to seize the rights of
the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with
fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up
all of their rights unto the leader - and
do it gladly.''
Alexis de Tocqueville:
“I cannot help fearing --- that men may reach a point
where they look on every new theory as a danger,
every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every
social advance as a first step toward
revolution, and that they may
absolutely refuse to move
at all.”
Víctor Jara:
When asked, four days before the military coup
of September 11th, 1973, what the word ‘Love’
meant to him:
''Love of my home, my wife and my children. Love for the
earth that helps me live. Love for education and of work.
Love of others who work for the common good. Love of
justice as the instrument that provides equilibrium for
human dignity. Love of peace in order to enjoy one's
life. Love of freedom, but not the freedom acquired
at the expense of others’ freedom, but rather the
freedom of all. Love of freedom to live and exist,
for the existence of my children, in my home, in
my town, my city, among neighbouring people.
Love for freedom in the environment in which
we are required to forge our destiny. Love of
freedom without yokes: not ours,
nor foreign.''
Víctor Jara:
''The cultural invasion, is like a leafy tree
which prevents us from seeing our own
sun, sky and stars. Therefore in order
to be able to see the sky above our
heads, our task is to cut this tree
off at the roots.''
Soame Jenyns:
''If christian nations... were nations of christians,
all war would be impossible and unknown
among them.''
Graham Wallas:
''The most easily manipulated State in the world, would be
one inhabited by a race of Nonconformist business men
who never followed up a train of political reasoning in
their lives, and who... as soon as they were aware of
the existence of a strong political conviction in their
minds, should announce that it was a matter of
'conscience' and, therefore, beyond the
province of doubt or calculation.”
Josiah Henson:
''Judicious men felt his pulse. Oh! he could stand the whole.
Again and again - the thong fell on his lacerated back. His
cries grew fainter and fainter, till a feeble groan was the
only response to the final blows. His head was then
thrust against the post, and his right ear fastened
to it with a tack; a swift pass of a knife - and the
bleeding member was left sticking to the place.
Then came a hurra from the degraded crowd,
and the exclamation, "That's what he's got
for striking a white man."
Gennady Zyuganov:
''Standing in the way of our fraternal aspirations, are the
selfish interests of transnational capital, epitomized by
the USA and its NATO allies. Seeking to prevent global
capitalism from sinking in a full-scale crisis - they are
using sundry mechanisms of hybrid wars, broadening
their expansion ----- and fomenting managed chaos.
The tentacles of this octopus.... have already got
a stranglehold on Ukraine. The Bandera clique
was brought to power in Kiev, in order to
impose economic bondage on the
fraternal country, to strengthen
the anti-Russian alliance in
Eastern Europe and form
the “Baltic-Black Sea
cordon sanitaire.''
Paulo Coelho:
''Everybody is a political person, whether
you say something, or you are silent. A
political attitude is not whether you go
to parliament; it's how you deal with
your life, with your surroundings.''
Bobby Fischer:
''The United States is evil. It has to be brought down,
it has to be eliminated from the world scene.
They are the ones who have made
the world the hell that it is.''
Henry de Montherlant:
''A single nation that has succeeded in lowering
the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the
human race, almost throughout the globe, is
a phenomenon never before experienced
since the beginning of time. I accuse
the United States of being in a
constant state of crime
against humanity.”
Mahatma Jyotirao Phule:
''True education signifies empowering
others and leaving the world a little
better than the one we found.''
Simone Weil:
''Human beings are so made, that the ones who
do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person
crushed, who feels what is happening.
Unless one has placed oneself on
the side of the oppressed
- to feel with them - one
cannot understand.''
William Hazlitt:
''If you think you can win, you can win.
Faith is necessary to victory.'
Ella Josephine Baker:
“In order for us - as poor and oppressed people -
to become part of a society that is meaningful,
the system under which we now exist has to
be radically changed... It means facing a
system that does not lend itself to your
needs and devising means by which
you change that system.”
Tony Benn:
''Unlike civil laws --- economic laws are imposed on
people with all the authority of immutable laws of
nature. But the economy is created by people,
and supported by government intervention,
by regulation, statute and subsidy, and
implemented in such a way, that it
gives substantial wealth and
power to a privileged few,
while a majority face a
life of relentless work,
stress -- and periodic
financial insecurity.''
Nicholas Murray Butler:
''Fundamentally, the force that rules the world --- is conduct,
whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there
may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only
no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction
of all that has been accomplished during the last
5,000 years.''
Augustine of Canterbury:
''He that is kind... is free, though he is a slave;
he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.''
Tony Benn:
''If we can find the money to kill people,
we can find the money to help people.''
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (4/3/23):
“The collapse of U.S. influence over Saudi Arabia, and the
Kingdom’s new alliances with China and Iran are painful
emblems of the abject failure of the Neocon strategy of
maintaining U.S. global hegemony --- with aggressive
projections of military power. China has displaced
the US Empire --- by deftly projecting, instead,
economic power. Over the past decade, our
country has spent trillions - bombing roads,
ports, bridges, and airports. China - spent
the equivalent, building the same across
the developing world. The Ukraine war
----- is the final collapse of the Neocon's
short-lived ‘American Century.’ Neocon
projects in Iraq and Ukraine have cost
$8.1 trillion, hollowed out our middle
class, made a laughingstock of U.S.
military power and moral authority,
pushed China and Russia - into an
invincible alliance, destroyed the
dollar as the global currency ----
cost millions of lives.. and done
nothing to advance democracy
or win friendships, or influence.”
Dame Edna:
“You mustn’t judge Australia
by the Australians.”
Thomas Lipscomb, domigood.com 5/3/23):
“If Zelensky’s cowardice, allows America’s foreign policy
neocon scum, to push Ukraine into a doomed offensive,
it will be the most wasted effusion of blood yet, in this
catastrophic ‘proxy war.’ And... it will be the most
disgraceful ending possible, to the Neocon’s 30
years ‘forever war’ that dropped the US from a
half century illusion of dominant hegemony,
to an also ran ---- with an obsolete defense
establishment, and a wrecked economy
---- all in less than 2 years.”
Sir John Davies:
Man
I know my soul has power to know all things,
Yet she is blind and ignorant in all:
I know I'm one of Nature's little kings,
Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.
I know my life's a pain and but a span;
I know my sense is mocked in everything;
And, to conclude, I know myself a Man ---
Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.
Ayn Rand:
"Whenever destroyers appear among men
they first corrupt the monetary system."
Bertolt Brecht:
“First of all, they came to take the gypsies
and I was happy because they pilfered.
Then they came to take the Jews and
I said nothing, because they were
unpleasant to me.
Then they came to take homosexuals,
and I was relieved, because they
were annoying me.
Then they came to take the Communists,
and I said nothing because I was not
a Communist.
One day they came to take me,
and there was nobody left
to protest.''
Albert Einstein:
''The world is in greater peril from those
who tolerate or encourage evil, than
from those who actually commit it''
Maxim Gorky:
''Let us not search for the guilty ones
only among others, let us speak the
bitter truth: we are all guilty ..each
and every one of us.''
''The most beautiful words... in the
English language are 'not guilty'.''
Alexander Lebed:
"There are no impossible tasks,
no hopeless situations."
Angela Davis:
“I don't think we can rely on governments,
regardless of who is in power --- to do the
work that only mass movements can do.”
Ernestine Rose:
''There is ten times more in the world --- than would
maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet, how much
misery there is in our midst; not because there is
not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.''
Jack London:
“Please remember - I am talking about the world as it is.
Those men who act without thinking, and the men who
both think and act, are the ones who mould the world.
The man who thinks and does not act - never moulds
the world. He may think that he does - but that, too,
is only a thought, the thought of a deedless,
actionless thinker.”
William Godwin:
''Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts
all obstacles, and effects what, to any
other power, would be impossible.''
Serbian Colonel General Ratko Mladic:
''I wonder, if France really wants to create a Muslim
state in Europe, why don't they empower them to
do this, in Paris or Britain?''
Sir Gerald Kaufman, UK MP, raised as an Orthodox Jew,
and who bitterly complained 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."
Colonel Jacques Hogard:
''Europe Died When NATO Illegally
Ripped Out Serbia's Heart
in 1999''
Yanis Varoufakis:
''John Stuart Mill, a British philosopher and political
economist, warned us in 1863, ‘It is better to be a
human being dissatisfied, than a pig satisfied,
better to be a Socrates dissatisfied, than a
fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig,
are of a different opinion, that is
because they know only their
side of the story.’''
Chairman of the CC CPRF,
Head of CPRF State Duma
Gennady Zyuganov:
We must be aware of the fact that the world is entering a period of
political & socio-economic upheavals. They have been triggered
by the irreversible crisis of the American project of neo-liberal
global expansion. With the United States on the threshold of
a veritable civil war, the turbulence is becoming still more
dangerous. The presidential elections in the USA.... may
trigger a new spiral. The prospect of the collapse of the
political, financial and economic foundations of global
capitalism.. is emerging on the world agenda. To keep
steady at the historical turning point, not to be buried
under the rubble of a decrepit system, to ensure our
independence and development – our peoples can
do this, only in close alliance with each other.
Aneurin Bevan:
''How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political power
to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of
Conservative politics in the twentieth century.''
John Hersey:
''The reality is that changes are coming...
They must come. You must share in
bringing them.''
Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
''We have seen you anguish over the transformation of
your sons and daughters into instruments of a blind
and violent occupation - and we are sure that at no
time did you envisage such a role for the children
whom you thought.. would forge your future. We
have seen you look back in deepest sorrow, at
the tragedy of your past and look on in horror
at the disfigurement of the victim turned
oppressor. Not for this... have you
nurtured your hopes, dreams
and your offspring.''
John Cheever:
“Our country is the best country in the world.. We are
swimming in prosperity and our President is the best
president in the world. We have -- larger apples and
better cotton & faster & more beautiful machines.
This makes us the greatest country in the world.
Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a
fable. In preparatory school, America is
beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean,
and it is too bad. It is bad, because
people believe it all. Because they
become indifferent. Because they
marry and reproduce and vote
and they know nothing.”
John Cheever:
“Long ago when they first invented the atomic bomb
people used to worry about its going off and killing
everybody, but they didn't know that mankind has
enough dynamite right in his guts, to tear the
f***ing planet to pieces.”
Liam Norton, on trial for shutting
down Murdoch's printworks,
to #FreeThePress:
"The only response is to show contempt,
as you show contempt to this planet,
and to ordinary citizens' right to
try and expose criminality."
Yemen’s Supreme Political Council Chair,
Mehdi Mohammad Hussein al-Mashat:
“The US and British governments, the Zionist
regime, and most of the Western & Eastern
countries --- have been trying to obliterate
the Palestinian cause.”
G. K. Chesterton:
''I do not believe in a fate that falls on men,
however they act; but I do believe
in a fate that falls on them,
unless they act.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
The problem of the Negro race first came into being in America,
by the extermination of the aboriginal Red Skins, then, by the
transplantation of natives of Africa, to fill the void created,
and at present it is confounded with the Colonial problem
which is its ultimate phase and which is now shown by
the absolute negation of the rights to property by
Negroes, by negation of their civil rights—since
their civil personality is not recognized, by the
negation of their possibilities of evolution, by
deceit, by calumnies which induce the world
to believe --- that this race is irremediably
condemned to inferiority, to stagnate...
in ignorance, brutality, and violence -
all of which is contrary --- not to
experience --- since you have
never attempted ---- in good
faith, this experience -- but
to that which we know ----
we ...who have lived with
our fathers & our mothers,
our brothers, our sisters:,
we who know - that they
are also men & women.''
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:
''The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark. The
small truth has words which
are clear; the great truth
has great silence.
''Harry S. Truman:
''You want a friend
in Washington?
Get a dog.''
John Woolman:
''There is a principle... which is pure, placed in the
human mind which, in different places and ages,
has had different names. It is, however, pure....
and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward,
confined to no forms of religion nor excluded
from any, where the heart stands in perfect
sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root
and grows, of what nation soever, they
become brothers -- in the best sense
of the expression.''
Charles Sumner:
''There is beauty in art, in literature, in science, and in
every triumph of intelligence, all of which I covet for
my country; but there is a higher beauty still — in
relieving the poor, in elevating the downtrodden
and being a succour to the oppressed. There
is true grandeur in an example of justice, in
making the rights of all.. the same as our
own, and beating down the prejudice,
like Satan, under our feet.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
''It's necessary that you should no longer allow yourself to be put
to sleep by this chloroform in strong doses - in doses in bulk -
which from time to time, in flights of oratory, members of
Parliament, and sometimes their supreme chief..
administer you.''
Louise Erdrich:
“We are never so poor, that we cannot bless
another human being, are we? So it is that
every evil, whether moral or material,
results in good. You'll see.”
Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine:
"According to Judaism ------ a person without compassion
who claims to be Jewish cannot be considered Jewish.
I mourn..... for the Judaism of love and kindness,
peace and generosity, that Israel worshipers
dismiss as a Utopian fantasy."
Mary Wollstonecraft:
''The same energy of character which
renders a man a daring villain, would
have rendered him useful in society
- had that society been
well organized.''
Lion Feuchtwanger:
