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Let's get back on the streets, like the Czechs,
who stand up to stop the West's pro-war
elites forcing us into a price way too
high for the majority to pay.
- all for the USA to stay
as ''top dog'' !

 Eugenio Maria de Hostos:
 
''Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change,
and they are transformed; but is there a dead
idea, which, in the end, does not live on ---
transformed..... into a broader and 
clearer goal?''

what is to be done now

 
Jeremy Corbyn:
 
The world -- really could have stopped the genocide in Gaza. Instead,
governments --- including our own --- allowed Israel to act with 
total
impunity. Israel’s reckless strikes on Iran --- are the 
product of that
impunity. They represent --- a shameful failure of global leadership.
And they are a threat 
to the safety of humankind across the world.
Our government ---- needs to wake up, end its complicity in Israeli
war crimes and defend 
international law. That - is how we bring 
about urgent de-escalation --- end the genocide -- and stop the
world from 
being dragged into a catastrophic, nuclear war.
We are all human 
beings - on one planet. Surely, that is
enough --- to try and bring about a world of peace.''


Bruce Lee:
 
''What you habitually think 
largely determines what 
you will ultimately 
become.''


Jose Marti:
 
''We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent 
to human suffering, not to profit from the people, 
from the work created and sustained through 
their spirit of political association, while
refusing to contribute to the political
state that we profit from.''  


Charles Dickens:
 
“There are books of which, the backs 
and covers are by far the best parts.”


Hazrat Inayat Khan:
 
''When power leads... and wisdom follows, the face 
of wisdom is veiled and she stumbles; but when 
wisdom leads and power follows, they arrive 
safely at their destination.''


Mikhail Sholokhov:
 
''Vast sections of the world's population are 
inspired by the same desires and live for 
common interests ...that bind them 
together, far more than they 
separate them.''


Alexei Sayle:
 
"If you travel to the 'States.... they have a lot of 
different words... than like what we use. For 
instance: they say 'elevator' - and we say 
'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; 
they say 'president', we say 'seriously 
deranged git!'"


José Emilio Pacheco:
 
"I like poetry... to be the interior voice, 
the voice no one hears, the voice of
the person reading it. That is how 
..the 'I' becomes 'you', the 'you' 
becomes 'I' - and in the act of
reading is born the 'we', that 
only exists in that intimate, 
full moment of reading." 


Augustine of Canterbury:
 
''The greatest evil 
is physical pain.''


Michael Eric Dyson:
 
''When you have closed the Bible, you have neither 
closed God's mind --- nor shut God's mouth. God 
continues to speak, live and exist. I think: we 
should consult the living God, for the living 
word for living people dealing with death, 
destruction and despair in the midst of 
our hurt humanity. I believe love 
will conquer all.''


James Madison Jr.:
 
''Of all the enemies to public liberty --- war is, perhaps, the
most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops
the germ of every other. War is the parent 
of armies;
from these --- proceed debts and taxes; 
and armies
and debts an taxes, are the known 
instruments
for bringing the many under the 
domination
of the few.'' 


Nina Simone:


''What kept me sane was knowing that things 
would change..... and it was a question of 
keeping myself together until they did.''


Hazrat Inayat Khan:
 
''Why is it so difficult to be a friend? One would think...... that it was 
the easiest thing there is! The reason is - that there is something 
in ourselves which is always against our being friendly. It is the 
self, the ego, which the Sufi calls Nafs. As long as this ego 
is standing and lives ---- a man cannot claim to be 
anybody's friend... This is the first and the 
last thing we have to learn.''


Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
 
''We cry, ‘Justice!’ ‘Reparation!’ While we tolerate robbery, rape, 
brigandage and assassination. In Colonies, it is a whole-sale
 sabotage - of all the institutions and of all the principles 
that are valued throughout the civilized world. These 
republicans.. who go from France to the Colonies, 
reject all republican doctrines. They -- are new 
Federal lords ----- who arrogate to themselves 
special privileges, defending them jealously
- fiercely, against the original possessors
— the rightful occupants of the land.''


Huey P. Newton:
 
''The United States can hide behind a facade 
simply because it is sucking the blood of 
other people...The Third World people:
 Africa, Asia and Latin America.''


Bruce Lee:
 
''Knowing is not enough, we must apply.
 Willing is not enough, we must do.''


James Welch:
 
''The townspeople outside the reservations had a very 
superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of 
funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they 
were on the fringes of society themselves.''


Mikhail Sholokhov:
 
''History has a way of repeating itself, 
unless we have the strength 
to break the cycle.''


Hazrat Inayat Khan, Volume VII - 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.'


Bruce Lee:


''Those who are unaware they are walking
 in darkness... will never seek the light.''


Peng Liyuan:
 
''Did you know…  The more steps you take, the bigger 
your heart. If you have a big heart, then you will be 
happy. If you cannot go far, let books take you 
there. (Broaden your horizon with the 
vision of knowledge)''


Dario Fo:
 
''I am the jongleur..... I leap and pirouette --- and make you laugh.
I make fun of those in power, and show you how puffed up and
conceited 
are the big shots who go around making wars
in which we are the ones who get slaughtered.
I reveal them for what 
they are. I pull
out 
the plug, and... pssss...
they deflate.''


Hazrat Inayat Khan:
 
''However much wealth or power or rank we possess, we still 
depend upon the humblest and poorest person in the world. 
The realization that the whole of life must be give and take 
is the realization of the spiritual truth, and the fact of true 
democracy. Not until this spirit is formed in the individual 
himself can the whole world be raised to a higher grade
 of evolution.''


Helen Joseph:
 
''I don't doubt for a moment ----- that the revolution
  will result ---- in a nonracial society.  I have just 
come.. from being a patient in Groote Schuur
Hospital - where they now have integrated
wards. For the first time in my life I have 
seen it --- working! The patients were 
mixed..... the staff was mixed, and 
the medical officers were mixed; 
it was totally integrated. It was 
beautiful. White and black --- 
together. And... it works. To 
me that's terribly exciting.'


Lula:
 
''No one has to agree...... with everything that someone 
else says. But --- in state-to-state relations, we have 
to understand, that we can help each other much 
more, doing it that way. We have to be 
more generous.''


Alex Krainer:
 
''What’s peculiar about the British financial system is that the 
taxpayers are obliged to reimburse the Bank of England for 
any losses it sustains on its balance sheet assets. If the 
price of gilts on the bank’s balance sheet collapses, 
British taxpayers --- must cover those losses and 
make the bank whole. So.. what kind of money 
are we talking about? As the the FT reported 
last July, the BOE has estimated ---- it will 
require the Treasury to transfer a total
of £150 billion by 2033 to cover the
expected losses on the central 
bank’s quantitative easing 
program...''


Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:


''You can't cross the sea.. merely by 
standing and staring at the water.''


I. F. Stone:
 
''Rich people march on Washington every day.''


On February 26th, 2014, Viktor Yanukovych:
 
“I, Viktor Fedorovich Yanukovich, appeal to the 
people of Ukraine. As before, I still consider 
myself to be lawful head of the Ukrainian 
state ---- chosen freely by the will of the 
Ukrainian people. Now - it is becoming 
clear that the people in south-eastern 
Ukraine and in Crimea do not accept 
the power vacuum, and complete 
lawlessness in the country ----- 
when the heads of ministries 
are appointed by the mob.”


Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
 
''It is sufficient to say that even today --- in the Colonies --- there 
are Administrators who insert like suppositories, cartridges 
of dynamite in the natives, and order them to run; then 
suddenly the dynamite explodes and the natives 
are blown to pieces. This happens - in the 
French Colonies!''


Samora Machel:
 
''The state must be the first to be organized and 
totally committed to serving the interests of 
the people.''


Sinclair Lewis:
 
''So much in a revolution,
 ..is nothing but waiting.''


Bruce Lee:
 
If you always put limits on what you can do, 
physical or anything else, it’ll spread over 
into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into 
your work, into your morality, into 
your entire being. There are no 
limits. There are plateaus, but 
you must not stay there, you 
must go beyond them. If it 
kills you... it kills you. A
man, must constantly 
exceed his level.'' 


John Magufuli:
 
"I know what it means to be poor.
I will strive to help improve 
people's welfare."


Sathima Bea Benjamin:
 
“Due to the Group Areas Act and living separately 
under Apartheid, I always wondered, ‘What --- is 
over there with the white people - that I can’t 
have?’ I really wanted to know - so bad! It
was a big mystery to me. And I had to 
wait until I went to Europe..... and I 
found out - that here was nothing
that I really wanted. It was still 
that they wanted something
---- from us.” 


Alain-René Lesage:
''Justice is such a fine thing - that 
we cannot pay too dearly for it.''


Mary Wollstonecraft:
 
''Taught from infancy, that beauty is 
woman's sceptre, the mind shapes
itself to the body..... and roaming 
round its gilt cage, only seeks
to adorn its prison.''


Walter Rodney:
 
Mistaken interpretations of the causes of
underdevelopment, usually stem either 
from prejudiced thinking -- or from the 
error of believing, that one can learn
the answers ....by looking inside the 
underdeveloped economy. The true 
explanation lies in ----- seeking out 
the relationship between Africa... 
and certain developed countries 
and in recognizing that - it is a 
relationship of exploitation.'' 


Julius Nyerere:
 
''When we were at school, we were taught to sing the songs
of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs 
of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us - have
learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and 
roll and to twist... and even to dance the waltz and 
foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have 
even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, 
nyang umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?''


Frank Serpico:


''The fight for justice against corruption 
is never easy. It never has been - and 
never will be.  It exacts a toll on our 
self, our families, our friends.... and 
especially our children. In the end, 
I believe, as in my case, the price
 we pay, is well worth holding on
 to our dignity.''


Chris Hedges:
 
''We face existential threats. But these do not count. 
The proposed budget.. for the Centres for Disease
Control & Prevention (CDC) in fiscal year 2023 - 
is $10.675 billion. The proposed budget for the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - is 
$11.881 billion. Ukraine alone gets more 
than double that amount. War -- is all
that matters. This, is a recipe for 
collective suicide.''


Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva:
 
''My greatest desire is that the hope 
that has overcome fear -- in my 
country -- will help vanquish 
it around the world.''


UNICEF's Eastern & Southern Africa
 Regional Director, Mohamed Fall:
 
''Millions of children across sub-Saharan Africa continue to be 
in desperate need of access to education, basic healthcare, 
nutrition, clean water, protection, a birth certificate - and 
hope. Tens of thousands more - are in need of mental 
health and psycho-social support - as conflict and 
horrific violence has become daily life for far 
too many.''


George Harrison:
 
''People are simply screwing up, when they go
out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them
with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff 
- costs a fortune, too. You could feed 
a thousand people with lentil soup 
for the cost of half a dozen filets.''


Sun Tzu:
 
"An evil man --- will burn his own nation 
to the ground, to rule over the ashes." 


Tony Benn:
 
''After the war, people said - 'If you can plan for
war -- why can't you plan for peace?' When I 
was 17, I had a letter from the government 
saying, 'Dear Mr. Benn.... will you turn up 
when you're 17 1/2? We'll give you free 
food, free clothes, free training, free
accommodation, & 2 shillings & 10 
pence a day - to just kill Germans.'
People said well, if you can have 
full employment to kill people, 
why in God's name couldn't 
you have full employment 
- and good schools, good 
hospitals, good houses?”


Goethe's Faust:
 
''Lord, the trouble is great! The spirits I 
called, I cannot now free myself from.''
 

In 1945 ----- a Russian Soldier 
wrote on the Reichstag Wall: 
 
''We will come back - if we have to.'' 


Chay Bowes.. Irish journalist,
after Cadger Callous warned 
Fico -- not to attend May 9th:
 
''What's remarkable... is how the Russians weren't allowed
to attend the anniversary of the liberation 
of Auschwitz.
As far as I'm aware, Russians liberated Auschwitz!''


China Daily: 
 
"No one will exempt the US. The problem is, that the US
has 
been living beyond its means -------- for decades. It
consumes.. 
more than it produces. It has outsourced 
its production and borrowed money ------ to achieve a 
much higher standard of living, than its productivity 
warrants. Its people, have forgotten - how to stand 
on an assembly line, and sew shirts - for example.
The US has ridden aboard the globalization train. 
The US - should stop complaining about being a 
victim of global trade --- and end its capricious, 
destructive behaviour. Instead of complaining
- it should commit to work. Let US villagers 
weep now.... when they look at the 5,000
-year-old Chinese civilization."


US President Harry Truman, when a senator, in 1940: 
 
“If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help 
Russia, and if Russia is winning, we ought to help 
Germany -- and, that way, let them kill as many
as possible.” 


Diana Panchenko ua @Panchenko_X
April 15th, 2025 --- at 6:38 PM, UTC:
 
''Ukrainians are afraid of Zelensky. You keep asking
  ----- why don’t people fight back against Zelensky?
 
Just today:
 
1. Lawyer Olga Panchenko arrested.
She defended Ukrainians from 
illegal mobilization.
 
2. Journalist Volodymyr Krekotkin arrested.
He gave a platform to opposition voices.
 
3. Journalist Angela Gurina sentenced to 
5 years in prison. She exposed illegal 
mobilization with a video.
 
Speak out against Zelensky’s regime in Ukraine?  You 
could be thrown in a pit for months, tortured, or killed. 
An American citizen was killed in a Ukrainian prison.
 
And corporate media? They’re covering it up.''


Albert Einstein:
 
''Unthinking respect for authority 
is the greatest enemy of truth.''


Alice Childress:
 
“Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles 
your heart, you're a gentle sinner, just a 
good soul - gone wrong.”


Nicolás Maduro:
 
''Venezuelans...... have a long history. So we are able
to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From 
here, were born the liberators of the region and 
they said - before and after that process - we
have 
a culture of political action. We are
not in despair. 
That's the image
broadcast abroad.''


Chris Hedges:
 
'Donald Trump does not herald the advent of fascism.
He heralds the collapse of the 
veneer ..that masked
the corruption within the 
ruling class ------ and their
pretense of democracy. 
He is the symptom.... and
not the disease.''
 


Hilaire Belloc:
 
''Loss and possession, 
death and life are one, 
There falls no shadow
where there shines 
no sun.''


Richard Price:
 
''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
and take care to maintain a just 
regard ---- to the rights of 
other countries.''


The Leader of the (banned) 
Ukraine Opposition Party, 
Viktor Medvedchuck:
 
''Trump must understand -- that agreements with the 
Ukrainian authorities -- cannot be implemented in
principle.. since this government does not have
the real powers and capabilities to fulfill any 
deals... while the country is dominated by 
neo-Nazi gangs.  Without the complete 
denazification of Zelensky's Ukraine 
- without the complete destruction 
of the Nazi ideology - and getting 
rid of those who are its bearers 
no deals will be executed and 
unfortunately --- there is no 
alternative to this.''


Psychologist Albert Ellis:
 
“For many years now, I have had the quaint idea - that 
all humans - yes, the whole 8 billion of them on this
planet - are out of their fucking minds.”


President Putin:
 
"If - they think they can beat us on
 the battlefield, then let them try."


Bruce Lee:
 
''A wise man can learn more from a foolish 
question, than a fool can learn from a 
wise answer.''


Vladimir Zhirinovsky:
 
''If Russia rises - it means 
that the USA falls down.'


Lucky Joestar, on MoA: 
 
''I’m not surprised.. that Europeans are being racist ----- considering 
the whole notion of “Europe” itself ----- is racist. Europe - is not a 
real continent - as it has no tectonic plate of its own ---- and no 
appreciable body of water separating it from the rest of Asia.
That’s right --- the REST of Asia. Even Portugal and Norway 
are part of Asia, the largest continent on Earth ------ and if 
Japan is part of Asia ---- then so are Britain and Ireland. 
Europe’s status as a continent, is just a racist fiction 
embraced by northwest Asians -- who can’t accept 
that their precious white fatherlands are actually 
sharing a continent with countries full of yellow 
and brown people, including China and India.''


Ramakrishna:
 
"Never get into your head that your faith 
alone is true and every other is false. 
Know for certain that God without
 form is real and that God with 
form is also real. Then hold 
fast to whichever faith 
appeals to you."


George C. Marshall:
 
''Military power wins battles, but 
spiritual power wins wars.''


John Kessel:
 
''At the same time King David had told --- how God's truth was 
written in nature for men to read, he had also begged to be 
kept free from the great transgression: doing wrong when 
one believes one is doing right. How easy --- when one 
followed the promptings of the traitorous heart, to 
convince oneself that pure selfishness is the 
ultimate selflessness, that desire is fate, 
that murder is self-sacrifice.''


Dennis Kucinich:
 
''The question that is continually begged, is... 
why isn't America leading the way toward 
a total abolition of nuclear weapons?''


Mary Ritter Beard:


“The 'public' --------- a term often used
to 
indicate the great metropolitan
newspapers.”


Alexis de Tocqueville:


“There are many men of principle 
in both parties in America - but
there is no party of principle.”


Bruce Kent:
 
''We can - apparently - afford £200 billion 
for a new set of very non-independent 
nuclear missile submarines. The
missiles are on a rotating loan 
from the US... which no one 
seems to notice.'' 


Ramzan Kadyrov:
 
''We have a strong government ---- and are 
a nuclear state. Even if our government
was completely destroyed, our nuclear
missiles ------- would be automatically 
deployed.''


Yevgeny Zamyatin:
 
“''We'' comes from God, 
''I'' from the Devil.”


Venezuela's President Maduro:
 
“They censored the film Ali Primera, and this is not 
the first time Ali has been persecuted. In fact, he 
was persecuted many times. However, I'm sure
that Spanish youth ---- will now be asking 
themselves ---- who Ali was and 
what he sang about.” 


Vladimir Karasev:
 
"According to my sources ---- Zelensky has already
transferred control -- over nuclear power plants,
underground gas storage facilities, key ports
(including 8 ports in Odessa), and strategic 
facilities ----- such as hydro-electric power 
plants to the British with this agreement. 
It may explain why Zelensky is trying to 
derail initiatives related to the mineral 
agreement with Trump ----- as he has 
already made commitments... to 
the British." 


Jonathan Swift:
 
''Laws are like cobwebs.. which may catch small 
flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.''


Dmitry Medvedev:
 
''Macron and Starmer --- are playing dumb. Time and again, 
they are told that peacekeepers must be from non-NATO 
states. No, we will send tens of thousands – just lay it 
out – you want.. to... aid.... the neo-Nazis..... in Kiev. 
That means war with NATO. Consult with Trump, 
scumbags.''


Proverbs Chapter 1 vs 17:
 
“In vain you spread your net
When the bird you want...
is watching.”


Vladimir Karasev:
 
"Britain ----- has its own plans for Ukraine. The British have
already entered the city of Odessa, which they view as 
a key location. Their special services... are heavily 
involved there. The British do not conceal their 
desire -- to establish a naval base in Odessa. 
Therefore, they have no interest in seeing 
a peaceful resolution to the conflict in 
Ukraine. They... do not benefit from 
Trump’s call upon all interested 
parties ----- to come to the 
negotiating table." 


Sinclair Lewis:
 
''Advertising is a valuable economic factor, 
because it is the cheapest way of selling 
goods, particularly if the goods 
are worthless.''


John Cheever:
 
''The organizations of men, like men themselves, 
seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness.. 
lameness and involuntary cruelty. We seem 
tragically unable to help one another, to 
understand one another. Literature - 
has been our salvation, literature 
has inspired and guided lovers, 
routed despair ---- and can 
perhaps, in this case, 
save the world.”


Nicolás Maduro:
 
''I can tell you, that I never aspired to be president. 
I always honour something..... that Commander 
Chavez told us ---- that while we are in these 
posts we must be clothed in humility, and 
understand that we are here to protect 
the man and woman of the streets.''


Eric Hoffer:
 
“Propaganda...... does not deceive people; it 
merely helps them to deceive themselves.”


Sir Ronald Harwood: 

“Hate the critics? I have nothing but compassion
for them. How can one hate the crippled, the
mentally deficient, and the dead?”


Mary Ritter Beard:
 
“Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life 
nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely 
hunted and fished for food, who found shelter 
where they could, in jungles, in trees, and 
caves, was a civilizing triumph.”


Sebastian Haffner:


''It may seem a paradox, but it is, none the less,
the simple truth, to say that, on the contrary,
the decisive historical events -- take place 
among us -- the anonymous masses. The 
most powerful dictators, ministers and 
generals, are powerless against the 
simultaneous mass decisions ---- 
taken individually and almost 
unconsciously ---- by the 
population at large.”


Jeremy Hardy:
 
''My daughter wanted a new pair of trainers. 
I told her: You're eleven, make your own!''


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.''


Jeffrey Sachs:
 
''There is no economic imperative that will 
condemn us to deplete our vital resource 
base, but neither is there an invisible 
hand that will prevent us from 
doing so.''


George Carlin:
 
''When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't 
got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be?
 How can you not have all day?''


Anna Kingsford:
 
''That only is a human life 
which is a humane life.''


Bruce Lee:
 
“Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts,
- all problems are brought into existence– drop them.”


Thomas Jefferson:
 
''He who knows best knows
how little he knows.''


George Sand:
 
''Know how to give without hesitation, 
how to lose without regret, how to 
acquire without meanness.''


Cleveland Amory:
 
''Have you ever heard one civilized person 
whose opinion you respect, at any time, 
anywhere, in any civilized country, 
anywhere, say 'the good
new days?'''


Alva Myrdal:
 
''I have always regarded global development --- as 
a struggle between the forces of good and evil. 
Not to be simplified.. as a struggle between 
Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider
that the process is restricted to our 
own sphere of culture.''


Claudette Werleigh:
 
''Our actual structures are not geared for participation, 
they are not for the people. It is a top-down, not a 
horizontal system. I believe that change in Haiti 
can only come -- when we change the actual 
structures. We have tried one way for two 
centuries, but now we are the poorest 
country in the Americas, with the 
most malnourished people in 
the Americas. It is time to 
try something else.”


Edward Young:
 
''Be wise with speed; a fool at forty,
is a fool indeed.'' 


Julius Nyerere:
 
''Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult 
for Africa and the African peoples - to be disregarded 
and humiliated. And it will, therefore...  increase the 
effectiveness of the decisions we make and try to 
implement for our development. My generation 
led Africa to political freedom. The current 
generation of leaders and peoples of 
Africa, must pick up the flickering 
torch of African freedom, refuel 
it with their enthusiasm and 
determination and carry 
it forward.''


José Rizal:
 
''He who does not love his own language is
worse than an animal - and a smelly fish.''


Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
 
''Without humanity.... there is no civilization!
If the monsters, full of vice, sodden with 
alcohol, contaminated by disease, 
whom you send to us --- have 
nothing else to offer than 
what they have already 
given us -- then keep 
them yourselves..'' 


Thomas Bernhard:
 
''You are never truly together with the one you love
until the person in question is dead and actually 
inside you.''


Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer:
 
What a shame that love has no dictionary 
in which to ascertain... when pride
is 
simply pride and when
 it's 'dignity'!”


Chairman of the CC CPRF, 
Head of CPRF State Duma 
Gennady Zyuganov:
 
''Byelorussia - is the new target of the globalists. The opponents 
of the legitimately elected power - are to play the same role as
the “orange leprosy” in Ukraine. It is not by chance, that they
have been led to raise a banner... which the Nazi authorities
already recognized as the official banner on Byelorussia’s 
territory - occupied in 1942. Today, we see attempts to 
steer the people that defied the Nazi invaders, along 
the path of colonization and the destruction of the 
economy and culture. As usual this is being done 
under the pretext of making the country part of
 “the free world.”''


Thomas Carlyle:
 
“Of all your troubles, great and small, 
the greatest are the ones that don't 
happen at all.”


Psychologist Albert Ellis:
 
“The best years of your life, are the ones in which
you decide your problems are your own. You do
not blame them on your mother, ecology, or 
the president. You realize...... that you 
control your own destiny.”


R. Palme Dutt:
 
''Fascism appears, especially at the outset ---- as an appeal 
for a bold policy of social, reform & national development
- an appeal to broad masses of the population, to all 
discontented workers, to middle class elements - 
to youth, to idealism, to patriotism, to the desire 
for drastic change, and.. under all these covers, 
even imitating semi-socialist and revolutionary 
language, it conceals its real aim of drawing 
the working masses aside --- from the true 
objective of the overthrow of capitalism 
and establishment of socialism - in 
order to chain them the more 
securely to capitalism.''


Bruce Kent:
 
''A different kind of life - is possible. 
Let us, together, make it happen.''


June Callwood:
 
''Forgiveness is hard work. A woman, a devout 
Roman Catholic who forgave the man who 
tortured and killed her seven-year-old 
daughter, said, “Anyone who says 
forgiveness is for wimps, hasn’t 
tried it.” The reward for giving 
up scalding thoughts of 
reprisal, is peace of 
mind. It is worth 
the candle.''


Jean de La Fontaine:
 
''Help yourself........ and 
Heaven will help you.''


Howard Rheingold:
 
"Openness and participation --- 
are antidotes to surveillance 
and control."


Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia:
 
''There is no escape --- from the dilemma. There is no
middle term in the school for the disinherited class 
alone; you have either a systematic insistence, by
means of false teaching on error and ignorance, 
or hatred of those who domineer and exploit.''


 
Leymah Gbowee:
 
''Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. 
We are also the ones who nurture societies. If any 
changes are to be made in society --- it has to be 
by the mothers.''


Zona Gale:
 
“Moments of mystery are rare enough, 
in all conscience; and, when they do 
arrive, all the world misses them by
trying to understand them. Which
is manifestly ungrateful 
and stupid.”


Dr. Rob Campbell:
 
''According to Ray Dalio, billionaire founder of hedge fund firm 
Bridgewater Associates, the UK is heading for a debt crisis 
which will spiral out of control, as the treasury has to 
borrow more and more money...... to service its 
increasing debts. Dalio described this as 
a ‘debt death spiral’. In spite of this, 
Starmer has promised to provide 
Ukraine with $3 billion a year 
for the next 100 years - 
what an idiot.'' 


Marie de Rabutin-Chantal:
 
''The human heart will never wrinkle.''


Chris Hedges:

''Fascism is always the bastard 
child of a bankrupt liberalism.''


James Welch:
 
''The economic piece is still missing --- since it's so hard
 to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and 
educationally, they're doing -- just fine. Each tribe 
has a community college now, and they teach 
the language, they teach the traditions.''


Michael Eric Dyson:
 
''In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical 
Democrat, or a Socialist, you are automatically a 
Communist. And if you are a Communist, then 
therefore you are an anti-American person 
and a person who is not a patriot. But
nothing is further from the truth.''


Jeffrey Sachs:
 
''Sustainability, or fairness to the future, involves 
the concept of stewardship.. the idea that the 
living generation.... must be stewards of the 
earth’s resources - for the generations that 
will come later. That’s a tough role to play. 
There's nothing natural or innate about it. 
We need to defend the interests of those 
whom we’ve never met, and never will. 
Yet those are our descendants -- and 
our fellow humanity. Alas, it’s a role 
that we’ve mostly ignored till now, 
to the increasing peril of all who
 will follow.''


Harold Wilson:
 
''This Party [the Labour party]
is a moral crusade,
or it is nothing.''


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
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
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 god
lessness 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 head
lights 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,
under
stood in the widest sense of biological,
social and 
existential death... (failure,
humiliation, and oppression).


Nikolai Berdyaev:
 
''The whole economic system of Capitalism is an offshoot of
a devouring and overwhelming lust - of a kind that can hold 
sway only in a society that has deliberately renounced the 
Christian asceticism and turned away from Heaven to give 
itself over exclusively to earthly gratifications....... It is the
result of a secularization of economic life, and by it --- the
hierarchical subordination of the material to the spiritual 
is inverted. The autonomy of economics --- has ended in 
their dominating the whole life of human societies: the 
worship of Mammon has become the determining 
force of the age. And the worst of it is that this 
undisguised “mammonism” is regarded as a 
very good thing ------ an attainment to the 
knowledge of truth and a release from 
illusions. Economic materialism 
formulates this to perfection 
when it brands the whole 
spiritual life of man as 
a deception and 
a dream.''


YouGov sociological institute survey:,
 
55% of Germans are in favour of refusing to supply Kiev
with long-range cruise missiles ---- and 26% hold the 
opposite opinion ---- while 39% believe that Berlin 
provides Kiev with too much military assistance.


Alexander Kamkin, senior researcher at IMEMO
 RAS Centre for Comparative & Political Studies: 
 
"In Germany, there are hotheads like Markus Zeder 
or Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, who almost 
demands to give her a machine gun to go to the 
Eastern Front. However... the ruling German 
circles have certain concerns ---- that the 
supply of Taurus will become a point of 
no return, in relations with Russia." 


Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechaev: 
 
"It is difficult to entertain illusions about a possible 
change in Germany's approach to the Ukrainian 
conflict and a sudden awareness of the risks 
of escalation associated with the use of 
long range missiles."


Vadim Kozyulin, Head of the Centre for Global Studies and
International Relations at the IAMP Diplomatic Academy 
of the Russian Foreign Ministry: 
 
"We are seeing how the conflict is becoming more intense.
More destructive types of weapons are being transferred 
to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. So we need to assume 
that the West will continue to escalate this kind of 
escalation, including with Taurus." 


Alexander Kamkin:
 
"If Berlin agrees to transfer these systems to the Ukrainian
Armed Forces, they will enable Kiev to launch separate
terrorist attacks, although supplies will be limited. It is
possible, that this is also the reason why Berlin is not
in a hurry to send them to Ukraine. At the same time
they - Tauruses - will not be able to fundamentally 
change the situation on the  front, in any case." 


Alva Myrdal:
 
''We can hope that men will understand that the
interest of all are the same, that hope lies in
cooperation. We can then, perhaps, 
keep PEACE.''


André Gide:
 
''Work and struggle and never accept 
an evil that you can change.'


'
Ravi Shankar:
 
“I tell you, deep inside you - is a fountain of bliss,
 a fountain of joy. Deep inside your central core 
is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there,
 there is no fear there. Psychologists 
have never looked deep enough.”


UN declaration:
 
'' …democracy is a universal value based on the freely-
expressed will of people to determine their own 
political, economic, social and cultural 
systems, and their full participation 
in all aspects of life.''


Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro:
 
''Reason teaches us -- to be united in will, 
united in thought and united in purpose 
and that we might have strength to 
combat the prevailing evil in 
our Nation."


Gabriel Rockhill:
 
''Losurdo.. made it clear, that the text of Stalin: 
[History and Critique of a Black Legend] was
..a contribution to contextualizing and 
ending the demonization of Stalin,
who was ------ in 1946, praised 
by Gandhi.''


Marshall Berman:
 
''Whoever you are, or want to be, 
you may not be interested in 
politics, but politics is
interested in you.''


Al Sharpton:
 
''I've seen enough things to know that 
if you just keep on going, if you turn 
the corner, the sun will be shining.''


Moses Mendelssohn:
 
''The state gives orders and coerces, religion teaches 
and persuades. The state prescribes laws, religion 
commandments. The state has physical power 
- and uses it when necessary; the power of 
religion is love and benificence. The one 
abandons the disobedient and expels 
him; the other receives him in its 
bosom and seeks.. to instruct, 
or at least to console him.''


Frank Serpico:
 
''We need good role models, and 
they have to start at the top.
The whole f**king system
 is corrupt.''


June Callwood:
 
''The central fact of North American history
 is that there were fifteen British Colonies
 before 1776. Thirteen rebelled, and two 
didn't. The beaver, which has come to 
represent Canada, as the eagle does 
the United States & the lion Britain,
 is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy 
rodent known to bite off it's own 
testicles, or to stand under its 
own falling trees.''


Nicholas Murray Butler:
 
''Those people who think only of themselves, 
are hopelessly uneducated. They are not 
educated... no matter how instructed 
they may be. America is the best 
half-educated country in 
the world.''


Trygve Lie:
 
''My God, this is war against
 the United Nations.''


Mark Twain:
 
“I have read carefully the treaty of Paris [between the 
United States and Spain], and I have seen that we do 
not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the 
Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to
redeem. And so, I am an anti-imperialist. I am 
opposed to having the eagle put its talons 
on any other land.”


Bianca Jagger:
 
''People in so many countries look up 
to the United States, as a model of 
democracy, but I doubt if that
can continue. It leaves me 
with a great sense 
of loss.''


Arnold Wesker:
 
''Education isn't only books and music - it's asking 
questions, all the time. There are millions of us,
all 
over the country, and no one, not one of us,
is 
asking questions: we're all taking the
easiest way out.''


Hermann Hesse:
 
''Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line 
we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of 
which the world consists, other, new insights begin.''


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
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
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:
 
''Both the historian and the novelist view history 
as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and 
determined to make judgments, which is 
up against a vast and densely packed 
majority of the blind, who are led by 
their instincts and unable to think
for themselves.''


Gustav Stresemann:
 
''No change in the balance of political parties 
can alter the general determination: that 
no class should be excluded from 
contributing to and sharing
responsibility for, 
the state.''


Zhu Xi:
 
The Master said - "Danger comes from being 
at ease in one's position. Death, comes from 
preserving one's existence. Disorder comes 
from one who rules. Therefore, the superior 
person is at ease yet doesn't forget danger; 
survives yet doesn't forget death; rules yet 
doesn't forget disorder. This is how his life 
can be easeful --- and his country can be
preserved.'' 


On February 26th, 2014, Viktor Yanukovych:
 
"I can't find words to characterise this new authority. 
These are people who advocate violence - the 
Ukrainian parliament is illegitimate". 


Nicholas Murray Butler:
 
''Many people's tombstones 
should read.. 'Died at 30.
Buried at 60.


'''
Hamshahri newspaper:
 
'''Many argue that the blazing fire of an armed conflict near 
European borders --- is needed only by the United States, 
which has always sought to weaken Russia --- trying to 
achieve this by proxy.. and at the expense of conflicts
along its borders. So in whose geopolitical interests 
will be the increase in the production of weapons 
on a large scale, which is called for by European 
officials and commissioners --- at all levels?'' 


Patch Adams:
 
''I have often found that mental patients who 
are given love, creativity, and community,
find the peace that they are reaching 
out for.''


John Cheever:
 
''Wisdom, we know, is the knowledge of
good and 
evil --- not the strength

to choose between the two.''



Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
 
''For us, all races are as welcome as the magnificent bloom 
of spring. We do not understand --- that colour enters into 
intellectual or moral expositions; we do not understand 
that colour intervenes in economic questions ------  we 
understand nothing, of the egotistical and barbarous 
aims sought by certain civilized people who believe
that civilization can only reach its zenith --- by 
ignoring original laws, and by debasing and 
enslaving men who have the natural right 
to live, to evolve, and to attain the full 
expression of their being.''


Proverbs 22:7: 
 
“The rich rule over the poor, and the 
borrower is the slave of the lender”. 


Political philosopher Alasdair 
MacIntyre ---- in 'After Virtue':
 
“In the absence of traditions, moral debate 
is out of joint; and becomes a theatre of 
illusions in which simple indignation &
mere protest, occupy centre stage.”


President Xi, in 2013:
 
“Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union fall to pieces?
To completely repudiate the historical experience 
of the Soviet Union, to repudiate the history of 
the CPSU, to repudiate Lenin, to repudiate 
Stalin ------- was to wreak chaos on Soviet 
ideology & engage in historical nihilism.”


President Putin:
 
“(China) managed in the best possible way --- in my 
opinion, to use the levers of central administration
(to spur) the development of a market economy. 
The Soviet Union did nothing like this and the 
results of an ineffective economic policy 
impacted the political sphere.”


Alexander Lebed on how NATO acts:
 
"Like a big drunken hooligan 
in a kindergarten who says 
he will hit anyone he likes."


Augustine of Canterbury:
 
''If we live good lives, the times are also 
good.  As we are, such are the times.''


Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
 
''The settlements must stop - now. Peace cannot be waged 
while Palestinian land is confiscated in myriad ways and 
the status of the Occupied Territories is being decided 
each day by Israeli bulldozers and barbed wire. This 
is not simply a position; it is an irrefutable reality.'' 


Richard Bach:
 
The meaning I picked -- the
one that changed
 my life: 
Overcome fear,
behold wonder.''


Al Sharpton:
 
''Civilians are arrested every single day - including 
innocent ones - and they must wait until their day
in court in order to argue their side of the story. 
Police officers must be subjected to the
same rules.''


Woody Guthrie:
 
“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good.
I hate a song that makes you think you are just born to lose.
Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. 
Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too 
slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run 
you down - or poke fun at you on account of your bad
luck, or hard travelling. I am out to fight those songs 
to my very last breath of air & my last drop of blood. 
I'm out to sing songs that will prove to you that this
is your world and that, if it has hit you pretty hard 
& knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what 
colour, what size you are, how you are built, I am 
out to sing the songs that make you take pride 
in yourself -- and in your work. And the songs
that I sing, are made up for the most part by
all sorts of folks just about like you. I could 
hire out to the other side, the big money 
side, & get several dollars every week 
--- just to quit singing my own kind of 
songs & to sing the kind that knock 
you down still farther and the ones 
that poke fun at you even more, &
the ones that make you think that 
you've not got any sense at all. 
But I decided a long time ago,
that I would starve to death, 
before I'd sing any such 
songs as that. The radio 
waves & your movies & 
your jukeboxes, & your 
songbooks, are already 
loaded  down & running 
over with such no good 
songs as that, anyhow.”


Aretha Franklin:
 
''People... really don't have to give you 
anything, so appreciate what people 
give you. Every birthday is a gift. 
Every day is a gift.''


Mark Twain:
 
“The government of my country snubs honest simplicity 
but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have 
developed into a very capable pickpocket
 if I had remained in the public service
 a year or two.”


Alexis de Tocqueville:
 
“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which 
covers the surface of society with a network of 
complicated rules, through which, the most 
original minds - and the most energetic 
characters cannot penetrate. It does 
not tyrannise, but it compresses, 
enervates, extinguishes... and 
stupefies a people, until each 
nation is reduced to nothing 
better than a flock of timid 
& industrious animals, of 
which, the government 
is the shepherd.”


William Godwin:
 
''The true key of the universe, is love.''


Joe Klein:
 
''When Jennifer Rubin or Abe Foxman calls me antisemitic, 
they're wrong. I am anti-neoconservative. I think these 
people are following very perversely extremist 
policies and I really did believe that it was 
time for mainstream Jews to stand up
and say, "They don't represent us, 
they don't represent Israel." 


Tim Wise:
 
''If we dont figure out a way to create equity, 
real equity of opportunity and access to 
good schools, housing, health care, 
and decent paying jobs, we're not 
going to survive as a productive 
and healthy society.''


Horace:
 
''He who postpones the hour of living rightly, 
is like the rustic who waits for the river
to run out... before he crosses.''


Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist:
 
''Why.. did they force us to close the banks? 
To instil fear in people; and spreading fear, 
is called terrorism.''


John Masefield:
 
Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song. 
 Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.


 Linus Pauling:
 
''We must not have a Nuclear war. We must begin to solve 
international disputes by the application of man's power 
of reason, in a way that is worthy of the dignity of man. 
We must solve them by arbitration, negotiation --- and 
the development of international law, the making of 
international agreements that will do justice to all 
nations and to all peoples ------ and will benefit all 
nations and all people. Now is the time to start.


''
Francis Lieber:
 
''Races are very often invented from
  ignorance, or for evil purposes.''


Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
 
We, Negroes of Africa, we raise our indignant protestation against 
the fate of our brothers in America. Shame to those Americans 
who feign to be civilized, but who have not yet condemned, by
law, the outrage of lynching, and who continue to torture 15 
millions of our brothers! Let the so-called civilized nations 
stop a wholesale trade of Negroes by the purchase and 
sale of Colonies -- after having condemned the slave 
trade in detail! No more transfer of territories with 
their inhabitants, as that recently effected by 
Denmark! This is the most modern, and the 
most monstrous form, of the slave trade.


Cesar Chavez:
 
''Though many of the poor have come to see the 
affluent middle class as its enemy, that class 
actually stands between the poor and 
the real powers in this society - the 
administrative octopus with its 
head in Washington, the 
conglomerates, the 
military complex.''


Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
 
What do we want in the Colonies—we subjects—or, by special 
favour and grudgingly made, citizens? We want the laws that 
concentrate and codify despotism repealed. There are no 
half- measures! A new constitution is needed in the 
Colonies. When a member is gangrenous, it is 
necessary to intervene quickly; remove the 
member by amputation. That’s what the 
surgeon does. If it happens... that he 
hesitates, lingers, delays, ignorant
pain is aggravated—the disease 
gains ground, then an ignorant 
adventurer takes a scalpel
- and wounds the healthy 
organ, while attempting 
to remove the affected 
member.''


As positions in the transitional government 
went to representatives of the neo-fascist 
group, Svoboda, which was condemned 
by the EU, in 2012, Viktor Yanukovych:
 
 "Have you become blind? Have 
you forgotten what fascism is?"


George Sand:
 
''Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a 
condition of intellectual magnificence, to which 
we must cling, as to a treasure, and not 
squander on our way through life, in 
the small coin of empty words, or
in exact and priggish argument.'' 


Indonesia's President Sukarno:
 
''What can we do? We can do much! We can inject the voice
of reason --- into world affairs. We can mobilise all the 
spiritual, all the moral, all the political strength of 
Asia & Africa on the side of peace. Yes, we! We,
the peoples of Asia and Africa, 1,400,000,000 
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.''


Sukarno:
 
 ''We can demonstrate to the minority of the world which lives
 on the 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.''



Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:
 
''Faith is the bird that feels the light 
when the dawn is still dark.''


Patch Adams:
 
''Take a close look at the part that "love" plays in your 
life. Make an inventory of love: people, things, ideas, 
experiences. Try to live your gratitude.''


Oswald Spengler:
 
"Democracy has become a weapon of moneyed interests. It 
uses the media to create the illusion that there is consent 
from the governed. The press today is an army with 
carefully organized weapons, the journalists its 
officers, the readers, its soldiers. The reader 
neither knows nor is supposed to know, the 
purposes for which he is used and the role 
he is to play. The notion of democracy is 
often no different - than living under a 
plutocracy, or a government by 
wealthy elites."


Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
   
''Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.''


W. E. B. Du Bois:
 
“Beneath the Veil lay right and wrong, vengeance and love, 
and sometimes throwing aside the veil, a soul of sweet 
Beauty and Truth stood revealed.”


Daniel Ellsberg:
 
''Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew 
that it involved making threats --- of
nuclear 
war to North Vietnam.''


Angela Davis:
 
“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they 
disappear... human beings. Homelessness,
unemployment, drug addiction, mental 
illness, and illiteracy, are only a few 
of the problems.. that disappear
from public view --- when the 
human beings contending 
with them are relegated 
to cages.”


Huey P. Newton

''The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. 
They occupy them --- by sending soldiers there, by 
sending policeman there. These policemen - or 
soldiers, are only a gun in the establishment's 
hand. They make the racist secure --- in his 
racism. The gun in the establishment's 
hand --- makes the establishment 
secure in its exploitation.''


The Global Times:
 
"History teaches us, that the decline of a
hegemon often begins with its currency." 


Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew: 
 
“For America to be displaced by an Asian people long despised 
and dismissed with contempt as decadent, feeble, corrupt and
inept, is emotionally very difficult to accept. The sense of
cultural supremacy of the Americans, will make this 
adjustment most difficult.”


Doug Rokke, the US Army's health physicist, who oversaw 

a partial clean up of depleted uranium bomb fragments in
Kuwait, is now sick. His body registers 5,000 times the 
level of radiation considered “safe”:
 
“There can be no reasonable doubt about this. As a result 
of the heavy metal and radiological poison of DU, people 
in southern Iraq are experiencing respiratory problems,
kidney problems, and cancers. Members of my own 
team have died, or are dying, from cancer.”


M. K. Bhadrakumar:
 
''The NATO declared last year that seven NATO countries 
contributed  dual-capable aircraft to the nuclear sharing
 mission. These countries are believed to be -- the US, 
Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey and 
Greece. And all --- are signatories to the NPT! 
Welcome to the “rules based order”! What 
is perfectly permissible to the West is 
forbidden for Russia!''


Mark Twain:
 
“Who are the oppressors? The few: the king, the capitalist 
and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. 
Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of 
the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; 
they that make the bread that the soft-handed 
and idle eat.”


Simón Bolívar:
 
''God grants victory to perseverance.''


 M. K. Bhadrakumar:
 
''The crux of the matter is, as with the Cuban missile crisis
of 1962 the Russian decision on tactical nuclear weapons
in Belarus is retaliatory --- drawing attention to the US
missiles stationed close to its borders. (An estimated
100 nuclear weapons, are stored in vaults in five
European countries, 
Belgium, Germany, Italy,
the Netherlands....  and Turkey.)'' 

''Worse still the US practices a controversial arrangement 
known as “nuclear sharing” -- in which it installs nuclear
equipment on fighter jets of ''select'' non-nuclear NATO 
countries --- and trains their pilots to carry out nuclear
strikes with US nuclear bombs.'' 


Daniel Berrigan: 


''Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture 
of good order, the burning of paper, instead 
of children. How many must die before our 
voices are heard, how many must be 
tortured, dislocated, starved, 
maddened? When, at what
 point, will you say no
 to this war?'


'
President Putin:
 
"The Soviet Union once withdrew its troops from Germany - and
ended the de facto occupation of the country. The Americans,
as you know, do not, they continue to occupy Germany. But
the point is that the Europeans, in my opinion, have lost 
the gene of independence, sovereignty, and national 
interest.  The more they are hit on the nose, or on 
the top of the head ----- the lower they bend, and 
smile more broadly. Everything -- in my opinion 
-- will change sometime.. but when it will
happen.. 
it's still difficult to say now.
Sometimes I 
think that whatever
they are told from 
overseas, 
they will do." 


Foreign Affairs Spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova:
 
''Recently, the Verkhovna Rada approved in the first reading, the 
bill: "On Strengthening Democratic Civil Control over the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine". It restricts the ability of military personnel 
to participate in the political life of the country. Clear. The
political life of the Kiev regime, is something sacred and
belongs to those who occupied the offices on Bankova
Street. And those to whom the Kiev regime, together 
with V.A. Zelensky, arranged their fate and form
their reality as cannon fodder, should not care
about any management institutions and the 
implementation of such opportunities. 
They, will be prohibited from such 
options as becoming deputies at
any level -- or of making public 
statements. They, are limited 
in any manifestation of their 
own opinion on domestic 
political issues.'' 


Italy's Defence Minister:
 
“In recent years, 366 Italian military personnel have died, 
and 7,500 have taken sick, with conditions potentially 
linked to depleted uranium, prompting courts in Italy 
to demand compensation, despite denials from 
military officials, that any link existed.”


Chris Hedges:
 
''The pimps of war, leaping from fiasco to fiasco, cling to the
chimera of U.S. global supremacy. The dance macabre will 
not stop until we publicly hold them accountable for their 
crimes, ask those we have wronged for forgiveness and 
give up our lust for uncontested global power. The day 
of reckoning, vital if we are to protect what is left of 
our anemic democracy and curb the appetites of 
the war machine, will only come when we build 
mass anti-war organizations that demand an 
end to the imperial folly threatening to 
extinguish life on the planet.''


Margarita Simonyan:
 
''People who throw bound women into the moat --- after 
shooting them – The Hague has no complaints about 
them. People who bullied our servicemen --- The 
Hague has no complaints against them. People
who shot at houses in Mariupol – The Hague 
has no complaints about them. The Hague 
has no complaints --- about those who 
started all this.. in 2014. There are 
complaints: against Maria Lvova-
Belova, for taking out children 
from orphanages from under 
shelling, evacuating them – 
and now -- The Hague will 
chase after her, for this.'' 


Dmitry Medvedev: 
 
“The behaviour of Washington and others, this year 
- is the last warning to all nations; there can be no 
business with the Anglo-Saxon world: it is a thief, 
a swindler, a card-sharp, that could do anything.”


Ugandan foreign minister, Jeje Odongo, Feb. 28th, 2023:
 
“We were colonized and forgave those who colonized 
us. Now, the colonizers are asking us to be enemies 
of Russia, who never colonized us. Is that fair? Not 
for us. Their enemies are their enemies. Our 
friends are our friends.”


Namibia’s P.M. Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila:
 
“We, are promoting a peaceful resolution of the 
Ukraine conflict -- so that the entire world and 
all the resources of the world can be focused 
on improving the conditions of people around 
the world -- instead of being spent on 
acquiring weapons, killing people,
and actually creating hostilities.”


Edward Young:
 
''A God all mercy, is a God unjust.''


Ms. Alena Douhan, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the 
negative impact of unilateral coercive measures:
 
"Secondary sanctions or threats of secondary 
sanctions and civil and criminal penalties,
are illegal."


Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang: 
 
"The United States talks a lot about following rules. 
But imagine two athletes competing in an Olympic 
race. If one athlete, instead of focusing on giving 
one's best, always tries to trip or even injure the 
other, that is not fair competition, but malicious 
confrontation and a foul!" 


Cong Yi professor of Finance & Economics Tianjin University:
 
"Unlike the West's approach of exploitation, China stresses
cooperation and win-win results. While the US is making 
all kinds of noise.. in the short term, China's mutually 
beneficial and win-win development, is in line with 
the development interests of most countries
and 
therefore, will be welcomed."


Caitlin Johnstone:
 
''They don’t work so hard to manufacture our consent because
it’s fun for them, they work so hard to manufacture 
our consent, because they require our consent. 
So it’s important that we don’t give it to them.
It’s important that we forcefully oppose the 
global conflict the US-centralized empire
is pushing us all towards, and that we 
vocally decry the propaganda that’s 
being used to grease the wheels 
of that depraved agenda.''
 
''Ultimately the powerful have no answer to the problem that 
there are a whole lot more of us than there are of them and 
that there’s really nothing they can do if we decide not to 
be ruled by them anymore.''
 
''Sooner or later, the giant that these monsters have been 
keeping in a propaganda-induced coma, is going to start 
stirring. We’re going to have to wake up sooner or later, 
& because of the stakes involved, it is very important
that we do everything we can, to try and make sure 
that it is sooner.''


Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang on Tuesday: 
 
"If the US does not hit the brake but continues 
to speed down the wrong path, no amount of 
guardrails can prevent derailing, and there 
will surely be conflict and confrontation."


President Kennedy's American University
speech in 1963, ended with these words: 
 
“We must do our part to build a world of peace 
where the weak are safe and the strong are 
just. We are not helpless before that task 
or hopeless for its success. Confident 
and unafraid, we must labour on 
towards a strategy of peace.”


In October 2022 Cambridge University harmonized 
137 countries' surveys on their attitudes towards 
the West and towards Russia and China: 
 
''Of 6.3 billion people who live outside the West, 
66% feel positively towards Russia - and 70% 
feel positively towards China. Of the 66% 
feeling positive about Russia 75% are in 
South Asia, 68% in Francophone Africa,
 62% in S.E. Asia. Opinion of Russia 
remains positive, in Saudi Arabia, 
Malaysia, India, Pakistan 
and Vietnam.'' 


Evan Reif, explaining post-war W. Germany:
 
''The state machinery once called the Greater German 
Reich, had now simply been absorbed into a new 
structure, now called the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO). Now in the position of 
the deputy, Ernst Albrecht took on the 
same role his boss had in the 1940s, 
this time with “blood and soil”
replaced with “European 
values.”


Ernst Albrecht, father of Ursula von 
der Leyen (born Ursula 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.” 


Richard Darré, Ernst Albrecht's Nazi S.S. boss: 
 
“By blitzkrieg -- before autumn -- we shall be the absolute
masters of two continents, a new aristocracy of German
masters will be created…. slaves assigned to it. These 
slaves to be their property and to consist of landless, 
non-German nationals. We actually have in mind, a 
modern form of medieval slavery, which we must 
and will introduce, because we urgently need it -
in order to fulfill our great tasks. These slaves 
will by no means be denied the blessings of 
illiteracy; higher education will, in future, 
be reserved only for the German 
population of Europe.”  


India’s foreign minister, S. Jaishankar: 
 
“Europe has to grow out of the mindset that Europe’s 
problems are the world’s problems, but the world’s
problems are not Europe’s problems.”



Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, Executive Director, Task Force 
on National & Homeland Security. October 31, 2020:
 
''The one mission that makes the most sense for Poseidon,
not mentioned by Russia, is trailing and destroying at-sea
SSBNs. Nuclear-powered Poseidon -- could tail SSBNs for
months or years - waiting outside ports for their target to
resume patrols. Artificially intelligent Poseidon, could be
programmed - to recognize the acoustic signature of its 
target submarine, & detonate on command. The lethal 
radius of a 100-megaton warhead against submarines 
--- is over 100 kilometres. Russia plans to deploy 32 
Poseidons. Perhaps not coincidentally -- enough to 
assign two Poseidons to tail each of 12 Columbia 
SSBNs and 8 Poseidons to target the 8 SSBNs of
allies Britain and France."


Robert Freeman:
 
''Last year, the ruble reached its highest exchange rate
in history. Russia’s 2022 trade surplus of $227 billion, 
was up 86 percent from 2021. The U.S.’ trade deficit
over the same period, rose 12.2 percent, and is
 approaching $1 trillion.''



Uriel Araujo, researcher, on Nord Stream:
 
''In Germany - right now - only Die Linke has supported 
AfD calls for an investigation.. but more voices within 
the German broader political spectrum are expected
 to join them.''


President Xi Jinping, in June 2022:
 
“As important emerging markets --- and major developing
countries, the BRICS nations should take responsibility 
and take action --- to bring positive, stabilizing and 
constructive forces to the world. It is necessary 
to uphold justice, equality and solidarity and
reject hegemony, bullying and division.” 


John Jay Chapman:  
 
''There are lots of people who cannot think 
deeply ------ without damaging their minds.'


Cymraeg {Welsh} actor, Richard Burton: 
 
It made me feel, what strong, what 
wonderful people, do I come from,
that they helped to give me my 
form, my strength”.


Pepe Escobar:
 
''...were Tehran to play hardball, the US Navy or military 
could never keep the Strait of Hormuz open – by the 
admission of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Oil prices
in this case, would rise to possibly thousands of 
dollars a barrel, according to Goldman Sachs 
oil derivative experts – and that would 
crash the entire world economy.''


Feofan, priest tortured in Ukrainian captivity: 
 
“I am confident - that Russia is in the process of 
writing a new chronicle of its greatness, in the 
best sense of the word. The fate of the world 
is being decided in Donbass --- right now. 
We all realized that, in 2014, but we 
understand it even more clearly, 
right now.”


Chunga: 

''The USA is basically a fiat printing 
press - masquerading as a country.''


Tsar Nicholas II:
 
''Tell everyone that the evil that is in the world 
will grow even stronger, but that it is not evil 
that will triumph, but love.''


William Schryver:
 
''The US empire’s most acute concern in recent years
had been the discernible advance of Russo-German 
reconciliation and economic collaboration. Going 
back over a century, this prospect... has always 
been understood as the single greatest threat 
to Anglo-American dominance of the western 
world, and hence a development that must 
be arrested before it can ever 
gain momentum.''


William Schryver:
 
''The [US] imperial masters do not hold genuine aspirations 
to spread righteousness and prosperity around the world. 
As with all declining empires that preceded this one, 
the imperial elite aspire to dominion as an end per 
se. It is the self-satisfaction of unquestioned 
primacy, that is the ultimate wellspring of
all their actions - at least insofar as the 
apparatus of tribute and plunder 
remains adequately intact.
 
''Therefore, in the context of a “collective security
architecture” in Europe, it is not the alleged
threat of despotic Russian expansionism 
that has motivated imperial actions, but 
rather.. the thought that the Europeans 
themselves would agree to a mutually 
satisfactory multilateral security 
arrangement -- and then firmly
request..  that the Americans
finally take all their military
toys and go home.
 
''Concerningly, it has become increasingly evident that 
the empire would rather rule over the ashes and 
rubble of Europe than permit its constituent 
nations to reclaim their sovereignty on 
their own terms, and by their 
own volition.''


Blogger:
 
''When I was a kid in High School, there was one big 
guy who was bullying his classmates.. a different 
one everyday, slapping them for no reason, etc..  
One day - one did not want to take it anymore &
jumped to his neck choking him; both fell to the 
ground but he kept the choking. Then all of the 
classmates jumped in and started beating and 
kicking the bullying guy and nearly killed him.
He never returned ------ dropped out of school.
That, is what the world needs to do with the 
US. The world is sick of these US criminals.
The US ---- has no interest in cooperation,
working 
together etc, in their delusion,
they think they 
are entitled to subdue
the world ------- 
and rule the planet.''


Charles Mackay:
 
What might be done if men were wise —
What glorious deeds, my suffering brother,
Would they unite,
In love and right,
And cease their scorn of one another?
 
Oppression's heart might be imbued
With kindling drops of loving-kindness,
And knowledge pour,
From shore to shore,
Light on the eyes of mental blindness.
 
All slavery, warfare, lies, and wrongs,
All vice and crime might die together;
And wine and corn,
To each man born,
Be free as warmth in summer weather.
 
The meanest wretch that ever trod,
The deepest sunk in guilt and sorrow,
Might stand erect
In self-respect,
And share the teeming world to-morrow.
 
What might be done? This might be done,
And more than this, my suffering brother —
More than the tongue
Ever said or sung,
If men were wise and loved each other.


Serbia's Colonel General Ratko Mladic:
 
''I think it is time for all peace-loving people 
of this world, to start pondering where all
this leads. I think it's high time that the 
weapons in this part of the world, 
and all over the world, were 
silenced.''


George Washington:
 
''My first wish, is to see this plague 
of mankind, war, banished from
 the earth.''


August Strindberg:
 
“There are poisons that blind you, 
and poisons that open your eyes.”


Jon Cruddas, MP for Dagenham and Rainham:
 
''We bet the ranch on the private oligopoly of house 
builders, but it’s in their interests to bank land and 
ration housing, so that house prices continue to 
rocket. So you have a structural undersupply, 
at the same time as we live longer and 
decouple earlier.''


Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:
 
''I slept and dreamt that life was joy. 
I awoke and saw that life was service.
 I acted and behold, service was joy.''


Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
 
''We demand respect for the territorial integrity and the national
independence of the rare African states... or states of African 
origin, which still possess their autonomy. Abyssinia, Liberia, 
Haiti and St. Domingo, are striking proofs of the organizing 
and political genius of Negroes, notwithstanding their
 persistant sabotage by nations eager for conquest.''


Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
 
''It is sufficient to say that even today, in the Colonies, there 
are Administrators who insert like suppositories, cartridges 
of dynamite in the natives, and order them to run; then 
suddenly the dynamite explodes -- and the natives are 
blown to pieces. This happens in the French colonies!''



Douglas Macgregor: 
 
''Russia is forcing Ukraine.. to 
stare annihilation in the face.''


Dmitry Medvedev:
 
“Soon, the Kyiv regime 
will have no sea at all.”  



US president, John Tyler:
 
''I should be pleased to see all the nations 
on the earth, prosperous and happy and 
rich, for it would furnish to me the best 
evidence of the prosperity of my 
native land.''


Harold Wilson:
 
''There is no future for Britain in a Little England 
philosophy. There is no future either, for 
anyone, in a Little Europe philosophy.''


G.K. Chesterton: 
 
“When the Founding Fathers talked about democracy
they did indeed mean, doubtless, the government of
the people, by the people, for the people. But they
meant the government of the people they knew, 
by the people they knew, for the people 
they knew.”


Zbigniew Brzezinski warned the USUK: 
 
“Potentially the most dangerous scenario would be 
a grand coalition between Russia, China and Iran.”


Former Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski:
 
"Corruption and megalomania, have
brought Ukraine to its current state." 
 
 
Evo Morales:
 
“Superiority, is so important to them - the ability to 
dominate. It’s reprehensible that they don’t have 
a principle of humanity, of brotherhood. They 
are, instead, slaves to the policies of how 
to dominate.”


Batiushka:
 
''At present.... the Ukraine is surrounded by nearly 700,000
Russian troops. As they are not taking part in the fighting 
in Bakhmut or anywhere else, it is assumed that they are
being held back -----  to form a future Army of Occupation 
after Bakhmut. They will restore freedom and normal life 
to every Ukrainian who wants to get rid of their Western
-enforced isolation.... and join a Free Ukraine allied with 
the Russian Federation and Belarus and the Free World 
of international organisations ---- like the EEU (the 
Eurasian Economic Union), BRICS, and the SCO. 
They all represent the seven billion ---- the 88% 
of the world who constitute the Global North, 
the Global South and the Global East. The 
million or two isolationists who do not 
want this, will flee across the Polish 
border ------ together with Zelensky 
and his corrupt clique ------ if they 
are still alive by then.''


Ukrainian writer Larisa Nitsoi tweets ------- Russia 
supporters must wear a red star on their clothes:
 
"...this is not segregation, we're not fascist Germany,
people just need to understand who is around them."


Mike Whitney:
 
"The plan to engage Russia militarily is a tacit 
admission: that the United States can no 
longer maintain its global dominance 
through economic or political 
means alone."



The new Czech President, General 
Pavel's, election campaign slogan: 
 
"It's time to use the big guns."


Humpty Dumpty: 
 
“When I use a word... it means just what I
choose it to mean, neither more nor less."


Mr Volodin, Speaker of the Duma:
 
"If Washington and the NATO countries supply 
weapons that will be used to strike civilian 
cities and attempt to seize our territories 
- as they threaten - this will lead to 
retaliatory measures -- using 
more powerful weapons."

 
Oleg Nesterenko:
 
''Since 2014, the beginning of the conflict provoked by
the US in Ukraine, through a coup d’état --- Russia has
got rid of almost all US debt. Whereas in 2010, Russia 
was one of the top 10 holders of U.S. Treasury bonds,
with over $176 billion, in 2015, it held only about $90 
billion, meaning that the total mass of these assets 
had almost halved, in 5 years. Today, Russia holds 
only about two billion in U.S. debt, an extremely
insignificant amount, comparable to the 
mathematical error of the global 
Treasury bond market.''


Maria Zakharova: 
 
''You in the West have long since lost any notion of true values 
based on love. It is impossible to believe, that the West is now
supplying German tanks - to where they have already brought 
so much trouble & suffering, killing tens of millions of people.
Like imagining - that you know what love, 
compassion, 
honour, conscience are, after all.''


Zakharova's visceral excoriation of Scholz:
 
''Perhaps the only thing more concerning and disgusting, 
than Germany sending its tanks to fight against Russia,
is the almost total lack of discussion within its media 
and political class --- their utter disregard for how 
Russia will perceive it, and - most of all - the 
total fecklessness and subordination of 
the German people, judging by the 
public's lack of reaction.''



India's Mahabharata: 
 
Q: “is it permitted to wage war against one’s brothers?” 
A: “It is permitted, but only if there is sorrow in your 
heart.”


US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 29/4/1938:

 "The first truth -- is that the liberty of a democracy is not
safe 
if the people tolerate the growth of private power
-- to a point 
where it becomes stronger... than their
democratic state itself. 
That, in its essence, is
Fascism: the ownership of Government 
by 
an individual, by a group.... or by any
other controlling 
private power.

The second truth -- is that the liberty 
of a democracy 
isn't safe -- if its business system doesn't provide
employment and
 produce amd distribute goods
in such a way... as to sustain 
an acceptable
standard of living." 


Former US President Donald Trump, to Biden:
 
“First come the tanks --- then come the nukes. 
Get this crazy war ended, now. So easy to do.”


Scott Ritter: 
 
''NATO is a Suicide Pill for the World.
Pray that Russia Wins.''


 
Serbian President Vucic on West's current agenda:
 
"What worries me is that there is no longer a rational 
approach to solving problems. I saw this at the 
meeting with the Big Five. No matter what 
I said - and no matter what facts I gave -
no one wanted to listen to me. Reason 
no longer plays any role. They have 
their own agenda, and that is the 
defeat of Russia, and along the
way, anyone who gets in their
way......  will be mopped up."


Calgacus, in AD 84:
 
''Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder 
exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy is
rich, they are rapacious; if he is poor, they lust for 
control; neither the east nor the west has been 
able to satisfy them. Alone among men they 
covet with equal eagerness poverty and 
riches. To robbery, slaughter and 
plunder, they give the lying 
name of empire; they 
create a wilderness 
and call it peace.''


Bundestag (AfD) deputy Petr Bystron:

“You are bringing German tanks against Russia in Ukraine.
Your grandfathers already tried to do this then with the
Melniks and Banderas, as they do - again - now. And 
what is the result? Result, Russian tanks, are here 
in Berlin. And you pass by two of them every day 
on your way here. The Russians have over 
10,000 tanks and can mobilize 2 million 
men. Two hundred of our tanks are of 
no importance. This conflict cannot 
be won militarily."


Ursula von der Leyen: 
 
"When my own children join the armed forces, 
and it will be necessary to deploy them, then
I will indeed be afraid like any other mother."
 
Interviewer: "Is one of your 7
children in the armed forces?"
 
Ursula von der Leyen: "No, 
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA."


Giuseppe Biden: 
 
“18 FBI agents have verified - that Hunter
Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation!”



Alexander Solzhenitsyn:
 
"We know... they are lying.
They know they are lying.
They know that we know 
they are lying. We know 
that they know that we
Know they are lying.
And still...... they 
continue to lie."


Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine's Ambassador to the UK:
 
"Most of the weapons supplied to the Ukrainian Armed
Forces from Western countries are outdated, they just
expired. If you want to dispose of it ------- give it to us."


Oleg Nesterenko:
 
''Given the fact that -- despite the pressure of
unprecedented Western sanctions Russia 
continues to maintain both healthy state 
finances, an insignificant public debt, a
trade surplus, and no budget deficit --
the confrontation in Ukraine, cannot 
but be won by Russia --- in one form
or another. The irreversibility of the 
process --- makes it inadvisable to 
'substantially' revise US strategy
toward Ukraine, which could be 
reflected in an additional signif-
icant increase in quantitative 
and qualitative... military and 
financial support, especially
since such an initiative...... 
proportionally increases 
the risks ------ of nuclear 
strikes on US territory.''


Condoleezza Rice, then US secretary 
of state ----- in her 2014 TV interview:
 
“In the long term.. we just want to change the
structure of [the EU’s] energy dependence. 
Make it more dependent on the North 
American energy platform, on the 
excellent abundance of oil and
gas found in North America.”



Hugo Dionísio:
 
''The total submission of the G7 countries and the EU
to the dictates of NATO, an organization created to
groom them, which today is confused with the EU 
itself; the blind application of all economic and
financial sanctions and guidelines; the lack of
protection mechanisms for the respective 
internal markets… All this has the effect 
that we are witnessing, which had been 
foreseen by so many silenced people - 
throughout this time. How they must
hate to be right.''


Michael Hudson:
 
''United States Treasury officials have told me that 
all they need to do is give little white envelopes 
filled with dollar bills and they’ve been able to 
control European politics.''


Charles Higham - a half-Jewish Briton 
whose family perished in Nazi camps: 
 
''....the US government could do nothing about the
collaborative ventures - including strategic ones - 
of US conglomerates, with Nazi Germany, during
the war. The only person to protest to Roosevelt 
about these practices.. was the Supreme Court 
Justice, Felix Frankfurter. Roosevelt... told him 
that - if he took prohibitive measures --- there 
was the expressed risk --- that Big Business 
would retaliate by stopping war production 
and that he, Roosevelt, could do nothing 
about it. Roosevelt suggested, that too 
many US political leaders were bound 
or held by Big Business, to hope for a
successful mobilisation of coercion. 
This marks the pathetic limits of the
true extent of US political power in 
relation to other dominant forces."


Posted by OohCanada on Moon of Alabama:
 
''2 weeks ago, the west announced Ukraine's new
package of weapons and the Russians stated the
western supply routes will be targeted ---- (west 
Ukraine got smashed) ---- This time, they were 
targeted with missles... that Nato didn't even
detect & instantly everyone walked it back.
 
''They look like fools and will either need to send those
 goods or just get it over with and fold. The Russians
 pointed to Ukraine's obsolete air defense as a huge
 weakness (they mean Nato's current systems
that
 Ukraine uses).
 
''The realization that they can bomb people in bed
 without a warning must have a few money men
 in the west stressed right out.''


Lula da Silva:
 
“We need to rescue the model of state institutions, 
public banks, and state-owned companies in the 
development of this country. Brazil is too big, to
renounce its productive potential.  It makes no 
sense to import fuels, fertilizers, oil platforms, 
aircraft and satellites. We have sufficient 
technical capacity and market, to 
resume industrialisation.”


 
Oleg Nesterenko:
 
''Only an extremely aggressive U.S. foreign policy,
backed by world military & monetary domination 
allows the US to occupy its current position. Any 
other state which had committed even a fraction 
of [its] crimes would be classified by the “inter-
national community” gathered around the US, 
as a criminal, pariah state and would be 
subject to a “legal” embargo more 
serious than that of North 
Korea, Iran and Cuba.. 
combined.''


Lugansk republic’s acting head, Pasechnik:
 
"The situation at the front, is complicated by the 
fact that - today - we are fighting not only with
the Ukrainian army: there are many foreign 
mercenaries and instructors, in the 
ranks of the enemy. We know that 
thousands of mercenaries, from 
more than fifty countries, are 
fighting in the ranks of the 
Ukrainian Nazis, mainly 
from Eastern Europe."


Patrushev:
 
''We are not at war with Ukraine, because by definition, we
cannot have hatred for ordinary Ukrainians. Ukrainian
traditions, are close to the people of 
Russia, just as
the heritage of the Russian 
people.. is inseparable
from the culture of 
Ukrainians. And...  the sooner
the citizens 
of Ukraine realize - that the West is 
fighting Russia with their hands, the more lives
will be saved. Many people 
have long realized
this ------- but they are 
afraid to declare it, for
fear of reprisals. 
The West does not plan to
save any
one's life --- at the expense of its
own 
enrichment -- and other ambitions.''


Patrushev:
 
''That sudden withdrawal of the Americans from
[Afghanistan] as it turned out, was largely due 
to focusing on Ukraine, where -- according to 
their estimates -- the preparation of the Kiev 
puppet regime.. for offensive anti-Russian 
actions, was going well. By the way, this 
was confirmed by US Secretary of State 
Blinken, who said that if the US military 
had not left Afghanistan --- Washington 
would not have been able to allocate 
so much money to Ukraine.''



Former US Senator Richard Blake:
 
“We don’t care how many Ukrainians will die. How
many women, children, civilians and military. We 
don’t care. Ukraine cannot take the peace 
decision. The peace decision can only be 
taken in Washington. But, for now, we 
want to continue this war --- we will 
fight --- to the last Ukrainian.”  


Jason Michael McCann:
 
''What journalists in the western media... in the US and
Europe didn't realise.. between 2014 and the Russian
invasion, was that these Ukrainian Nazis, both in the
US and in the Nazi battalions of the Ukrainian army, 
are important C.I.A. assets. As ideological fighters 
they are committed to their hatred of Russia. The 
US State Department, trusts them more than any 
other political group or faction in Ukraine.These 
are the people that the US government has been
working with funding & training for almost eight 
decades. In the US’ global fight against Russia,
these Nazis have to be protected at all costs -- 
they are essential to the US plan in Ukraine.''


 saying in the US in the 1960's:
 
"War is good for business, invest your son."
 
saying in the US in the 2020's:
 
''War is good for business, invest 
your overweight, gender-fluid, 
adopted, educationally 
challenged, halfwit.''


A Russian Officer's wife speaks at a mourning rally
dedicated to Russian fighters killed in Makeyevka:
 
''The whole West is rallying to destroy us - us and our
children - but I assure you, our husbands and sons 
will not allow it... for the inconsolable widows, 
for the orphans. We will not forgive, and 
victory will definitely be ours.''



Rob Endert:
 
''If Bakhmut is the central logistic hub for the last
 defensive belt, then...  by putting Bakhmut in a 
difficult position prevents it from playing this
 vital logistic role. The current situation is 
already a Russian strategic success, 
even before Bakhmut has fallen.''


Pierre de Gaulle, Grandson of President de Gaulle: 
 
''I think that public opinion in France is beginning 
to understand what the malicious game of the
Americans is today. Using lies primarily when
communicating with allies within NATO -- the 
United States managed to use the Ukrainian 
crisis to destabilize Europe.''


R. Buckminster Fuller:
 
''Sadly we see enormous numbers of stranded poverty
stricken people, while potential abundance, is being
deliberately curtailed by governments subservient 
to the landlord’s will. Humanity is so accustomed 
to failure it still assumes failure to be normal and 
does not realize that it has literally earned – and
actually acquired - the capability to take care of
everyone on earth at a higher standard of living 
than ever - heretofore - experienced by anyone.
The really big fact is that we are going to have 
to go through, a complete mental resorting of 
what its all about. Then we are going to have 
to go about taking care of everybody, not as 
''on relief'' but with the same spontaneous 
welcome and love..... accorded a new-
born baby. Landlordism will no longer 
be able to extract a ransom. Money 
too, will become obsolete, with the 
ability to produce enough - to take 
care of all. The fact, that we now 
have the capability to support all 
life, and are not doing so, means 
we have to introduce... a new 
system. One that can make 
the world work.''


Dmitry Medvedev on May 11th, 2022:
 
''The US House of Representatives has approved a $40
billion aid package for Ukraine. Biden asked for less,
but - from the bounty - they threw in a couple more
billion. The money is huge and there will be a lot 
of hunters to share it, in the American military-
industrial complex. Not to mention, the banal 
thieves on both sides of the ocean. It is quite 
obvious that “aid” on such an unprecedented 
scale isn't at all explained by love for Ukraine
--- and not even support for its own economy.
Its 
goal.. is to continue a proxy war against 
Russia, the desire to inflict a heavy defeat 
on our country ---- to limit its economic 
development and political influence 
in the world.  It will not work.  Their 
printing press, due to which, the US
is constantly increasing its already 
inflated national debt --- will break 
faster. Not to mention.. the insane 
prices.. for gasoline and food, for 
the growth of which, Americans 
should thank their Russophobic 
authorities. But the goals of
the 
special operation...
will be achieved.''


Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov:
 
''If you cannot sleep because of the Russian-Ukrainian
conflict, here are pieces of advice, to calm yourself.
Firstly, imagine this is happening in Africa. Imagine
it's happening in the Middle East. Imagine Ukraine 
as Palestine. Imagine Russia is the United States.''


Karl Marx from ‘Capital: A Critique 
of Political Economy, Volume I’: 
 
''The discovery of gold and silver in America, the
expiration, enslavement and entombment in 
mines, of the indigenous population of that 
continent, the beginnings of the conquest 
and plunder of India, and the conversion 
of Africa, into a preserve for the 
commercial hunting of black
skins.. are all things which 
characterize the dawn of 
the era of capitalist 
production.'' 
 
''These idyllic proceedings, are the chief moments 
of primitive accumulation. The different moments 
of primitive accumulation -- can be assigned in 
particular to Spain, Portugal, Holland, France, 
and England, in more or less chronological 
order. These moments are systematically
combined together ...at the end of the 
seventeenth century in England;- the 
combination embraces the colonies, 
the national debt....  the modern tax 
system --------------- and the system of 
protection. These methods depend
in part on brute force, for example, 
the colonial system. But, they all 
employ the power of the state --- 
the concentrated and organised 
force of society, to hasten, hot-
house fashion, the process of 
transformation of the feudal 
mode of production into the 
capitalist mode ---- and to 
shorten the transition.'' 


 President Putin:  ''The situation in the world is changing dynamically  and the outlines of a multipolar world order --- are  takingshape. An increasing number of countries  and peoples are choosing a path of free and  sovereign development based on thei


Chinese Foreign Ministry:
 
''85 percent of the world's population 
- has not imposed sanctions against 
Russia: only the majority represent
the international community." 

 
President Putin:
 
''The situation in the world is changing dynamically, 
and the outlines of a multipolar world order --- are 
taking shape. An increasing number of countries 
and peoples - are choosing a path of free and 
sovereign development based on their own 
distinct identity, traditions and values.''
 
''These objective processes... are being opposed by the
Western globalist elites, who provoke chaos, fanning
long-standing & new conflicts, and pursuing the so-
called containment policy, which, in fact, amounts 
to the subversion.. of any alternative, sovereign 
development options. Thus -- they are doing all 
they can, to keep hold onto the hegemony and 
power that are slipping from their hands; they 
are attempting to retain countries & peoples 
in a grip of what is essentially a neocolonial 
order. Their hegemony.. means stagnation
for 
the rest of the world & for the entire 
civilisation; it means obscurantism, 
the cancellation of culture, and 
neoliberal totalitarianism.''



Timothy Leary (1920-1996):
 
"Almost everyone today is brain-damaged 
by our education, which is designed to 
produce docile automatons."



General Sherman, told his wife his purpose: 
 
''Extermination --- not of soldiers alone, that is 
the least part of the trouble --- but the people.''



Historian Lee Kennett, in 
his biography of Sherman:
 
“Had the Confederates somehow won, had their 
victory put them in position to bring their chief 
opponents before some sort of tribunal, they 
would have found themselves justified in 
stringing up President Lincoln and the 
entire Union high command --- for 
violation of the laws of war --- 
specifically, for waging war 
against noncombatants.”



Jeremy Kuzmarov:
 
“Former Bolivian President Evo Morales calls
for a global campaign --- to eliminate NATO.”



 Evo Morales:
 
“Julian Assange's detention --- represents an escalation, 
an intimidation: so that all the crimes against humanity
committed by the different governments of the United
States --- are never revealed. So many interventions,
so 
many invasions, so much looting.”



Milagros Pichardo Pérez: 

''Even the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López
Obrador, directly asked his counterpart, Joe Biden, 
to release the founder of the WikiLeaks portal, to 
whom he "opens the doors of his country," and 
described him as "the best journalist of our 
time." He also considered, that the 
treatment he has received, only 
"for denouncing human rights 
violations", is worse than 
that of a criminal.''
 


The UN special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, 
says Assange has suffered psychological torture: 
 
"How far have we sunk?" 



Robert Penn Warren wrote in his 1960 book:
 
“The Northerner, with his Treasury of Virtue, caused 
by his victory in the Civil War, feels as though he has 
an indulgence; a plenary indulgence, for all sins past
present & future. This indulgence is the justification 
for our crusades of 1917-1918 and 1941-1945, and 
our diplomacy of righteousness, with the slogan 
of unconditional surrender and universal 
rehabilitation --- for others.
 


 Thomas DiLorenzo:
 
''Lincoln’s war destroyed the voluntary union of 
the founding fathers and replaced it with an 
involuntary union held together by threat 
of invasion, bloodshed, conquest, 
and subjugation.''



Evo Morales:
 
“They think that some countries are the property 
of other nations. They think God put them there, 
so the world belongs to the U.S. and the UK. 
That’s why the rebellions and the 
uprisings will continue.”



Evo Morales:
 
“In politics we must ask ourselves: Are we with the
people or are we with the empire? If we are with
the people, we make a country; if we are with 
the empire, we make money. If we are with 
the people, we fight for life, for humanity; 
if we are with the empire, we are with 
the politics of death, the culture of 
death, interventions and pillaging 
of the people. That is what we 
ask ourselves as humans, 
as leaders: ‘Are we 
at the service of 
our people?’”




Yves Smith of 'Naked Capitalism':
 
“Despite the aggressive Western sanctions…....  Russia
has been very restrained, as far as counter-measures
are concerned. So, after loudly saying that the EU
wants nothing to do with Russian energy, or 
Russian pipelines... the EU should hardly 
be upset, if Russia is tired of laboring 
not to give them what they asked
for, an economic divorce. The 
problem is, Europe is now 
upset, that it’s getting 
what it acted like
it wanted.”



Catherine the Great, of Russia:
 
''A man ought to form, in his own mind, an exact
and clear Idea of what liberty is. Liberty is the
right --- of doing whatsoever the laws allow: 
and if any one citizen could do what the
l
aws forbid --- there would be no more 
liberty; because others would have 
an equal power of doing
the same.''  



Ian Rankin OBE DL FRSE FRSL:
 
''I would have loved to have been a 
rock n' roll star. But none of us
was 
musical, and none of us
had any 
instruments.''


 
Jim Rickards:
 
“The economies of the US and the EU are in, or very
near to, recession. Inflation is out of control in the
West and commodity shortages will lead quickly 
to food shortages and more empty shelves in
supermarkets… as economic sanctions 
have backfired - with protests turning 
up at all spots in the global supply 
chain - including railways, 
trucking, warehouses, 
and ports…”


US Senator Lindsey Graham: 
 
"I like the path we are on. As long as we
help Ukraine with the weapons it needs 
and economic support, it will fight to 
the last man."
 

Jim Rickards:
 
“Almost everything you heard ---- about the 
war in Ukraine from US media.. was a lie.”


 Ex President of Ukraine Poroshenko 
who signed the Minsk Agreements:
 
“When I was signing it, I never intended to implement
it. We just needed more time - to get more weapons
from the West - in order to enable us to resolve the
problem of the Ukrainian East by the use of force.”


Martin Jay: 
 
"The once-golden relationship between the US 
and the EU is also coming to an end. A game 
of accusations will begin ---- which will be 
carefully developed over several weeks
in the media. The West needs to get 
out of the conflict in Ukraine and 
it needs a good reason to 
turn around."
 
 
What kids in the late 1940s used 
to sing, on the May day marches:
 
''Go home yankee, yankee go home!
We don’t want you anymore.
For the way of life you sell
Doesn’t suit us very well
And it wasn’t Errol Flynn 
that won the war!''



Rachel Marsden: 
 
“The conflict in Ukraine, risks creating the ultimate
nightmare for Western elites: an alternative group 
of allies, over which the West has no control, but 
with the capacity to offer opportunities that are
competitive with what their own governments 
or countries are offering… Western elites are 
doubling down in Ukraine to save the world 
order --- that protects their own selfish 
interests --- thinking that it’s the way 
to prevent... a parallel option from 
emerging. It’s as simple as that.
And they don’t care, if it’s the 
average citizen who has to 
pay the price”.



Camilo José Cela:
 
''There are two kinds of man: 
the ones who make history - 
and the ones who endure it.''



Dmitry Medvedev:
 
“Washington - in tandem with London - conned the
Europeans like a couple of shell-game tricksters.” 



Sergey Lavrov: 
 
“The European economy is impacted -- more than
anything else. The stats show that 40 percent 
of the damage caused by sanctions is borne 
by the EU --- whereas the damage to the 
United States is less than 1 percent.”



Kusumagraj:
 
"My love is deep and wide like that of the sky. 
My only morality is to fight slavery.
 I do not care for the restrictions of caste or creed.
 I only know humanity and its service"

 
 
 Richard Price:
 
''Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world! Take warning,
all ye supporters of 
slavish governments, and slavish 
hierarchies! Call no more (absurdly and wickedly) 
reformation, innovation. You cannot now hold 
the world in darkness. Restore to mankind..
their rights; 
and consent to the correction
of abuses, 
before they and you are
destroyed 
together.“ 



Thomas Carlyle:
 
“Make yourself an honest man, and then 
you may be sure that there is one less 
scoundrel in the world.”



Eric Zuesse, on post-soviet US aims:
 
''President GHW Bush, secretly informed America’s
allies, starting on February 24th in 1990, “To hell 
with that! We prevailed, they didn’t” ie, “they still 
need to be totally and humiliatingly defeated 
by us; they need to be conquered.” This --- 
is the reality. No myth. America’s foreign 
policies are laser-focused on crippling if 
not destroying, all possible competitors.
Especially, all nations in Europe need 
to know this, and to reverse course 
because of it. Because --- if they 
don’t, then Europe’s economies 
will be crushed this coming 
winter, in order to keep up 
the US Government’s lies. 
It is.. their choice. Either 
continuing as American 
vassal-nations, or else, 
making a fundamental 
turn, toward freedom 
and justice.''
 


 
Martin Armstrong: 
 
“There is no way they can get out of this, other than
by default. If they default, they are worried about 
millions of people -- storming the parliaments of
Europe. This is really a tremendous financial 
crisis that we are facing. They have been 
borrowing year after year, since WWII ---
with zero intention of paying 
anything back.”




 
Angelo Giliano, Financial & Political Analyst:
 
''What the collective West needs to take into account
  now is ---- that they are not alone. They need to stop 
their imperialist way of approaching how they see 
the world. They tend to say the global world, but 
when they say the global world, they only mean 
maybe 15% of the population. But the problem 
now is, that they don't have the weight they 
used to have and they need to take into 
account that you have an emergent 
world and they are - we are - 
living in the last days of 
the imperialistic West.''



Cynthia Chung:
 
''Russia’s proclaimed support... in its letters to Lincoln,
would be put to the test - during the 
summer of 1863.
By then the South’s invasion 
of the North had failed
at Gettysburg and the 
violent anti-war New York
 draft riots also 
failed, and Britain - as a result -
was thinking 
of a direct military intervention
--- with the 
backing of France.

''What would follow, 
marks one of the greatest displays
of 
support for another country’s sovereignty, to
ever occur in modern history. The Russian
Navy arrived on both the 
east and west
coastlines of the US in 
late September
and early October, in 1863. 

''The timing was highly coordinated.... due to intelligence
reports of when 
Britain and France were intending their 
military action. The Russian navy would stay along the
US coastline... 
in support of the Union, for 7 months! 
They never intervened in the American civil war but
rather.....  remained in 
its waters, at the behest of
Lincoln in 
case of a foreign power’s interference.

''If Russia had not done this, Britain and France would
most certainly, have 
intervened on the Confederate 
states behalf -- as they made clear they would and
the US 
-- would have most certainly broken in two.
At that point i
t was Russia’s direct naval support
that allowed the 
US to remain whole.''



US ''Defense'' Secretary, Lloyd Austin:
 
“The range of HIMARS, our GMLRS round, is 80 
kilometres and so that’s pretty good reach. It 
has allowed and will continue to allow, to get 
after those longer-range targets that they’ve
been unable to reach.”



Michael Hudson:
 
The philosophy of the IMF ever since world war II is
when third world countries can’t pay the debt, the 
IMF comes in with an austerity program and says 
you have to lower wages -- you have to break up 
labour unions, if necessary you have to have a
democracy, and you can’t have a democracy 
unless you’re willing to assassinate and 
arrest the labour leaders and the 
advocates of land redistribution 
...because a democracy means 
basically, rule by the financial
sector centred in the US. So.. 
finance capitalism ever since 
WWI and especially WWII and 
especially since 1980, is the 
nationalistic doctrine of US
banks and the US 1%, and 
the US financial sector ----
that's sort of merged into 
a symbiotic unit with the 
finance, insurance and 
real estate.''
 
''In other words, finance capitalism instead of trying 
to promote overall economic growth for the 99%,
instead of financing the industrialization of an
economy, with rising productivity and rising 
living standards, is now cannibalizing the 
industrial sector, and cannibalizing the 
corporate sector. As you’re seeing 
in the U.S., finance capitalism 
is the economic doctrine of 
deindustrialization... that 
has occurred in the US,
in England, and is now 
occurring in Europe.''




Michael Hudson:
 
''You need a strong enough government to check the
 power of an oligarchy and to prevent a creditor 
landowner oligarchy from developing. And 
libertarians... while pretending to be for 
liberty, they’re for a centrally planned 
economy --- but a centrally planned 
economy by the oligarchy, by the 
financial sector, and by the real 
estate owners. So every 
economy is planned. 
And the question is, 
who’s going to do
 the planning?''



Daniel Ortega, Sandinista:
 
''We are a poor country that wants to take the efforts
and resources.... now being invested in defense of 
the revolution and invest it in tractors and plows.
Imperialism cannot conceive of a free people, 
a sovereign people, an independent people. 
Because, simply and plainly, for them,
the 
people is nothing more than
an 
empty phrase.''
 



Michael Hudson:
 
''What you call the bad guys.. always call themselves
the good guys. What you call evil, calls itself good. 
So the question is, what kind of good guys you’re
going to have? The good guys that want to blow
up the world and impoverish society, which is 
what neoliberalism says are the good guys, 
or the good guys for the 99%, which 
America says are autocracies,
that we have to fight?''



Femi Akomolafe:
 
''Why are Westerners so dumb, that they 
cannot ask where their leaders... who 
can’t find the money to repair their 
shattered economies, suddenly 
find the money to provide 
weapons to Nazis,
in Ukraine?''



Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov: 
 
“Our special military operation -- is meant to put an end
to the unabashed expansion
and the unabashed drive
towards 
full domination - by the US and its Western 
subjects on the world stage. This domination... is
built on gross 
violations of international law and
under some rules 
which they are now hyping
so much, 
and which they make up on a
case-by-case basis.”
 
 

Frantz Fanon: 
 
“When I search for Man in the technique and 
the style of Europe, I see only a succession 
of negations of man --- and an avalanche of 
murders. Leave this Europe where they are 
never done talking of Man, yet murder men
everywhere they find them, at the corner 
of every one of their own streets... in all 
the corners of the globe. For centuries 
they have stifled almost the whole of 
humanity in the name of a so-called 
spiritual experience. Look at them 
today, swaying between atomic 
and spiritual disintegration.”
 
 

June the 9th, in 1537, Pope 
Paul III's Bull Sublimis Deus:
 
''We...  who, although indignant, exercise the power of 
Our Lord on earth -- and fight by all means -- to bring 
the lost herd to the fold that has been entrusted to 
us nevertheless consider that the Indians are true
men and, that they are not only capable of under-
standing the Catholic faith, but, according to our 
information ...notwithstanding what has been 
said, or is said to the contrary, such Indians 
and all those who are later discovered by 
the Christians, may not be deprived of 
their LIBERTY BY ANY MEANS, nor of 
their properties, even if they are not 
in the faith of Jesus Christ; and of 
their properties and they will not 
be slaves, and everything that 
is done will be null and void.''




Hungary’s PM Viktor Orban 
on anti-Russian sanctions:
 
“Initially, I thought we had only shot ourselves in
the foot, but now it is clear, that the European
economy has shot itself in the lungs and it
is gasping for air. What we see right now,
is unbearable.” 



Ben Okri:
 
 "We have to find a new art and a new 
psychology, to penetrate the apathy 
and denial that are preventing us 
making the changes that are 
inevitable if our world is 
to survive."




Caitlin Johnstone:
 
''The majority of Americans think it’s just fine 
to use AR-15s (assault rifles) on foreigners....
it’s just not okay to use them on Americans.''
 
 

 
Proverb: 
 
''Correction is grievous to him that 
forsakes the way: and he that 
hates reproof, shall die.”
 


Pepe Escobar:
 
“Geopolitically, and geoeconomically, 
Russia and China are in the process 
of eating NATOstan alive.”


 
CPRF Head, Gennady Zyuganov:
 
“We have a well-developed programme for new
industrialisation and innovations. I presented 
to you the programme of a new university 
created by Zhores Alferov, which today 
shows examples of how to train 
students of the future.”




Rosa Luxemburg:
 
''The fight is between 
socialism... and 
barbarism.''
 
 

Arnold Joseph Toynbee:
 
''Of the 22 civilizations that have 
appeared in history, 19 of them 
collapsed when they reached
the moral state the US is 
in now.”
 
 

President Putin:
 
''The march of history is unstoppable 
and the attempts of the West to foist
its New World Order on the world 
are doomed to failure.''




Frederick Engels:
 
‘‘The fact is that there is no army in either Europe 
or America with so much brutality as the British. 
Plundering, Violence, Massacres – things that 
everywhere else are strictly and completely 
banished – are a time-honored privilege, a 
vested right of the British soldier … The 
sack of Lucknow (India) in 1858, will 
remain an everlasting disgrace to 
the British military service.’’



Tommy Cooper:
 
“You know, somebody actually complimented 
me on my driving today. They left a little note
 on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'”



Vladimir Putin:
 
"They should have realized that they 
would lose from the very beginning 
of our special military operation, 
because this operation also 
means the beginning of 
a radical breakdown 
of the US-style 
world order."



Cesar Chavez here:
 
''Though many of the poor.. have come to see 
the affluent middle class as its enemy, that 
class actually stands between the poor 
and the real powers in this society - 
the administrative octopus with
 its head in Washington, the 
conglomerates, the 
military complex.''



Marshall Berman:
 
''We come from ruins, 
but we're not ruined.'



Zhuang Zhou, (Zhuangzi): 
 
“Flow with whatever may happen 
...and let your mind be free: 
Stay centred by accepting 
whatever you are doing. 
This, is the ultimate.”



 Zhuang Zhou, (Zhuangzi): 
 
“The wise man knows that it is better to sit
on the banks of a remote mountain stream
than to be emperor of the whole world.”



Jesus Prayer - Prayer of the Heart:
 
"Lord Jesus Christ Son of God,
 have mercy on me, a sinner."




Zhuang Zhou, (Zhuangzi): 
 
“A path is made by walking on it.”
 

 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov:
 
''From now on, we will never 
trust the Americans 
or the EU.''



Blair T. Longley:
 
''Money can never stop being measurement backed 
by murder. However, the successfulness of that
depends upon most people not understanding 
that, and not wanting to understand that.''



Blogger, re Assange:
 
“Mainstream journalism died not in a prison cell, 
not from a bullet in the head, not in a car 
explosion, not even hacked up in a 
Saudi consulate. It died the day it 
chose complicity by letting the 
best of them slip away into 
silence and oblivion.”



Dmitry Medvedev:
 
"Nobody in their right mind, wants higher prices 
and taxes, mounting tension along the borders,
Iskanders, hypersonic weapons, or ships with 
nukes a stone’s throw... from their house.
Let’s 
hope that the common sense of
our 
neighbours eventually prevails. 
Yet if not, then, as they say, 
"they started it."
 

 
Pepe Escobar:
 
''NATO will continue to help Kiev to fight 
until the last Ukrainian cannon fodder.''
 

 
Fabio Vighi: 
 
“The purpose of the Ukrainian emergency... is 
to keep the money printer switched on while 
blaming Putin for the worldwide economic 
downturn. The war.. serves the opposite 
aim of what we are told: not to defend 
Ukraine but to prolong the conflict 
and nourish inflation - in a bid to 
defuse cataclysmic risk in the 
debt market, which would 
spread like wildfire 
across the whole 
financial sector.”



Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister:
 
''When the Second World War was
about to start --- 
Hitler gathered
most of the European countries 
under his banner.''
 
''Now the EU and NATO are also gathering
the same 
modern coalition for the fight,
and, by and large, 
for war with the
Russian Federation. We will 
look at this very carefully.''



Pepe Escobar:
 
''The European Commission is totally outside of any
sort of control. That’s how a stunning mediocrity 
like Ursula von der Leyen – previously the worst
Minister of Defense of modern Germany – was
catapulted upwards to become the current 
EC Fuhrer, dictating their foreign, energy 
and even economic policy.''



 
President Putin:
 
“…there is no middle way between being 
a sovereign country and a colony, no 
matter what you call a colony.” 
 


Alva Myrdal:
 
''The world, generally speaking, is now drifting on 
a more and more devastating course towards the
absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be 
more exact - of the northern hemisphere's
towns, fields, and the people who have
developed our civilization.''
 

 
Alva Myrdal:
 
''It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that
practically one-half of trained intellectual resources
are being mobilized for murderous purposes.'' 
 

 
Karbonerus:
 
''We've always been at war with Eurasia.
We've never been at war with Eurasia.
Good news, brothers and sisters, 
this week's chocolate ration 
has gone up, from 
120 grams, to
98 grams!''


 
The smelly hippie:
 
''The best time to plant a tree, was 
20 years ago.. the other best time 
is now.''



Kim Il-sung:
 
“It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle 
against imperialism, under the pretext 
that independence and revolution are
important, but that peace... is still 
more precious. Peace secured 
by slavish submission, is 
not peace.”



Susan B. Anthony:
 
"Cautious, careful people, always 
casting about to preserve their 
reputations... can never effect 
a reform."



US commentator on The Saker:
 
''The world is being turned upside down, at a pace that is
simply breathtaking. I live in a small, rural Kansas farm
community and, thanks to media.. from TV to 
TikTok,
the cultural blitzkrieg has hit --- even here. 
In our
high school are not only “trans” 
students... but
“furries” — there are 3 
girls who “identify” 
as CATS. Thanks to the recent Biden
edict... 
we now have to figure out, if
we’re willing to 
cancel the school
lunch program... in 
order to keep
boys out of girls’ rest
rooms and
off the 
girls sports teams.

Thanks to smartphones children’s minds are being
colonized, 
and occupied by the same satanic
forces - 
that dominate the coasts. No safe
harbor 
anywhere. A 13-year-old boy here
who'd had his 
mind warped by online
pornography,
tormented, tortured
and raped.... a 13
year old girl.
Right here, 
in our little rural
town. 
No more Mayberry.
And it happened
seemingly...
overnight.''
 
 

The 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade of Ukraine:
 
''We have big problems: with food, water, medical
supplies and the treatment of the wounded and
sick. We did not have any heavy weapons. The 
enemy’s heavy artillery, worked on us all day, 
& there was no response from our artillery. 
We all have various contusions or injuries 
we received.. in combat positions. There 
are many people.. with chronic diseases. 
We could no longer continue our service. 
We want to protect our homeland but we 
have a lot of problems that need to be 
solved and cured - now. We could not 
get this.. from the management. We 
will now be heading to the hospital 
for treatment. We express --- our 
distrust ---- to the leadership of 
the brigade --- the leadership 
of the battalion, as we have
a feeling... that they just 
want to dispose of us.''


 
President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev:
 
''Ensuring efficiency in public administration, 
introducing open government institutions, 
developing e-services, and fighting 
against corruption, are the main 
directions of state policy.''



Khosrow Golsorkhi:
 
''Why should it fit any literary school. Why imprison our 
poetry, which is our only effective art form, in literary
and stylistic schools? The place of a poem.. is not in
libraries, but in tongues and minds. Literature must 
retain the role it always had in social movements, 
for us too...  in the displacement of social order, 
and fulfill it. The role of literature is to awaken. 
The role of progressive literature is to create 
social movements and to help attain the
goals of the historic development 
of peoples."



Eugenio Maria de Hostos:
 
''Nearly all human beings love, but
 nearly none know how to love.''



Ramin Razaheri:
 
''Modern political history... begins in 1789,
because it begins with the fight against 
the absolute autocracy of monarchy &
humanity’s shift towards greater and 
greater democracy. It doesn't begin 
in 1688... with England’s Glorious 
Revolution, because all that faux
-revolution did, was legitimise 
monarchical oligarchy, which 
still exists today in England, 
in Saudi Arabia, in Morocco 
and in all the monarchies,
because that --- is what 
monarchy is: collusion 
on behalf of a few --- 
against democracy, 
equality, and 
humanity.''



Alva Myrdal:
 
''If only the authorities could be made to realize that 
the forces leading them on in the armament race, 
are just insane.''



Soame Jenyns:
 
''Great men whilst living must expect disgraces,
Dead, they're ador'd - when none desire 
their places.'' 



Marcus Tullius Cicero:
 
“Politicians are not born; they are excreted.”


 
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte:
 
“In terms of weaponry, we stand united here: 
that it is crucial for Russia to lose the war.  
As we can't have a direct confrontation 
between NATO troops... and Russia, 
what we need to do is make sure 
that Ukraine can fight that war, 
that it has access to all the 
necessary weaponry.”
 


The President of Mexico:
 
“How easy it is to say: ‘There, I send so 
much money for weapons, I provide the 
weapons and you provide the dead.’ 
It is immoral.”
 

 
Maria Zakharova, at the Saint 
Petersburg Economic Forum:
 
“If you’re looking for media objectivity, 
best not focus on the West’s portrayal 
of Ukraine.”
 
 

Edmund Burke on Western Liberal Democracy
as practiced in France's Third Estate, in 1790:
 
“Judge, Sir, my surprise when I found that a very great
proportion of the assembly (a majority, I believe, of 
the members who attended) ...was composed of
practitioners in... the law. Who could conceive 
that men who are habitually meddling, daring, 
subtle, active, of litigious dispositions, and 
unquiet minds... would easily fall back into 
their old condition of obscure contention - 
and laborious low, unprofitable chicanery. 
Who could doubt but that, at any expense 
to the state - of which, they understood 
nothing - they must pursue their private
interests, which they understand, but 
too well.” 
 

 
Karl Marx on Western Liberal Democracy 
as practiced in the United States:
 
“Nowhere do ‘politicians’ form a more separate,
powerful section of the nation, than in North 
America. There, each of the 2 great parties 
which, alternately, succeed each other in 
power, is itself --- in turn --- controlled by 
people who make a business of politics, 
who speculate on seats - in legislative
assemblies of the Union, as well as of 
the separate states - or who make a 
living... by carrying on agitation for 
their party and, on its victory, are
rewarded with positions.”



Joe Stalin: 
 
“Social Democracy and fascism, 
are not opposites, they
are twins.” 
 

 
Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker blog:
 
''A common Western Liberal Democratic criticism of
the parliaments of Cuba, Iran, China, etc...  is that 
there are too many people who are “unqualified”. 
They are accused of this, because they lack 
university degrees, whereas, in socialist-
inspired democracy, morality, devotion 
to the people and grassroots esteem, 
are seen as good qualifications for 
public office.''



Dominique Pire:
 
''Whether or not, one has won the 
Nobel Prize, each of us living in 
contact with our fellowmen,
feels a joint responsibility 
for all forms of suffering, 
both physical and moral.''



Joseph the Hymnographer: 
 
The things of the earth, in the earth let us lay;
The ashes with ashes, the dust with the clay:
But lift up the heart and the eyes and the love,
O lift up the soul to the regions above!



Edward Abbey:
 
''Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor 
conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil 
as Hell.''
 


Jose Marti:
 
''Man is not free to watch impassively 
the enslavement and dishonour of 
men, nor their struggles for 
liberty and honour.''



Head of R.F.'s Negotiations on Military Security 
& Arms Control in Vienna, Konstantin Gavrilov:
 
(If) “howitzers, HIMARS and MLRS (strike)
Russia, the response against decision-
making centres - will be immediate - 
not ruling out anything anymore.”



Bruce Lee:
 
“If you love life, don’t waste time, 
for time is what life is made up of.” 



Michael Hudson, economist:
 
''I suspect that a new world economic system 
is emerging. If it succeeds, the last century – 
since the end of World War I and the mess it 
left – will seem like a long detour of history, 
now returning to what seemed to be...  the 
basic social ideals of classical economics
 – a market free from rent-seeking 
landlords, monopolies and 
predatory finance.''



Charles Dickens:
 
''The American elite is almost beyond
redemption... Moral relativism has 
set in so deeply...  that the gilded 
classes have become incapable 
of discerning right from wrong. 
Everything can be explained 
away... especially by
journalists.'' 



 A Living Sacrifice:
Romans 12 vs 1-2
 
1. Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of
God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice,
holy and pleasing to God — this is 
your
true and proper worship. 
 
2. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then 
you will be able to test and approve what God’s
will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.
 
 
 
Multi-billionaire Ted Turner, in 1996:
 
“A total population of 250-300 million 
people, a 95 percent decline from 
present levels, would be ideal.”
 
 
Henry Kissinger:
 
“Who controls the food supply, controls
the people; who controls the energy, 
can control whole continents; who 
controls money, can control 
the world.”
 
 
John Kenneth Galbraith:
 
“The process by which money is created 
is so simple, that the mind is repelled.”
 
 
Blogger:
 
''To protect the value of the government’s 
paper currency - you have to redeem it in 
taxes, and burn the revenues generated.''
 
 
Blogger:
 
''In 1961 every nation in Africa produced 
more than 100% of its own food supply,
today... almost none of them do. What 
happened? The IMF and the World 
Bank. For ''loans'', they had to
introduce ''austerity',' and
privatise everything, and 
then --- convert to cash
crops to feed the US.''
 
 
Michael Hudson:
 
''The choice confronting Global South countries: 
to starve, by paying their foreign bondholders &
bankers, or to announce, as a basic principle of
international law: 'As sovereign countries, we 
put our survival above the aim of enriching 
foreign creditors, who have made loans 
that have gone bad, as a result of their 
choice to wage a new Cold War. As for 
the destructive neoliberal advice that 
the IMF & World Bank have given us... 
their austerity plans were destructive
instead of helpful. Therefore, their 
loans have gone bad. As such, 
they have become odious.'''
 
 
Aleksey Zhuravko:
 
“The leaders of the West themselves created the
illusion of universal support for Zelensky, but in 
reality he looks like a donkey, in front of which
they constantly hold a “carrot”, which
invariably slips away. In fact, both 
him and the whole country, 
are simply being led to 
the slaughter.” 
 
 
Aleksey Zhuravko:
 
“They understand very well --- that all the “red lines”
drawn by Vladimir Putin, have long been crossed, 
so there is nothing to be ashamed of. After all,
in the end, it will still be up to Russia and its 
partners to restore Ukraine. Therefore, the 
goal of the West is to inflict maximum 
damage on this country. Ukraine 
can only be given - some penny 
loans for restoration, but with 
a mandatory repayment and 
at crazy interest rates.”
 
 
Batiushka, for the Saker Blog:
 
''Today the seven billion people of the Non-Western
world.... are ranged against the one billion of the
Western world. All the international foundations 
- the UN, IMF, WHO etc, are going to be remade. 
Why should some of them, at least, not be 
headquartered in Russia? Either in Saint 
Petersburg, or in Ekaterinburg, or in 
the Crimea.''
 
 
Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security 
Council of the Russian Federation, June 3rd:
 
''The special operation in Ukraine has brought 
the confrontation between Russia & Western 
countries, led by the US, to a climax. Battles 
are going on, not only in the vast spaces of 
the Ukraine, but also in the economic, 
political and cultural spheres. The 
style of the Anglo-Saxons has not 
changed for centuries. And so... 
today they continue to dictate 
their terms to the world, 
boorishly trampling on 
the sovereign rights 
of States.''
 
 
Silvio Berlusconi, Il Giornale, June 4th:
 
''What the Ukrainian crisis has shown us, is that
the West is isolated from the rest of the world, 
and this is an alarm call for the present,
and 
especially, for the future.''
 
 
St. John Chrysostom:
 
“The road to hell...  is paved with the skulls
of 
erring priests, with bishops as
their signposts.” 


Michael Eric Dyson:
 
''I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne
individualism, where people pull themselves up by 
their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers.
And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.''



Batiushka:
 
''American roulette: this is the correct name for 
so-called ‘Russian roulette’. It never existed in 
Russia, but was invented by a US writer for a 
work of fiction in 1937. Presumably he gave 
it the Russian name, as it sounded ‘exotic’ 
to him. Another crazy racist Russophobic 
invention, that only gun-obsessed 
cowboys, with their cult of 
violence, could think up.'' 



Alexander Perendzhiev:
 
“Such weapons and military equipment supplied by the
United States to official Kyiv pose a direct threat not
only to the Russian regions bordering Ukraine, but 
also directly to Moscow itself and to the Central
macroregion of the Russian Federation.. as a 
whole. That is, such a supply of weapons is 
an attempt.. to carry out direct aggression 
against our country from the parties.. are 
no longer Ukraine, but the United States! 
It is precisely in this way --- and not 
otherwise --- that these actions of 
official Washington... should 
be considered.”



Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle:
 
''It takes time to ruin a world, 
but time is all it takes.''



Mary Ritter Beard:
 
“Despite the modern dogma to the effect that 
women were a subject sex --- until the 19th 
century 'emancipated' them from history, 
women - in history - had demonstrated 
strong wills and purposes, had made 
assertions, and had directed or 
influenced all human destiny, 
including their own, since 
human life began.”



Chelsea Manning:
 
''Read everything. Ask your own questions. 
Be your own filter. Nobody is going to look 
at the world around you and tell you what 
important things are happening... that 
affect you and the ones you love.''



Marina Silva:
 
“Now more than ever, we need sustainable
development.. and not the kind of develop
-ment that we are seeing right now... That 
means, a country that is environmentally
sustainable, politically democratic, 
and socially developed”.



German chancellor Scholz, in Davos:
 
''Putin can never win in Ukraine because it is 
already obvious: that he could not achieve
a single one of his goals in Ukraine.''



Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov: 
 
''The arrogance of the Anglo-Saxon alliance... has no
limits. We are offered evidence of that...  every day. 
Instead of delivering on their obligations under the 
UN Charter and honouring, as is written in this 
charter -- the sovereign equality of states and
abstaining from interfering in their domestic 
affairs -- the West churns out ultimatums 
every day, issuing them through their 
ambassadors or envoys, to each - 
without exception - capital and, 
in so doing, blatantly black-
mailing them.''


 
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian:
 
''Since the 1980s, the US has withdrawn from 17
international organizations or treaties, including 
the UN Human Rights Council, the World Health 
Organization, the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Paris 
Agreement, the Iran nuclear deal... the Arms 
Trade Treaty, the INF Treaty, the Open Skies 
Treaty, among others.  Such a country, now
shamelessly disguises itself... as a referee 
of international rules --- shining a spotlight 
on where others come short, while turning
a blind eye to its outright violations. When 
US politicians eloquently cite the United 
Nations Convention on the Law of the 
Sea, to criticize other countries, are 
they aware of the fact that the US 
is not even a state party to 
the Convention?''
 
 

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian:
 
''The US is the top saboteur of the international order,
sticks to US centrism & exceptionalism and wantonly
withdraws from treaties, and organizations. It refuses
to sign or ratify the United Nations Convention on the 
Rights of the Child and Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, voted
against the Global Compact for Migration and the
Global Compact on Refugees, and remains the 
sole party obstructing negotiations for a 
verification protocol to the Biological 
Weapons Convention.'' 



Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov: 
 
''In 2015, the war in Donbass unleashed by the new
Ukrainian authorities who seized power in the
coup, was stopped. The Minsk agreements
were signed 
and guaranteed... by France
and Germany. All these 
years we called
on Kiev to honour its commitments.
Since the West had the decisive
influence on it we 
also worked
with the Europeans and the
Americans, appealing
to their conscience.
Regrettably..... 
they
   have no conscience.''



Bill Hicks:
 
''Just a simple choice, right now, between fear 
and love. The eyes of fear, want you to put 
bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, 
close yourself off. The eyes of love,
instead, see all of us, as one.''
 


Valentin Varennikov:
 
"I have five reasons to love China: first, the Chinese
people are outstanding people, and China has a 
long history and culture; second, she has an 
amazing development rate today; third, the 
Chinese people have never threatened 
anyone, but the Chinese people have 
war brought to them by aggressors. 
However, they finally defeated the 
aggressors and embarked on 
the road of national 
independence.''
 
 ''Fourth, China is our great neighbour... and China and
 Russia have traditional friendship. Fifth, the Chinese
 leaders - trained by the Communist Party of China - 
led the Chinese people to find the right direction 
of development in the world economic 
development system.''



Napoleon Bonaparte:
 
“The amateurs discuss tactics: the 
professionals discuss logistics.”
 


Pope Rodrigo Borgia (Alexander 6th): 
 
“Kill, enslave and rob non-whites.”



Deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, 
former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev:
 
“Any peace proposal built purely in the interest 
of NATO and the Western world order, should 
simply be ignored. Or rather, their authors... 
should be told to go in a certain direction.
 


President Kennedy:
 
“We all breathe the same air. We all cherish 
our children’s future. And we are all mortal.”



 
Christopher Black, international criminal lawyer:
 
''The struggle --- to defeat the fascists who control the
west will be difficult and we face the risk of common
destruction. But, they will not succeed. They are not
bleeding Russia dry in a war of attrition, as they like
to claim. It is the USA and its allies that are being 
bled dry by their own decisions and actions. It 
is that which can make them dangerous, for 
fascists are always dangerous. They 
must be stopped. They are our 
common enemy. Russia --- will 
stop them. We must support
that struggle. Our own 
future and well being 
depends on it.''
 
https://christopher-black.com/
fascism-our-common-enemy/


 
Nadezhda Krupskaya:
 
"We should try to link our personal lives 
with the cause for which we struggle, 
with the cause of building 
communism."



Tommy Cooper:
 
“A policeman stopped me and said:
Would you please blow into this bag,
sir? I said: What for, officer? He
said: My chips are too hot.”


 
 Bertolt Brecht: 
 
“The belly is still fertile, from 
which the foul beast sprang.” 


 

Christopher Black, international criminal lawyer:
 
''The new wave of fascism cannot overcome the rock
of progress and moral integrity, nor the will, of the
people of Russia, of China, of Cuba, of Syria, 
Vietnam, Venezuela, Iran, of India and South
Africa, of Egypt and Algeria, of the entire 
Middle East and Latin America, of Africa 
whose peoples are tired of colonialism 
and imperialism who see that the time 
of the West has come and gone... as 
they rise to face the common 
challenges of the world.''



Jules Renard:
 
''If I were to begin life again,
 I should want it as it was. 
I would only open my 
eyes a little more.''
 


Christopher Black, international criminal lawyer:
 
''The road to war... is a dead end for the West. It did not
solve or alleviate their situation in either of the world
wars. And the defeat of fascist forces, mainly by the
Red Army in 1945, did not end fascism in the west.
It just laid low, was unfashionable for a while, 
lurked in dark corners in Canada, the
U
S, Britain, France and Germany, 
Australia, Japan and
Latin America.''
 


Caitlin Johnstone:
 
“We live in a Narrative Matrix controlled by 
Plutocratic and Military Institutions, who
have 
created an illusion of democracy.”  
 
 
 
Christopher Black, international criminal lawyer:
 
''The European egocentric and ignorant view of'
themselves as the superior beings of the world, 
which arose out of their ignorance of the world
and the dogmatism of the Catholic Church, and 
the later promotion by the Protestants of the 
individual as all important, instead of the 
collective society, which denied the 
identity of each with all and with 
nature, created a society that 
regarded others as outside 
them, and so, were not of 
them, but instead, things 
to be used and exploited 
just as they have used 
and exploited... the 
planet as a whole.''


 
Caitlin Johnstone:
 
“Who controls the Narrative controls the World.” 


 
Christopher Black, international criminal lawyer:
 
''The rise of fascism in Italy, then Germany, France, 
Spain and in the USA and Britain, during the 1930’s 
was due to the decision to use any and all methods 
to secure their control over the world. Mussolini, 
Hitler and Franco, were given support in Europe 
by industrial and financial capital. Japan was 
encouraged to attack Russia and China.
Fascism was the reaction of a pending 
collapse of the west, to try to save 
itself, in a desperate and futile 
attempt... that continues
today.''



Jules Renard:

''Laziness... is nothing more than the 
habit of resting before you get tired.''



 
Nadezhda Krupskaya:
 
''Soviet power, at the head of which, Ilyich then 
stood, was faced with the problem of creating 
a type of state machinery, such as the world 
had never before seen, one which relied on 
the masses... and which would remake the 
entire social fabric in a new, socialist way 
and reshape all human relations. First of 
all however, it was necessary to defend 
Soviet power --- against the enemy's 
attempts to overthrow it by force, 
and to undermine it from within. 
We had to strengthen our ranks.''
 
 

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching:
 
“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself, is true 
wisdom.   Mastering 
others is strength;-
mastering yourself 
---- is true power.”
 
 
 
Winston Churchill:
 
“The truth - is incontrovertible. Malice 
may attack it, ignorance may deride 
it, but in the end, there it is.” 
 
 
 
Gilad Atzmon, Jewish writer and musician:
 
“It is certain that there is no ethnic or racial 
continuum between the Biblical Israelites 
and the (Ashkenazic) Khazarians who 
lead the Jewish state.” 
 
 
 
President Zelensky... of Ukraine:
 
“Ukraine will become Greater Israel.”
 
 
 
Heinz Dieterich, director of Centre for Transition
Sciences at the Autonomous Metropolitan
University, Mexico, coordinator at the
World Advanced Research Project:
 
“President Putin’s special military operation, to 
defend the people of Donbas from an imminent 
general offensive by a neo-Nazi regime in Kiev,
is not only fully justified in international law by 
Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations 
but is fully consistent with the military praxis 
and doctrine of the legitimate self-defense of 
States in the face of an imminent threat 
emanating from a neighbouring state, 
or enemy forces.” 
 
 
 
Mike Adams: 
 
“If Putin enforces his demand of accepting only rubles,
gold or bitcoin for energy exports, the dollar instantly
loses significant utility in the world. Those nations
that wish to buy energy from Russia - which 
includes most European nations - will need 
to first buy rubles, then trade rubles for 
energy. This gives rubles instant 
commodities backing. Putin’s 
latest move threatens the 
very future of the dollar
currency...  and may 
spell the beginning 
of the end... for 
the dollar.”
 

 
Kusumagraj:
 
''We shall pull down these temples and this 
morality ; there is nothing but oppression 
in this world; we do not know sin; 
we shall break our clutches, pull 
down old dilapidated buildings 
and raise there new 
blue palaces." 
 


George Harrison:
 
''I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to
the point where you are actually doing things 
for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch 
you again because you're harmonizing with 
a greater power.''
 


The key principle of the UN Charter, states: 
 
“The Organisation is based on the principle 
of the sovereign equality of all its Members.”
 

 
US Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen,
stating the new Bretton Woods framework: 
 
“The friend-shoring of supply chains to a large 
number of trusted countries - [who share] a 
set of norms and values about how to 
operate in the global economy.” 
 

 
Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov:
 
''By plundering other countries’ material assets.... the
Western countries have destroyed their reputation of
predictable partners who honour their commitments.
Nobody is safe from expropriation and “state piracy” 
now. Therefore, not just Russia but also many other
countries.... are reducing their reliance on the US 
dollar and on Western technologies and markets. 
I am sure --- that a gradual de-monopolisation of 
the global economy.... is not a distant future.''


 
Pepe Escobar:
 
''Ukraine was never about a military win. What 
is being accomplished, is the slow, painful 
destruction of the European Union (EU) 
economy, coupled with extraordinary 
weapons profits for the western 
military-industrial complex and 
creeping security rule, by 
those nations’ political 
elites.''
 


Propergander, Saker commentator:
 
''The issue is not... that the US has no strategy. 
It is just that their prevailing strategy cannot
accommodate... the coordinated action of 
China and Russia cutting of supply, and 
causing supply inflation, to which there 
is no fiscal or monetary policy answer, 
and where war succeeds... in only 
exacerbating domestic pain.''


 
Pepe Escobar:
 
''NATO has already wasted $50 billion - and counting -
while the Russians spent $4 billion, give or take, and
already conquered Mariupol, Berdyansk, Kherson 
and Melitopol, created a land corridor to Crimea 
(securing its water supply), controls the Sea 
of Azov and its major port city, and liberated
strategically vital Volnovakha & Popasnaya 
in Donbass, as well as Izyum near Kharkov. 
That doesn’t even include Russia hurling 
the entire, collective west into a level of 
recession not seen since the 1970s.''



Shakespeare’s mad, senile “King Lear”:
 
“I shall do such things, I know not what 
they are. But they shall be - the terror 
of the Earth”. 
 

 
Thierry Meyssan:
 
''On November the 2nd, in 2021, Dmitryo Yarosh
became an advisor to 
General Zaluzhnyi -- the
Commander-in-Chief 
of the Ukrainian Armies.
All Banderite para-military organizations 
- 102,000 men - were incorporated into 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A plan 
of attack on Crimea and Donbass,
was 
drawn up. NATO, which
already had 
military
instructors on site
sent weapons. ''



Saladin: 
 
“I warn you against shedding blood, 
indulging in it and making a habit 
of it, for blood never sleeps.”


 
Peacenik, Saker commentator:
 
''Bet you can’t guess the number one Senator 
in 2020 in Merchant of Death donations?
Its Bernie Sanders.''
 


Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese Teacher:
 
“Above all it is essential to refer to things by their
correct names. If things are not referred to by 
their correct names, then our language will 
not reflect reality. If our language does not 
reflect reality, then our actions will not 
reflect reality, and will be exercises 
in futility.” 


 
Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer: 
 
"We are at war, forget about 
blaming our own President 
and focus on the enemy.'' 


 
Uncle Bob, Saker commentator:
 
''The swastika was the symbol of the Finnish 
Air Force... until 2020. They removed it...
quietly 
and without announcements.''



Declan Hayes on NATO’s expansion to Finland
and how it would undermine Russia’s security:
 
“The Kola Peninsula, which lies almost completely
inside the Arctic Circle, is pivotal to Russia’s 
Northern fleet. It is... the crux of Russia’s 
military establishment in the western 
Arctic, and its air and maritime 
capabilities - are essential to 
Russia’s homeland defense, 
Arctic defense and overall 
defense capabilities.'' 
 
''Because Kola’s Severomorsk-1 air base, Gadzhiyevo
submarine base... and Okolnaya submarine support
base are critical to Russia’s operational readiness 
and its ability to defend Russia’s maritime space 
in the Arctic, Russia cannot allow this deluded 
warrior woman to launch Armageddon.''
 
''The Kola Peninsula is also home to systems, such as
RS-24 YARS - located at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome -
which are a core deterrent to U.S. and NATO attack
systems. Russia’s Grom-2019 exercises, showed 
her ability to use Kola’s arsenal of ballistic and 
cruise missiles to defend her position; not only 
in the Arctic but further south along the entire 
Finnish border, as well in contiguous regions 
where Russia’s core strategic interests
are 
at stake.”


 
Cloud Of Fennoscandia, Saker commentator:
 
''We have been promised...  a national vote on defence
matters for years and years, but gallups have shown 
time after time -- that Finnish People do not want to 
be part of any military cliques. Now our globalist 
President and Schwab/WEF groomed, socialist 
PM did see (arrange?) their momentum. And 
all of a sudden, we, the People, and vote, 
are not needed.''

 

V.I. Lenin’s “Imperialism, the Highest Stage 
of Capitalism” (1912) Ch. 2, The Banks
and 
Their New Role: 
 
“the beginning of the twentieth century marks the
turning point from the old capitalism to the new, 
from the domination of capital in general, to 
the domination of finance capital.”


 
Michael Hudson: 
 
''… we’re seeing, in the last few months, the beginning
of a war that’s going to go on for – I think – 20 years, 
maybe 30 or 40 years. The world is splitting away. 
It won’t be a pretty sight --- because the United 
States and its European satellites are trying 
to prevent an inevitable break away, that
they cannot prevent, any more than 
Europe’s landlord class... could 
prevent industrial capitalism 
from developing in the
19th century.''



Scott Ritter:
 
''US military personnel, whose traditions are born 
from the heroic sacrifices - made by hundreds of
thousands of their fellow soldiers, sailors, and 
airmen - who gave their lives, to defeat Nazi 
Germany, are today providing weapons and 
training, to Ukrainians... whose bodies and 
banners bear the markings of Hitler’s 
Third Reich.''
 

 
Saker commentator Steve from Oz:
 
''Many professional commentators, are not 
aware that liberalism is the political arm 
of economic individualism, and is 
therefore anti-community.''



Elizabeth Peratrovich:
 
''Asking you to give me rights 
implies that they are yours 
to give.''



Charles Dickens:
 
“Have a heart that never hardens, 
a temper that never tires, and
 a touch that never hurts.”



Deputy Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian
Federation Pyotr Tolstoy, talking to  La Republica:
 
“Despite the help from Europe and the hysteria of 
Boris Johnson or Mario Draghi, we will finish the
operation when we see fit. I think we will stop 
at the border with Poland.”
 
 

The scientific service of the Bundestag: 
 
“Only if - in addition to the supply of weapons -
the instruction of the conflict party or training
in such weapons, were also an issue, would 
one leave the secure area of non-warfare.”
 

 
The Bible: 
 
''Nothing is innocent in man.''



Shep, Saker commentator:
 
''What is suspicious about the nationwide display of
Ukraine flags is that it all seems pre-organized and
done at a fairly large scale. I think there is an
intimidation factor here. The flag display 
shuts down anyone who wants to 
side with Russia.''



Mr. Enzweiler, a retired US Air Force, USAID 
contractor and US Foreign Service Officer:
 
''CFR President, Mr. Haass, is the spokesperson 
for Washington officialdom, on foreign policy. 
Haass presents three possible war-ending 
scenarios. Pouring more weapons into 
Ukraine and prolonging the war, is 
Haass’s recommendation under 
all three scenarios.''



Mr Haass in his seminal statement: 
 
"Whatever goals the West ultimately settles on,
 requiring that the war end with a formal peace
 agreement, should not be one of them."



Parfois (Saker commentator):
 
“To limit energy sanctions, the US attempted to bring
Syria to heel, so they could build pipelines across 
its territory and bring natural gas and oil from the
Middle East and avoid the present crunch, but 
that failed, so now they are scrambling.”



 
Yuri Podolyaka, Russian human:
 
''The battle goes on, not for some town in 
Donbass and not even for all of Ukraine. 
The battle is between radically different 
worlds. The battle is for the sake of one 
of the worlds winning - and going on to 
build on our beautiful Earth the 
civilization of the future.''
 
''Their side uses threats, murders, violence, 
provocations and spreading total hatred. 
Our side tries to bring to the world – 
which so far is not really listening – 
completely different values. And 
for that reason, we have to win. 
Because if we lose, they will 
wipe us off the map. We and 
our children will be either 
killed -- or turned into the 
'cesspool of hatred' that
they turned Ukraine 
into... in a mere 
8 years.'' 
 
''But I’m absolutely sure that this process is reversible
and, leaning on our ideology, we would not just win 
in Ukraine... and resurrect the Ukraine we still 
remember – the people and the country, not 
to mention the government. But the end 
goal is to win the battle in Washington. 
As paradoxical as it may sound today, 
we need to help American people to 
get rid of the bloodsuckers... that 
today are violating hundreds of 
millions - or even billions - of 
people across the planet, 
with their hatred.''
 


Michael Hudson:
 
''...basically the oil companies and the US are 
going to let the third-world countries go into 
a crisis. If they default on their bonds, then 
the US and the bond-holders... get to treat 
Latin America like they treated Argentina 
or Venezuela, and grab whatever assets 
they have outside of their country. Like 
Venezuela had investments in the US
and gold that it left in the Bank of 
England that were grabbed.
 
''There’s going to be a huge asset grab. That 
is supposed to be how this unfolds, and the 
most obvious assets to the grabbed, are 
going to be in Latin America and Africa. 
Maybe some Asian deficit countries. So 
this is the weakest link, and that’s why 
there’s this fight within the IMF.. at the 
upcoming meetings, to create these 
special drawing rights, to give them 
money: on the condition that there
 is a class war.''
 
''...what we’re seeing, really, isn’t a war 
between NATO and Russia. It’s a class 
war of the neoliberals against labour 
across the world, to establish the 
power of finance over labour.''
 
''If you read what Klaus Schwab says at the World
Economic Forum, he said there are 20% too many
people in the world, especially in the Global South.
This is what all the big foundations are for. The
billionaires, they all say, ‘We’ve got to thin out 
the population, there’s too many consumers 
that don’t produce enough wealth for us.’ If
they produce wealth for themselves, that 
doesn’t count, because that’s not for us, 
and we don’t get it.'' 
 
''Obviously, anyone who looks at the basic 
economic trends can see that this is 
inevitable—and you have to assume 
that this was discussed as part of 
the whole big neoliberal plan of 
the Biden administration and 
the Deep State behind it.''
 


The Saker commentator, R. Robertson:
 
''Neoliberal economists and
their lawyers have decided,
 
1. Contracts must be honored in Euros 
or Dollars as the contract stipulates.
 
2. Those Euros and Dollars will then
 be canceled, per sanctions.
 
3. EU oligarchy gets free sh*t to sell 
to EU customers at very high prices.
 
It is the ultimate in wealth production. Pay
nothing for something, and sell it at very 
high prices during crisis. Western 
oligarchs becoming history’s 
greatest State Welfare 
Queens. Which they 
already are.''
 

 
Zero Hedge commentator 
“not-me—it-was-the-dog”:
 
“In exchange for so-called Schrödinger Euros,
Vladimir Putin ´the merciless´ has decreed 
the creation of Schrödinger NatGas, 
whereby GazProm will thus “print” 
cubic metres of natgas - with a 
keyboard - 100% for free and 
then transfer such gas over 
to the EU purchaser’s 
storage tanks, in the 
EU albeit now under 
“frozen” status.''
 
''So Russia never gets to use such euros – 
which actually never see the light of day
 – and accordingly are not inflationary in 
any and every sense of the term, as 
nobody else can use them either, 
and Europe never gets to burn 
such gas – which actually 
never sees the light of... 
pilot – and, accordingly, 
does not contribute to
global warming!''
 
''Thus by not entering into any economy at all in
no way, shape, or form, the EU and Russia can
exchange lots of nothing for free, and Greta 
will squirm with delight. Easy see ?''



John V. Walsh, April 28th, 2022:
 
''Out of 195 countries only 30 have 
honoured US sanctions on Russia.''


 
John V. Walsh, April 28th, 2022:
 
''At the recent G-20 Summit a walkout led by the
US when the Russia delegate spoke, was joined
by the representatives of only three other G-20
countries, with 80% refusing to join!''
 

 
John V. Walsh, former professor of physiology
& neuroscience, University of Massachusetts
Chan Medical School:
 
''For those who look forward to a multipolar world,
this is a welcome turn of events, emerging out
of the cruel tragedy of 
the US proxy war in
Ukraine. The 
possibility of a saner, more 
prosperous, multi-polar world, lies
ahead --- if 
we can get there.''



Thierry Meyssan:
 
''On November the 2nd, in 2021, Dmitryo Yarosh
became an advisor to the Commander-in-Chief
of the Ukrainian Armies, General Zaluzhnyi.
All Banderite para-military organizations
-102,000 men - were incorporated into 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine.  A plan 
of attack on Crimea & Donbass, was 
drawn up. NATO, which already had 
military instructors on site, sent
weapons.'' 



Oleksiy Kochetkov, author:
 
''All "Azovites" are anti-Christians. All modern
European Nazis... profess a mix of paganism 
and Germanic occultism and in fact satanic
rituals, including human sacrifice, a blood 
cult & torchlight processions. The "Black 
Sun" is the key element here...  because 
it's a symbol of Satan, the black energy 
that destroys all enemies...  and gives
extraordinary power - to the chosen 
ones. But if the elect.. do not fully 
meet the criteria --- are not fully 
elected, then it destroys them 
as well. This -- as the German 
occultists wrote -- is the fire 
that can only be controlled 
by the chosen supreme 
patron, in their case, 
Satan.''


 
Guardian reporter Luke Harding
describing the Right Sector
neo-nazis in Ukraine:
 
‘’An eccentric group of people 
with unpleasant right-wing 
views.’’ 



As early as 1923, Dontsov in 
his article “Are We Fascists?”:
 
"The political and moral-psychological 
spirit that Ukrainian nationalists 
breathe, is indisputably 
fascism."



Canada's best P.M., Lester B. Pearson:
 
“The choice is as clear now for nations 
as it was once for the individual:
peace 
or extinction.



US Judge Andrew Napolitano:
 
“As if to run even further away from US
constitutional norms, a group of legal
academics began arguing last week 
that property seized from Russians
is not really owned by 
human beings.”
 

 
Russian Foreign Secretary, Lavrov:
 
“It’s hard work talking to morons.”
 


Zaur, a soldier from Dagestan, in Ukraine:
 
"They shot the mother in the back, she fell. 
We shouted to the child "Run!". But he did 
not know what to do, he wanted to run 
away - and help his mother. And the 
sniper shot him in the head. That 
bastard, shot a kid in the head! 
At that moment, we all forgot 
what death is, we did not
think about our lives,
we 
breached there.
Many 
soldiers
died."
 
 
Zaur, a soldier from Dagestan, in Ukraine:
 
“It was an inflection point, to understand
that I am doing everything right. That
I am here for these people.
They cry, hug us,
thank us.” 



Woodrow Wilson:
 
“The government, which was designed for the 
people, has got into the hands of the bosses 
and their employers, the special interests. 
An invisible empire has been set up 
above the forms of democracy.”


Christmas Evans:
 
“I remember the words of Luther,
that reading, and prayer, 
and
temptation, are necessary
to strengthen and to 
purify the talents
of a minister.”


Swiss intelligence analyst, military 
officer, intelligence and terrorism 
expert, Jacques Baud:
 
''What sanctions have we adopted against those who
deliberately lied to the inter
national community in
order to wage 
unjust, unjustified and murderous
wars? 
Have we sought to “make the American 
people suffer” - for lying to us before the war
in Iraq?  Have we adopted a 
single sanction
against countries, 
companies or politicians
who are 
supplying weapons to the conflict 
in Yemen --- considered to be the “worst
humanitarian disaster... in 
the world?”
Have we sanctioned 
the countries of
the European 
Union - that practice
the most 
abject torture on their
territory for the benefit of
the 
United States?
 
To ask the question is to answer 
it… and the answer is not pretty.''


Andrei Bezrukov, member of the Presidium
of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy:

“I want to state the fact that the West succeeded 
in dragging
us into this war. No matter how we 
tried to resist, this is
their tactical victory. 
They have succeeded in colliding
two 
brotherly nations against one another. From this,
we 
can draw the following conclusion: now we have
been practically forced, especially after the latest
packet of 
sanctions ---- into a position where we
have no 
other choice but to totally restructure
our economy, financial system, and, in
essence, our domestic policy.''
 

Milton Mayer, They Thought They 
Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45:
 
''It's clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything
you must make an occasion to do it and then -- you are
obviously a troublemaker. So you wait and you wait.
But the great shocking occasion, when 10s or
100s or 1,000s will join with you never comes.
That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act
of the whole regime 
had come immediately
after the first and smallest, 1,000s, yes,
millions -- would have 
been sufficiently
shocked -- if, let us say.. the gassing of
the Jews 
in ’43 had come immediately
after ‘German Firm’ stickers on the
windows of non-Jewish shops in 
’33. But of course, this is not the
way it 
happens. In between come
all the 100s 
of little steps, some
imperceptible...  
preparing you
not to be shocked by 
the next.
Step C, is not so much 
worse
than Step B, and... if you 
did
not make a stand at Step B, 
why should you at Step C? 
And so on... to Step D.''
 
 
Emperor Nicholas I:
 
"Where the Russian flag is raised once, 
it should not be lowered there."
 
 
Swiss intelligence analyst, military 
officer, intelligence and terrorism 
expert, Jacques Baud:
 
''In the Ukraine, with the blessing of Western countries
--- those who are in favour of a negotiation, have been
eliminated. This 
is the case of Denis Kireyev, one of
the 
Ukrainian negotiators ---- assassinated on March
5th by the Ukrainian secret 
service (SBU) ..because
he was too 
favorable to Russia.. and considered a
traitor. The same fate befell Dmitry Demyanenko,
former deputy head of the SBU’s main directorate
for Kiev...  and
 its region, who was assassinated 
on March 10th because he was too favorable to
an agreement with 
Russia — he was shot by
the 
Mirotvorets (“Peacemaker”) militia.'' 
 
 
David Ben-Gurion about how to deal 
with the Palestinians in their midst: 
 
‘’There's a need for a strong and brutal reaction.
We need to be accurate about the timing, place
and those we hit. If.. we accuse a family, we
need to harm them without mercy, women
and children included, otherwise this is 
not an effective reaction; there is no 
need to distinguish between guilty 
and not guilty.’’
 
 
Cynthia Chung:
 
''So Who is the chosen “Enemy”? The enemy 
is our lesser selves. Our most base fears, 
desires and obsessions. The voice - that
whispers in our ears -- telling us not to 
believe in anything genuine or honest - 
that the world we live in will ultimately 
destroy itself and thus it is all about 
looking out for number one. That it 
is our fate to be the playthings of 
higher powers. There is a way 
out of all of this, but you will 
have to become an optimist 
in order to see the solution.''
 
 
Abraham Lincoln:
 
“We must not be enemies. Though passion may
have strained, it must not break our bonds of
affection. The mystic chords of memory will
swell... when again touched, as surely they 
will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
 
 
1st Secretary Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin:
 
 “I know they will pile garbage on my grave,
 but the wind of history will blow it away.”
 
 
President Joseph Robinette Biden:
 
“We have this notion that somehow 
if you’re poor you cannot do it. 
Poor kids are just as bright 
and just as talented as 
white kids.” 
 
 
Fintan O’Toole: 
 
“If lies were flies, the swarm around him 
would be so thick that Boris Johnson 
would be invisible.”


 
Homer: 
 
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades
is that man who hides one thing in
his heart and speaks another.”
 
 
Jesus, in Matthew 15:7:
 
“You hypocrites!” 
 
 
Swiss intelligence analyst, military 
officer, intelligence and terrorism 
expert, Jacques Baud:
 
''We show compassion for the Ukrainian people and the two
million refugees. That's fine.
But 
if we had had a modicum
of compassion for 
the same number of refugees from
the 
Ukrainian populations of Donbass massacred by
their own government 
and who sought refuge in
Russia for 
eight years --- none of this, would 
probably have 
happened. Absent from the
diplomatic phase 
the EU distinguished
itself -- by fueling the 
conflict. On
February the 27th  ...
Ukraine's
government agreed to enter
into negotiations...  with 
Russia. But a few hours
later, 
the EU voted a
budget of 450 mln
euros to supply
arms 
to the
Ukraine,
adding
fuel 
to
the fire.
From then on, 
the Ukrainians felt they 
did not need to reach 
an agreement. The 
resistance of the 
Azov militia, in 
Mariupol even 
led to a boost 
of 500 million 
euros... for 
weapons.''
 

US President Woodrow Wilson, after taking
his bribe -- to create the ''Federal'' Reserve: 
 
“I am a most unhappy man. I have, unwittingly,
ruined my country. A great industrial nation is
controlled by its system of credit. Our system 
of credit, is concentrated. The growth of the
nation, therefore, and all our activities, are 
in the hands of a few men. We have come 
to be one of the worst ruled, one of the 
most completely controlled and 
dominated Governments in the 
civilized world — no longer a 
Government by free opinion, 
no longer a Government by 
conviction and the vote of 
the majority, but a Govern
-ment by the opinion and 
duress of a small group 
of dominant men.”
 

Trita Parsi:
 
“Non-Western countries tend to see Russia’s
war very, very differently. Western demands 
that they make costly sacrifices by cutting 
off economic ties with Russia to uphold a
 “rules-based order” have begotten an 
allergic reaction. That order hasn’t 
been rules-based; instead, it has 
allowed the U.S. to violate inter-
national law with impunity. The 
West’s messaging on Ukraine 
has taken its tone-deafness, 
to a whole new level, and it 
is unlikely to win over the 
support of countries that 
have often experienced 
the worse sides of the 
international order”.
 
 
A Brazilian:
 
''I'm Brazilian. In 2016 we suffered a coup d’état planned
and executed from the USA -- with the full connivance -
of the Brazilian oligarchy. Not that before 2016..... the
living conditions for most 
of the population in Brazil..
were very good. 
They were not, contrary to the
propaganda 
of the then overthrown govern-
ment. 
However, after the coup, poverty 
grew dramatically. Everything.. has
undeniably 
deteriorated. We have
regressed to a 
neo-colonial
condition.
 Fascism also 
advances in Brazil.''
 
 
Abraham Lincoln:
 
''If this country is ever demoralized,
it will come from trying to live 
without work.''
 
 
Joost Meerloo:
 
''Demoralization of the target audience
is yet another step in successful 
mind control.''
 
 
Yuri Bezmenov:
 
''They are contaminated; they are programmed to 
think and react to certain stimuli, in a certain 
pattern. You cannot change their mind - even
if you expose them to authentic information, 
even if you prove that white is white and 
black is black, you still cannot change 
the basic perception and logic of 
behaviour. In other words these 
people... the process of de-
moralization is complete 
and irreversible.''
 
 
Niels Bohr: 
 
“Prediction is very difficult, 
especially if it’s about 
the future!” 


A Brazilian:

''Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we
accept it or not, we are all at war. We are all
part of this war. As with Russia, it was not 
our choice. The war came to us. And we 
will not get rid of it, except with our 
victory. We cannot allow Russia to 
fight alone, a war that is also ours. 
Even because our common enemy
is very powerful. And its defeat -- 
demands our union. This is the 
magnitude of the challenge of 
our times. And what will give 
the ultimate meaning to 
our lives.''
 
 
Fidel Castro:
 
“What imperialists cannot forgive us, is that we
are here; what imperialists cannot forgive us, 
is our dignity, the integrity, the courage, the
ideological firmness, the spirit of sacrifice 
and the revolutionary spirit of the 
Cuban people.” 
 
 
John Adams, founder and 2nd US president:
 
"...we have no government armed with power
capable of contending with human passions
unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, 
ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would 
break the strongest cords of our
Constitution --- as a whale goes 
through a net. Our Constitution 
was made only for a moral and
religious people. It is wholly 
inadequate to the 
government of 
any other."
 
 
Henry Kissinger: 
 
“To be an enemy of America can be 
dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”


Henry Kissinger:
 
''Who controls the food supply controls the
people; who controls the energy can 
control whole continents; who 
controls money can control
the world.''


April 12th, 2022, Putin:
 
''What is happening today? The demolition of
the system of the unipolar world that took
shape after the collapse of the Soviet 
Union. That’s what’s important!''
 
 
April 17th, 2022 a Brazilian:
 
''Is Russia at war? She is. But not Russia only.
Russia is fighting not just for herself, but for
all the other countries attacked, in what-
ever form, by the USA. Therefore, it is 
an inevitable and necessary war, to 
put an end to the total domination 
of the USA --- demolishing the 
unipolar world that followed 
the collapse of the USSR.''


 
Andrei Bezrukov, member of the Presidium of
the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy:
 
“The point is, by tactically winning, and 
by successfully quarrelling us with the 
Ukrainian people - war, naturally, is the 
ultimate level of quarrel – they haven't
understood that by doing so they have 
totally destroyed the very system 
which they had built in the world. 
It is not visible yet, but in a few 
months their severed financial 
chains, broken ideological 
messages, and broken 
security system, will 
become apparent.”


Russian proverb, who is it about 
Joe? Hey... Joe!  Wake up Joe!!!:
 
''An old man telling lies is
 like a rich man stealing.''
 
 
On recent national television in Germany: 
 
''We need to destroy Russia, they are not
 European, we must finish them all... 
 once and for all.''
 
 
From a Pravda article:

“In its long quest for world peace, 
Russia has always stuck to
its guns.”



Vladimir, commentator:
 
''Russia will win, eventually. But cannot win without
superior ideals, to animate Russian 
strength, the
power of the people animated 
by the power of
God. It's not a mystery: 
the people must be
united by both 
Orthodoxy & Socialism, by
Tsar and 
Soviets, Nation and Motherland!
These things are not contradictory, but
complimentary. 
This, I believe, will
happen, the 
conflict has begun
the process 
and the conflict
will be ended 
by it.''
 
 

Blogger, on ''limited nuclear war'':
 
''During the Cold War - all the wargames of a 
direct USA-USSR clash - had 1 of 2 results: 
a threat of nukes caused the clash to end, 
or it - extremely quickly - went to full
bore 
Total Nuclear War.''



Paul from the Sirius report: 
 
“Western experts fail to grasp..... that the Global
South is around 87% of the world’s population,
is in its ascendancy, and has a myriad of
vertical growth markets now in play 
and is embracing the multipolar 
world. The West meanwhile,
is in terminal decline.”



Marine Le Pen:
 
“By (ferociously) repressing popular 
protest movements like the Yellow 
Vests, or social movements like
the demonstrations against 
pension reform Emmanuel 
Macron has installed the 
idea that nothing can 
be debatable, 
amendable, 
reformable.”



Marie Le Pen:
 
“The only thing I don’t want, is 
sanctions on raw materials 
which will have heavy 
consequences on the 
French.. and on the 
rest of the world, ” 
 
 
Marine Le Pen:
 
“I do not want the French to commit hara-kiri 
on the grounds of sanctions decided by our 
leaders and which would not relate to the 
daily life of our compatriots.”
 
 
Marine Le Pen:
 
“We have another choice.  In reality, all the
sanctions that have been put on the table 
and decided today, are sanctions that 
have been designed to protect the 
interests of the financial markets 
and the real war profiteers. All 
these sanctions are hitting 
our companies --- and 
individuals.”
 
 
Marine Le Pen:
 
“My obsession is to protect the French.
I don’t want them to lose their jobs, to 
find themselves unable to heat their 
homes, feed themselves or drive
to work.”
 

Swiss intelligence analyst, military 
officer, intelligence and terrorism 
expert, Jacques Baud:
 
''Western politicians have accepted civilian
strikes in the Donbass for 8 years without
adopting any sanctions against the 
Ukrainian government. We have 
long since entered a dynamic 
where Western politicians 
have agreed to sacrifice 
international law  -----
towards their goal of 
weakening Russia.''
 

Randy Newman song:
 
“It’s money that matters
Hear what I say
It’s money that matters
In the USA.”


Swiss intelligence analyst, military 
officer, intelligence and terrorism 
expert, Jacques Baud:
 
''It would have been better to engage 
in negotiations and thus obtain 
guarantees for the civilian 
population -- than to add
fuel to the fire. It's easy 
to be combative with 
the blood of others.''
 
 
H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956): 
 
“The men the American people admire most 
extravagantly are the most daring liars; the 
men they detest most violently are those 
who try to tell them the truth.”
 
 
Thomas Paine:
 
“To argue with a person who has 
renounced reason  ---  is like 
administering medicine 
to the dead.”
 
 
Isaac Asimov (1920 – 1992):
 
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United 
States, and there has always been. The 
strain of anti-intellectualism has been 
a constant thread winding its way 
through our political and cultural 
life, nurtured by the false notion 
that democracy means that 
your ignorance, is just as 
good as my knowledge.”
 
 
Old proverb:
 
“Folly rewards itself.”



Swiss intelligence analyst, military 
officer, intelligence and terrorism 
expert, Jacques Baud:
 
''Some intelligence services see this
irresponsible decision as a way to 
use the Ukrainian population as 
cannon fodder to fight Vladimir 
Putin’s Russia.  This kind of 
murderous decision should 
have been left --- to the
colleagues of Ursula 
von der Leyen’s 
grandfather.''
 


Andrei Martyanov:
 
''We all are into new territory, where the
REAL face of the West and the US has 
been exposed. Sadly... most of the 
public in the West... will not know 
what's happening. They are kept 
oblivious by Western media and
by the realities of everyday 
survival in the midst of a 
massive economic 
calamity, which 
unfolds before 
all of us.''
 
 

Swiss intelligence analyst, military 
officer, intelligence and terrorism 
expert, Jacques Baud:
 
''The EU is repeating the disastrous experience of the Third
Reich in the final hours of the 
Battle of Berlin. War must be
left to the 
military and, when one side has lost, it must be
admitted. And if there is 
to be resistance, it must be led 
and structured. But we, are doing exactly the opposite
—we are pushing citizens to go and fight and at the 
same time, Facebook -- authorizes calls --- for 
the murder of Russian soldiers and leaders. 
So much for the values that inspire us.''
 


Andrei (the Saker):
 
''Here is the ugly truth nobody wants to openly 
admit: the West wants to genocide Russia and
the West is ALREADY genociding the people 
of the Ukraine. If the Empire of Hate and 
Lies has its way, this war will last as 
long as possible, include as many 
horrible atrocities as possible 
--- and a total destruction of 
the civilian infrastructure 
of the Ukraine.''
 
 

Nikolai Mezhevich, Institute of Europe 
of the Russian Academy of Sciences:
 
''The world has crossed the line, behind which 
it is becoming a totally different world. New
rules are being prepared, and they will be 
put on the table very soon.''
 


US President Ronald Reagan, in 1983,
to Bandera’s neo-fascist deputy,
Yaroslav Stetsko:
 
“Your struggle is our struggle”.


 
Economist Gal Luft, co-director
Washington-based Institute for 
the Analysis of Global Security:
 
“The oil market & by extension
the entire global commodities 
market is an insurance policy 
for the status of the dollar as 
the reserve currency.  If that 
block's taken out of the wall 
the wall will begin to 
collapse.”




Nicolás Maduro:
 
''My message to France and Europe --- is that 
we will make sure Venezuela won't witness
the rise of another Pinochet. And we will 
do it the democratic way.''


 
Matthew Ehret,  journalist, lecturer, and
founder of the Canadian Patriot Review:
 
''A key pillar in the control over colonies of  Anglo- Dutch influence 
remains the Privy 'Council system, which is centred in Britain, but 
has secondary branches in select Commonwealth countries. It is 
under the Privy Council’s influence that lower-level operatives 
are instituted - in the form of deputy ministers, the Treasury 
Board, Select Committees, and other appointed officials in 
the Civil Service. Other key nodes in the public and private 
sector manage the interests of the Crown. All cabinet 
members of government are made Privy Councillors 
and all Privy Councillors are sworn to an oath of 
secrecy and allegiance to the Queen including 
oaths to keep secret those things spoken of 
in privy council meetings. Strange things, 
for paragons of the 'free, democratic 
rules-based order.'''
 


Britney Spears: 
 
“We should just trust our president 
in every decision he makes.”


Thorsten J. Pattberg:
 
''Colonialism and foreign rule will not end 
by themselves. And human history can 
be reduced to a single formula: If you 
don’t fight back, you’re worthless.''
 
 
T. Jenson:
 
''Correct grammatical language is 
another of God’s fantastic gifts. 
The semantic manipulation 
of words and concepts is 
an elite tool -- and the 
route to a confused 
manipulated mind.''

 
Prof. Slobodan Antonic:
 
''A glance at the map of today’s European Union
reveals its striking resemblance with the
farthest reach of the German military 
forces during the First and Second 
World Wars, especially on the
Eastern Fronts.''
 
 
Sergey Glazyev:
 
''After the Americans... seized first the Venezuelan foreign
exchange reserves & handed them 
over to the opposition,
then the Afghan 
foreign exchange reserves, before that, 
the Iranian ones and now the Russian ones, it became
completely clear that 
the dollar had ceased to be the
world 
currency. Following the Americans -- the
Europeans also committed this 
stupidity – the
euro and the pound    
....ceased to be world
currencies. 
Therefore, the old monetary &
financial system --- is living its last days. 
After the US dollars that 
no one needs
-- are sent back to 
the US from Asian
countries, 
the collapse of the world 
monetary & financial system based
on dollars 
and euros, is inevitable. 
Leading countries are switching
to national 
currencies, & the 
euro and the dollar... are
ceasing to be 
foreign
exchange 
reserves.''



Sergey Glazyev:
 
''We are talking about targeted credit emission
based on modern digital tools - with a strict
control system - focused on investments in 
new technologies. We know how to do this, 
how to minimize the human factor through 
the introduction of digital technologies, 
including the digital ruble. But this is
disadvantageous for those who still 
adhere to the old strategies. They 
made a cash cow out of Russia, 
they sucked out 100 billion 
dollars from it, abroad, to 
offshore companies. But 
now the Americans have
closed offshorization
for 
us... There is a
real 
opportunity,
we 
must use it.''



Elizabeth Peratrovich:
 
"This is your home and your people. 
Why don't you go out and help them?"
 


Ron Unz:
 
“Over the decades, America spent over 
$100 billion dollars on ‘biodefense,’
the euphemistic term for bio-
warfare development and 
has the world’s oldest 
and largest such 
program, one of
the few ever 
deployed... 
in real life 
combat.”
 
 

Michael Hudson:
 
''Europe is not led by politicians that have
Europe’s interests at heart. They’re just 
as corrupt as they are in any other 
part of the world, if not more.''
 

 
caityjohnstone.medium.com:
 
''If you think things are crazy now, 
just you wait until the imperial 
crosshairs move to Beijing.''
 


philosopher Alexander Dugin:
 
“The World Economic Forum has announced that
it has severed “all relations” with the Russian
government and Vladimir Putin.. 
due to the
ongoing ”attack” on Ukraine. 
This is great
news. Russia has, finally, rid 
itself of its
globalism, and the fanatics of the 
Great
Reset, Schwab’s twisted world 
alliance
of oligarchs and their associates. 
Now
it is clear to everyone: Moscow is the
capital of the Great Awakening on a
world 
scale. Everyone on the planet
now knows:  
this is not a regional
conflict, of “Russians against the
“Ukrainians”, this is the beginning
of a liberation of humanity from
the liberal dictatorship of world
monopolies. Ukraine is just a
local hub for these elites...
which have been founded
...against the land of the
East Slavs against their
will and in complete
ignorance. 

Liberal national propaganda has turned the population
into zombies. The real war is not against Ukraine and
not even the West, but against the economic forums
of the world 
and their infernal plans, which aim at
the destruction of humanity by legalizing all 
kinds of perversions, sins and crimes.”


 
Blogger:
 
''As a European, I am willing to live on water 
and cabbage, just to see these wagging 
Western hypocrites getting spanked 
by Russia.''



Michael Hudson:
 
''The central aim of the World Bank is to prevent
other countries from growing their own food.
That's the prime directive. It will only make
loans for countries to earn foreign 
currency and it has insisted ever 
since about 1950 that countries 
that borrow from it -- must shift 
their agriculture, to plantation 
export crops to grow tropical 
crops that cannot be grown 
in the United States for 
environmental and 
weather reasons.''
 
''And the countries mustn't grow their own food
and must not undertake Land Reform, or small
family-based farming. So it insisted on foreign
-owned agribusiness in large plantation agri-
culture. What that means is that countries 
that have borrowed for agricultural loans 
have not been loans...  to produce their 
own food. It has been to compete with 
each other producing tropical export 
crops --- while being increasingly
dependent on the US, for their 
food supplies, and their grain. 
And that is part of the corner 
they painted them into that's
going to be creating such a 
world famine this summer.''



Susan B. Anthony:
 
"Resistance to tyranny
 is obedience to God."



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:
 
''Do you know, the only value
life has, is what life puts 
on itself?''



Ernestine Rose:

''Agitate!  Agitate!  Ought to be the motto of every
reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation
 - the one is life, the other death.''



Late chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer in 2005:
 
“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.”


 
Colonel Cassad:
 
''The body of a young woman lies on the floor
with her hands tied behind her back, half
naked and covered by rags or blankets.
A plastic bag has been tied over her
head. A large swastika -- has been
burnt on the skin of her stomach 
with hot irons - evidently - while
she was 
still alive. DPR fighters
showed us the 
girl’s body... it
lies in the basement of 
one
of the schools in Mariupol 
...where the base of the
Azov 
nationalists was...
One of 
the girl’s arms
was 
torn off.''
 

 
Vladimir Putin: 
 
''I am Laketz, I am Chechen, I am Ingush, I am
Jew, I am Tatar, I am Russian, I am Mordvin, 
I am Ossetian.'' 
 

 
Video of the Omsk MMA group Storm
- with members saying - one by one:
 
''I am German and I am Russian, I am
Dagestanets and I am Russian, I am 
Armenian and I am Russian, I am 
Kazakh and I am Russian, I am 
Azerbaijani and I am Russian,
I am Russian, we are 
Russians, we are 
one people.'' 



Lieutenant-Colonel W.G.F. Jackson
MC, BA, R.E. Instructor, the Royal 
Military Academy, Sandhurst...
'Seven Roads to Moscow' p.319:
 
‘’Let us hope that no-one will ever be tempted 
to emulate Charles, Napoleon, and Hitler in 
imposing a military solution of a kind of 
which history has shown must fail, 
and which will bring nuclear 
annihilation to mankind.’’ 
 
 

Francis Lee:
 
''In the Greek fable of Pandora’s Box, Pandora could not
resist opening 
the box, but she opened the box and
several evil entities started 
flying out of it. These
included 
hatred, envy, greed, disease, poverty,
pain, death and war. 
All these miseries of
human 
life escaped the box and entered
the real world. 
By the time Pandora 
slammed back the box’s lid all the 
evils had escaped except ‘hope’.
I begin to wonder if we have
in fact, 
opened the box?''


 
F(unny)Man:
 
''Here in Zone A [The West] we are all chickens, living in
an Ideological Poultry Farm:- they want 
us ignorant -
without understanding, just eating 
their ideological
feed, growing with it, without any concern about
what awaits us, isolated little egoist-narcissist
chickens. I said Ideological Poultry Farm,
because you 
know, what they feed the
chickens in 
there... is well over 50%
their own 
recycled shit.''




Declan Hayes:
 
''We need Bismarcks, de Gaulles, Talleyrands,
Tolstoys and Metternichs, not bird brained
authoritarians like Canada’s Trudeau, the
red socks’ fascist, or pliable, demented 
& deranged war hawks, like “Irish” Joe 
Biden. We need, in short, to replace all 
NATO’s pliable puppets -- with an intel-
lectual caste, that resorts to jaw jaw 
-- instead of NATO’s endless war war 
-- and sees the lands of Dostoevksy 
Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich 
- as something more than a market 
to offload McDonald’s hamburgers
and Hello Kitty bling into.''



Heinrich Böll:
 
''In all states under the reign of terror,
the word 
is almost feared more
than armed resistance and
oftentimes... the latter 
is the consequence
of the first.'' 



Larry C. Johnson:
 
Zelensky... is banning opposition political
parties and shutting down opposition 
media. I guess that is the new 
definition of “democracy.”


 
Finian Cunningham:
 
''If it transpires that the Pentagon is actually
helping Ukrainian militants - the Nazi Azov
regiments no less - to assassinate 
Russia’s top generals, then a 
grim conclusion is, we may 
have reached a point of 
no return.''
 


Ronald Moultrie, Under Secretary of 
Defense for Intelligence & Security:
 
“We are making a difference in 
accurate, actionable, and
timely intel.”



 
Walter Rodney:
 
''We were told that violence in itself is evil, and
 that -- whatever the cause -- it is unjustified
 morally. By what standard of morality can
 the violence used by a slave to break his
 chains be considered the same as the 
violence of a slave master? By what 
standards can we equate the violence
 of blacks who have been oppressed, 
suppressed, depressed & repressed 
for 4 centuries with the violence of 
white fascists.  Violence aimed at
the 
recovery of human dignity and
at 
equality can't be judged by the 
same yardstick as the violence 
..aimed at the maintenance of 
discrimination & oppression.'' 




Former chief of the Main Staff of the 
Strategic Missile Forces, Colonel-
General Viktor Ivanovich Esin:
 
“I’m driving around San Francisco with the
Americans on the bus. Everyone is talking 
and laughing. And then – we pass by the
lighthouse. I looked at him and said: 
“I know this lighthouse.” 
 
“How can you know it --- if you are 
in San Francisco for the first time?” 
 
“You forgot that I was engaged in nuclear
planning. And here is the lighthouse ---  it 
was the aiming point. I will tell you more: 
next to this lighthouse is the collapse of
the earth’s crust. So, if a multi-megaton
block gets here, a landslide will happen
and half California will be in the ocean.” 

After that, everyone silently drove to 
their destination.”




 Caitlin Johnstone:
 
''It’s not okay to be a grown adult in 2022 and
believe the “anti-war” position.. is to support
pouring weapons into a foreign country and
cold war brinkmanship.. that could lead to 
World War 3, while shouting down anyone 
who advocates de-escalation, diplomacy 
and detente.''


 
Tommy Cooper:
 
“I had a ploughman's lunch the other day. 
He wasn't very happy.”



 Reinhard Koradi:
 
''The hitherto extremely successful economic system
(social market economy and balanced financial and
budgetary policy) was 
destabilized by privatisation
and 
the neoliberal turn. Americanized, by adopting
Anglo-Saxon customs, 
banks --- especially in
Germany and 
Switzerland --- joined the
prevailing 
casino mentality on the
global 
financial markets.'' 
 
''Finance capitalism has done great damage to the world in
many ways. Contrary to neoliberal economic theory, the
global deregulation of the financial markets... is not a
stability factor, but a dangerous risk factor and thus,
the trigger for the current chaotic conditions in the
financial and economic sectors.''
 
''Under the cloak of a "democratic" state system and
a fake globally liberalized 
world, we are now ruled
by 
corporations.''
 


PBOC Governor Zhou Xiaochuan:
 
“The world needs an international reserve currency
that is disconnected from 
individual nations and
able to 
remain stable in the long run, removing
the inherent 
deficiencies caused by using
credit-based 
national currencies.”
 


Professor Dr. Alfred de Zayas, international
law expert and former UN mandate holder:
 
''When one considers the crimes of aggression, war crimes
and crimes against humanity 
committed in the name of
NATO, one 
has to ask whether this organization falls
into the category of Article 9 of 
the Nuremberg
Tribunal Statute, 
namely, as a
criminal organization".
 


Dimitrov, the Bulgarian general secretary 
of the Communist (Third) International, 
characterised fascism in a speech to 
the 7th Comintern congress in 1935: 
 
“Fascism is not a power standing above class, or
a government of the petty bourgeoisie, or 
the
lumpen-proletariat over finance capital,” 
it
is: “the open, terrorist dictatorship of the
most reactionary, most chauvinistic and 
most imperialist elements of finance 
capital. Fascism is the power of 
finance capital itself. It is the 
organization of terrorist 
vengeance against the 
working class and the 
revolutionary section 
of the peasantry &
intelligentsia.”


 
Blogger: 
 
''The powers that shouldn’t be, in the US, 
want to have the best infrastructure on
earth. Not by building the best, but by
destroying everyone else’s.''


 
Tommy Cooper:
 
“So I rang up a local building firm,
 I said 'I want a skip outside my 
house.' He said 'I'm not 
stopping you.'”
 


Victoria Nikiforova:
 
''It is very typical that today the Chinese, en masse,
approve of Russia’s special 
operation in Ukraine.
They look at it 
with great interest, in Asia, Africa 
and South America. Our country is giving people
an example of a 
successful exit from the West's
neo-colonialist model. On the one hand, its
courageous 
opposition to the West, by all
means, including by the 
military. On the
other hand,
 it's the clever painstaking
building 
of a new life, of a new
economic model, 
of a new
world order.'' 

''A world
 order in which the “global domination
of the Western countries, in politics and
economics” has ended forever.''
 

 
Malek Dudakov:
 
''European countries continue to dutifully ask the US for
new weapons, for which they are 
now willing to spend
more money. For the 
US military industrial complex,
Ukraine 
has become... “manna from heaven” – its
shares are rising and further 
chaoticisation of
the world order 
means more and more super 
profits for it. Therefore the US military-
industrial 
complex’s lobbying efforts
will continue 
to force the US to 
plunge headlong into the
Ukrain
ian crisis.''



 Senior scientist... at Physicians for 
Social Responsibility, Steven Starr:
 
“If the conclusions of the nuclear winter 
research — that nuclear war is suicide
for all peoples and nations — had 
gained widespread acceptance 
and understanding, it is likely 
that the whole nuclear 
weapons industry, 
would have been 
shut down.”
 


 Caitlin Johnstone:
 
''The gulf between expert analyses, and what 
people are consuming in the news could not
possibly be wider. People simply don’t
understand what’s being done with 
their lives, by powerful people --- 
who care only about imperial 
domination --- and the 
powerful... intend to
keep it that way.''


 
Los Alamos Study Group secretary 
and executive director, Greg Mello:
 
''The imagination cannot encompass nuclear war.
Nuclear war means nuclear winter. It 
means the
collapse of the very fragile 
electronic, financial
governmental, 
administrative systems...  that
keep 
everyone alive. We’d be lucky to reboot
in the early 19th century.  
And, if enough
weapons are 
detonated, the collapse of 
the Earth’s ozone layer would mean that
every 
form of life, that has eyes, could
be blinded. The 
combined effects of a 
US-Russian nuclear war would mean
that pretty 
much every terrestrial 
mammal and many plants, would
become 
extinct. There would 
be a dramatic biological 
thinning.''


 
 Caitlin Johnstone:
 
''It doesn’t need to be like this. There is no
reason our planet needs to be dominated 
by any one single power structure, 
especially if doing so -- means 
risking complete annihilation. 
We should all be pushing - for 
de-escalation, diplomacy and
detente, and for the nations 
and peoples of this world, 
to begin working together 
for the good of everyone.''
 


Vladimir Putin appeals to the
citizens of Western countries
on March 16th, at 2:17pm:
 
“Now...   they are persistently trying to convince you, 
that all your difficulties are the result of the hostile
actions of Russia... that you need 
to pay for the
fight against a mythical Russian 
threat from
your own wallet. All of this is a lie. 
And the
truth is -- that the current problems 
that
millions of people in the West face
are
the result of many years of activity 
by the ruling elites of their states;
their 
mistakes, political myopia &
ambitions. These elites, are not 
thinking about.. how to improve 
the lives of their citizens, they 
are obsessed with their own 
vested interests - 
and
their super profits.”
 


Larry Romanoff:
 
''You may (or may not) be aware, that the US/UK
fired millions of artillery and other rounds in 
Iraq, that were made of depleted uranium. I
won’t go into details here, but one effect of 
DU is that since then about 25% of all the
births in Iraq... exhibit the most horrible
deformities, babies born with no head, 
one head, two heads, or three heads. 
I am serious. Many infants are born 
with most of their internal organs 
outside the torso and many with 
the brain entirely outside the 
cranial cavity.'' 
 
''Many have any number of limbs emanating 
from any part of the body --- and many with 
no limbs at all. Some have no eyes; some 
have only one large eye.. in the centre of 
their foreheads, if the nose isn’t already 
there. A UN report...  described many 
emerging fetuses as “unidentifiable 
lumps of flesh“. It was so bad, that 
the midwives who still at that time 
delivered most births in Iraq were 
refusing to assist at birthing 
because “We don’t know 
what will come out.”



 
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:
 
“The whole world will be interested 
to know what exactly the American
bio-laboratories in Ukraine... 
were doing.”




Serbian Minister of Internal 
Affairs, Aleksandar Vulin:
 
“When Wesley Clark, the head of the 1999
killers and Jamie Shea, the creator of the 
term ‘collateral damage’, with which he
'explained' the deaths of dozens of our 
children began to explain -- that killing 
Serbs in NATO aggression, was human 
as much as necessary, then you know 
that --- their every invitation to inter-
national law, is cynicism and lies.”




Humorist A.A. Gill’s explanation of why
the English
 line up in a queue so well:
 
 “if they didn’t, they’d kill each other.”




Samuel Johnson:
 
''Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm
the world, by the advantage which licentious
principles afford, did not those who have
long practiced perfidy, grow faithless 
to each other.'' 




Pope Pius XII, August 24th, in 1939: 
 
''Nothing is lost with peace. All can be lost 
with war. Let men return to understanding. 
Let them resume negotiating. Negotiating
with good will and with respect for each 
other’s rights, let them realize... that an 
honorable success is never precluded 
when there are sincere and active 
negotiations. And they will feel 
great -- with true greatness -- if 
imposing silence on the voices 
of passion, whether collective 
or private, and leaving reason 
to its proper domain, they
will 
spare their brothers
blood-
shed and their
homeland, 
ruin.''


 
Ljubisa Malenica:
 
''It is interesting to note how Westerners
somehow, suddenly remembered this 
set of rules called international law. 
Highly interesting given that they 
themselves participated in its 
creation and design. Where 
were these guardians of 
international law when 
NATO bombs blew up 
civilian trains in 
Serbia?''
 

 
NATO Jan. 2021 published 'Cognitive Warfare':
 
“The brain will be the battlefield of the 21st
century. Humans are the contested domain.
Cognitive warfare’s objective, is to make 
everyone a weapon.”


 
Caitlin Johnstone:
 
''You asked for a robust anti-war movement in
America -- you got demonstrations calling
for 
World War 3.''


 
From NATO's 'Cognitive Warfare':
 
''In particular, the brain: is unable to distinct
[sic] whether information is right or wrong:
is led to believe statements or messages 
it has already heard as true, even though 
these may be false; accepts statements 
as true, if backed by evidence, with no 
regards [sic] to the authenticity of 
that evidence.''


 
Caitlin Johnstone:
 
''A 2014 study by Earth’s Future found that just
a nuclear exchange between India & Pakistan,
would throw five Tg of black carbon into the
stratosphere, blocking out the sun for 
decades and potentially starving 
everything to death. India and 
Pakistan, have 160 and 165 
nukes each, respectively. 
The US and Russia have 
5,550 and 6,257.''


 
Patrick Lawrence:
 
''We are all called upon either to recognize 
the United States for what it has become, 
an empire violently defending itself 
against history itself, or accept 
our fate among the victims 
of this empire.''



Gamal Abdel Nasser:
 
“The genius of you Americans, is that you
never make clear-cut stupid moves, only
complicated stupid moves, which make
the rest of us wonder at the possibility
that we might be missing something.”
 


Dr. Eamon McKinney C.E.O. of CBNGLOBAl:
 
''The Empire doesn’t care about the Ukrainians anymore
than they care about the people in their own countries.
It is about maintaining control over humanity.
President Putin is 
not, in essence, fighting
the Ukraine, he 
is fighting the N.W.O.
And that is 
everyone’s fight.''


 
Patrick Armstrong:
 
''All that NATO support will get you, is destruction
when you fight the war it 
suckered you into, and
an extra 
special Christmas card.. when you’re
defeated and ruined.''
 


Geopolitical analyst, Pepe Escobar:
 
''The unelected, uber-Kafkaesque, EU machine
in Brussels has chosen to commit a triple hara
-kiri by grandstanding as abject vassals of the
Empire, destroying any remaining French and 
German sovereignty impulses, and imposing 
alienation from Russia-China.''



the truth in ukraine

Andrei (The Saker):
 
''Any halfway competent military commander
who would look at the map above, would
immediately see - that the only rational 
decision at this point is for Ukrainians 
to surrender: that map is, really, a no 
brainer. But since orders come from 
Uncle Shmuel, and since Uncle 
Shmuel hates Steppe Niggers 
no less than Snow Niggers - 
Uncle Shmuel will now aim 
its immense resources at 
prolonging that war as
long as possible and 
with.. as many 
casualties as 
possible.''

 

Philip Giraldi:

''It is past time Americans started asking
what kind of international order is it that
lets the United States determine what
other nations can and cannot do.''




Russian FM spokesperson:

''The world simply cannot continue with a
small part of it raping the rest because
this small part is unable to support
themselves.. without aggression
and looting. Western countries
have begun the process of
destroying their own
economies.''




Aleksandar Pavic:

''Russians remember that only the Serbs
refused to join Nazi German troops... on
the Eastern Front against the U.S.S.R.''



Blogger:

''At least Russian citizens finally realize how
 the U.S. and eu view them. Hopefully, they
will not waste any more time and energy
trying to get into our good graces,
because that is impossible. We
want to ruin your country. We
don’t care how many of you
we harm and we do not
care about truth.''



Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

''If only it were so simple! If only there were evil
people somewhere, insidiously committing evil
deeds, and it were necessary only to separate
them from the rest of us and destroy them. But
the line dividing good and evil cuts through the
heart of every human being. And who is willing
to destroy a piece of his own heart?''



Caitlin Johnstone:

''Hollywood teaches us that heroism looks like
an individual stopping a bank robbery, or
leaving a criminal tied up outside the
police station, so we don’t realize
that real heroism looks like a
collective rising up against
our plutocratic rulers, and
creating a healthy world.''




Dmitry Orlov, February 27th, 2022:
 
“People who are now speaking out against
Russia’s military action in Ukraine need to
answer a simple question:-  Where have 
you been for the last eight years.. while 
the carnage in Donetsk and Lugansk 
was going on --- while people were 
being burned alive in Odessa --- 
while Ukraine's ''government'' 
organized terror operations 
on Russian territory --- and 
while the entire Ukrainian 
population's been forced 
to kowtow to the US and 
speak Ukrainian --- most 
often... against its will?''
 
''If your answer is “I didn’t know” 
then you've forfeited your right 
to an informed opinion on 
what’s happening there 
now. Please keep that 
in mind ...and act 
accordingly.”
 

 
Andrei at The Saker:
 
''Europe, who prefers to glorify Nazis, than to 
stop hating Russians for our two major sins: 
first, that we exist, and, second, that we 
live on your natural resources.  Either 
that, or we are dealing with a cold-
hearted indifference of a society 
which has no other values left 
than rabid consumption and
hatred of the other.''
 

 
C.S. Lewis:
 
''A continual looking forward.. to the eternal
world is not (as some modern people think) 
a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but
one of the things a Christian's meant to do.
It does not mean that we are to leave the 
present world as it is. If you read history 
you will find that the Christians who did 
most for the present world, were just 
those who thought most of the next.
It is since Christians have largely 
ceased to think of the other 
world, that they've become 
so ineffective in this one. 
Aim at Heaven, and you 
will get earth “thrown
in”: aim at earth, and
you will get neither.''
 
 

Historian Anne Morelli has summarized 
Arthur Ponsonby's classic book 
Falsehood in War-Time as this:
 
We do not want war.
 
The opposite party alone is guilty of war.
 
The enemy is inherently evil
and 
resembles the devil.
 
We defend a noble cause,
not our own interests.
 
The enemy commits atrocities on purpose; 
our mishaps are involuntary.
 
The enemy uses forbidden weapons.
 
We suffer small losses, those of 
the enemy are enormous.
 
Recognized artists and intellectuals
 back our cause.
 
Our cause is sacred.
 
All who doubt our propaganda are traitors.
 
As an example, I offer you this: 
 
Policy statement by Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of
the Federal Republic of Germany and Member 
of the German Bundestag, in Berlin, Sunday,
27th of February, in 2022.
 
''Madam President, Distinguished colleagues,
Fellow citizens, The 24th of February 2022
marks a watershed in the history of our
continent. With the attack on Ukraine, 
the Russian President Putin has begun 
a war of aggression, in cold blood. For 
one reason alone: the freedom of the 
Ukrainian people.... calls his own 
oppressive regime into question.
That is inhumane. It's a violation 
of international law. There is 
nothing, and nobody, that 
can justify it.''
 


Iron Chancellor Otto von Bismarck:

“The secret of politics? Make a 
good treaty with Russia.”
 
 

Blogger:
 
''Let me add a statistic as to the results 
of those magnificent [US] campaigns, 
concerning the vets that had served 
in them: 120,000 suicides. Add that
to the bodycount.''
 

 
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism:
 
“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit
reality to their lies, their propaganda is 
marked by its extreme contempt for 
facts as such for, in their opinion, a
fact depends entirely on the power 
of the man who can fabricate it.”
 

 
Paul Craig Roberts:
 
The imbalance of force has been corrected, 
and since force is all that the West under-
stands, Russia is using force -- to end the 
use of Ukraine as a pawn against Russia. 
In the past, the stupid and arrogant West
ignored Russia’s warnings. In his address
this morning Putin gave another warning. 
If the dumbshit Western leaders do not 
hear this warning, the West will cease 
to exist: 



V. V. Putin:
 
“I would now like to say... something very
important for those who may be tempted
to interfere in these developments.. from 
the outside. No matter who tries to stand 
in our way ---- or all the more so ---- create 
threats for our country and our people..... 
they must know that Russia will respond
immediately - and the consequences will 
be such - as you have never seen in your 
entire history. No matter how the events 
unfold, we are ready. All the necessary
decisions in this regard, have been 
taken. I hope that my words will 
be heard.”


 
Hannah Arendt:
 
“Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to
conventional, standardized codes of 
expression and conduct, have the 
socially recognized function of 
protecting us against reality, 
that is, against the claim on 
our thinking attention.. that 
all events & facts make, by 
virtue of their existence.”
 


Margarita Simonyan:
 
“If.. you are now ashamed that 
you are Russian, don't worry, 
you are not Russian.” 



The Gospel of Nicodemus:
 
Pilate said to him: What is truth? 
Christ said to him: Truth is of 
heaven. Pilate said: Is there 
not truth upon earth? Christ 
said to Pilate: You see how 
that they which speak the 
truth are judged of them 
that have authority 
upon earth.



Robert Burns:
 
“Oh the gift that God could give us, 
to see ourselves as others see us.”


 
President Putin:
 
“The United States is still a great country, and a
system-forming power. All its satellites not only
humbly and obediently say yes to and parrot it 
at the slightest pretext, but also imitate its
behaviour -- and enthusiastically accept 
the rules it is offering them. Therefore 
one can say with good reason and 
confidence, that the whole so-
called Western bloc formed 
by the United States in its 
own image and likeness 
is, in its entirety, the 
very same ’empire 
of lies.’”




Paul Craig Roberts:
 
''The Western world has replaced reason and
fact with narratives.  Narratives are official
explanations that, no matter how false, 
carry the imprimatur of truth. To 
challenge them can be life-
threatening.''  



Dr. Eamon McKinneym eminent Sinologist:


''Humanity is entering uncharted waters and 
what comes next is far from certain. What is
 certain, is that all the institutions of power 
and control have been exposed, any trust 
they once enjoyed no longer exists. Our
 freedoms were never theirs to take 
away, asking their consent to get 
them back just reinforces their 
control. We don’t know what
the “new normal” will look 
like, but is for the people 
to decide, not the elites.
Those who...  describe 
themselves as “public 
servants” while acting
as the ’masters”, will 
have no future... in 
what is becoming
 a truly BRAVE 
new world…''




President Putin: 

''Fifty years ago, the streets of Leningrad
taught me one thing: If a fight’s 
inevitable, you must 
strike first.''




James Fenimore Cooper (The 
American Democrat 1838):
 
“Whenever the government of the US breaks
up.. it will probably be in consequence of a 
false direction having been given to public
opinion. This, is the weak point of our 
defences, and the part to which, the 
enemies of the system will direct
all 
their attacks. ''

''Opinion can be so 
perverted as to cause the false 
to seem true; the enemy, a friend and the friend,
an enemy; the best 
interests of the nation, to
appear 
insignificant and trifles of moment; 
in a word, the right the wrong and 
the wrong the right. In a country 
where opinion has sway to seize 
upon it - is to seize upon power. 
As it is a rule of humanity, that 
the upright & well-intentioned 
are comparatively passive, 
while the designing, dis-
honest & selfish are the 
most untiring... in their 
efforts... the danger of
public opinion getting 
a false direction, is
4-
fold, since few
men... 
think for
themselves.”



Blogger, February 22nd, 2022 at 12:21pm: 
 
''It is an historical fact that Russians chase 
the retreating enemy all the way to their 
capitol. Never accept a ceasefire until 
the complete neutralization of the 
enemy. Germans and French 
learned that, the hard way.
 
''If Anglos paid attention in history classes,
they would understand the gravity of the
situation they have brought upon 
themselves.''



C. S. Lewis:
 
“You can’t go back and change
the beginning,
 but you can
start where you are
and change the
ending...”




Boris Rozhin:
 
''The exchange of “answers”, between the 
United States and the Russian Federation 
showed irremediable contradictions, that 
cannot be resolved within the framework
 of the existing world order.''




Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan:
 
''My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. 
Every religion that has come into the world has brought 
the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are 
indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose 
hearts are empty of love, they do not know the 
meaning of religion.''




NATO will sustain the pressure even if 
Russia withdraws its forces from its 
southern-western regions, says U.S. 
Prof., Joseph Oliver Boyd-Barrett:
 
"First, NATO salivates for the dismemberment of
Russia, so as to achieve unregulated access
to Russian wealth. Second, the US arms and
'defence' industry and its craven lobbyists, 
which sit atop of the system of supposed
Western 'democracy', salivate... for the 
profits that they earn whenever given
the opportunity to stoke fear 
and hatred".



Joseph Oliver Boyd-Barrett, professor 
emeritus, Bowling Green State 
University, Ohio: 
 
"A fractured Ukraine is useful for the West,
because it gives it greater control over 
Ukraine and grants it pressure points, 
that enhance its relentless eastward 
expansion. Humanitarian goals are 
merely the West's pretexts... for 
interventions in the sovereign 
affairs of other nations,
rarely 
the main or
even any kind of
 
real motivation."




Henry C. Carey in “Harmony 
of Interests” (1851):
 
“Two systems are before the world; the one looks to
increasing the proportion of persons and of capital
engaged in trade and transportation, and therefore
to diminishing the proportion engaged in producing
commodities 
with which to trade, with necessarily 
diminished return to the labour of all; .....while the
other looks to increasing 
the proportion engaged
in the work 
of production, and diminishing that 
engaged in trade and transportation....... with
increased return to all.... giving to 
the laborer
good wages and to the 
owner of capital good
profits… 
One looks to pauperism, ignorance,
depopulation, and barbarism; ...the other, in
increasing wealth, 
comfort, intelligence, in 
combination of action, and civilization.
One 
looks towards universal war;.... 
the other towards universal peace.''




Matthew Ehret on the trucker protests:
 
''The Biden Administration has given its full
support to Justin Trudeau, to use the full 
force of federal power to shut down the
protests. Perhaps Biden is concerned 
that the example of the convoy has 
spread, not only across nations of 
the Trans Atlantic Community and 
Five Eyes cage, but also to the US
itself, where a parallel American 
freedom convoy will leave South-
ern California for Washington D.
C., on March the 5th, involving 
tens of thousands of 
American truckers.''




Former US Green Party
presidential candidate,
 Jill Stein:
 
“They lied to you about Vietnam. They lied to
 you about Iraq & Afghanistan. They lied to 
you about Syria & Libya. They lied to you 
about Honduras & Bolivia. They lied to 
you about Assange & Russiagate. So 
why the hell would you believe what 
they're telling you about Ukraine?” 



 Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio said last year:
 
“China already has the world’s second largest
 capital markets and I think they will event-
ually vie for having the world’s financial 
centre. When you see the transition 
from one empire to another, from 
the Dutch to the British, to the 
American, to me it just looks 
like that all over again.”



Nong Duc Manh: 
 
''As part of our renewal ----- we need to
fight 
problems, not just wait for them
to 
take place.''



Charles Ortel:
 
"Charity fraud is an insidious set of crimes, more so 
when lawyers, former presidents, and perennial 
presidential candidates....    are involved.  Good
that BLM scams are in focus - finally - but let us 
not prove that white privilege protects certain 
high profile charity con artists by continuing 
to let the extended network of false-front 
Clinton 'charities' - off the hook. Failure 
to investigate and prosecute gigantic 
charity frauds, involving politically 
connected dynasties, including 
the Clinton and Bush families
...likely emboldened the 
promoters of these 
bold BLM scams."



Psychologist Albert Ellis:
 
“The expense of making yourself panicked, enraged, 
and self-pitying is enormous. In time & money lost.
 In needless effort spent. In uncalled-for mental 
anguish. In sabotaging others’ happiness. In 
foolishly frittering away potential joy during 
the one life—yes, the one life—you’ll
 probably ever have.”




Julius Nyerere:
 
We in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to
socialism, than we have of being 'taught' democracy. 
Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional 
society which produced us.''



Jody Williams:
''I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing 
our planet without taking steps to confront them,
is 
absolutely irrelevant....  The only thing that
changes 
this world --- is taking action.  For
me the 
difference between an 'ordinary'
and an
 'extraordinary' person... is not
the title 
that person might have, but
what 
they do to make the world 
a better place for us all.''




 Marie de Rabutin-Chantal:
 
''It is thus that we walk through the world like 
the blind, not knowing whither we are going, 
regarding as bad what is good, regarding 
as good what is bad, and ever in 
entire ignorance.''



The US strategist, George Kennan:

“We should cease to talk about vague and
unreal objectives 
such as human rights,
the raising of 
the living standards, and
democratisation. The day's not far off
when we are going to have to deal in
straight power concepts. The less
we are then 
hampered by
idealistic 
slogans,
the better.''

 
 
 
Is the USA fascist, right now?
Definition of fascism coined
in the Spanish civil war:
 
C + M = F 

 Capitalism + Murder = Fascism.



Ramin Razaheri:
 
''Ask an average Frenchman, and I have asked
many: they aren’t taught much about their 
own revolution... they are denied a 
modern political education, in a 
domestic intellectual famine... 
routinely imposed by Western 
Liberal Democracy - the US -  
where ''the greatest political 
system ever in the history of
 mankind'' was established
--- by slave-owners, who 
waged a merciless war 
on aboriginal peoples.''




Senior US diplomat Jack Matlock:
 
“I testified in Congress against NATO expansion, 
saying that it would be a great mistake and that 
if it continues, certainly it would have to stop 
before it reaches countries like Ukraine and
Georgia. That this would be unacceptable 
to any Russian government.... Clinton 
personally told Yeltsin  ---  that the 
Partnership for Peace would be a 
substitute for NATO expansion... 
Yeltsin said: that’s great. That’s
a brilliant idea”. At the same 
time.... our ambassador was 
instructed to tell the Poles:- 
“This is the 1st step towards
NATO membership. So, we 
were playing I must say to
my dismay... duplicitous 
diplomacy at the time”.



Taking command of NATO’s forces, 
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower stated: 
 
“If in 10 years, all American troops 
stationed in Europe for national 
defense purposes have not 
been returned to the US,
then this whole project 
(NATO) will have failed.”


 
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
 
“True peace, is not merely the absence 
of tension, it is the presence of justice.”



 
Bruce Kent:
 
''We now have the climate change 
campaigners with us. Military 
production involves the 
release of CO2...  in 
massive quantities.''
 


Marcus Aurelius:
 
“The object of life is not to be on the side 
of the majority, but to escape finding 
oneself in the ranks of the insane.” 



Ramzan Kadyrov:
 
America is carrying out policies against Russia
and its leadership. They know I'm among those 
ready to give my life for Russia and that I have
a good army, capable of attacking and 
defending. We'll see who comes
out 
on top.''
 


China's new Ambassador to the US, Qin Gang:
 
“If the Taiwanese authorities, emboldened by
the United States, keep going down the road 
for independence, it most likely will involve 
China and the United States, the two big 
countries, in a military conflict.”
 

 
China's new Ambassador to the US, Qin Gang:
 
''If Washington provokes either 
China or Russia, the other one
will not be indifferent.''
 
 
 
Paul Craig Roberts:
 
''I don’t think war is close at hand unless Washington
succeeds in provoking Ukraine to invade Donbas, in
order to solidify Washington’s hold on Europe & the 
election for Biden, by causing Russian intervention.
In which case it would be a short war with Ukraine
sacrificed for Washington’s political purposes.''
 
''Instead, Russia will target all of Europe with their
hypersonic missiles   ...including the US bases in 
Poland and Romania and all military facilities in
Ukraine, as well as Kiev. They will let Europe 
live under the strain of rising tensions. 
Europeans are more harmed than 
benefited by US hegemony and 
sooner or later, Europeans 
will conclude that NATO 
is a greater threat to 
them than Russia.''
 

 
Blogger:
 
''The F-35... is a perfect metaphor...
for the entire western civilization.
 
Official version: the F-35 is the 
most amazing military aircraft 
ever designed
 
True version: the F-35, is the most 
overpriced piece of semi-airborne
sh*t, in world history.''



C. J. Cherryh:
 
Jane leaned back against the counter 
and stared at the ceiling. At the
traditional location of God... 
no matter what the planet.



Evo Morales:
 
''We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic
 models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting 
aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking 
about the people and the planet Earth.''



 Vyacheslav Nikonov, First Deputy Head of the
 State Duma Committee on International Affairs:
 
“The response of the West, must be recognized as
unambiguously negative. This means that we will
soon begin to learn Russian answers. It seems 
that we will start, with arming the Donetsk
and 
Luhansk republics.'' 
 
 

Vyacheslav Nikonov, the First Deputy 
Head of the State Duma Committee 
on International Affairs:
 
''The Russian representative office in NATO 
had not been allowed to work, for many 
years, now there is nothing to resume.''

 

Anastasia Dekov:
 
''America has rivals, allies, and boogiemen, and the
 neocon plan - apparently - is to get the rivals who 
are allies to fight the rivals who are boogiemen, 
with the US sitting on the sidelines. With a 
conventional war in Europe destroying 
the economies of Russia and the EU, 
and a conventional war in the Far 
East destroying the economies 
of China, Taiwan and Japan....
the US economy will emerge 
untouched and triumphant, 
as it did after WW2.''



Arthur Latham:
 
"The greatest moral example that the Americans could give
to the world, at present, is to recognise the reality of
the 
situation in Viietnam... and not to continue
slaughtering 
military and civilian personnel,
on both sides, not to 
run the risk of world
war and nuclear annihilation,
 to save
an American President's face."



 
C. J. Cherryh:
 
''Ignorance killed the cat;
curiosity was framed!''



Retired Lt general, Fabio Mini, on 
US' Groundhog Day dollar cycles: 
 
''The first 32 month interval.. begins with large 
amounts of money entering financial markets. 
It causes interest rates to fall, greater access 
to credit and increased productivity by those
in the world who have taken advantage of 
the liquidity. So...  wealth increases, and 
there are significant “economic booms”. 
 
''But this wealth cannot be left in the hands of
the beneficiaries. So begins the second 32
month interval, in which the dollars must
return to the US. The monetary flow 
decreases, interest rates increase, 
US securities become profitable, 
and new investments flow to 
U.S. companies. 
 
''This dollar cycle, is completed in 64 months, 
during which the U.S. profits - both from the 
roller coaster imposed on global finance 
- and from speculation based on the 
capital's return.''
 

 
The Global Times:
 
''Washington should understand: that, for a great
power... the decline of ideas is more dangerous 
than that of strength. In an era of multi-polarity 
and globalization in the 21st century, the US is 
still thinking about finding tools from the Cold 
War toolbox, thinking every day, about how to 
contain other countries, pulling "small gangs" 
and engaging in group confrontation, which 
will only harm themselves...   and will 
eventually be abandoned by
the times.''



Jody Williams:
 
''I believe in both my right and my responsibility 
to work to create a world that doesn't glorify 
violence and war, but where we seek 
different solutions to our common 
problems.''




Mr. J. Bolton, leading neocon: 
 
“It is a big mistake for us to grant any validity
to international law - even when it may seem 
in our short-term interest to do so - because 
over the long term, the goal of those who 
think that international law really means 
anything, are those who want to 
constrain the United States.”
 


Jean de La Bruyère:
 
Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous 
riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it 
would not suit us;  they have given for them, their peace 
of mind, their health, their honour and their conscience;
this is rather too dear, and there is nothing to be made
out of such a bargain.



C. J. Cherryh:
''Nothing's hopeless, except never trying.''
 


Finian Cunningham:
 
''Russia is seen as an obstacle -- to Western control 
over the strategically vital Eurasian continent. The 
prize of Eurasia has long been coveted by Western 
imperialists -- from the British Empire’s Sir Halford 
Mackinder... to US strategist, Zbigniew Brzezinski. 
As Krainer notes... it was this imperial calculation
by 
the Anglo/US capitalists that led to the building
up 
of Nazi Germany, as a bludgeon to destroy the 
Soviet Union and purportedly give the empire
-builders, global hegemony. This imperial 
machination led to World War II, and the 
greatest conflagration in human history
with as many as 85 million dead. The 
Soviet Union and China... accounted 
for more than half of the death toll.''
 

 
Alex Krainer: 
 
''The foundational principle of the conflict between
Russia and the U.S. and Britain, is the struggle for
control of the Eurasian landmass, which has been
the empire builders’ overarching imperative ever
since Halford Mackinder explicitly formulated 
it, in 1904, in his Heartland Theory.''
 
 

Assistant Sec. of State for European
and Eurasian Affairs, Wess Mitchell: 
 
“The central aim of the administration’s foreign policy 
is to defend the US domination of the Eurasian land-
mass as the foremost US national security interest 
...and to prepare the nation for this challenge.” 
 

 
Alex Krainer: 
 
''Now, if Russia reasserts itself as the dominant power
in Eastern Europe, this pretty much check-mates the 
empire’s global ambitions - so containing Russia and
limiting its influence in Europe, is absolutely critical 
and I think they will not give up on this, even at the
price of a nuclear war.''
 
 
 
Ernestine Rose:
 
''Silence is consent. And silence, where life and liberty 
is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay
the destroyer's hand, and do not do so, is as 
criminal as giving actual aid to the
oppressor, 
for it answers
his purpose.''



W. E. B. Du Bois:
 
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more 
convenient season. It is today, that our best work can 
be done - and not some future day or future year.”



Paulo Coelho:
 
''The wise are wise only because they love. 
The fools are fools, only because they 
think they can understand love.''



Financial analyst Mauro Bottarelli: 
 
“A state of semi-permanent health emergency
is preferable to a vertical market crash that 
would turn the memory of 2008, into a
walk in the park.”
 


Obafemi Awolowo
 
''Violence never settles anything right: apart from 
injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. 
It lingers on long after the object of hate has
disappeared from the scene, to plague the 
lives of those who have employed it 
against their foes.''



Randy Martin, U.S.-based analyst:
 
“Russia has set forth what it requires for its vital
national security. Russia will explain to the US
what it requires, and it will expect a legal 
agreement. Anything short of that will be 
ominous for the West. If the US & NATO 
do not move quickly --- to ensure the 
security that Russia expects, then 
Moscow will move expediently... 
to put a nuclear dagger to their 
throat. It will include submarine 
tactical nuclear weapons with 
strike capabilities - within 
seconds, cruise missiles 
- within minutes and the
obliteration of Western 
space defenses... and 
electronic warfare - 
that renders naval 
and air defense 
useless.”
 

 
Jonathan Cook:
 
''If you want to be treated like a grown-up, an active
and informed participant in your society... rather 
than a blank sheet, on which powerful interests 
are writing their own self-serving narratives 
you need to be... doing as much critical 
thinking as possible and especially on
the most important topics of the day.
The corporate media isn't our friend. 
Its coverage of the pandemic, is not 
there to promote the public good. 
It's there to feed our anxieties to
keep us coming back for more...
...and to monetize that distress. 
The only cure for this sickness?
A lot more critical thinking.''



 Cleveland Amory:
 
“You can give of your talent, you can give 
of your possessions, or you can give 
of yourself. For God's sake, 
give something.”



Anna Kingsford:
 
''There are too many men and women; there 
is too little Humanity. There is a dearth of 
understanding, of nakedness of spirit. 
All of us are over-dressed; no man 
knows what heart beats in his 
neighbour's bosom.''



Ken Saro-Wiwa:
 
''In my innocence of the false charges I face here.... 
in my utter conviction I call upon the Ogoni people, 
the peoples of the Niger delta, and the oppressed 
ethnic minorities of Nigeria to stand up now and
fight fearlessly and peacefully, for their rights. 
History is on their side. God is on their side.
For the Holy Quran says in Sura 42, verse 
41: “All those that fight when oppressed 
incur no guilt, but Allah shall punish
the 
oppressor.” Come the day.''



Chris Hedges:
 
''This moment in American history is what Antonio Gramsci 
called the “interregnum”—the period when a discredited 
regime is collapsing but a new one has yet to take its 
place. There is no guarantee that what comes next 
will be better. But this space, which will close
soon, 
offers citizens the final chance to
embrace a new 
vision and a
new direction.''



William Colby:
 
''I’m William Colby and I was the head of the CIA. 
The job of intelligence is to warn us of dangers
to our military. Now, the Cold War is over - and
the military threat is far less. Now it’s time to 
cut our military spending by 50 percent and 
invest the money in our schools, health 
care, and our economy.''



Samora Machel:
 
''Imperialist exploitation and an unjust
international economic order, 
are a cause of war.''



 Vladimir Putin: 
 
''If you are impotent, then you are aggressive.''



Al Sharpton:
 
''My message to everyone: the next time 
you hear about migrant children near
 the border, just picture them as your 
own. Then think what you would 
want our government to do.''



Paulo Coelho:
 
''When a person really desires something, 
all the universe conspires to help that 
person to realize his dream.''



John Neal:

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



Claudette Werleigh:
 
“Everyone wants revenge, but no one thinks about 
how vengeance brings more vengeance. When we 
start talking, we realize we have more in common.
Until we realise that the people are suffering, and 
put these interests to one side, then the situation 
will go on.”



James Morris Lawson Jr.:
 
''Remember that the way to get this revolution off the ground 
is to forge the moral, spiritual and political pressure, which 
the President, the nation and the world, cannot ignore.''



Tariq Ali:
 
''Torture, encouraged from above, became a fact of life [in
occupied Iraq]. Perhaps some good liberal apologist 
for Blair will soon explain how democratic torture 
is much nicer than authoritarian torture.''




Chris Hedges:
 
''The glitz and propaganda, the ridiculous obsessions 
imparted by our electronic hallucinations....  and the 
spectacles that pass for political participation, mask
the deadly ecological assault by the corporate state.
The worse it gets, the more we retreat into self-
delusion. We convince ourselves... that global 
warming does not exist. Or, we concede that
it exists, but insist that we can adapt. Both 
responses... satisfy our mania for eternal 
optimism, and our reckless pursuit of 
personal comfort. In America, when 
reality is distasteful we ignore it. 
But reality will soon descend 
like the Furies to shatter 
our complacency and, 
finally our lives. We, 
as a species, may 
be doomed. And 
this is a bitter, 
bitter fact for
a father.... 
to digest.''




Peng Liyuan:
 
''A child’s exam result, is never as important 
as teaching a child how to be grateful and 
a good human being!''



Jean de La Bruyère:
 
''A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; 
his aim is so exalted, that riches, office, fortune, 
and favour cannot satisfy him. He sees nothing 
sufficient to engage his affections and to 
render it deserving of his cares and his 
desires. ... The only thing that might
tempt him, is that kind of honour 
which should attend a wholly 
pure and unaffected virtue; 
but men rarely grant it, so 
he does without it.''



Julius Nyerere:
 
''Take every penny you have set aside for 
aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, 
explaining to people the facts and 
causes of poverty.''



Bruce Lee:
 
''Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, 
un-rhythmic movement, as we... are constant 
change. Things live, by moving, and gain
 strength, as they go.''



Raymond Williams:
 
“We can overcome division, 
only by refusing to be 
divided.”
 


James Morris Lawson Jr.:
 
''I do not wish to minimize the gains we have made thus far. 
But it would be well to recognize that we've been receiving 
concessions, not real changes.''



Samora Machel:
 
''The rich man's dog gets more in the way of 
vaccination, medicine and medical care,
than do the workers upon whom the 
rich man's wealth is built.''
 


(Sir) Walter Scott:
 
''We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling
and 
destiny, unless we have taught ourselves... to 
consider everything as moonshine... compared
with 
the education of the heart.''



James Welch:
 
''Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were
always looking for outsiders...  to somehow come in
and fix things. But now, they 
seem to realize: that
they're the only ones 
who can save themselves.''



Two bloggers:
 
''Julian Assange... is martyred for the Truth in
 journalism and politics. He needs maximum
 support now, to defeat the MSM and Deep
 State and bring it to real justice!''
 
''8 Billion People, Millions of Journalists and 
Leaders .. All remaining Silent with No 
Concerted Voice or Protest .. May 
God forgive your Souls''



Eleanor Roosevelt:
 
''Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In 
small places, close to home -- so close and so small 
that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. 
Unless these rights have meaning there... they have
little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen
action, to uphold them close to home, we shall 
look in vain for progress in the larger world."
 
 

Ray Dalio, US billionaire investor and
hedge fund financier who predicted 
the 2008 financial collapse and the 
long Covid-19-related recession:
 
“History has shown [that] when the causes 
that people are behind are more important 
to them than the system, the system is 
in jeopardy,” 



Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani:
 
''It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy 
products of the countries that are in a 
state of war with Islam and Muslims..
for example, Israel. if your religion 
does not prevent you, may 
your humanity.''



Liu Yang:
 
''I believe in persevering. If you 
persevere, success lies ahead 
of you.'' 



Zhang Yixing:

“The home of every soul is not among another's
 glory...  but should be within another's soul.”



Evo Morales:

''We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. 
We act according to a universal law that 
consists of three basic principles: 
do not steal, do not lie and 
do not be idle.''



Jean de La Bruyère:
 
''If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that 
are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?''



Chris Hedges:
 
''The reality of empire rarely reaches the American public. 
The few atrocities that come to light, are dismissed as
isolated aberrations. The public is assured: what has 
been uncovered will be investigated and will not take 
place again. The goals of empire, we are told by a 
subservient media and our ruling elites, are 
virtuous and noble. And the vast killing 
machine grinds forward, feeding, as it 
has always done, the swollen bank 
accounts of defense contractors 
and corporations.. that exploit 
natural resources and cheap
 labour around the globe.''



Víctor Jara:
 
''US imperialism understands very well the magic 
of communication through music, and persists 
in filling our young people with all sorts of 
commercial tripe.'' 
 
''With professional expertise they have taken certain 
measures: first, the commercialization of the so-
called ‘protest music’; second, the creation of 
‘idols’ of protest music, who obey the same 
rules and suffer from the same constraints 
as the other idols of the consumer music
industry – they last a little while, and
then disappear.'' 
 
''Meanwhile, they are useful in neutralizing the innate spirit 
of rebellion of young people. The term ‘protest song’, is 
no longer valid, because it is ambiguous and has been 
misused. I prefer the term ‘revolutionary song’.''



James Morris Lawson Jr.:
 
''I say we must have a movement that brings those troops 
home and launch a crusade to transform our school 
buildings, we launch a crusade to see to it that 
every citizen has adequate and affordable 
housing, we launch a crusade to make 
universal health care. We need not 
soldiers anymore in the world. 
We've had enough of them 
in western history.''



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



Chris Hedges:
 
''There are no constraints left... to halt America’s slide into a
totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The
media have been debased and defanged by corporate 
owners. The working class has been impoverished
 and is now being plunged into profound despair. 
The legal system has been corrupted, to serve 
corporate interests. Popular institutions, from 
labour unions to political parties, have been 
destroyed or emasculated by corporate 
power. And any form of protest... no 
matter how tepid.. is blocked by an
internal security apparatus that is 
starting to rival that of the East 
German secret police...  The 
mounting anger and hatred, 
coursing through the blood
-stream of the body politic, 
make violence and counter
-violence inevitable. Brace 
yourself. The American 
empire is over. And the
descent is going to be 
horrifying.''



 
Alexis de Tocqueville:
 
“The American Republic will endure
until the day 
Congress discovers
that it can bribe the public 
with the public's money.”



Marguerite Higgins:
 
“I thought then, how much more matter-of
-fact the actuality of war is, than any of
its 
projections in literature. The
wounded 
seldom cry - there
is no one with time 
and
emotion to listen.”
 


Marshall Berman:
 
''To be modern....  is to find ourselves 
in an environment that promises us 
adventure, power, joy, growth, 
transformation of ourselves 
and the world --- and at the 
same time that threatens
to destroy.. everything 
we have... everything 
we know, everything 
we are.''



Julius Nyerere:
 
''If real development is to take place, 
the people have to be involved.''



Raymond Williams:
 
“To be truly radical, is to make hope possible, 
rather than despair convincing. It is then, in 
making hope practical, rather than despair 
convincing... that we must resume and 
change and extend our campaigns.“



 
(Sir) Walter Scott:
 
''To be ambitious of true honour, of the true glory
and perfection 
of our natures.... is the very 
principle and incentive of virtue. For he
that 
does good - having the unlimited
power 
to do evil - deserves praise,
not only for 
the good which he 
performs, but for the evil
which he 
forbears.''




William Faulkner:
 
''Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and 
truth and compassion, against injustice and lying
and greed. If people all over the world… would 
do this, it would change the earth.'' 



UN declaration:
 
''…while democracies share common features,
 there is no single model of democracy and 
democracy does not belong to any 
country or region...''



Fidel Castro:
 
''The equal right of all citizens --- to health, education,
work, food, security, culture, 
science, and wellbeing
...that is, the 
same rights we proclaimed when we
began our struggle, in 
addition to those which 
emerge.... from our dreams of justice and
equality for 
all inhabitants of our world
--- 
is what I wish.... for all.''



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



John Quincy Adams:
 
''Heaven has given to every human being 
the power of controlling his passions, 
and if he neglects or loses it, the 
fault is his own, and he must 
be answerable for it.''



Martin Luther King Jnr: 
 
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, 
only light can do that. Hatred cannot 
drive out hate, only love can do that.”



Peter Fraser:
 
''Every one of our countries are sovereign states 
and the more independent we are, the more we 
realise we are interdependent.''



About Cuba, by Fidel Castro:
 
''There is not Communism or Marxism,
but representative democracy, and 
social justice, in a well-planned 
economy.''



Jean de La Bruyère:

Modesty is to merit, what shade is 
to figures in a picture... it gives it 
strength and makes it stand out.



Munshi Premchand:
 
''The world assumes... that we are very happy... 
with high mansions, fine carriages, servants 
and attendants, huge investments... and 
concubines. But he who is without the
honour and strength of the soul,
can be anything but happy.''



Bal Gangadhar Tilak:
 
"Religion and practical life are not different. To take 
renunciation, is not to abandon life. The real spirit 
is to make the country your family --- and work
together --- instead of working only for your 
own. The step beyond, is to serve 
humanity, and the next step
is 
to serve God."


 
Randa Farah, Associate Professor, Western Ontario:
 
“It is totally unacceptable that in the 21st century, this 
scale and level of brutality against the Palestinians 
unleashed on a daily basis and for over 7 decades
is met with barely a whisper from the 
so-called
‘international community.’ The 
silence in the
world is heard loudly in 
Palestine and is a
black page in 
humanity’s history, and
more 
so in the history of the Arab
-Islamic world.” 
 
“I am utterly dismayed and shocked --- although not 
entirely surprised --- by the level and depth of the 
complicity and treachery of the Gulf oligarchies. 
Who would have thought that the oil wealth that 
could have been used for the development of 
the Middle East and North Africa and for the 
well-being of millions of people, is today, 
used to empower Zionist colonization 
in Palestine and to promote US and 
imperial interests?” 



Gustav Stresemann:
 
''Here, we encounter two conflicting concepts, with 
which we must come to grips in our time: the idea 
of national solidarity and the idea of international 
cooperation. To contrast national solidarity and 
international cooperation, as two opposites... 
seems foolish, to me. The ''great men'' of a 
nation, reach out to all mankind. They are 
unifying, not divisive; internationally 
conciliating, and still great, 
nationally.''



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



Mary Ritter Beard:
 
“In matters pertaining to the care of life 
there has been no marked gain over 
Greek and Roman antiquity.”



Hermann Hesse:
 
''I have always believed, and I still believe, 
that whatever good or bad fortune may 
come our way, we can always give it 
meaning and transform it into
something of value.''



Amelia Boynton Robinson:
 
''Only until all human beings begin to recognize
themselves as human beings will prejudice be
gone forever. People ask me what race I am, 
but there is no such thing as race. I just 
answer: "I’m a member of the 
human race."



Alexis Tsipras:
 
''Austerity is not part of the European treaties; 
democracy and the principle of popular 
sovereignty are.''



Jean de La Bruyère:
 
''Not to be able to bear with all bad-tempered people 
- with whom the world is crowded - shows that a 
man has not a good temper himself.''



 Huey Long:
 
''I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black 
and white, they all gotta have a chance. 
They gotta have a home, a job, and a 
decent education for their children. 
'Every man a king'
that's 
my slogan."



Jean de La Bruyère:
 
''There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth,
to whom interest and gain, are what glory and virtue
are 
to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure,
but to 
acquire money.''



Claudette Werleigh:
 
“I have been blessed to have worked both in rich 
countries and one of the most impoverished 
ones, at grassroots level and at top level. 
I have learned...  that we all need to 
acknowledge our differences, to 
accept the other as equal and 
to cooperate, in order to 
improve life.”



Nong Duc Manh: 
 
''The war against terrorism...... should not be used 
to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. 
We need to identify concrete terrorist targets --- 
and do no harm to civilians.''



Alexis de Tocqueville:
 
Tyranny in democratic republics, ignores the body and 
goes straight for the soul. The master no longer says:- 
You will think as I do, or die. He says: You are free not 
to think as I do. You may keep your life, your property 
and everything else. But from this day forth you shall 
be as a stranger among us. You will retain your civic 
privileges, but they will be of no use to you. For if 
you seek the votes of your fellow citizens, they 
will withhold them, and if you seek only their 
esteem, they will feign to refuse even that. 
You will remain among men... but you will 
forfeit your rights to humanity. When you 
approach your fellow creatures, they'll 
shun you as one who is impure. And 
even those who believe in your 
innocence will abandon you, 
lest they, too.. be shunned, 
in turn. Go in peace, I will 
not take your life... but...
the 
life I leave you with
...is 
worse than death.”
 


Lee Camp:
 
''A large 2014 Princeton study looked at 1,779 policy
initiatives and found that the American public has
 zero impact --- on what gets passed through 
Congress. What we, the American people
want, has no influence on American 
policy. The politicians tell you, it 
does. They act like they care. 
But nothing you and I want 
...ever gets done.''



Mary Ritter Beard:
 
“The 'trade agreement' has become a rather distinct feature 
of the American labour movement.  ...It is based on the idea 
that labour shall accept the capitalist system of production 
and make terms of peace with it.”



Edgar Guest:
 
The lectures you deliver
may be wise and true,
But I'd rather get my lessons
by observing what you do.
I may not understand
the high advice you like to give,
But there's no misunderstanding
how you act and how you live.



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



Anna Kingsford:
 
''No man who aims at making his life an harmonious whole, 
pure, complete, and harmless to others, can endure to 
gratify an appetite at the cost of the daily suffering 
and bloodshed of his inferiors in degree, and of 
the moral degradation of his own kind. I know 
not which strikes me most forcibly in the 
ethics of this question...  the injustice, 
the cruelty, or the nastiness of flesh
-eating. The injustice is to the 
butchers, the cruelty is to the 
animals and the nastiness,
concerns the consumer.'' 
 


Alexis de Tocqueville:
 
“I do not know if the people of the United States 
would vote for superior men, if they ran for 
office, but there can be no doubt
that 
such men do not run.”



Marguerite Higgins:
 
''There is much pretence in our everyday life, 
and - with a skilful manner - much can be 
concealed. But with a shell whistling at 
you there is not much time to pretend 
and a person’s qualities are starkly 
revealed.'' 



Father Wresinski:
 
''Wherever men and women are condemned to live 
in extreme poverty, human rights are violated. To 
come together to ensure that these rights be
respected, is our solemn duty.''



Alexis Tsipras:
 
''There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes... 
but at least they had humanity at the centre of their thinking.''



 Cleveland Amory:
 
“What this world needs is a new kind 
of army --- the army of the kind.”



 Basil, fool for Christ:
 
 ''Why abstain from meat, 
  when you murder men?''



John Neal:
 
''The frontier people pick a quarrel with the Indians. 
No declaration of war follows; no ceremony; but,
forth goes General [Andrew] Jackson ------ or 
general somebody else; wasting and firing
the whole country.  A truce follows:
ceding of the conquered country --- 
for the protection of the whites.
No people, ancient or modern
..have been so deplorably 
oppressed, belied, and 
wronged, in every 
possible way."



John Quincy Adams:
 
''Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud,
is the only maxim which can ever preserve
the liberties of any people.''



Bill Waterson:
 
''The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in 
the universe --- is that it has never tried to contact us.''



Ken Saro-Wiwa:
 
''We all stand before history. I am a man of peace,
of ideas. 
Appalled by the denigrating poverty of
my people, who 
live on a richly endowed land,
distressed by their 
political marginalization
and economic strangulation, 
angered by
the devastation of their land, their 
ultimate heritage, anxious to
preserve their 
right to life
and to a decent living.
'' 



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



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


 Woody Guthrie:
 
''I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, 
just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your 
rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and 
say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich 
folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.''



Walid Jumblatt:
 
''The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes 
and goes. Today it is Islam. According to 
this plan or ideology of the born-again 
Christians who formed an alliance 
with Zionism, Islam is
the monster.''



Stephen Karganovic:
 
''The in-your-face European Parliament human rights 
prize nomination of señora Añez, for the notable
 accomplishment - of serving as provisional 
head of state in an illegal coup regime 
- which deposed the legitimately 
elected President - should be
enough... to give the whole 
game away, shouldn’t it?''
 
 
 
Eric Zuesse:
 
''The rich have inculcated into the public 
a respect for the rich, and a contempt 
for the poor.''



Jeremy Hardy:
 
''Capitalism is a great idea in theory,
 but in practice, it just doesn't work.''



Al Sharpton:
 
''It seems some have chosen to ignore or 
have simply forgotten... the big-picture 
vision... promoted by Dr. King and his 
kin. I do believe the Democrat party 
has moved...     far to the right. I do 
believe that the party has a bunch 
of elephants running around in 
donkey clothes.''



Fidel Castro:
 
''They talk about the failure of socialism 
but where is the success of capitalism 
in Africa, Asia and Latin America?''



Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
 
''We once formed a human chain 
around Jerusalem, joining 
hands and calling 
for peace.''



Bertha von Suttner:
 
''One of the eternal truths is that happiness 
is created and developed in peace, and 
one of the eternal rights, is the 
individual's right to live.''
 


Chalmers Johnson:
 
“As militarism, the arrogance of power, and the 
euphemisms required to justify imperialism, 
inevitably conflict with America’s 
democratic structure of 
government and distort
its culture and basic 
values, I fear that 
we will lose our
country.”



Nathaniel Hawthorne:
 
''Happiness is not found in things you possess,
but in what you have the courage to release.''


 
W. E. B. Du Bois:
 
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed 
by colour, race, or poverty. But with all,
we 
accomplish all, even Peace.”



Elias Canetti:
 
''The planet's survival has become so uncertain 
that any effort, any thought, that presupposes 
an assured future, amounts to a mad gamble.''



President Erdogan:
 
''Nobody can tell Turkey 
what defense systems
 it can buy,''
 
 
 
Blogger:
 
''The other side of the coin
is that nobody can tell
the 
US... what
to sell.''



 
Mary Ritter Beard:
 
“Those who sit at the feast will continue to 
enjoy themselves... even though the veil 
that separates them from the world of 
toiling reality below, has been lifted 
by mass revolts and critics.”



Mark Twain's “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”:
 
 ''Each of the world’s strongest nations, is proceeding
with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand 
and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in
 the other.''



Cuban leader, Díaz-Canel: 
 
''As long as this world order prevails, 
the noblest goals will remain
 a chimera.''



Walid Jumblatt:
 
''The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's 
historic lie - that the reason for invading 
Iraq was weapons of mass destruction 
- is that everything is being doubted.''



Marshall McLuhan:
 
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a 
hallucinating idiot... for he sees what no one 
else does: things that, to everyone else, 
are not there.”



Jean de La Bruyère:
 
''We must laugh before we are happy, 
for fear we die before we laugh at all.''



Carl Jung:
 
''In my case, Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my 
having to climb down a thousand ladders, until
 I could reach out my hand to the little clod 
of earth that I am.''
 


President Putin:
 
"We should have modernised sooner, instead of 
sticking our heads into buckets of sand,
leaving 
our butt exposed for
anyone to kick".
 


 
Cuban leader, Díaz-Canel: 
 
''Building the world we dream of is an enormous task, 
but it is possible, if we renounce selfishness and 
work together to transform the current unjust
international order into a more just, 
democratic and equitable one
in which, at last, no one is 
left behind.''
 


Vladivostok taxi driver:
 
"Russia not my country.... USSR my country.
In USSR everyone same, everyone friends. 
Now, if you are rich and I am poor, you 
cannot be my friend".



Lion Feuchtwanger:
 
“It is easy to possess a conscience, Monsieur, 
when one only needs to talk or write about it. 
But the man who has to act, is constantly 
faced with the necessity, if he wishes to
deal justly with one person, of being 
unjust to somebody else.”



Research published in recent days by Levada Centre:
 
''While one in six Russians, want to move toward 
“democracy according to the model of Western
countries,” around 18% said “the current 
system” was preferable.''
 
''49% of respondents said they would happily return 
to “the Soviet system, like we had until the 1990s.” 
and 30% of 18-24 year olds said that
this is also 
their preferred option.'' 




Alexis de Tocqueville:
 
“... everybody feels the evil... but no one has 
courage or energy enough to seek the cure”




Bulgarian communist Georgi Dimitrov 
Mihaylov, defined fascism as follows:
 
''Comrades, fascism in power... was correctly described 
by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee 
of the Communist International, as the open terrorist 
dictatorship of the most reactionary, most 
chauvinistic and most imperialist 
elements of finance capital.''




UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
 
''Let us commit to safeguarding the principles of 
equality, participation and solidarity, so that we 
can better weather the storm of future crises.''




Mary Ritter Beard:
 
“Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, 
nothing can be understood.”




Munshi Premchand:

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



Carl Jung:
 
''Where love rules, there is no will to power; 
and where power predominates, there,
love is lacking. The one is the 
shadow of the other.''




W. E. B. Du Bois:
 
“Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make 
hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; 
they do great and beautiful things. And shall we 
not best guide humanity, by telling the truth 
about all this, so far as the truth 
is ascertainable?”




Jorge Amado:
 
''It is a very risky thing for anyone to go about 
proclaiming the truth, simply because he 
finds himself in possession of concrete 
documentary proofs, or on the 
evidence of his own eyes,
which is always over-
estimated. Love is 
not to be proven 
or measured. It 
exists and that
is enough.''




Mary Ritter Beard:
 
“Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy... 
has a social setting: in time, in a geographical location,
in a political economy, in a matrix of interests, and 
knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon
like a balloon without moorings. It is not 
produced in a vacuum and, being 
creative, it does not work in a 
vacuum. Nurtured on things 
experienced and things 
known, it reaches out 
toward the unknown 
like a flower on a 
stalk... growing 
out of the soil.”




 
Fidel Castro:
 
''The fact is, when men carry the same ideals 
in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - 
neither prison walls, nor the sod of 
cemeteries. For a single memory, 
a single spirit, a single idea, a 
single conscience, a single 
dignity, will sustain 
them all.''



Basil, fool for Christ:
 
''Imitate the earth, O man.  Bear fruit, as she does, lest 
you prove inferior to that which is without life.  She 
produces her fruits, not that she may enjoy them,
but for your service. You do gather for yourself 
whatever fruit of good works you have strewn, 
because the grace of good works returns to 
the giver. You have given to the poor...   and 
the gift becomes your own and comes back
with increase. Just as grain that has 
fallen
on the earth becomes a gain to the 
sower,
so the loaf thrown to the hungry 
man
renders abundant fruit thereafter. 
The end of your husbandry.. is the 
beginning of the heavenly sowing.
‘Sow,’ it is written, ‘to yourselves
in righteousness.’ 'Why then are 
you distressed? Why do you 
harass yourself... in your 
efforts to shut up your 
riches in clay and 
bricks? ‘A good 
name is rather 
to be chosen, 
than great 
riches.’''



Munshi Premchand:
 
''Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields
grow grains, but they are 
consumed by the world.
Cows give 
milk, but she doesn't drink it herself -
that is left to others. 
Clouds send rain, only to 
quench the parched earth. In such giving,
there is 
little space for selfishness.''



George Sand:
 
''No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are 
some revolutions which humanity accomplishes 
without quite knowing how, because it is 
everybody who takes them in hand.''

 

Francis Hutcheson:
 
''Men have been Laughed out of Faults 
...which a Sermon could not reform.''



Walid Jumblatt:
 
''We are all happy, when U.S. soldiers 
are killed, week in and week out.
The 
killing of U.S. soldiers in
Iraq, is 
legitimate and
obligatory.''



G. K. Chesterton:
 
''The purpose of Compulsory Education, 
is to deprive the common people
of 
their commonsense.''



Marshall McLuhan:
 
“We become what we behold. We shape our 
tools, and thereafter, our tools shape us.”



G. K. Chesterton:
 
''Education is simply the soul of a society 
as it passes from one generation
 to another.''



UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
 
''The nuclear menace is once again on the rise. 
A complete ban on nuclear testing is an 
essential step in preventing the 
qualitative and quantitative 
improvement of nuclear 
weapons...  and in 
achieving nuclear
disarmament.''



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



Investigative journalist Kit Klarenberg: 
 
''Analysis by Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) has 
found that weapons made by numerous UK companies, 
with receipts running into billions, have been used in
the 
[Yemen] war. In fact, over half of the equipment 
used in bombing raids, is UK-supplied.. including 
Typhoon and Tornado aircraft, Paveway bombs 
and Brimstone and Stormshadow missiles. 
Without exaggeration, every day, Yemen
is hit by UK-made bombs, dropped by 
UK-made planes, which are repaired 
and serviced on Saudi soil by UK 
contractors, including RAF
engineers, and flown by 
UK-trained pilots.'' 



Clara Zetkin:
 
''The capitalists speculate on the two 
following factors: the female worker 
must be paid as poorly as possible 
and the competition of female 
labour must be employed to 
lower the wages of male 
workers as much 
as possible.''



George Sand:
 
''Life in common, among people who love 
each other, is the ideal of happiness.''





Jean de La Fontaine:
 
''People must help one 
another; it is nature's 
law.''



Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Karl Grossman:
 
''The U.S. nuclear weapons “modernization” program 
violates the disarmament component of the Non-
Proliferation Treaty. Major objectives of the NPT 
- an international treaty which took effect in
1970 - 
include preventing the spread of
nuclear 
weapons and achieving
nuclear 
disarmament.  It is
putting the 
world on
the brink.''



 
Lion Feuchtwanger:
 
“Those who came from internment camps in Belgium
told how they had been transported across France
in sealed cars. No one had paid any attention to 
the trains and the occupants had been left 
without food or water. Their Belgian 
guards had robbed them 
of everything they 
possessed.”

 

George Carlin (may he Rest In Peace):
 
''The flag is a symbol, and 
I leave the symbols to 
the symbol-minded."


 
Poet:

''The Russians, Chinese
and the English like tea.
I'm Welsh. I'll take cofi.''



Kit Klarenberg: 

''In March, the United Nations ruled that Yemen remained
the world’s “worst humanitarian crisis” and that up to 
80% of the population – including over 11 million 
children – remained in need of urgent human-
itarian assistance. Yet, Yemen is very, very 
rarely mentioned in the Western media,
and the UK’s absolutely fundamental 
role in sustaining the bloodshed...
 even more seldomly.''



Jeremy Corbyn:
 
“Britain, was responsible for the training of 
the Afghan army; Britain set up an officer 
training corps of the Afghan army - and 
the result was not a good one.” 



Clara Zetkin:
 
''The most important immediate task, is the formation 
of a United Front of all workers, in order to turn back 
fascism...  in order to preserve for the enslaved and 
exploited, the force and power of their organization 
as well as to maintain their own physical existence. 
Before this compelling historical necessity, all 
inhibiting and dividing political, trade union, 
religious & ideological opinions.. must take 
a back seat. All those who feel themselves 
threatened, all those who suffer, and all 
those who long for liberation... must 
belong to the United Front against 
fascism and its representatives
in government.''




Nathaniel Hawthorne:
 
''No man for any considerable period 
can wear one face to himself, and 
another to the multitude, without 
finally getting bewildered as to 
which may be the true.''
 
 

Journalist Matt Taibbi: 
 
“Every image coming out of Afghanistan this 
past weekend, was an advertisement for
the 
incompetence, arrogance, and
double-
dealing nature of
American foreign 
policy leaders.”
 
 
 
Richard Medhurst:
 
"The only people who think Afghanistan was a failure 
are people who don’t own stocks in Halliburton, 
Raytheon and Boeing.  Afghanistan was a 
blistering success for them."
 
 
 
Matt Taibbi:
 
''The look of genuine shock on the faces of people 
like Tony Blinken this weekend, should tell people 
around the world something important about the
United States: in addition to all the other things
about us that are dangerous, we lack 
self-knowledge.''
 
 
 
George Carlin:
 
"America is one big lie, and
you're a fool to believe it."




Jeremy Hardy:
 
''The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage 
similar to that moment at your child's party - 
where you realise you've forgotten to give 
the other parents a pick up time.''




Sun Tzu:
 
"He will win whose army is animated 
by the same spirit, throughout all
 its ranks." 




Anacharsis Cloots:
 
''What is man's chief enemy? 
Each man is his own.''




Clara Zetkin:
 
''... reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, 
they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened 
with, by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush 
capitalism and to emancipate the workers from
 their tyranny.''




Sukarno:
 
This twentieth century has been a period of terrific 
dynamism. Perhaps the last fifty years have seen 
more developments and more material progress
than the previous five hundred years. Man has 
learned to control many of the scourges
which 
once threatened him. 
 
He has learned to consume distance. He has learned 
to project his voice and his picture across oceans 
and continents. He has probed deep into the 
secrets of nature and learned how to make 
the desert bloom and the plants of the 
earth increase their bounty. He has 
learned how to release the 
immense forces locked in
the smallest particles
 of matter.
 
But has man's political skill marched hand-in-hand with
his technical and scientific skill? Man can chain 
lightning to his command -- can he control the 
society in which he lives? The answer is No! 
The political skill of man, has been far 
outstripped by technical skill, and 
what he has made, he cannot
be 
sure of controlling.
 
The result of this is fear. And man gasps for safety and 
morality. Perhaps now more than at any other moment 
in the history of the world, society, government and 
statesmanship need to be based upon the highest 
code of morality and ethics. And, in political
terms, 
what is the highest code of
morality? It is the 
subordination
of everything, to the well-
being of mankind. 
 
But today we are faced with a situation where the well-being 
of mankind is not always the primary consideration. Many 
who are in places of high power think, rather, of 
controlling the world.




Mark Twain writing in response to the 
U.S.'s occupation of the Philippines:
 
''But it was impossible to save the Great Republic. 
She was rotten to the heart. Lust of conquest 
had long ago done its work; trampling upon
the helpless abroad, had taught her, by a 
natural process, to endure with apathy
the like at home; multitudes who had 
applauded the crushing of other 
people’s liberties, lived to
suffer 
for their mistake,
in their 
own persons.''


 

Che Guevara:
 
''I am not a liberator. Liberators, do not
exist. The people liberate themselves.''
 
 

 
G. K. Chesterton:
 
''I would maintain that thanks are 
the highest form of thought, and 
that gratitude is happiness, 
doubled by wonder.''




Giacomo Leopardi:

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




Nelson Mandela:
 
''It is easy to break down and destroy.
The heroes, are those who make
 peace and build.'' 




Mary McLeod Bethune:
 
''We have a powerful potential in our youth,
and we must have the courage to change 
old ideas and practices, so that we may 
direct their power toward good ends.''




Leading world virologist, Professor Luc Montagnier:
 
"It is the vaccines that are causing the variants 
and, in all countries, the curve of vaccination, 
is followed by the curve of deaths."  




Hilaire Belloc:
 
''There is not anything... that can so suddenly 
flood the mind with shame as the conviction 
of ignorance --- yet we are all ignorant of 
nearly everything there is to be known.''




Adam Michnik:
 
“I am not a capitalist; I am a socialist
who is unable to forgive socialism,
that it did not work.”
 
 

 
W. E. B. Du Bois:
 
“You are not and yet you are:
your thoughts, 
your deeds,
above all, your dreams,
still live.”




Patch Adams:
 
''Anyone can do it — BE RADIANT! Make the decision.
 I want to be an agent of change to a loving world — 
so I will be radiant.''




G. K. Chesterton:
 
''The Christian ideal has not been tried and 
found wanting; it has been found difficult
 and left untried.''




 Hermann Hesse:

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




Richard Bach:
 
''It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you 
can manage it, that you might somehow be 
happy. Until you make room in your life for 
someone as important to you as yourself, 
you will always be searching and lost.''


 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
 
''Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.''




 Giacomo Leopardi:
 
''I get up and I bless the light thin clouds 
and the first twittering of birds, 
and the breathing air 
and smiling face 
of the hills.''




U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge:
 
“The Philippines are ours forever. And just beyond 
the Philippines are China’s illimitable markets.
We 
will not retreat from either. We will not
repudiate 
our duty in the archipelago.
We will not 
abandon our opportunity
in the Orient. 
We will not renounce
our part in the 
mission of our race
as the trustee under 
God of the
civilization of 
the world.”




Che Guevara:
 
''Above all, always be capable of feeling 
deeply, any injustice committed against 
anyone, anywhere in the world. This, is
the most beautiful quality in a 
revolutionary.''




George Carlin:

''We are a nation of sheep, and 
someone else owns the grass.''




Harry Schwarz:

''I believe people are not free - if all they can do is cast 
a vote every five years to decide who should govern
them. What does it mean to a man in a shack built
by 
himself, with no amenities, and not knowing
where 
his next meal is coming from, to vote? 




Paul Laurence Dunbar:

Slight was the thing I bought, 
small was the debt I thought, 
Poor was the loan at best - 
God! but the interest!




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





Blogger:
 
''The cabals' world order is crumbling, with 
stagnant economies, low birth rates, high 
debt, and major social problems. They 
are surviving, on printing money out 
of thin air. The US and its European 
vassals..... are desperate to save 
capitalism.... as all scams have
failed. Now they are provoking
nuclear states Russia and 
China into WW3 ... for 
a global reset.''





Basil of Caesarea:
 
'''But whom do I treat unjustly,' you say, 'by keeping what
is my own?' Tell me, what is your own? What did you
bring into this life? From where, did you receive it? 
It is as if someone were to take the first seat in the
theatre, then bar everyone else from attending so 
that one person alone, enjoys what is offered for 
the benefit of all in common - this is what the 
rich do... They seize common goods - before 
others have the opportunity and then claim 
them as their own - by right of preemption..
For if we all took only what was necessary
to satisfy our own needs --- giving the rest
to those who lack, no one would be rich, 
no one would be poor, and no one 
would be in need.''



 
Hermann Hesse:

''Eternity is a mere moment, 
just long enough for a joke.''




Mark Twain:
 
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world 
is being run by smart people who are 
putting us on, or by imbeciles who 
really mean it."




Steven Best:
 
''In the aftermath of 10,000 years of incessant growth 
and endless wars, that humanity waged upon itself, 
other species, and the earth, we now live amidst 
unsustainable global capitalism, and a system 
of growth that is driving natural systems to 
an irreversible tipping point.''




John Quincy Adams:
 
''It is of no use to discover our own faults 
and infirmities, unless the discovery
 prompts us to amendment.''




Che Guevara:
 
''How easy it is to govern, when one 
follows a system of consulting the 
will of the people, and one holds 
as the only norm all the actions
which contribute to the well 
being of the people''.




Blogger:
 
''It was a big mistake on the part of the Cuban
 government, to restore diplomatic ties with 
washington and allow the maniacs to open 
up an embassy in Cuba, they can now see 
the results.''




Blogger:
 
''Russia and China should quickly
come to the aid of Cuba, before 
the US and the west, take 
the island.''




Daniel Berrigan: 
 
''The God of life summons us to life; 
more, to be lifegivers, especially
 toward those who lie under
 the heel of the powers.''




Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:

''As we speak, the tens of thousands who have been 
wounded or permanently disabled, are in pain: let 
peace heal their wounds. As we speak, the eyes 
of thousands of Palestinian refugees, deportees
and displaced persons since 1967, are haunting
us, for exile is a cruel fate: bring them home.'' 





Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
 
''What wisdom can you find... 
that is greater than kindness?''





Che Guevara:

''The true revolutionary is guided by a 
great feeling of love. It is impossible 
to think of a genuine revolutionary 
lacking this quality.''




John Hersey:
 
''What has kept the world safe from the bomb 
since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the 
sense of fear of specific weapons, so 
much as it's been memory. The 
memory of what happened 
at Hiroshima.''




Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:

What requiem can be sung, for trees uprooted 
by army bulldozers? And, most of all, who can
explain to those whose lands are confiscated
and clear waters stolen, the message 
of peace?




Mimi Smith:
 
"The guitar's all right John, 
but you'll never make a 
living out of it".




Zhu Xi:
 
''To fully investigate the spiritual 
and understand transformation 
is the flourishing of virtue.''




Arnold Wesker:
 
''If the electrician who comes to mend my fuse blows it
instead, so I should stop having electricity? I should 
cut off my light? Socialism is my light, can you 
understand that?''




Sirimavo Bandaranaike:

"As a woman and mother,
 I call upon the nations of 
the world to desist from 
violence in their 
dealings with 
each other."




Alexander Lebed on, if NATO begins 
expanding through Eastern Europe:
 
"World War Three will start. Civilized and uncivilized 
states will be destroyed, everybody and everything."





José Emilio Pacheco:
 
''We are all hypocrites. We cannot 
see ourselves or judge ourselves 
the way we see and judge others.''




Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
 
''You forget that the fruits belong to all 
and that the land belongs to no one.''




Thomas Jefferson:
 
''Honesty is the first chapter
 in the book of wisdom.''




Recently deceased US Senator, Mike Gravel:
 
“Politicians are corrupt and they’re basically cowards 
because we have a system that is set up - where you 
give me money to help me get elected and when 
I’m elected, I will vote for your economic 
interest - that is bribery, and that’s the
foundation of our system in 
this country.”




Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:
 
''Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.''




Rahul Verma:
 
''Emergency situations prove to 
us all: who are real in their
soul 
and face.''




Richard Bach:
 
''Every gift from a friend, is 
a wish for your happiness.''




Blogger:
 
''I am an MRI Tech and I see the damage these 
vaccines do. Doctors are not reporting the
link. People with no medical history, are 
dying and facing debilitating sideffects.   
Expect more problems in 3-5yrs, this 
is how long effects take to show up, 
but don't expect any links to the 
vaccine to be shown and, since
the drug companies have 
immunity...  it really 
doesn't matter.''




Harry S. Truman:
 
''Experience has shown... how 
deeply the 'seeds of war' are 
planted by economic rivalry 
and social injustice.''




Victor Bello Accioly:
 
“Political reform is important, but no reform will 
be greater than promoting popular awareness.”




Alice Salomon, about pre-nazi Germany:
 
“On the one hand, it was touching how families 
make survival possible, for themselves, in the 
face of inflation, depression & unemployment
- how they work, do business, experience joy, 
celebrate parties and worry about the future 
of their children...
 
“On the other hand, it is shocking how dullness, 
monotony, political ignorance, can arise, under 
socially & economically narrow & unfavorable 
conditions.”




Zhu Xi:
 
''The petty person considers small goodness 
as unbeneficial, and doesn't do it. He takes
small badness as unharmful, and doesn't 
avoid it. Thus badness accumulates and 
cannot be concealed, and crimes
become great and cannot be 
undone.''




 
Mary Wollstonecraft:
 
''The beginning is always today.''
 



Frithjof Schuon said, in his early youth, 
4 things always moved him profoundly: 
 
“The holy, the great, the beautiful,
and 
the childlike”




John Hersey:
 
''It's a failure of national vision when 
you regard children as weapons, 
and talents as materials you 
can mine, assay, and 
fabricate for profit 
and defense.''




UNICEF's Eastern & Southern Africa
Regional Director, Mohamed Fall:
 
''Children and youth are continuing brave efforts to help make 
the world a better place, from addressing injustice, to taking 
climate action. I appeal to governments, leaders, teachers, 
parents and communities, to join them: and push harder: 
in fulfilling the promises we have made to them in the
UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. This 
Convention, compels us -- to act in the best 
interests of the world’s youngest citizens --
and this, must be a primary consideration,
at all times. The world needs to approach 
it with that healthy dose of impatience, 
that youth brings  ---  especially as 
we’re seeing hard earned 
development gains... 
slip away.''





Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:
 
''Beauty is truth's smile when 
she beholds her own face in 
a perfect mirror.''




Che Guevara:
 
''Those who kill their own children and discriminate 
daily against them because of the colour of their 
skin; those who let the murderers of blacks 
remain free, protecting them, and further-
more...  punishing the black population 
because they demand their legitimate 
rights as free men --- how can those 
who do this... consider themselves 
guardians of freedom?''




G. K. Chesterton:
 
''The cosmos is about the smallest hole 
that a man can hide his head in.''




Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
 
''And what do we tell the loved ones... of those killed 
by army bullets? How do we answer the questions 
and the fear in our children's eyes? For one out of
three Palestinian children under occupation has 
been killed, injured, or detained in the past four 
years. How can we explain to our children that
 they are denied education...  our schools, so 
often closed by army fiat? Or why their life
is in danger  ---  for raising a flag in a land 
where even children are killed or jailed?'' 




Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
 
''As we speak, thousands of our brothers and sisters are 
languishing in Israeli prisons and detention camps, 
most detained without evidence, charge, or trial, 
many cruelly mistreated and tortured in 
interrogation, guilty only of seeking 
freedom, or daring to defy the 
occupation. We speak in 
their name and we say: 
set them free.''




Robert Burton:
 
''Every man has a good and a bad angel 
attending on him in particular, all his
life long.''




Daniel Berrigan: 
 
''Because we want the peace with half a heart 
and half a life and will, the war, of course, 
continues -- because the waging of war,
by its nature, is total - but the waging 
of peace, by our own cowardice,
is partial.''




Joke by upjoke.com:
 
''What do you get, if you ask a politician
 to tell 'the truth, the whole truth, and
 nothing but the truth'?''
 
3 different answers.




 
Alexander Lebed:
 
"If you don't tell the truth, you can end up 
with a pile of bodies, in a sea of blood."
 



June Callwood:
 
"If any of you happen to see an injustice, 
you are no longer a spectator, you are a 
participant, and you have an obligation 
to do something."




Graça Machel, Expert of the UN Secretary-General:
 
''Millions of children are caught up in conflicts 
in which they are not merely bystanders, 
but targets."




Daniel Berrigan: 
 
''I don't know a more irreligious attitude, 
one more utterly bankrupt of any 
human content, than one which
permits children to be 
destroyed.''




John Denver:
 
''There's an aspect of human nature in which we want 
to think we're better than somebody else. They're a 
different colour. They speak a different language. 
They have a different name for the Creator. 
Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me
 to hate them, to try to get some of their
 land or some of their resources.''




Former US Secretary of State, 
Madeleine Albright, Dec. 2005:
 
"It is unfair, that a single country possesses 
territories such as Siberia and the Far East, 
in which, a few states... may be installed."




Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
 
I am ignorant of the problem as a whole, otherwise I should 
have presented it. But I shall content myself with giving you
a history of its successive phases in Europe --- and shall 
content myself with telling you rapidly and briefly: that 
the problem arose at the moment of the discovery of 
America, when Europeans, intoxicated by glory, 
adventure, and above all by rapine, sought to 
conquer new territories which did not 
belong to them. 
 
They destroyed the aborigines - exterminated them! Then, 
terrified at the void they had created around them, and 
being themselves incapable of labour, they turned to 
Africa, for workmen. It was Africa that furnished 
contingents for penal labour... this Africa, with 
whose unhappy history you are unacquainted 
but which, some day...  one of her sons will 
outline for you in darts of fire, a monument 
of shame, for that civilization, of which,
you boast.
 
Without humanity, there is no civilization!





Simone Weil:
 
''As soon as men know that they can kill 
without fear of punishment or blame,
they kill; or at least they encourage 
killers, with approving smiles.''




Patch Adams:
 
''I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't 
change from a society that worships money and power, 
over to one that worships compassion and generosity, 
there is no hope for human survival, this century.''




 Jessie Street: 
 
''Vital changes of policy have been 
brought about by moral pressure.''




Nicholas Murray Butler:
 
"All the problems of the world 
could be settled easily, if men 
were only willing to think. The 
trouble is that men very often
resort to all sorts of devices,
in order not to think -- since
thinking is such hard work"





F. Bacon’s scientific method
defined
 in ‘New Instrument’:
 
''Three main steps: 
 
1st, a description of facts; 
 
2nd, a tabulation or classification of those 
facts, into three categories – instances of 
the presence of the characteristic under 
investigation, instances of its absence, 
or instances of its presence in 
varying degrees; 
 
3rd, the rejection of whatever appears, 
in the light of these tables, not to be 
connected with the phenomenon
under investigation, and the 
determination of what is 
connected with it."
 

 

Patch Adams:
 
''Medical professionals are a lot more comfortable 
calling it 'depression', than calling it 'loneliness."'




Cesar Chavez:
 
''It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives 
do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act
of 
courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to 
sacrifice ourselves for others, in a totally 
non-violent struggle for justice.''




Sirimavo Bandaranaike:

''The women of Sri Lanka have never been chattels, 
never been in enforced servitude to the male sex. 
Whatever ‘servitude’ we render, is voluntarily 
undertaken, because there is a deep rooted 
respect for the dual and different roles of 
father and mother in our society.'' 



Thereza (from Coisa Mais Linda):

“You don’t realize how
strong you are, until
you 
have to be.”



 
Maxim Gorky:
 
''Everybody, my friend, everybody lives 
for something better to come. That's 
why we want to be considerate of 
every man - Who knows what's 
in him, why he was born and 
what he can do?''



Randal Cremer:
 
"The world has passed through a long night of tribulation 
and suffering, millions of our fellow creatures have been
sacrificed to the demon of war; their blood has 
saturated every plain and dyed every ocean.
But courage, friends, courage! The 
darkness is ending, a new day 
is dawning, and the future 
is ours."



Blogger:
 
''The people in Yemen should know 
that Israel surrendered to Hamas 
after Hamas fired 15 Rockets at 
Dimona Nuclear Site that came 
so close to hitting it, 
Bi Bi Panicked.''
 
 
 
ZeroHedge, May 14th, 2021:
 
''Hamas Targets Israeli Oil And Nuclear Facilities
With Rocket Attacks. Hamas' militant wing, the 
Al-Qassam Brigades, announced... earlier this 
week that it is deliberately targeting Israel's 
secretive Dimona nuclear reactor site, 
known as the Shimon Peres Negev 
Nuclear Research Centre, which 
lies east of the Gaza Strip, far 
into the Negev Desert.''
 
''It was on Wednesday that Qassam Brigade spokesmen 
said they were "directing a rocket strike involving 15 
rockets for Dimona" - and, since then, it appears 
rockets have fallen generally in the southerly 
area - but there's since been no reports of 
direct hits anywhere on the complex, or 
damage to the site.''
 
 
 
US magazine News-week:
 
"On Tuesday (May 11th), at least one rocket appeared 
to score a direct hit, damaging an Ashkelon facility 
connected to the Trans-Israel pipeline running 
from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea."
 
"The military wing of Palestinian Islamist movement 
Hamas has targeted Israel's nuclear facility, key oil 
facilities and other sites across the country, amid 
a violent escalation between the two sides."
 


Former Pfizer vice president and 
chief scientific officer, Dr Yeadon:
 
''I know enough about biotechnology, to know that you can
easily create, shall we say, pathogens, which do not look 
like they are related to what you have done. What’s even 
more horrifying, is you can separate them in time, so an
injection which will later make you ill or kill you, can be 
separated, by design, in time, from that event. So you 
might die a year later of liver cancer or something... 
and you would not connect that.  And, if you can 
imagine... making a smorgasbord of different 
pathogens, so not everybody is going to die 
of the same thing, you, literally, could do 
away with big slices of the population, 
if you want.  And we could all be 
running around like headless 
chickens.This is an attempt 
on global de-population.''



Huey P. Newton: 
 
''I do not think that life will change for the better, 
without an assault on the Establishment, which 
goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.''



Cesar Chavez:
 
''When we are really honest with ourselves, 
we must admit: our lives are all that really
belong to us. So it is how we use our 
lives, that determines the kind of 
men we are.''



From 'Looking Backward' by Edward Bellamy:
 
''In the first place, it was firmly and sincerely believed 
that there was no other way in which Society could 
get along, except the many pulled at the rope and 
the few rode, and not only this, but that no very 
radical improvement was even possible, either
in the harness, the coach, the roadway, or the
distribution of the toil. It had always been
as 
it was, and it always would be so. It
was a 
pity, but it could not be helped,
and 
philosophy forbade wasting 
compassion, on what was 
beyond remedy.''




Tony Benn:
 
''The nature of the economic system should be 
a matter for public choice --- and free market 
capitalism should not be accepted without
any discussion of the rich variety of 
alternatives... ''



Túpac Amaru II:
 
"I have acted, only against the mentioned abuses, and to 
preserve the peace and well-being of Indians, mestizos, 
mambos, as well as native-born whites and blacks."


 
Alex Rubinstein, independent reporter: 
 
''It’s important to remember that many of the early 
leaders of NATO, were Nazis. To this day, NATO 
has continued to support neo-Nazis in 
countries like Ukraine, while NATO 
states that hold permitted rallies 
honoring Nazi collaborators... 
are only just now cancelling 
the marches, because of 
the coronavirus, rather 
than stopping the
glorification 
of Nazism.''



Chinese idiom translated from Mandarin: 
 
"Read till old and learn till old"



 Edward Young:

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



Aretha Franklin:
 
''You cannot define a person on just one thing. 
You can't just forget all these wonderful and 
good things a person has done, because 
one thing didn't come off the way you 
thought it should come off.''



Blogger, on an elderly Asian lady being kicked 
viciously in the head... as watchers filmed it:
 
''The US has morally collapsed -- to the 
level of animal survival instincts. This
is the result of decades of rampant 
capitalism, consumerism, and 
putting profits before people.
Only murdering sociopaths 
would want to live there!''



May 13th, in Russia Today (RT):
 
''Russia, along with the US, is one 
of only a handful of nations, that 
recognizes Jerusalem as the 
capital of Israel.''



Jonathan Swift:
 
“I never wonder to see men wicked, 
but I often wonder to see them 
not ashamed.”



From 'Looking Backward' by Edward Bellamy:
 
''The organization of society with you, was such, that 
officials were under constant temptation to misuse 
their power for the private profit of themselves, or 
others. Under such circumstances, it seems 
almost strange that you dared entrust 
them with any of your affairs.'' 



William Hazlitt:
 
''An honest man speaks the truth, though it may
give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.''



Tony Benn:
 
''I believe the more difficult the circumstances, 
the more people will be inclined to trust those
 in charge at the moment.''



Yanis Varoufakis:
 
''So, how did these rulers manage to maintain their power, 
distributing surplus as they pleased, undisturbed by the 
majority? By cultivating an ideology which caused the 
majority to believe, deep in their hearts, that only
their 
rulers had the right to rule.''



William Hazlitt:
 
''The least pain in our little finger, gives us 
more concern and uneasiness, than
the destruction of millions of our 
fellow-beings.''



Norman Finkelstein:
 
“Apart from my parents - every family member, 
on both sides, was exterminated by the Nazis.”


 
Norman Finkelstein:
 
The Zionists, indeed, learnt well from the 
Nazis. So well, that it seems that their 
morally repugnant treatment of the 
Palestinians - and their attempts to 
destroy Palestinian society within 
Israel and the occupied territories
- reveals them as, basically, Nazis 
with beards and black hats.”



Thomas Jefferson:
 
''The care of human life and happiness, and 
not their destruction, is the first and only 
object of good government.''



Caitlin Johnstone:
 
''The mainstream media are keeping the general public 
ignorant of the possibility of, and dire necessity for... 
detente. We are meant to take it as a given, that the 
only option available, is to continue increasing 
aggressions with these two nuclear powers. 
This is a lie, and it is insane. Detente 
absolutely is an option. We do not 
''need'', to keep risking all life on 
earth with this psychotic game 
of nuclear Russian roulette, 
every day, just because a 
few powerful sociopaths 
have decided the US 
empire must retain 
supremacy at 
all cost.''



 
Dilma Rousseff:
 
''I'm proud to have lied. Lying under torture isn't easy. 
In the face of torture, a person with dignity lies. 
Enduring torture is very difficult ... The pain is 
unbearable; you can not imagine how painful. 
I am proud to have lied, because I saved my 
comrades from the same torture and 
from death.''



Thomas Paine:
 
''We have it in our power to 
begin the world over again.''
 


Bianca Jagger:
 
''Americans need to understand the 
significance of having their civil 
liberties dismantled. It doesn't 
just affect terrorists and 
foreigners, it affects 
us all.''



Ernestine Rose:
 
''If you allow one single germ, one single 
seed of slavery to remain in the soil of 
America... that germ will spring up, 
that noxious weed will thrive, and 
again, stifle the growth, wither
the 
leaves, blast the flowers,
and 
poison the fair fruits
of 
freedom.''




Charles Edward Russell:


"As the Standard Oil article in the Atlantic became the 
armory of every person willing to fight for industrial 
freedom, so Wealth Against Commonwealth in later 
years became the great storehouse of information 
to which numbers of able campaigners habitually 
resorted for their facts. Probably millions of men 
read or heard Mr. Lloyd's ideas... without being 
aware of the real authorship. But I judge that 
with this condition, he was well content.
No 
man ever entered such a fight with
smaller share of personal vanity to 
gratify... He desired that his country-
men should be informed of existing 
conditions, but not that he himself 
should gain fame or rewards."




Mohamad Safa, a Lebanese diplomat:
 
"If the U.S. saw what the U.S. is doing 
in the U.S., the U.S. would invade the 
U.S. to liberate the U.S. from the
tyranny of the U.S."



Vladimir Vysotsky: 
 
“I always try to find the good in people. 
They will show the bad, themselves.”



April 28th, 2021, Sergey Lavrov: 
 
''I cannot speak and make guesses on behalf of 
the Ukrainian party & the President of Ukraine 
Vladimir Zelensky, because, by all indications,
his main goal is to stay in power. He is ready
to pay any price, such as pandering to neo-
Nazis and ultra-radicals, who continue to 
brand the Donbass self-defence fighters 
as terrorists.''



Eric Zuesse:
 
''Instead of fearing to be held to account, like the 
Nazis were at Nuremberg, America’s tyrants face 
no such international prosecutions whatsoever. 
Only good leaders become assassinated in 
America. The Deep State gets rid of them. 
Today’s American Government, is clearly
fascist - and not like Franco was fascist 
but like Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito 
were fascist: imperialistic fascists.''



US president, John Tyler:
 
''Our wise men flattered us into the adoption 
of the banking system, under the idea that 
boundless wealth would result from the 
adoption.''



Nicholas Murray Butler:
 
"The US is in sore need today of an aristocracy 
of intellect and service. Because such an 
aristocracy does not exist in the popular 
consciousness; we are bending the 
knee to the golden calf of money"



Kojo Tovalou Houénou:

''Without humanity there is no civilization!''



Bertolt Brecht:
 
''All the world says: 'yes, we know what’s written
in the books, but now let’s see what our eyes 
tell us'. For time is short and the unknown 
surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to
live unthinking and happy, calmly 
bearing oppression.. and only 
learning wisdom with age.''



 
Carlos Saavedra Lamas:
 
''War, implies a lack of comprehension
of mutual national interests; it means 
the undermining -- and even the end -- 
of culture.''
 


UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
 
''We must act decisively to protect our planet 
from both the coronavirus & the existential 
threat of climate disruption.''


 
Vik Muniz:
 
“The really magical things are the ones that happen
 right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep 
looking for beauty, but it is already there. 
If you look with a bit more intention, 
you see it.”



 Edward Bellamy:
 
''Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another 
word for the dissipation of energy;- while combination, is 
the secret of efficient production; and not until the idea 
of increasing the individual hoard, gives place to the 
idea of increasing the common stock, can industrial 
combination be realized, and the acquisition of 
wealth, really begin.''




Proverbs 26:17:
 
''Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own
is like one who takes a passing dog by
the ears. ''




Phil Ochs:
 
''The fortunes of the entire world, may well ride
on the ability of young Americans.. to face the 
responsibilities of an old America, gone mad.''




James Madison Jr.:
 
''Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; 
and a people who mean to be their own 
governors, must arm themselves with 
the power which knowledge gives.''




CIA's John Brennan:
 
''The only language 
bullies understand, 
is a bleeding nose.''






Lucan:
 
''As great edifices collapse of their own weight, 
so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of 
prosperous states.''




John Denver:
 
''There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. 
What we need are more ways to experience our inter-
connectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So,
 in this quickening light, with the dawn of each 
new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer 
struggle. Let us ever become.. who we most 
want to be. As we begin to be who we truly 
are, the world will be a better place.''





Albert Schweitzer:


The first step in the evolution of ethics, 
is a sense of solidarity with other 
human beings.''




Writer Whitney Webb: 
 
“What they want, is for you to get used to 
the idea of ratting out your neighbours.”




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




Ibn Hazm:
 
''If you attend, only behave like a man wishing to 
expand his knowledge and seeking a higher 
reward from God. Do not act like a man 
content with what he holds...  who is 
waiting for a 'weakness' (from some-
one) to criticize (it or him), or for an 
oddity to raise. This will be acting 
like vile people, who have never 
mastered science.''




Richard Price:
 
''The noblest principle in our nature, is the regard to 
general justice, and that good-will which embraces 
all the world.''    




Naom Chomsky:
 
''We may recall that ...Winston Churchill authorized 
the use of chemical weapons "against recalcitrant 
Arabs as an experiment," denouncing the 
"squeamishness" of those who objected 
to him "using poisoned gas against 
uncivilised tribes," mainly Kurds, 
a policy he strongly favoured,
expecting that it "would 
spread a lively terror." 
 
''For England itself, he had somewhat different plans. 
As Home Secretary in 1910 he had secretly proposed 
sterilization of 100,000 "mental degenerates" and the 
dispatch of tens of thousands of others to state-run
labour camps so as to save the "British race" from
inevitable decline if its "inferior" members are 
allowed to breed, ideas that were within the 
bounds of enlightened opinion of the day,
but have been kept secret in Home
Office 
files because of their
sensitivity, 
particularly
after  they were
taken up by
Hitler.''





Frank Herbert:
 
''Power does not corrupt... What it does 
do, however, is attract the corruptible.''



 
Blogger:
 
''Reports in the '90s, before the non-stop post 911 era 
shut down decent scientific social studies, proved 
that abusers are attracted to jobs like cops, 
teachers, doctors, nurses, social workers
and banking... and anywhere money is 
handled, such as benefits offices and 
AP departments\treasury, passport
offices, DMV and information 
technology.''




Dmitry Kozak, President Vladimir Putin’s
deputy chief of staff --- who is Ukrainian:
 
“I support those assessments that exist within Ukraine,
 that the start of hostilities is the beginning of the end
 for the country. This is a self-inflicted shot, a shot
 not in the leg, but in the temple.”  




 
Seymour Hersh, honest US writer:
 
''The day after 9/11, we should have gone to Russia. 
We did the one thing that George Kennan warned 
us never to do - to expand NATO too far.''




James Otis Jr.:
 
''What must be the wealth that
avarice, 
aided by power,
cannot exhaust!''




John Cruddas, British MP: 

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




Persius:
 
''You pray for good health and a body that will be 
strong in old age. Good - but your rich foods 
block God's answer and tie his hands.''
 

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




Matthew Ehret:
 
''The only pathway to avoiding the collapse of the financial 
system & a thermonuclear war, is to be found in imposing 
Natural Law, vigorously, upon the claimed “debts” which 
Wall Street, & the City of London, wishes to have bailed
out. The expression of this Natural Law takes the form 
of the restoration of Glass-Steagall laws across the 
trans-Atlantic economies - eliminating the $1.5 
quadrillion debt bomb, before it explodes - and 
returning to the principles of national banking 
for all countries. Under such a reform, and by
joining in common interest with other states
in the Eurasian zone --- a commitment to 
progress and security can be realized, 
and such poisonous agendas as the 
Great Reset, can be avoided.''




Thaddeus Stevens, US House of Representatives:
 
''I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own.
If they had -- you would have horrible pictures of
the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.''




Nicholas Murray Butler:
 
''The world is divided into three kinds of people: 
A very small group that makes things happen; 
a somewhat larger group that watches things 
happen; and a great multitude that never 
knows what has happened.''




Aretha Franklin:
 
''I think, it would be a far greater 
world if people were kinder and
more respectful to each other.''
 



This, from The Australian, the Murdoch
owned national newspaper of Australia:
 
“Zhao is a piss and wind functionary --- a bureaucrat 
perfectly suited to serving a totalitarian government. 
Wolf warrior? More a propaganda panda. Think of 
Squealer from George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, the 
obsequious manipulator, who, at the behest of 
his master, Napoleon, spreads disinformation 
throughout the socialist collective to bolster 
the supremacy of his fellow pigs.”





Autralian blogger:
 
''Three Australian PM's who sought better tries with Asia
were ousted with the help of the US & UK. Those who
obediently follow the US are rewarded with lucrative 
positions brokered by the US.''





Casanova:
 
''The man who has sufficient power over himself 
to wait until his nature has recovered its even 
balance, is the truly wise man, but such 
beings are seldom met with.''





Germaine Greer:
 
''Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have 
always died out; it's one of the most charming 
things about them.''





On the West's terror on China, Finian Cunningham:
 
''Due to the 2-decade-old US-led war in Afghanistan 
there has been a serious problem for the Chinese 
authorities - from the radicalization of the Uyghur 
population. Thousands of fighters from Xinjiang 
have trained with the Taliban in Afghanistan, &
taken their “global jihad” to Syria, and Central 
Asian countries. It's their stated objective: to 
return to Xinjiang & liberate it as a caliphate 
of East Turkestan, separate from China.''





Top French Military Commander
Colonel Jacques Hogard:

''This NATO aggression against Serbia over Kosovo in
1999, constitutes a violation of international law, a 
violation of respect for the sovereignty of States, 
a violation of intangible respect of borders.''





Albert Schweitzer:

''Example is not the main thing 
in influencing others. It is the 
only thing.''
 



In 1787, Virginia governor, Edmund Randolph: 
 
“Our chief danger, arises from the democratic
 parts of our constitutions.” 
 

 
 
Winston Churchill: 
 
"The best argument against democracy 
is a five-minute conversation with the 
average voter."
 
 
'Reply from average voter: