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Quotations Page
Marguerite Higgins:
''There is much pretence in our everyday life,
and - with a skilful manner - much can be
concealed. But with a shell whistling at
you there is not much time to pretend
and a person’s qualities are starkly
revealed.''
Father Wresinski:
''Wherever men and women are condemned to live
in extreme poverty, human rights are violated. To
come together to ensure that these rights be
respected, is our solemn duty.''
Alexis Tsipras:
''There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes...
but at least they had humanity at the centre of their thinking.''
Cleveland Amory:
“What this world needs is a new kind
of army --- the army of the kind.”
Basil, fool for Christ:
''Why abstain from meat,
when you murder men?''
John Neal:
''The frontier people pick a quarrel with the Indians.
No declaration of war follows; no ceremony; but,
forth goes General [Andrew] Jackson ------ or
general somebody else; wasting and firing
the whole country. A truce follows: a
ceding of the conquered country ---
for the protection of the whites.
No people, ancient or modern
..have been so deplorably
oppressed, belied, and
wronged, in every
possible way."
John Quincy Adams:
''Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud,
is the only maxim which can ever preserve
the liberties of any people.''
Bill Waterson:
''The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in
the universe --- is that it has never tried to contact us.''
Ken Saro-Wiwa:
''We all stand before history. I am a man of peace,
of ideas. Appalled by the denigrating poverty of
my people, who live on a richly endowed land,
distressed by their political marginalization
and economic strangulation, angered by
the devastation of their land, their
ultimate heritage, anxious to
preserve their right to life
and to a decent living.''
José Rizal:
''The people no longer have confidence
in their former protectors, now their
exploiters and executioners.
The masks have fallen.''
Nikolay Chernyshevsky:
''To renounce progress... is as silly
as to renounce the Earth's force
of gravitation.''
Woody Guthrie:
''I would like to see every single soldier on every single side,
just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your
rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and
say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich
folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.''
Walid Jumblatt:
''The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes
and goes. Today it is Islam. According to
this plan or ideology of the born-again
Christians who formed an alliance
with Zionism, Islam is
the monster.''
Stephen Karganovic:
''The in-your-face European Parliament human rights
prize nomination of señora Añez, for the notable
accomplishment - of serving as provisional
head of state in an illegal coup regime
- which deposed the legitimately
elected President - should be
enough... to give the whole
game away, shouldn’t it?''
Eric Zuesse:
''The rich have inculcated into the public
a respect for the rich, and a contempt
for the poor.''
Jeremy Hardy:
''Capitalism is a great idea in theory,
but in practice, it just doesn't work.''
Al Sharpton:
''It seems some have chosen to ignore or
have simply forgotten... the big-picture
vision... promoted by Dr. King and his
kin. I do believe the Democrat party
has moved... far to the right. I do
believe that the party has a bunch
of elephants running around in
donkey clothes.''
Fidel Castro:
''They talk about the failure of socialism
but where is the success of capitalism
in Africa, Asia and Latin America?''
Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
''We once formed a human chain
around Jerusalem, joining
hands and calling
for peace.''
Bertha von Suttner:
''One of the eternal truths is that happiness
is created and developed in peace, and
one of the eternal rights, is the
individual's right to live.''
Chalmers Johnson:
“As militarism, the arrogance of power, and the
euphemisms required to justify imperialism,
inevitably conflict with America’s
democratic structure of
government and distort
its culture and basic
values, I fear that
we will lose our
country.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
''Happiness is not found in things you possess,
but in what you have the courage to release.''
W. E. B. Du Bois:
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed
by colour, race, or poverty. But with all,
we accomplish all, even Peace.”
Elias Canetti:
''The planet's survival has become so uncertain
that any effort, any thought, that presupposes
an assured future, amounts to a mad gamble.''
President Erdogan:
''Nobody can tell Turkey
what defense systems
it can buy,''
Blogger:
''The other side of the coin
is that nobody can tell
the US... what
to sell.''
Mary Ritter Beard:
“Those who sit at the feast will continue to
enjoy themselves... even though the veil
that separates them from the world of
toiling reality below, has been lifted
by mass revolts and critics.”
Mark Twain's “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”:
''Each of the world’s strongest nations, is proceeding
with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand
and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in
the other.''
Cuban leader, Díaz-Canel:
''As long as this world order prevails,
the noblest goals will remain
a chimera.''
Walid Jumblatt:
''The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's
historic lie - that the reason for invading
Iraq was weapons of mass destruction
- is that everything is being doubted.''
Marshall McLuhan:
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a
hallucinating idiot... for he sees what no one
else does: things that, to everyone else,
are not there.”
Jean de La Bruyère:
''We must laugh before we are happy,
for fear we die before we laugh at all.''
Carl Jung:
''In my case, Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my
having to climb down a thousand ladders, until
I could reach out my hand to the little clod
of earth that I am.''
President Putin:
"We should have modernised sooner, instead of
sticking our heads into buckets of sand,
leaving our butt exposed for
anyone to kick".
Cuban leader, Díaz-Canel:
''Building the world we dream of is an enormous task,
but it is possible, if we renounce selfishness and
work together to transform the current unjust
international order into a more just,
democratic and equitable one
in which, at last, no one is
left behind.''
Vladivostok taxi driver:
"Russia not my country.... USSR my country.
In USSR everyone same, everyone friends.
Now, if you are rich and I am poor, you
cannot be my friend".
Lion Feuchtwanger:
“It is easy to possess a conscience, Monsieur,
when one only needs to talk or write about it.
But the man who has to act, is constantly
faced with the necessity, if he wishes to
deal justly with one person, of being
unjust to somebody else.”
Research published in recent days by Levada Centre:
''While one in six Russians, want to move toward
“democracy according to the model of Western
countries,” around 18% said “the current
system” was preferable.''
''49% of respondents said they would happily return
to “the Soviet system, like we had until the 1990s.”
and 30% of 18-24 year olds said that
this is also their preferred option.''
Alexis de Tocqueville:
“... everybody feels the evil... but no one has
courage or energy enough to seek the cure”
Bulgarian communist Georgi Dimitrov
Mihaylov, defined fascism as follows:
''Comrades, fascism in power... was correctly described
by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee
of the Communist International, as the open terrorist
dictatorship of the most reactionary, most
chauvinistic and most imperialist
elements of finance capital.''
UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
''Let us commit to safeguarding the principles of
equality, participation and solidarity, so that we
can better weather the storm of future crises.''
Mary Ritter Beard:
“Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive,
nothing can be understood.”
Munshi Premchand:
''Trust, is the first step to love.''
Carl Jung:
''Where love rules, there is no will to power;
and where power predominates, there,
love is lacking. The one is the
shadow of the other.''
W. E. B. Du Bois:
“Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make
hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs;
they do great and beautiful things. And shall we
not best guide humanity, by telling the truth
about all this, so far as the truth
is ascertainable?”
Jorge Amado:
''It is a very risky thing for anyone to go about
proclaiming the truth, simply because he
finds himself in possession of concrete
documentary proofs, or on the
evidence of his own eyes,
which is always over-
estimated. Love is
not to be proven
or measured. It
exists and that
is enough.''
Mary Ritter Beard:
“Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy...
has a social setting: in time, in a geographical location,
in a political economy, in a matrix of interests, and
knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon
like a balloon without moorings. It is not
produced in a vacuum and, being
creative, it does not work in a
vacuum. Nurtured on things
experienced and things
known, it reaches out
toward the unknown
like a flower on a
stalk... growing
out of the soil.”
Fidel Castro:
''The fact is, when men carry the same ideals
in their hearts, nothing can isolate them -
neither prison walls, nor the sod of
cemeteries. For a single memory,
a single spirit, a single idea, a
single conscience, a single
dignity, will sustain
them all.''
Basil, fool for Christ:
''Imitate the earth, O man. Bear fruit, as she does, lest
you prove inferior to that which is without life. She
produces her fruits, not that she may enjoy them,
but for your service. You do gather for yourself
whatever fruit of good works you have strewn,
because the grace of good works returns to
the giver. You have given to the poor... and
the gift becomes your own and comes back
with increase. Just as grain that has fallen
on the earth becomes a gain to the sower,
so the loaf thrown to the hungry man
renders abundant fruit thereafter.
The end of your husbandry.. is the
beginning of the heavenly sowing.
‘Sow,’ it is written, ‘to yourselves
in righteousness.’ 'Why then are
you distressed? Why do you
harass yourself... in your
efforts to shut up your
riches in clay and
bricks? ‘A good
name is rather
to be chosen,
than great
riches.’''
Munshi Premchand:
''Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields
grow grains, but they are consumed by the world.
Cows give milk, but she doesn't drink it herself -
that is left to others. Clouds send rain, only to
quench the parched earth. In such giving,
there is little space for selfishness.''
George Sand:
''No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are
some revolutions which humanity accomplishes
without quite knowing how, because it is
everybody who takes them in hand.''
Francis Hutcheson:
''Men have been Laughed out of Faults
...which a Sermon could not reform.''
Walid Jumblatt:
''We are all happy, when U.S. soldiers
are killed, week in and week out.
The killing of U.S. soldiers in
Iraq, is legitimate and
obligatory.''
G. K. Chesterton:
''The purpose of Compulsory Education,
is to deprive the common people
of their commonsense.''
Marshall McLuhan:
“We become what we behold. We shape our
tools, and thereafter, our tools shape us.”
G. K. Chesterton:
''Education is simply the soul of a society
as it passes from one generation
to another.''
UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
''The nuclear menace is once again on the rise.
A complete ban on nuclear testing is an
essential step in preventing the
qualitative and quantitative
improvement of nuclear
weapons... and in
achieving nuclear
disarmament.''
Bal Gangadhar Tilak:
"Life is all about a card game.
Selecting the right cards, is
not in our hand. But playing
well with the cards in our
hand... determines
our success."
Investigative journalist Kit Klarenberg:
''Analysis by Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) has
found that weapons made by numerous UK companies,
with receipts running into billions, have been used in
the [Yemen] war. In fact, over half of the equipment
used in bombing raids, is UK-supplied.. including
Typhoon and Tornado aircraft, Paveway bombs
and Brimstone and Stormshadow missiles.
Without exaggeration, every day, Yemen
is hit by UK-made bombs, dropped by
UK-made planes, which are repaired
and serviced on Saudi soil by UK
contractors, including RAF
engineers, and flown by
UK-trained pilots.''
Clara Zetkin:
''The capitalists speculate on the two
following factors: the female worker
must be paid as poorly as possible
and the competition of female
labour must be employed to
lower the wages of male
workers as much
as possible.''
George Sand:
''Life in common, among people who love
each other, is the ideal of happiness.''
Jean de La Fontaine:
''People must help one
another; it is nature's
law.''
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Karl Grossman:
''The U.S. nuclear weapons “modernization” program
violates the disarmament component of the Non-
Proliferation Treaty. Major objectives of the NPT
- an international treaty which took effect in
1970 - include preventing the spread of
nuclear weapons and achieving
nuclear disarmament. It is
putting the world on
the brink.''
Lion Feuchtwanger:
“Those who came from internment camps in Belgium
told how they had been transported across France
in sealed cars. No one had paid any attention to
the trains and the occupants had been left
without food or water. Their Belgian
guards had robbed them
of everything they
possessed.”
George Carlin (may he Rest In Peace):
''The flag is a symbol, and
I leave the symbols to
the symbol-minded."
Poet:
''The Russians, Chinese
and the English like tea.
I'm Welsh. I'll take cofi.''
Kit Klarenberg:
''In March, the United Nations ruled that Yemen remained
the world’s “worst humanitarian crisis” and that up to
80% of the population – including over 11 million
children – remained in need of urgent human-
itarian assistance. Yet, Yemen is very, very
rarely mentioned in the Western media,
and the UK’s absolutely fundamental
role in sustaining the bloodshed...
even more seldomly.''
Jeremy Corbyn:
“Britain, was responsible for the training of
the Afghan army; Britain set up an officer
training corps of the Afghan army - and
the result was not a good one.”
Clara Zetkin:
''The most important immediate task, is the formation
of a United Front of all workers, in order to turn back
fascism... in order to preserve for the enslaved and
exploited, the force and power of their organization
as well as to maintain their own physical existence.
Before this compelling historical necessity, all
inhibiting and dividing political, trade union,
religious & ideological opinions.. must take
a back seat. All those who feel themselves
threatened, all those who suffer, and all
those who long for liberation... must
belong to the United Front against
fascism and its representatives
in government.''
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
''No man for any considerable period
can wear one face to himself, and
another to the multitude, without
finally getting bewildered as to
which may be the true.''
Journalist Matt Taibbi:
“Every image coming out of Afghanistan this
past weekend, was an advertisement for
the incompetence, arrogance, and
double-dealing nature of
American foreign
policy leaders.”
Richard Medhurst:
"The only people who think Afghanistan was a failure
are people who don’t own stocks in Halliburton,
Raytheon and Boeing. Afghanistan was a
blistering success for them."
Matt Taibbi:
''The look of genuine shock on the faces of people
like Tony Blinken this weekend, should tell people
around the world something important about the
United States: in addition to all the other things
about us that are dangerous, we lack
self-knowledge.''
George Carlin:
"America is one big lie, and
you're a fool to believe it."
Jeremy Hardy:
''The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage
similar to that moment at your child's party -
where you realise you've forgotten to give
the other parents a pick up time.''
Sun Tzu:
"He will win whose army is animated
by the same spirit, throughout all
its ranks."
Anacharsis Cloots:
''What is man's chief enemy?
Each man is his own.''
Clara Zetkin:
''... reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class,
they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened
with, by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush
capitalism and to emancipate the workers from
their tyranny.''
Sukarno:
This twentieth century has been a period of terrific
dynamism. Perhaps the last fifty years have seen
more developments and more material progress
than the previous five hundred years. Man has
learned to control many of the scourges
which once threatened him.
He has learned to consume distance. He has learned
to project his voice and his picture across oceans
and continents. He has probed deep into the
secrets of nature and learned how to make
the desert bloom and the plants of the
earth increase their bounty. He has
learned how to release the
immense forces locked in
the smallest particles
of matter.
But has man's political skill marched hand-in-hand with
his technical and scientific skill? Man can chain
lightning to his command -- can he control the
society in which he lives? The answer is No!
The political skill of man, has been far
outstripped by technical skill, and
what he has made, he cannot
be sure of controlling.
The result of this is fear. And man gasps for safety and
morality. Perhaps now more than at any other moment
in the history of the world, society, government and
statesmanship need to be based upon the highest
code of morality and ethics. And, in political
terms, what is the highest code of
morality? It is the subordination
of everything, to the well-
being of mankind.
But today we are faced with a situation where the well-being
of mankind is not always the primary consideration. Many
who are in places of high power think, rather, of
controlling the world.
Mark Twain writing in response to the
U.S.'s occupation of the Philippines:
''But it was impossible to save the Great Republic.
She was rotten to the heart. Lust of conquest
had long ago done its work; trampling upon
the helpless abroad, had taught her, by a
natural process, to endure with apathy
the like at home; multitudes who had
applauded the crushing of other
people’s liberties, lived to
suffer for their mistake,
in their own persons.''
Che Guevara:
''I am not a liberator. Liberators, do not
exist. The people liberate themselves.''
G. K. Chesterton:
''I would maintain that thanks are
the highest form of thought, and
that gratitude is happiness,
doubled by wonder.''
Giacomo Leopardi:
''The world laughs at things it would
really prefer to admire, and, like
Aesop's fox, it criticizes
things it covets.''
Nelson Mandela:
''It is easy to break down and destroy.
The heroes, are those who make
peace and build.''
Mary McLeod Bethune:
''We have a powerful potential in our youth,
and we must have the courage to change
old ideas and practices, so that we may
direct their power toward good ends.''
Leading world virologist, Professor Luc Montagnier:
"It is the vaccines that are causing the variants
and, in all countries, the curve of vaccination,
is followed by the curve of deaths."
Hilaire Belloc:
''There is not anything... that can so suddenly
flood the mind with shame as the conviction
of ignorance --- yet we are all ignorant of
nearly everything there is to be known.''
Adam Michnik:
“I am not a capitalist; I am a socialist
who is unable to forgive socialism,
that it did not work.”
W. E. B. Du Bois:
“You are not and yet you are:
your thoughts, your deeds,
above all, your dreams,
still live.”
Patch Adams:
''Anyone can do it — BE RADIANT! Make the decision.
I want to be an agent of change to a loving world —
so I will be radiant.''
G. K. Chesterton:
''The Christian ideal has not been tried and
found wanting; it has been found difficult
and left untried.''
Hermann Hesse:
''If time is not real, then the dividing line
between this world and eternity,
between suffering and bliss,
between good and evil,
is also an illusion.''
Richard Bach:
''It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you
can manage it, that you might somehow be
happy. Until you make room in your life for
someone as important to you as yourself,
you will always be searching and lost.''
Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
''Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.''
Giacomo Leopardi:
''I get up and I bless the light thin clouds
and the first twittering of birds,
and the breathing air
and smiling face
of the hills.''
U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge:
“The Philippines are ours forever. And just beyond
the Philippines are China’s illimitable markets.
We will not retreat from either. We will not
repudiate our duty in the archipelago.
We will not abandon our opportunity
in the Orient. We will not renounce
our part in the mission of our race
as the trustee under God of the
civilization of the world.”
Che Guevara:
''Above all, always be capable of feeling
deeply, any injustice committed against
anyone, anywhere in the world. This, is
the most beautiful quality in a
revolutionary.''
George Carlin:
''We are a nation of sheep, and
someone else owns the grass.''
Harry Schwarz:
''I believe people are not free - if all they can do is cast
a vote every five years to decide who should govern
them. What does it mean to a man in a shack built
by himself, with no amenities, and not knowing
where his next meal is coming from, to vote?
Paul Laurence Dunbar:
Slight was the thing I bought,
small was the debt I thought,
Poor was the loan at best -
God! but the interest!
Belarus' President, Alexander Lukashenko:
“The crazy European politicians directing a
hybrid war against us, Russia and even
China, isn’t just creating a hotbed of
tension: they are pushing for a
3rd world war.”
Blogger:
''The cabals' world order is crumbling, with
stagnant economies, low birth rates, high
debt, and major social problems. They
are surviving, on printing money out
of thin air. The US and its European
vassals..... are desperate to save
capitalism.... as all scams have
failed. Now they are provoking
nuclear states Russia and
China into WW3 ... for
a global reset.''
Basil of Caesarea:
'''But whom do I treat unjustly,' you say, 'by keeping what
is my own?' Tell me, what is your own? What did you
bring into this life? From where, did you receive it?
It is as if someone were to take the first seat in the
theatre, then bar everyone else from attending so
that one person alone, enjoys what is offered for
the benefit of all in common - this is what the
rich do... They seize common goods - before
others have the opportunity and then claim
them as their own - by right of preemption..
For if we all took only what was necessary
to satisfy our own needs --- giving the rest
to those who lack, no one would be rich,
no one would be poor, and no one
would be in need.''
Hermann Hesse:
''Eternity is a mere moment,
just long enough for a joke.''
Mark Twain:
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world
is being run by smart people who are
putting us on, or by imbeciles who
really mean it."
Steven Best:
''In the aftermath of 10,000 years of incessant growth
and endless wars, that humanity waged upon itself,
other species, and the earth, we now live amidst
unsustainable global capitalism, and a system
of growth that is driving natural systems to
an irreversible tipping point.''
John Quincy Adams:
''It is of no use to discover our own faults
and infirmities, unless the discovery
prompts us to amendment.''
Che Guevara:
''How easy it is to govern, when one
follows a system of consulting the
will of the people, and one holds
as the only norm all the actions
which contribute to the well
being of the people''.
Blogger:
''It was a big mistake on the part of the Cuban
government, to restore diplomatic ties with
washington and allow the maniacs to open
up an embassy in Cuba, they can now see
the results.''
Blogger:
''Russia and China should quickly
come to the aid of Cuba, before
the US and the west, take
the island.''
Daniel Berrigan:
''The God of life summons us to life;
more, to be lifegivers, especially
toward those who lie under
the heel of the powers.''
Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
''As we speak, the tens of thousands who have been
wounded or permanently disabled, are in pain: let
peace heal their wounds. As we speak, the eyes
of thousands of Palestinian refugees, deportees
and displaced persons since 1967, are haunting
us, for exile is a cruel fate: bring them home.''
Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
''What wisdom can you find...
that is greater than kindness?''
Che Guevara:
''The true revolutionary is guided by a
great feeling of love. It is impossible
to think of a genuine revolutionary
lacking this quality.''
John Hersey:
''What has kept the world safe from the bomb
since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the
sense of fear of specific weapons, so
much as it's been memory. The
memory of what happened
at Hiroshima.''
Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
What requiem can be sung, for trees uprooted
by army bulldozers? And, most of all, who can
explain to those whose lands are confiscated
and clear waters stolen, the message
of peace?
Mimi Smith:
"The guitar's all right John,
but you'll never make a
living out of it".
Zhu Xi:
''To fully investigate the spiritual
and understand transformation
is the flourishing of virtue.''
Arnold Wesker:
''If the electrician who comes to mend my fuse blows it
instead, so I should stop having electricity? I should
cut off my light? Socialism is my light, can you
understand that?''
Sirimavo Bandaranaike:
"As a woman and mother,
I call upon the nations of
the world to desist from
violence in their
dealings with
each other."
Alexander Lebed on, if NATO begins
expanding through Eastern Europe:
"World War Three will start. Civilized and uncivilized
states will be destroyed, everybody and everything."
José Emilio Pacheco:
''We are all hypocrites. We cannot
see ourselves or judge ourselves
the way we see and judge others.''
Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
''You forget that the fruits belong to all
and that the land belongs to no one.''
Thomas Jefferson:
''Honesty is the first chapter
in the book of wisdom.''
Recently deceased US Senator, Mike Gravel:
“Politicians are corrupt and they’re basically cowards
because we have a system that is set up - where you
give me money to help me get elected and when
I’m elected, I will vote for your economic
interest - that is bribery, and that’s the
foundation of our system in
this country.”
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:
''Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.''
Rahul Verma:
''Emergency situations prove to
us all: who are real in their
soul and face.''
Richard Bach:
''Every gift from a friend, is
a wish for your happiness.''
Blogger:
''I am an MRI Tech and I see the damage these
vaccines do. Doctors are not reporting the
link. People with no medical history, are
dying and facing debilitating sideffects.
Expect more problems in 3-5yrs, this
is how long effects take to show up,
but don't expect any links to the
vaccine to be shown and, since
the drug companies have
immunity... it really
doesn't matter.''
Harry S. Truman:
''Experience has shown... how
deeply the 'seeds of war' are
planted by economic rivalry
and social injustice.''
Victor Bello Accioly:
“Political reform is important, but no reform will
be greater than promoting popular awareness.”
Alice Salomon, about pre-nazi Germany:
“On the one hand, it was touching how families
make survival possible, for themselves, in the
face of inflation, depression & unemployment
- how they work, do business, experience joy,
celebrate parties and worry about the future
of their children...
“On the other hand, it is shocking how dullness,
monotony, political ignorance, can arise, under
socially & economically narrow & unfavorable
conditions.”
Zhu Xi:
''The petty person considers small goodness
as unbeneficial, and doesn't do it. He takes
small badness as unharmful, and doesn't
avoid it. Thus badness accumulates and
cannot be concealed, and crimes
become great and cannot be
undone.''
Mary Wollstonecraft:
''The beginning is always today.''
Frithjof Schuon said, in his early youth,
4 things always moved him profoundly:
“The holy, the great, the beautiful,
and the childlike”
John Hersey:
''It's a failure of national vision when
you regard children as weapons,
and talents as materials you
can mine, assay, and
fabricate for profit
and defense.''
UNICEF's Eastern & Southern Africa
Regional Director, Mohamed Fall:
''Children and youth are continuing brave efforts to help make
the world a better place, from addressing injustice, to taking
climate action. I appeal to governments, leaders, teachers,
parents and communities, to join them: and push harder:
in fulfilling the promises we have made to them in the
UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. This
Convention, compels us -- to act in the best
interests of the world’s youngest citizens --
and this, must be a primary consideration,
at all times. The world needs to approach
it with that healthy dose of impatience,
that youth brings --- especially as
we’re seeing hard earned
development gains...
slip away.''
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:
''Beauty is truth's smile when
she beholds her own face in
a perfect mirror.''
Che Guevara:
''Those who kill their own children and discriminate
daily against them because of the colour of their
skin; those who let the murderers of blacks
remain free, protecting them, and further-
more... punishing the black population
because they demand their legitimate
rights as free men --- how can those
who do this... consider themselves
guardians of freedom?''
G. K. Chesterton:
''The cosmos is about the smallest hole
that a man can hide his head in.''
Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
''And what do we tell the loved ones... of those killed
by army bullets? How do we answer the questions
and the fear in our children's eyes? For one out of
three Palestinian children under occupation has
been killed, injured, or detained in the past four
years. How can we explain to our children that
they are denied education... our schools, so
often closed by army fiat? Or why their life
is in danger --- for raising a flag in a land
where even children are killed or jailed?''
Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
''As we speak, thousands of our brothers and sisters are
languishing in Israeli prisons and detention camps,
most detained without evidence, charge, or trial,
many cruelly mistreated and tortured in
interrogation, guilty only of seeking
freedom, or daring to defy the
occupation. We speak in
their name and we say:
set them free.''
Robert Burton:
''Every man has a good and a bad angel
attending on him in particular, all his
life long.''
Daniel Berrigan:
''Because we want the peace with half a heart
and half a life and will, the war, of course,
continues -- because the waging of war,
by its nature, is total - but the waging
of peace, by our own cowardice,
is partial.''
Joke by upjoke.com:
''What do you get, if you ask a politician
to tell 'the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth'?''
3 different answers.
Alexander Lebed:
"If you don't tell the truth, you can end up
with a pile of bodies, in a sea of blood."
June Callwood:
"If any of you happen to see an injustice,
you are no longer a spectator, you are a
participant, and you have an obligation
to do something."
Graça Machel, Expert of the UN Secretary-General:
''Millions of children are caught up in conflicts
in which they are not merely bystanders,
but targets."
Daniel Berrigan:
''I don't know a more irreligious attitude,
one more utterly bankrupt of any
human content, than one which
permits children to be
destroyed.''
John Denver:
''There's an aspect of human nature in which we want
to think we're better than somebody else. They're a
different colour. They speak a different language.
They have a different name for the Creator.
Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me
to hate them, to try to get some of their
land or some of their resources.''
Former US Secretary of State,
Madeleine Albright, Dec. 2005:
"It is unfair, that a single country possesses
territories such as Siberia and the Far East,
in which, a few states... may be installed."
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
I am ignorant of the problem as a whole, otherwise I should
have presented it. But I shall content myself with giving you
a history of its successive phases in Europe --- and shall
content myself with telling you rapidly and briefly: that
the problem arose at the moment of the discovery of
America, when Europeans, intoxicated by glory,
adventure, and above all by rapine, sought to
conquer new territories which did not
belong to them.
They destroyed the aborigines - exterminated them! Then,
terrified at the void they had created around them, and
being themselves incapable of labour, they turned to
Africa, for workmen. It was Africa that furnished
contingents for penal labour... this Africa, with
whose unhappy history you are unacquainted
but which, some day... one of her sons will
outline for you in darts of fire, a monument
of shame, for that civilization, of which,
you boast.
Without humanity, there is no civilization!
Simone Weil:
''As soon as men know that they can kill
without fear of punishment or blame,
they kill; or at least they encourage
killers, with approving smiles.''
Patch Adams:
''I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't
change from a society that worships money and power,
over to one that worships compassion and generosity,
there is no hope for human survival, this century.''
Jessie Street:
''Vital changes of policy have been
brought about by moral pressure.''
Nicholas Murray Butler:
"All the problems of the world
could be settled easily, if men
were only willing to think. The
trouble is that men very often
resort to all sorts of devices,
in order not to think -- since
thinking is such hard work"
F. Bacon’s scientific method
defined in ‘New Instrument’:
''Three main steps:
1st, a description of facts;
2nd, a tabulation or classification of those
facts, into three categories – instances of
the presence of the characteristic under
investigation, instances of its absence,
or instances of its presence in
varying degrees;
3rd, the rejection of whatever appears,
in the light of these tables, not to be
connected with the phenomenon
under investigation, and the
determination of what is
connected with it."
Patch Adams:
''Medical professionals are a lot more comfortable
calling it 'depression', than calling it 'loneliness."'
Cesar Chavez:
''It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives
do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act
of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to
sacrifice ourselves for others, in a totally
non-violent struggle for justice.''
Sirimavo Bandaranaike:
''The women of Sri Lanka have never been chattels,
never been in enforced servitude to the male sex.
Whatever ‘servitude’ we render, is voluntarily
undertaken, because there is a deep rooted
respect for the dual and different roles of
father and mother in our society.''
Thereza (from Coisa Mais Linda):
“You don’t realize how
strong you are, until
you have to be.”
Maxim Gorky:
''Everybody, my friend, everybody lives
for something better to come. That's
why we want to be considerate of
every man - Who knows what's
in him, why he was born and
what he can do?''
Randal Cremer:
"The world has passed through a long night of tribulation
and suffering, millions of our fellow creatures have been
sacrificed to the demon of war; their blood has
saturated every plain and dyed every ocean.
But courage, friends, courage! The
darkness is ending, a new day
is dawning, and the future
is ours."
Blogger:
''The people in Yemen should know
that Israel surrendered to Hamas
after Hamas fired 15 Rockets at
Dimona Nuclear Site that came
so close to hitting it,
Bi Bi Panicked.''
ZeroHedge, May 14th, 2021:
''Hamas Targets Israeli Oil And Nuclear Facilities
With Rocket Attacks. Hamas' militant wing, the
Al-Qassam Brigades, announced... earlier this
week that it is deliberately targeting Israel's
secretive Dimona nuclear reactor site,
known as the Shimon Peres Negev
Nuclear Research Centre, which
lies east of the Gaza Strip, far
into the Negev Desert.''
''It was on Wednesday that Qassam Brigade spokesmen
said they were "directing a rocket strike involving 15
rockets for Dimona" - and, since then, it appears
rockets have fallen generally in the southerly
area - but there's since been no reports of
direct hits anywhere on the complex, or
damage to the site.''
US magazine News-week:
"On Tuesday (May 11th), at least one rocket appeared
to score a direct hit, damaging an Ashkelon facility
connected to the Trans-Israel pipeline running
from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea."
"The military wing of Palestinian Islamist movement
Hamas has targeted Israel's nuclear facility, key oil
facilities and other sites across the country, amid
a violent escalation between the two sides."
Former Pfizer vice president and
chief scientific officer, Dr Yeadon:
''I know enough about biotechnology, to know that you can
easily create, shall we say, pathogens, which do not look
like they are related to what you have done. What’s even
more horrifying, is you can separate them in time, so an
injection which will later make you ill or kill you, can be
separated, by design, in time, from that event. So you
might die a year later of liver cancer or something...
and you would not connect that. And, if you can
imagine... making a smorgasbord of different
pathogens, so not everybody is going to die
of the same thing, you, literally, could do
away with big slices of the population,
if you want. And we could all be
running around like headless
chickens.This is an attempt
on global de-population.''
Huey P. Newton:
''I do not think that life will change for the better,
without an assault on the Establishment, which
goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.''
Cesar Chavez:
''When we are really honest with ourselves,
we must admit: our lives are all that really
belong to us. So it is how we use our
lives, that determines the kind of
men we are.''
From 'Looking Backward' by Edward Bellamy:
''In the first place, it was firmly and sincerely believed
that there was no other way in which Society could
get along, except the many pulled at the rope and
the few rode, and not only this, but that no very
radical improvement was even possible, either
in the harness, the coach, the roadway, or the
distribution of the toil. It had always been
as it was, and it always would be so. It
was a pity, but it could not be helped,
and philosophy forbade wasting
compassion, on what was
beyond remedy.''
Tony Benn:
''The nature of the economic system should be
a matter for public choice --- and free market
capitalism should not be accepted without
any discussion of the rich variety of
alternatives... ''
Túpac Amaru II:
"I have acted, only against the mentioned abuses, and to
preserve the peace and well-being of Indians, mestizos,
mambos, as well as native-born whites and blacks."
Alex Rubinstein, independent reporter:
''It’s important to remember that many of the early
leaders of NATO, were Nazis. To this day, NATO
has continued to support neo-Nazis in
countries like Ukraine, while NATO
states that hold permitted rallies
honoring Nazi collaborators...
are only just now cancelling
the marches, because of
the coronavirus, rather
than stopping the
glorification
of Nazism.''
Chinese idiom translated from Mandarin:
"Read till old and learn till old"
Edward Young:
''Truth never was indebted to a lie.''
Aretha Franklin:
''You cannot define a person on just one thing.
You can't just forget all these wonderful and
good things a person has done, because
one thing didn't come off the way you
thought it should come off.''
Blogger, on an elderly Asian lady being kicked
viciously in the head... as watchers filmed it:
''The US has morally collapsed -- to the
level of animal survival instincts. This
is the result of decades of rampant
capitalism, consumerism, and
putting profits before people.
Only murdering sociopaths
would want to live there!''
May 13th, in Russia Today (RT):
''Russia, along with the US, is one
of only a handful of nations, that
recognizes Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel.''
Jonathan Swift:
“I never wonder to see men wicked,
but I often wonder to see them
not ashamed.”
From 'Looking Backward' by Edward Bellamy:
''The organization of society with you, was such, that
officials were under constant temptation to misuse
their power for the private profit of themselves, or
others. Under such circumstances, it seems
almost strange that you dared entrust
them with any of your affairs.''
William Hazlitt:
''An honest man speaks the truth, though it may
give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.''
Tony Benn:
''I believe the more difficult the circumstances,
the more people will be inclined to trust those
in charge at the moment.''
Yanis Varoufakis:
''So, how did these rulers manage to maintain their power,
distributing surplus as they pleased, undisturbed by the
majority? By cultivating an ideology which caused the
majority to believe, deep in their hearts, that only
their rulers had the right to rule.''
William Hazlitt:
''The least pain in our little finger, gives us
more concern and uneasiness, than
the destruction of millions of our
fellow-beings.''
Norman Finkelstein:
“Apart from my parents - every family member,
on both sides, was exterminated by the Nazis.”
Norman Finkelstein:
The Zionists, indeed, learnt well from the
Nazis. So well, that it seems that their
morally repugnant treatment of the
Palestinians - and their attempts to
destroy Palestinian society within
Israel and the occupied territories
- reveals them as, basically, Nazis
with beards and black hats.”
Thomas Jefferson:
''The care of human life and happiness, and
not their destruction, is the first and only
object of good government.''
Caitlin Johnstone:
''The mainstream media are keeping the general public
ignorant of the possibility of, and dire necessity for...
detente. We are meant to take it as a given, that the
only option available, is to continue increasing
aggressions with these two nuclear powers.
This is a lie, and it is insane. Detente
absolutely is an option. We do not
''need'', to keep risking all life on
earth with this psychotic game
of nuclear Russian roulette,
every day, just because a
few powerful sociopaths
have decided the US
empire must retain
supremacy at
all cost.''
Dilma Rousseff:
''I'm proud to have lied. Lying under torture isn't easy.
In the face of torture, a person with dignity lies.
Enduring torture is very difficult ... The pain is
unbearable; you can not imagine how painful.
I am proud to have lied, because I saved my
comrades from the same torture and
from death.''
Thomas Paine:
''We have it in our power to
begin the world over again.''
Bianca Jagger:
''Americans need to understand the
significance of having their civil
liberties dismantled. It doesn't
just affect terrorists and
foreigners, it affects
us all.''
Ernestine Rose:
''If you allow one single germ, one single
seed of slavery to remain in the soil of
America... that germ will spring up,
that noxious weed will thrive, and
again, stifle the growth, wither
the leaves, blast the flowers,
and poison the fair fruits
of freedom.''
Charles Edward Russell:
"As the Standard Oil article in the Atlantic became the
armory of every person willing to fight for industrial
freedom, so Wealth Against Commonwealth in later
years became the great storehouse of information
to which numbers of able campaigners habitually
resorted for their facts. Probably millions of men
read or heard Mr. Lloyd's ideas... without being
aware of the real authorship. But I judge that
with this condition, he was well content.
No man ever entered such a fight with
a smaller share of personal vanity to
gratify... He desired that his country-
men should be informed of existing
conditions, but not that he himself
should gain fame or rewards."
Mohamad Safa, a Lebanese diplomat:
"If the U.S. saw what the U.S. is doing
in the U.S., the U.S. would invade the
U.S. to liberate the U.S. from the
tyranny of the U.S."
Vladimir Vysotsky:
“I always try to find the good in people.
They will show the bad, themselves.”
April 28th, 2021, Sergey Lavrov:
''I cannot speak and make guesses on behalf of
the Ukrainian party & the President of Ukraine
Vladimir Zelensky, because, by all indications,
his main goal is to stay in power. He is ready
to pay any price, such as pandering to neo-
Nazis and ultra-radicals, who continue to
brand the Donbass self-defence fighters
as terrorists.''
Eric Zuesse:
''Instead of fearing to be held to account, like the
Nazis were at Nuremberg, America’s tyrants face
no such international prosecutions whatsoever.
Only good leaders become assassinated in
America. The Deep State gets rid of them.
Today’s American Government, is clearly
fascist - and not like Franco was fascist
but like Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito
were fascist: imperialistic fascists.''
US president, John Tyler:
''Our wise men flattered us into the adoption
of the banking system, under the idea that
boundless wealth would result from the
adoption.''
Nicholas Murray Butler:
"The US is in sore need today of an aristocracy
of intellect and service. Because such an
aristocracy does not exist in the popular
consciousness; we are bending the
knee to the golden calf of money"
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
''Without humanity there is no civilization!''
Bertolt Brecht:
''All the world says: 'yes, we know what’s written
in the books, but now let’s see what our eyes
tell us'. For time is short and the unknown
surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to
live unthinking and happy, calmly
bearing oppression.. and only
learning wisdom with age.''
Carlos Saavedra Lamas:
''War, implies a lack of comprehension
of mutual national interests; it means
the undermining -- and even the end --
of culture.''
UN Secretary-General António Guterres:
''We must act decisively to protect our planet
from both the coronavirus & the existential
threat of climate disruption.''
Vik Muniz:
“The really magical things are the ones that happen
right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep
looking for beauty, but it is already there.
If you look with a bit more intention,
you see it.”
Edward Bellamy:
''Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another
word for the dissipation of energy;- while combination, is
the secret of efficient production; and not until the idea
of increasing the individual hoard, gives place to the
idea of increasing the common stock, can industrial
combination be realized, and the acquisition of
wealth, really begin.''
Proverbs 26:17:
''Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own
is like one who takes a passing dog by
the ears. ''
Phil Ochs:
''The fortunes of the entire world, may well ride
on the ability of young Americans.. to face the
responsibilities of an old America, gone mad.''
James Madison Jr.:
''Knowledge will forever govern ignorance;
and a people who mean to be their own
governors, must arm themselves with
the power which knowledge gives.''
CIA's John Brennan:
''The only language
bullies understand,
is a bleeding nose.''
Lucan:
''As great edifices collapse of their own weight,
so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of
prosperous states.''
John Denver:
''There has never been a time on Earth like we see today.
What we need are more ways to experience our inter-
connectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So,
in this quickening light, with the dawn of each
new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer
struggle. Let us ever become.. who we most
want to be. As we begin to be who we truly
are, the world will be a better place.''
Albert Schweitzer:
The first step in the evolution of ethics,
is a sense of solidarity with other
human beings.''
Writer Whitney Webb:
“What they want, is for you to get used to
the idea of ratting out your neighbours.”
Soame Jenyns:
''Those who profess outrageous zeal for the liberty
and prosperity of their country, and at the same
time infringe her laws, affront her religion
and debauch her people, are but
despicable quacks.''
Ibn Hazm:
''If you attend, only behave like a man wishing to
expand his knowledge and seeking a higher
reward from God. Do not act like a man
content with what he holds... who is
waiting for a 'weakness' (from some-
one) to criticize (it or him), or for an
oddity to raise. This will be acting
like vile people, who have never
mastered science.''
Richard Price:
''The noblest principle in our nature, is the regard to
general justice, and that good-will which embraces
all the world.''
Naom Chomsky:
''We may recall that ...Winston Churchill authorized
the use of chemical weapons "against recalcitrant
Arabs as an experiment," denouncing the
"squeamishness" of those who objected
to him "using poisoned gas against
uncivilised tribes," mainly Kurds,
a policy he strongly favoured,
expecting that it "would
spread a lively terror."
''For England itself, he had somewhat different plans.
As Home Secretary in 1910 he had secretly proposed
sterilization of 100,000 "mental degenerates" and the
dispatch of tens of thousands of others to state-run
labour camps so as to save the "British race" from
inevitable decline if its "inferior" members are
allowed to breed, ideas that were within the
bounds of enlightened opinion of the day,
but have been kept secret in Home
Office files because of their
sensitivity, particularly
after they were
taken up by
Hitler.''
Frank Herbert:
''Power does not corrupt... What it does
do, however, is attract the corruptible.''
Blogger:
''Reports in the '90s, before the non-stop post 911 era
shut down decent scientific social studies, proved
that abusers are attracted to jobs like cops,
teachers, doctors, nurses, social workers
and banking... and anywhere money is
handled, such as benefits offices and
AP departments\treasury, passport
offices, DMV and information
technology.''
Dmitry Kozak, President Vladimir Putin’s
deputy chief of staff --- who is Ukrainian:
“I support those assessments that exist within Ukraine,
that the start of hostilities is the beginning of the end
for the country. This is a self-inflicted shot, a shot
not in the leg, but in the temple.”
Seymour Hersh, honest US writer:
''The day after 9/11, we should have gone to Russia.
We did the one thing that George Kennan warned
us never to do - to expand NATO too far.''
James Otis Jr.:
''What must be the wealth that
avarice, aided by power,
cannot exhaust!''
John Cruddas, British MP:
''Labour has broken its covenant
with the working class.''
Persius:
''You pray for good health and a body that will be
strong in old age. Good - but your rich foods
block God's answer and tie his hands.''
Jonathan Swift:
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