Woody Guthrie:
“All of this talking about what’s up in the sky, or down in
hell, for that matter, isn’t half as important as what’s
right here, right now, right in front of your eyes.
Things are tough. Folks broke. Kids hungry.
Sick. Everything. And people have got to
have more faith in one another, believe
in each other. There’s a spirit of some
kind we’ve all got. That’s got to draw
us all together.”
Helmut Schmidt:
''The British ---- claim to have a special
relationship with the U.S. - but if you
mention this in Washington.. no one
knows what you are talking about.''
Alexis de Tocqueville:
“When the taste for physical gratifications among them ---
has grown more rapidly than their education... the time
will come, when men are carried away and lose all self
-restraint. It is not necessary to do violence to such a
people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy;
they, themselves, willingly loosen their hold... they
neglect their chief business, which is to remain
their own masters.”
Shrimad Rajchandra:
''Life is short, so, forgive quickly, believe slowly,
love truly, laugh loudly ---- and never avoid
anything that makes you smile.''
Fyodor Dostoyevsky:
''My young brother... asked even the birds to forgive him. It may sound
absurd, but it is right none the less, for everything, like the ocean,
flows .....and enters into contact with everything else: touch one
place, and you set up a movement at the other end of the world.
It may be senseless to beg forgiveness of the birds, but, then,
it would be easier for the birds, and for the child, and for
every animal, if you were, yourself, more pleasant
than you are now.''
André Gide:
'''Know thyself.' A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly.
Whoever studies himself, arrests his own
development. A caterpillar who seeks
to know himself, would never
become a butterfly.''
Otto von Bismarck:
“Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong:
it is a geographical expression.”
Ursula von der Leyen's father, Ernst Albrecht:
“If we succeed --- in bringing people of above-average
capabilities (!) to governance - an autocracy, or the
rule of the few, will be able to create a better
order.... than the rule of the people.”
Bruce Lee:
''If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God
to give you things, you depend on God for your
inner theme.''
Michael Eric Dyson:
''..the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible,
it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious,
that we know, we smell, we see it.''
Mohamed M. Malick Fall
UNICEF Regional Director,
Eastern & Southern Africa:
''Nelson Mandela said it well: “Our children are our greatest
treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them ------
tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.”
Those are words to live by.''
Clara Zetkin:
''Social Democratic and trade union organs
--- have approved of the illegal invasion of
Belgium, of the massacre of suspected
guerrillas, as well as their wives and
children, as well as the destruction
of their homes in various towns
and districts.''
Hazrat Inayat Khan, Vol. 7 - In an Eastern Rose Garden:
''Love is the nature of life, beauty is the outcome of life,
harmony is the means by which life accomplishes its
purpose, and the lack of it results in destruction.''
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
''Love, whether newly born, or aroused from
a deathlike slumber, must always create
sunshine.... filling the heart so full of
radiance ....this overflows upon
the outward world.''
W. E. B. Du Bois:
“Children learn more from what you are...
than what you teach.”
G. K. Chesterton:
''The poor have sometimes objected to
being governed badly; the rich, have
always objected to being governed
at all.''
John Hersey:
''To my great surprise, I never heard anyone
cry out in the disorder, even though they
suffered in great agony. They died... in
silence, with no grudge, setting their
teeth to bear it. All for the country!''
''The crux of the matter is, whether total war
in its present form, is justifiable, even when
it serves a just purpose. Does it not have
material and spiritual evil as its con-
sequences ---- which far exceed
whatever good might result?
When will ''our'' moralists
give us an answer to
this question?''
Joseph "José" Bové:
''Democracy between countries is a must. When we
look at the treatment inflicted on countries in the
Southern hemisphere we can easily see that
all countries are not treated equally.''
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
''The sea of life, is in constant motion ---- no one
can stop its ever-moving waves. The Master..
walks over the waves, the wise man swims
in the water, but the ignorant man is
drowned in his effort to cross.''
Graham Wallas:
''In politics, as in football, the tactics which prevail
are not those which the makers of the rules
intended, but those by which the players
find that they can win, and men feel,
vaguely.... that the expedients by
which their party is most likely
to win, may turn out not to be
those by which a State is
best governed.”
Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
''We have seen some of you at your best...... and at your
worst --- for the occupier... can hide no secrets from
the occupied... and we are witness to the toll that
the occupation has exacted from you and yours.
This -- is why we have responded with solemn
appreciation -- to those of you who came to
offer consolation to our bereaved, to give
support --- to those whose homes were
being demolished ------ and to extend
encouragement and counsel -- to
those detained behind barbed
wire and iron bars.''
Thomas Carlyle:
“Tell a man he is brave --- and
you help him to become so.”
Jean de La Bruyère:
''Is it so very wrong, to be intelligible in speaking, and to
speak - as everybody does? Do not pretend to be witty;
be natural, that is better suited to you; use, if you can
plain language, such as those persons speak, whom
you fancy - are without wit; then, perhaps, we may
think .....you have some yourself.''
Jeffrey Sachs:
“The current situation reminds me --- too much ---
of the fable of the farmer whose chickens are
...dying. The local priest gives one remedy
after another - prayers, potions, oaths -
until all of the chickens are dead....
"Too bad," sighs the priest, "I had
so many other good ideas.”
Harry Schwarz:
''I wish my country were like I wanted it to be,
but as it is not, I hope it will, one day, get to
this way of living.''
Mark Twain:
''Be careful --- about reading health
books. You may die of a misprint.''
Anna Kingsford:
''I greatly wonder what persons of refinement --- aye, even
of decency -- do not feel insulted on being offered -- as a
matter of course, portions of corpses ----- as food! Such
comestibles might ---- possibly ---- be tolerated during
sieges, or times of other privation of proper viands
- in exceptional circumstances, but in the midst
of a civilised community, able to command a
profusion of sound and delicious foods, it
ought to be deemed an affront... to set
dead flesh before a guest.''
Bertha von Suttner:
''How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of
an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed?
No reasonable creature would conceive of the
idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or
spots of oil with oil. Only blood must
be... washed out with blood?''
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
''Words --- so innocent and powerless, as they are,
as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good
and evil they become, in the hands of one who
knows how to combine them. Accuracy -- is
the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy,
of dishonesty.''
Maxim Gorky:
''Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable;
love your fellows; console the afflicted;
pardon those who have done
you wrong.''
Maxim Gorky:
''Prison teaches no good ---- and Siberia doesn't
either - but another human being can .....yes, a
human being can teach another one kindness
- very simply!''
Oswald Spengler:
''The press today --- is an army with carefully organized
arms and branches, with journalists as officers, and
readers as soldiers. But here, as in every army, the
soldier obeys blindly, and war-aims and operation-
plans change without his knowledge. The reader
neither knows - nor is allowed to know - the
purposes for which he is used, nor even
the role .....that he is to play. A more
appalling caricature of freedom of
thought cannot be imagined.''
''Formerly... a man did not dare to
think freely. Now - he dares, but
cannot; his will to think is only
a willingness to think to order,
and this is what he feels...
as his liberty.''
''To-day, we live so cowed under the bombardment of
this intellectual artillery --- that hardly anyone can
attain to the inward detachment that is required
for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The
will-to-power -- operating under a pure
democratic disguise -- has finished
off its masterpiece so well, that
the object's sense of freedom
is actually flattered by the
most thorough-going
enslavement.. that
has ever existed.''
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
''Once you have given up your limited self willingly
to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that
consciousness that you will not care to be
small again.''
Nelson Mandela:
"When two neighbouring countries
fight each other you know -- the
USA just visited one."
Bruce Lee:
''Showing off, is the fool’s idea of glory.''
Dennis Kucinich:
''We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried
intervention. None of it works. Why don't
we try peace as a science of human
relations ---- not as some vague
notion ---- as everyday work.''
Soame Jenyns:
''If christian nations were nations of christians,
all war would be impossible and unknown
among them.''
Mary Ritter Beard:
“Democracy cannot sustain itself
amid a high degree of violence.”
Bill Hicks:
''By the way, if anyone here is
in advertising or marketing,
kill yourself.''
Sebastian Haffner:
''A state does not simply fall apart ------ as a result of depression.
Weimar Germany was not destroyed by economic depression,
or widespread unemployment --- although these, naturally
contributed to the atmosphere of doom, but because
the Weimar Right --- was resolved to abolish the
parliamentary state in favour of a vaguely
conceived authoritarian state.''
Sebastian Haffner:
“When I think about it, I have to say that --- by 1919, even
the Hitler Youth had almost been formed. For example,
in our school class, we had started a club called the
Rennbund Altpreussen (Old Prussia Athletics Club),
and took as its motto - “Anti-Spartacus, for Sport &
Politics.” The politics ---- consisted in occasionally
beating up a few unfortunates who were in favour
of the revolution, on their way to school.
''Sports were the main occupation. We organized athletics
championships, in the school grounds or public stadia.
These gave us.... the pleasurable sensation of being
decidedly anti-Spartacist. We felt very important
and patriotic, and ran races for the fatherland.
What was that, if not an embryonic
Hitler Youth?''
Sebastian Haffner:
''In truth, certain characteristics later added by
Hitler’s personal idiosyncrasies were lacking,
anti-Semitism, for one. Our Jewish school-
mates ran with the same anti-Spartacist
and patriotic zeal... as everyone else.
Indeed, our best runner was Jewish.''
MoM commentator, Ronald Portier:
''The North Korean Troops are so dangerous, because
they have been fitted with invisibility cloaks...
Everybody, that is MSM and intelligence
services, who would never lie to us,
know that they are there, but
still we can't see them...''
Abdul Razak Ahmad, special advisor
to the Foreign Minister of Malaysia:
''We do not want to be defined by Western standards.
We are sovereign people. We are not less civilized,
and our values are not inferior to Western values.
We are not anti-West. It is very important for the
voice of the World Majority ---- to be respected
and to be heard.”
Abdul Razak Ahmad, special advisor
to the Foreign Minister of Malaysia:
''We --- are stepping forward. We are acting independently
from the West ---- and reclaiming our voice and agency.
124 countries ----- voted in favour of the UN resolution
demanding that Israel comply with international law,
cease its settlement activities - and withdraw from
the occupied territory. The US --- voted against it.
Many of its Western allies ......abstained. They
chose silence.. in the face of injustice. They
were unwilling to stand up for international
law and for Palestinian freedom. We - are
not a minority.''
Abdul Razak Ahmad, special advisor
to the Foreign Minister of Malaysia:
''Malaysia ------ is a sovereign nation. America must stop
telling us what to do. We, are witnessing a livestream
genocide happening in Gaza. America has the power
to resolve this. America ------ has been part of this
genocide. They have been supplying weapons
and encouraging it. It is time for the Global
Majority to take a leadership position. We
are almost 90% of the global population.
We are non-Western, non-white, and
non-colonials.''
General G. Zhukov:
“We liberated Europe from Fascism
and they never forgive us for that.”
G. A. Zyuganov:
''We are the heirs of the Soviet people and we will be able to
breathe new life into their big and beautiful dream.
Russia will be great ---- and socialist!''
Robert Fico:
“Have you ever seen a person who is afraid
that the war will end? I saw him, and his
name is Vladimir Zelensky”
Sergey Obukhov :
"I think now... Trump will "bend" Europe. Because the
main thing for him is a purely "business approach",
and the key for him is the interests of oil and gas
structures...... as well as the military-industrial
complex of the United States. And --- if you
take another Elon Musk, then ----- some of
the tech giants. In other words ------- "old
Europe" will continue to be bent down.
Moreover, in full – both in the tail and
in the mane''.
Iranian Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei:
“Who wins the election in America ------- doesn’t matter to
us -- we simply don't care at all. Our policies toward the
West remain the same whether this or that person is in
power. America ---- is a corrupt, warmongering country.
They say one thing - and do another. Look at what they
did in Iraq and Afghanistan.. how their mafia bosses in
their military-industrial complex forced the Ukrainians
to wage a war against Russia, which they cannot win.
And now they support the Zionist regime - as always
- with no limits -------- in supporting their war crimes
and crimes against humanity.”
George Orwell:
"The more a society drifts from the truth,
the more it will hate the people
who speak it."
Heinrich Böll:
''Where freedom is under
threat, so is language,
and vice versa.''
Julian Assange:
"Forget about Russia --- the real threat to
America is Israel and the Israel Lobby."
Julian Assange:
''By bringing out into the public domain
how human institutions actually
behave... we can understand
frankly, to a degree, for the
first time - the civilization
that we actually have.''
Peter Kropotkin:
''The animal species, in which individual struggle
has been reduced to its narrowest limits, and
the practice of mutual aid has attained the
greatest development, are invariably the
most numerous --- the most prosperous,
and the most open to further progress.''
Walter Rodney:
Fascism is a deformity of capitalism. It heightens the
imperialist tendency towards domination which is
inherent in capitalism --- and it safeguards the
''principle'' - of private property. At the same
time... fascism immeasurably strengthens
the institutional racism, already bred by
capitalism, whether it be against Jews
as in Hitler’s case, or against African
peoples ----- as in the ideology of
Portugal’s Salazar ----- and the
(past) leaders of S. Africa.''
W. E. B. Du Bois:
“The return from your work - must be the satisfaction
which that work brings you and the world’s need of
that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near to
heaven as you can get.”
Anna Brownell Jameson:
“A cunning mind emphatically delights in
its own cunning, and is the ready prey
of cunning.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez:
''Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived
home and told his wife that he was three
days late because he had been
swallowed by a whale."
Nadezhda Krupskaya:
''Solidarity among the male and female
workers, a general cause, general
goals --- a general path to that
goal - that is the solution to
the ''woman'' question in
the working class
environment.''
Nikolay Chernyshevsky:
''History is fond of her grandchildren - for
it offers them the marrow of the bones
- which the previous generation had
hurt its hands in breaking.''
Harold Wilson:
''We complimented the Prime Minister for
his “Wind of Change” speech. What we
want to see now, is less wind and
more change.''
Norman Finkelstein:
“There's nothing Israel can do without US support. It can't breathe
without US support. The US bankrolls everything ------ and it's just
silly to think that Israel can do anything without the US' support.”
George Washington:
''The alternate domination of one faction over another,
sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party
dissension, which, in different ages and countries
has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is
itself, a frightful despotism. But this leads, at
length, to a more formal and permanent
despotism.''
William Hazlitt:
''To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them,
is, perhaps.... the highest wisdom and virtue.''
Noam Chomsky:
"When we talk about 'Israeli crimes,' the framing is
misleading, because they are US-Israeli crimes.
Whatever Israel does --- is either implicitly or
explicitly authorized by the United States
..which provides economic, diplomatic,
military, and ideological support, and
US presidents can alter Israeli policy
and restrain Israel’s violence.. when
they choose to do so. When we talk
about Israel - we should remember
that, in an important sense we are
talking about.... ourselves."
Daniel Ellsberg:
“Whether rightly or wrongly, we are the only country in the world,
that believes it won a war by bombing --- specifically by bombing
cities with weapons of mass destruction, firebombs, and atomic
bombs -- and believes that it was fully justified in doing so. It is
a dangerous state of mind.”
Émile Zola:
''If people can just love each other
a ittle bit...they can be so happy.''
Nicholas Murray Butler:
''His speech on receiving the Peace Prize has
''disappeared'' ! He must be the only Peace
advocate whose peace quotations do not
now exist ! Only a news report is left - if
you read it you will see that most things
he says, are being betrayed, right now,
and our leaders are leading us to
Hell on Earth.''
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
''If you seek the good in every soul,
you will always find it, for God is
in all things; still more He is in
all beings.''
Benjamin Franklin:
''Democracy is the most bloodthirsty form
of government, the world has ever seen.''
Eugenio Maria de Hostos:
''Lend your light to the blind. Why should the
wickedness of men irritate you, when it is
only blindness?''
Christian Friedrich Hebbel:
''Which do you pay dearer for, lies or the
truth? The former costs you yourself,
the latter, at most, your happiness.''
Alessandro Manzoni:
“Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against
whom, no one can be strong, except by
total rebellion. Let us offer our hearts,
wretched and empty as they are, to
God ----- that He may be pleased to
fill them with that charity.. which
amends the past, which ensures
the future, which fears & trusts,
weeps ------ and rejoices in its
knowledge; which becomes,
in every instance, the virtue
of which we stand in need.”
John Ross, Cherokee nation's leader:'
'We are overwhelmed! Our hearts are sickened,
our utterance is paralyzed, when we reflect
on the condition in which we are placed,
by the audacious practices of
unprincipled men.''
Josef Stalin during the Great Patriotic war WW2:
"The Americans and British will fight the
Nazi's to the last drop of Russian blood."
Adolf Hitler to Stalin on his 60th birthday in 1939:
''Best wishes for your personal well-being
...as well as for the prosperous future of
the peoples of the friendly Soviet Union.''
Jose Marti:
I grow a white rose
In July just as in January
For the sincere friend
Who gives me his frank hand.
And for the cruel man who pulls out of me
the heart with which I live,
I grow neither nettles nor thorns:
I grow a white rose.
Indonesia's President Sukarno, in 1955:
No task is more urgent than that of preserving peace.
Without peace, our independence means little. The
rehabilitation and upbuilding of our countries will
have little meaning. Our revolutions.. will not be
allowed to run their course. What can we do?
We can do much! We can inject the voice of
reason into world affairs. We can mobilise
all of the spiritual, moral, and political
strength of Asia and Africa -- on the
side of peace. Yes, we! We ---- the
peoples of Asia & Africa, billions
strong --- far more than half the
human population of the world
-- we can mobilise what I have
called - the Moral Violence of
Nations... in favour of peace.
We.. can demonstrate to the
minority of the world which
lives on other continents...
that we, the majority, are
for peace -- not for war,
and that --- whatever
strength we have,
will always be
thrown on to
the side of
peace.'
Ravi Shankar:
“Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody
to being nobody; and from being nobody to being
everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing
and caring throughout the world.”
Stafford Cripps:
Churchill: ''I am the humble servant of the Lord
Jesus Christ and of the House of Commons.''
Cripps: ''I hope you treat Jesus better...
than you treat the House of Commons.''
Elizabeth Peratrovich:
''I must demand that you stop
trying to deny me the rights
that all people deserve.''
Corporal Scholtz, of Germany:
''We want to contribute to
the establishment of
a new NATO unit
in Slovakia.''
John Woolman:
''Wealth is attended with power, by which, bargains and
proceedings, contrary to universal righteousness,
are supported; and hence oppression, carried
on with worldly policy and order, clothes
itself with the name of justice... and
becomes like a seed of discord
in the soul.''
(Sir) Walter Scott:
''The race of mankind would perish
did they cease to aid each other.
We cannot exist without mutual
help. All therefore that need aid
have a right to ask it from their
fellow-men; and no one who
has the power of granting...
can refuse it without guilt.''
John Neal:
''A certain amount of opposition is a great help
to a man; it is what he wants and must have
to be good for anything. Hardship and
opposition --- are the native soil of
manhood and self-reliance.''
Woody Guthrie:
“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.”
Hosea Williams:
''It touched me when it happened in real time,
because -- I could see George Floyd begging
to live. Begging to live. Let me..... breathe.
They had a knee on George Floyd's neck -
and the other 2 (officers) ...just standing
there: can you imagine if that had been
a Black policeman on a White man's
neck ? You can bet --- the nation
would have been turned
upside down.''
Tony Benn:
''Making mistakes - is part of life. The only things
I would feel ashamed of, would be if I had said
things I hadn't believed in, in order to get on.
Some politicians... do that.'
Albert Einstein:
''Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness
of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive
for truth, beauty, and justice, has preserved me from
feeling isolated.''
Alva Myrdal:
''If only the authorities could be made to
realize, that the forces leading them on
in the armament race, are just insane.''
Bruce Lee:
''Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim,
is the crime. In great attempts ------ it is
glorious, even to fail.''
Frank Billings Kellogg:
''I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the
maintenance of world peace, the adjustment
of international questions by pacific means
will come through the force of public
opinion, which controls nations
and peoples.''
Alexis Tsipras:
''There was a huge lack of freedom
in communist regimes, but at least
they had humanity at the centre
of their thinking.''
Dr. Martin Luther King:
“In the human rights revolution, if something isn’t done
- and done in a hurry - to bring the coloured peoples of
the world out of their long years of poverty; their
long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world
is doomed.”
Odell Shepard:
''For what I give, not what I take,
For battle, not for victory,
My prayer of thanks
I make.''
Wreckless Eric:
''There’s nothing more fun than having a bad cold,
feeling like death warmed up and trying to get
a tax return together.''
Julian Assange:
''The goal, is NOT to win these wars. The goal is to
use the wars to wash money out of the tax bases
of the United States, and out of the tax bases of
European countries and back into the hands of
a transnational security elite. THAT is
the goal. To have ENDLESS wars,
NOT SUCCESSFUL wars."
Ravi Shankar:
“In always wanting to be comfortable,
you become lazy. In always wanting
perfection, you become angry. In
always wanting to be rich, you
become greedy.”
Rabbi Amram Blau & Rabbi
Hlaron Katzinelinbyen:
''They used their own citizens like sheep to the slaughter
in order to create blood lust and enable the slaughter of
Palestinian women and children. The real target of
Netanyahu, is not Hamas, it is the Palestinian
people and their land and their offshore
gas fields. Treachery, betrayal,
genocide and theft.''
Samora Machel:
''We say that our objective is to conquer complete
independence, to install a people's power,
to construct a new society --- without
exploitation, for the benefit of all.''
Maya Angelou:
“You may shoot me with your words, you may
cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with
your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!”
Woodrow Wilson - on the USA:
“We..... are citizens of the world. The tragedy
of our times ---- is that we do not know this.”
Kanshi Ram:
''We will not stop until we unite the victims of the
system, and overthrow the spirit of inequality
in our country.''
Bruce Lee:
“Real living is living for others.”
Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
''We come to you from a tortured land and a proud, though
captive, people, having been asked to negotiate with
our occupiers, but leaving behind the children of
the Intifada, and a people under occupation
and under curfew, who enjoined us not
to surrender ...or forget. They have
the right to return. As we speak,
the silence of demolished
homes echoes through
the halls and in our
minds: we must
rebuild our
homes in
our free
state.''
Jules Renard:
''The horse is the only animal into
which one can bang nails.'
'Eino Leino:
He who a single one loves is blessed
– beloved of everybody.
Whoever self-interest forgets the best
will blessèd dreams embody.
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav:
What caused this wreck --- this brutal and ignoble collapse
of morals? What provoked the breach? What led mankind,
in spirit grand and noble --- to plunge in the mud? What
vampire? Oh, what leech, sucking the sap of life out
of the breast, constantly thirsting bloody parasite?
Ah... selfishness! — and to destroy this pest today,
we have no troops, no heroes to fight. Yes - it will
twist and tear and rend, and fall, a tyrant, on the
weak and innocent; although the world is wide
enough for all -- it would have sole control of
earth’s extent, & even possess the universe,
no less - pitching the other into emptiness.
This puffed-up arrogance, that’s dressed in
iron and armed with lethal weapons, lurks
in wait; that bulks... like stormy clouds on
the horizon, each move a threat ------ with
wide eyes full of hate; that hangs above
the earth like punishment --- and keeps
peace powerless: it coarsely swears
that it fears God alone! - But this is
meant contemptuously: in truth,
it does not care. Whether your
wisdom comes of silver years
or you’re a man in bloom, cry
to them all, “Enough!” — and
you’ll be a champion of the
world. Offer your enemy - a
brother’s hand, a white flag
over red ruin unfurled! Or…
must violence constantly
be fanned............ till it
burns out?''
George Sand:
''Guard well within yourself
that treasure.... kindness.''
Permanent Representative of the Russian
Federation to the UN --- Vasily Nebenzya:
“Very soon ------ the only topic of all international
meetings on Ukraine, will be the unconditional
surrender of the Kiev regime.”
Tim Wise:
''Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been
used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the
genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally
millions of human beings whose lives have been
snuffed out - by people who conquered under
the banner of a white god. Jesus - was not
born in a manger in central Pennsylvania.
He was a man of colour. And the fact
that we have represented him --- for
centuries literally, as a white man
- speaks to the entire history of
white supremacy.''
Rabbis Amram Blau and
Hlaron Katzinelinbyen:
''When Palestine... came under the charge of the League of Nations
and Great Britain became responsible as Mandatory the majority
of the Jews in the country were strictly orthodox. At that time
the Zionists succeeded in bringing into the Holy land .....a
growing stream of Zionist immigrants ----- people whose
ways of life and godlessness were viewed by orthodox
Jews established here, with alarm and dismay – fear
at the possibility that our children would be misled
by the ungodly & dismay at the growing influence
and determination of the godless Zionists, to be
recognized as the representatives and leaders
of all Jewry - over the whole world. Whatever
its origin, present day political Zionism is in
direct conflict with Jewish God-given Laws.
The Zionists ----- quickly replaced orthodox
religious schooling by a national system of
education and having taken all sections of
the Jewish Community under their wing --
they have been organised on foundations
which is alien to Judaism and, in fact, is
so planned ----- as to eliminate religion.''
Jean de La Fontaine:
''By the work, one knows the workman.''
Richard Price:
''Ignorance is the parent of bigotry, intolerance,
persecution and slavery. Inform and instruct
mankind and these evils will be excluded.''
William Faulkner:
''To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality
because of race or colour, is like living in Alaska and being
against snow. If we Americans are to survive it will have
to be because we choose and elect and defend to be
first of all Americans; to present to the world one
homogeneous and unbroken front --- whether of
white Americans ------- or black ones or purple
or blue or green… If we in America ----- have
reached that point in our desperate culture
when we must murder children, no matter
for what reason or what colour, we don’t
deserve to survive, and probably won’t.''
Fidel Castro:
''Reactionaries... often describe both Marx and Lenin
as theorists, without taking into consideration that
their utopias inspired Russia and China --- the two
countries called upon to lead a new world which
will allow for human survival --- if imperialism
does not first unleash a criminal,
exterminating war.''
Peng Liyuan:
''There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.'
It means, mostly, people can see through someone
else by eye contact, in seven seconds. I have a
habit that, if I meet someone I don't know, I'd
like to look at her or his eyes on purpose.
When my eyes lay on them........ I can
immediately see their true colour.''
James Welch:
''Nobody would take checks [cheques] from Indians,
nobody would give them any credit, and nobody
would let them drink in the bars. There was a
rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the
Indians were treated constantly. At a
very young age, that had entered
my consciousness.''
Aneurin "Nye" Bevan:
''The Communist Manifesto stands in a class by itself
in Socialist literature. No indictment of the social
order ever written can rival it. The largeness of
its conception --- its profound philosophy and
its sure grasp of history, its aphorisms and
its satire --- all these make it a classic of
literature, while the note of passionate
revolt which pulses through it, no less
than its critical appraisement of the
forces of revolt, make it for all
rebels - an inspiration
and a weapon.''
José María Morelos:
''May slavery be banished forever ---- together with the
distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so
Americans may only be distinguished by vice or
virtue. In the new laws --- may torture not
be allowed.''
Joel Kovel:
''What will happen in Israel? US support.... will fade,
slowly, then completely. Israel will circle wagons,
become more oppressive: Another nakba -- or a
single state? Will be determined militarily and
politically via internal and external violence
and nonviolence. Unless you're trying
to change the world, you can't
understand it.''
Tony Benn:
“Britain is the only colony in the British Empire
and it is up to us, now, to liberate ourselves.”
John 13:35:
“By this shall all men know
that ye are my disciples,
if ye have love one
to another.”
Dominique Pire:
''Peace, is not something to
say, but something to do.''
Khalil Gibran:
“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your
temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of
one religion, and it is the spirit.”
Alice Childress:
“But if we grow stronger... and rise higher than
what's pullin' us down... Yes, rise higher than
dirt... that fifty pound weight will lift and
you'll be free, free without anybody's
by-your-leave. Do something - to
wash out the sin - and nobody
would write ''peace'' on no
walls - 'cause it would be
peace - and our hearts
would be free!”
William Congreve:
''Music has charms to sooth a savage breast,
to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.''
Che Guevara:
''I know you're here to kill me.
Shoot, coward, you are only
going to kill a man.''
Heinrich Böll:
''We are talked into believing ----- that compassion
belongs in the area of sentiment. That - is a lie.
Compassion -- is a tremendous force -- a vast
energy........ and a creative imagination,
is also part of compassion.''
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal:
''Good and evil travel on the same road,
but they leave different impressions.''
Tony Benn:
“Hope is the fuel of progress....... and fear
is the prison in which you put yourself.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero:
“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or
corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible
because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing
to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting
development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe
and live as we do.”
Bob Herbert, journalst:
''I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining
about the federal budget deficits. They are like arsonists complaining about
the smell of smoke in the neighbourhood. There's a terrible sense of dread
filtering across America at the moment --- and it's not simply because of
the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war.
It is.... more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion,
that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a
radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road,
with its headlights off and with someone behind the
wheel ------- who may not know how to drive.''
Germany's Chancellor Scholz, in 2022:
We are ...pushing ahead on the purchase of the armed
Heron drone from Israel. And.. with regard to nuclear
sharing, we will procure a modern replacement for
the out-dated Tornado jets, in good time. The
Eurofighter --- is set to be equipped with
electronic war-fare capabilities. The
F-35 fighter jet --- has the potential
to be used... as a carrier aircraft.
And finally ladies & gentlemen,
we will do more to guarantee
a secure energy supply for
our country.''
Charles Dickens:
''It was the best of times... it was the worst of
times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the
age of foolishness --- it was the epoch of
belief - it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of light, it was the
season of darkness, it was the
spring of hope, it was the
winter of despair.''
Kim Il-sung:
“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only
through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth
confirmed by history. We are opposed to the
line of compromise with imperialism. At
the same time, we cannot tolerate the
practice - of only shouting against
imperialism, but, in actual fact,
being afraid to fight it.”
Peng Liyuan:
''Education --- is about women and girls. It is important
for girls to go to school, because they will become
their children's first teachers ------ someday.
Making sure that mothers are educated
means we can lift more people out of
poverty and build a more inclusive
and sustainable society.''
Bernard Le Bovier
de Fontenelle:
An educated mind is, as it were,
composed of all the minds of
preceding ages.''
Ben Okri:
“A people are as healthy and confident - as the
stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers
can make nations sick. Without stories... we
would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings
or orientation. Stories can conquer fear
you know. They can make the
heart larger.”
Catherine the Great, of Russia:
''A great wind is blowing - and that either
gives you imagination - or a headache.''
Maya Angelou:
“I've learned that people will forget
what you said, people will forget
what you did -- but people will
never forget how you made
them feel.”
George Galloway, MP:
"You will pay a high price for the role that you
have played in enabling, encouraging, and
covering for the catastrophe presently
going on in occupied Gaza, in the
Gaza Strip."
Sara Flounders:
"The 1991 Foreign Appropriations Law --- also prescribed
various forms of economic strangulation..... for several
other countries deemed enemies ----- including Angola,
Cambodia, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, N. Korea......
and Vietnam. On the other hand ---- countries moving
hastily toward a capitalist market economy in 1990
- such as Poland - were to receive special funding.
In all the expressions of concern and sympathy
for refugees and displaced people in countries
all over the globe but especially in the former
Yugoslavia, no US official ever mentions the
terrible suffering caused by US economic
strangulation."
Édouard Schuré:
''A nation is not a number of uniform values or ciphers; it is
a living being, composed of organs. So long as national
representation is not the image of this organization,
right from its working, to its teaching classes,
there will be no organic or intelligent
national representation.''
Bob Herbert, journalst:
''There is nothing more American -- than
brutal violence. The country was built
on it, revels in it -- and shows every
evidence of clinging to it with the
crazed, destructive strength of
an obsessive lover.''
Walter Rodney:
''In speaking of the European slave trade, mention must
be made of the USA, not only because its dominant
population was European, but because Europe
transferred its capitalist institutions - more
completely to North America, than to any
other part of the globe - and established
a powerful form of capitalism ------ after
eliminating the indigenous inhabitants
and exploiting the labour of millions
of Africans. However - the peasants
& workers of Europe, & eventually,
the inhabitants of the whole world
paid a huge price -- so capitalists
could make their profits --- from
the human labour that always
lies behind the machines.''
Thomas Carlyle:
“The greatest of faults, is
to be conscious of none.”
Ramin Razaheri:
''The UK is the most screwed up, being the most intractable
counter-revolutionary subversives, of every progressive
political movement, since 1789 ----------- yet somehow
seeing in its own mirror --- the beacon of fair play.
It may be interesting to supporters of the Iranian
Islamic Revolution, to know what Napoleon did
say, was perhaps ------- his biggest mistake?
Restoring the property of the old nobility
- whom he had allowed back to France
in an amnesty........ Those “Napoleonic
Wars” are more accurately titled “the
Wars Against the French Revolution”.
Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti:
''Try to understand the fact --- that for more than a
hundred years in the late fourth, third and early
second centuries BC, there was a state which
controlled... the entire natural geographical
domain of south Asia. Not even the British
controlled such a large area, for such a
long period. This fact - should, in any
case, be one of the answers to the
notion that there have only been
divisive tendencies... in the
political history of India.''
Julian Assange: "If wars can be started
by lies, peace can be started by truth."
Charles Dickens:
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes:
''Men do not realize the evil caused by divisions. Carried away
by their ambitions, their quarrels and other miserable
personalities, they see a homeland and freedom
only in the satisfaction of these vile passions,
bringing us closer, at all times, with their
recklessness: on the brink of civil war,
while the war of independence is
not even complete.''
Klitschko:
"In Europe, every young person
-------- has a legal right to a job.''
Jatzenjuk:
"Euro-association means that every
pensioner will immediately receive
at least 1,000 euros in a pension."
Ukraine woman to EU boss Borrell:
"You are a hypocrite --------- Josep!"
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal:
''There are some people who never
acknowledge themselves in the
wrong; God help them!''
Bruce Lee:
''Preparation for tomorrow
----- is hard work today.''
Abul Malik Houthi:
“The root cause of global terrorism --- is Zionism
and its tentacles of Israel, the US and Britain.”
Chief Rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef, 2010:
"Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have
no place in the world --- only to serve the People of Israel.
In Israel, death has no dominion over them. With gentiles
it will be like any person, they need to die, but [God] will
give them longevity. Why? Imagine -- that one’s donkey
would die, they'd lose their money. This is his servant.
That is why he gets a long life, to work well for this
Jew. Why are gentiles needed? They will work,
they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like
an effendi and eat. That, is why gentiles
were created."
Andre Jules Dubus II:
''Living in the world as a cripple allows you to see more
clearly --- the crippled hearts of some people whose
bodies are whole and sound. All of us -- from time
to time, suffer this crippling. Some suffer it daily
and nightly; and while most of us, nearly all of
us, have compassion and love in our hearts,
we cannot - or will not - see these barely
visible wounds of other human beings,
and so cannot or will not pick up the
telephone or travel to someone’s
house, or write a note, or make
some other seemingly trifling
gesture, to give to someone
what only we and God, can
give: an hour’s respite, or
a day’s, or a night’s; and
sometimes, more than
respite: sometimes
joy.''
Richard Price:
''Let us - in particular - take care not to forget
the principles of the Revolution... I will only
take notice of the three following: First;
The right to liberty of conscience in
religious matters. Secondly; The
right to resist power --- when
abused. And, Thirdly; The
right to choose our own
governors - to cashier
them for misconduct
----- and to frame a
government for
ourselves.'
'Bruce Lee:
''Many people dedicate their lives.... to actualizing a
concept of what they should be like... rather than
actualizing themselves. This difference between
self-actualization and self-image actualization,
is very important. Most people live only for
their image.''
Theodore Roosevelt:
''To announce ---- that there must be no criticism of the
President --- or that we are to stand by the President
right or wrong --- is not only unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned
an invisible government owing no allegiance and
acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
To destroy this invisible government, to defoul
the unholy alliance between corrupt business
and corrupt politics --- is the first task of the
statesmanship of today."
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
“If people but knew their own religion,
how tolerant they would become,
and how free from any grudge -
against the religion of others.”
Helmut Schmidt:
''The biggest room in the world
is the room for improvement.''
Catherine the Great, of Russia:
''The Equality of the Citizens consists in this; that they
should all be subject to the same Laws. This Equality
requires Institutions so well adapted as to prevent
the Rich - from oppressing those who are not so
wealthy as themselves and converting all the
Charges and Employments, intrusted to
them as Magistrates only to their
own private Emolument.''
George Harrison:
''Love one another.''
Susan B. Anthony:
"Whoever controls work and
wages, controls morals."
Jeffrey Sachs:
“History is written by the rich, and so
the poor get blamed for everything.”
Sonia Sanchez:
“The most fundamental truth to be told
in any art form, as far as Blacks are
concerned, is that America is
killing us.”
Socrates:
"The secret of change - is to focus
all of your energy, not on fighting
the old, but on building the new."
Maria Matskevich, Institute of Sociology of the Russian
Academy of Sciences in Politymagazine, issue 4, 2023:
“......in 2022-2023, the desire to live in a socialist rather
than capitalist society has risen sharply. While in 2020,
sympathies for socialism and capitalism were about
equal (26% and 21%, respectively), by mid-2022,
48% chose socialism and only 12% capitalism.
In 2023, this ratio is already 48% vs. 5%.”
Leonardo Boff:
''Today social justice represents one of the most
serious challenges to the conscience of the
world. The abyss between those who are
within the world 'order', and those who
are excluded.. is widening day by day.
The use of leading-edge technologies
has made it possible to accumulate
wealth in a way that's fantastic but
perverse.... because it is unjustly
distributed. Twenty-percent of
humankind control 80% of all
means of life. That fact,
creates a dangerous
imbalance in the
movement of
history.''
Seán MacBride:
''It is clear, that it is not man who has created the
universe - whether you believe in God or in gods
or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter
the laws that govern the universe, without
damaging it.'
Leonardo Boff:
"Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the centre,
& defends & promotes life against all the mechanisms
of death, desiccation, or stagnation. The opposite of
spirit, in this sense, is not the body, but death and
everything associated with the system of death,
understood in the widest sense of biological,
social and existential death... (failure,
humiliation, and oppression).
Nikolai Berdyaev:
