Quotations Page

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881):

“..the world is governed by very different personages
from what's imagined by those who aren't behind the scenes.”






Woodrow Wilson,(1856-1924):

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly
had men’s views confided to me privately.
Some of the biggest men in the United States,
in the field of commerce and manufacture,
are afraid of something. They know that
there is a power somewhere so organised,
so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked,
so complete, so pervasive, that they had
better not speak above their breath
when they speak in condemnation of it.”






President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933:

“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know,
that a financial element in the larger centres has
owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson.”







Former CIA agent John Stockwell:

“I don’t mean to abuse you with verbal violence,
but you have to understand what your government
and its agents are doing. They [the Contras] go
into villages, they haul out families. With the
children forced to watch they castrate the
father, they peel the skin off his face, they
put a grenade in his mouth and pull the pin.
With the children forced to watch they gang-
rape the mother, and slash her breasts off.
And sometimes for variety, they make the
parents watch while they do these things
to the children.”







Ali Larijani:

“...in the past two years the US has sold more than
USD 18 billion in arms in the Persian Gulf region.”






George Bernard Shaw

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens,
how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."







Israeli Premiere Shimon Peres, in April 1963:

“I can tell you forthrightly that we will not
introduce atomic weapons in to the region.
We certainly won’t be the first to do so.
We have no interest in that. On the contrary,
our interest is in de-escalating the armament
tension, even in total disarmament.”







Algerian State Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadam:

“The Arab League is no longer a league and it’s
far from Arab, since it asks the Security Council
to intervene against one of the founding members,
& calls upon NATO to destroy the resources of Arab countries.”







Stephen Biko:

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor
is the mind of the oppressed."







President Rafael Correa:

"That societies control markets and not the other way around
is an aspiration of the movement of Ecuador and
the other progressive countries in Latin America."







The Iranian President:

"We have to be astute, alert. If we don’t
propose a new future world order, we will
inherit one created by slave owners & capitalists,
who will impose and control the new system."







Howard Zinn:

“Terrorism has replaced Communism as the
rationale for the militarization of the
country, for military adventures abroad,
and for the suppression of civil liberties
at home. It serves the same purpose;-
to create hysteria.”







UK Stop the War Coalition:

“The US and its allies remain silent about Israel's
covert nuclear arsenal, the only one in the Middle East,
while they are tightening the campaign of
sanctions against Iran without real evidence."







Major General Zhang Zhaozhong:

"China will not hesitate to protect Iran
even with a Third World War."







Anthropologist Margaret Mead:

"Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful citizens can change the world.

Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has."







Professor Noam Chomsky:

"There is no justification for targeted assassination..
The Bush administration policy was to kidnap suspects
and send them to secret prisons where they were
not treated very nicely, as we know. But the
Obama administration has escalated that policy
to you don't kidnap them, but you kill them.
Now remember, these are suspects."







Vladimir Kondakov, shaman:

"Do you think the world is based on the good?
No, it is based on a balance of the good and
the evil. Now, the evil prevails, and it's not
that God is evil or weak. Evil is in humans."







Eglantyne Jebb, founder, Save the Children:

“All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous
or victorious, are waged against the child.”







One of the US’s richest men, Warren Buffett:

"Sure there’s class warfare... and my class is winning.”







Naomi Klein, on the '99%' movement:

“We found each other... this time we have to succeed.”







Vice Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham:

"The inconvenient truth is that [Libya] was only
feasible [because] US forces first destroyed
Libya's air defences and then provided 75% of
all air support missions."







Bolivarian President Hugo Chávez
(to the 2011 UN General Assembly):

“For us, it is obvious that the UN is not
improving, nor will it improve from the inside.
If the Secretary General, along with the
President of the International Criminal Court,
take part in an act of war, as in the case of
Libya, nothing can be expected from the current
structure of this organization and there is no
longer time for reform.”

“It is unbearable that there is a Security
Council that turns its back, whenever it wants
to, on the clamor of the majority of nations by
deliberately failing to acknowledge the will of
the General Assembly. If the Security Council
is some sort of club with privileged members,
what can the General Assembly do? Where is its
room for maneuver, when Security Council members
violate international law?

“If we do not make a commitment, once and for
all, to rebuild the United Nations, this
organization will lose its remaining
credibility. Its crisis of legitimacy will be
accelerated until it finally implodes.
In fact, that is what happened to its immediate
predecessor: the League of Nations.”







Fidel Castro:

"At a time when NATO, spearheaded by the United
States, France and the UK, is warring to gain
control of the resources of key Middle Eastern
and African states, Palestine’s long fight for
statehood will be overwhelmingly endorsed by
the General Assembly on September the 20th.

"Whether this inalienable right of its people,
who have never given up the struggle, will be
more than a symbolic 194th seat, depends on
whether the UN can regain its role as an
organization taking positive action for world
peace, rather than being utilized for
neocolonial wars."







Walter Lippman:

“The news and the truth are not the same thing”







Bolivian President Evo Morales:

"This millennium belongs to the peoples
and not the oligarchies, if we want real
equality & freedom for all, worldwide."







Gerald Celente:

“When people have nothing left to lose, they lose it.”







The Rev. Martin Luther King:

“There was a time when the church was very
powerful. It was during that period that the
early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed
worthy to suffer for what they believed.
In those days the church was not merely a
thermometer that recorded the ideas and
principles of popular opinion; it was the
thermostat that transformed the mores of society.”







Bolivian President Evo Morales:

"Capitalism is not the solution to the current
problems of mankind. Mankind is waiting for a
new political thesis about the rights of Mother
Earth, of natural resources, of life in general."







Vladimir Putin:

"The models of development based on growing debt
don't work."







Bolivian President Evo Morales:

"Cuba is always a source of inspiration, and,
despite the economic, commercial, & financial
blockade imposed by the US for half a century,
it represents the first country in solidarity
with the rest of the world. That solidarity is
unmatchable: I can never find the means to repay it."







Nouriel Roubini:

"Karl Marx had it right. At some point,
capitalism can destroy itself. You cannot
keep on shifting income from labour to capital
without having an excess capacity and a lack
of aggregate demand. That’s what has happened."







Brian Willson:

"We've become addicted to a material way of life,
that requires imperial policies to extract all
these resources around the world, funnel them to
4.6% of the world's population; demeaning,
impoverishing, murdering, maiming people all over
the world who are in the way of our precious metals
needed for our cell phones and our computers,
in the Congo...

"And we are facing a massive correction
of our wayward ways in the West."







Paul Craig Roberts:

"There is nothing left of the American character.
Only a people who have lost their soul could
tolerate the evil that emanates from Washington."







Financial analyst Max Keiser:

"London is the world’s capital of fraud".







Noam Chomsky:

"As long as the general population is passive,
apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of
the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to
contemplate the outcome."







Malcolm X:

"If you're not careful the newspapers will have you
hating the oppressed and loving the people doing the oppressing."







Ayatollah Khomeini:

“Muslims must awake. Today is not a time
for each Muslim to lead a special existence
in some corner. This cannot be. At a time
like this, when the policy of the superpowers
is to devour every part of the world, Muslims
must awake... I do not have a hope in most of
the governments, but the nations must awake
and come under the banner of Islam...”







Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar:

“A person who, irrespective of religious creed,
aspires for spiritual expansion, or who does
something concrete, is a Tantric.

"Tantra is neither a religion nor an 'ism'.
Tantra is a fundamental spiritual science.
So wherever there is any spiritual practice,
it should be seen that it rests on Tantra.

"Where there is no spiritual practice, where
people pray to God for the fulfilment of
narrow worldly desires; where people’s only
slogan is “Give us this and give us that” –
only there, is Tantra discouraged.

"Only those who do not understand Tantra,
or even after understanding Tantra,
do not want any spiritual practice,
oppose the cult of Tantra.”







Jesus Christ:

"In the house of my father are many mansions."







The Prophet:

"Each soul has its own religion."







Gaddafi, at the 2008 Arab Summit:

"How can we accept that a foreign power comes to
topple an Arab leader while we stand watching?
Saddam had once been an ally of Washington...
but they sold him out. Your turn is next.
Where is the Arabs' dignity, their future,
their very existence? Everything has disappeared."







Malcolm X:

"Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students.
I belong to a generation ahead of you -
how do you think I feel to have to tell you,
'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall
while the whole world was fighting for its human rights
- and you've got to be born into a society
where you still have that same fight.'

What did we do, who preceded you ?
I'll tell you what we did. Nothing.
And don't you make the same mistake we made...."







Michael O'Hanlon, the Brookings Institution:

"Make no mistake about it. If you look at the casualties
from violence, Iraq is still comparable to Afghanistan today.
That's counter- intuitive to most people, who
think of Afghanistan as going up in flames and
Iraq as settling down. But in fact, while Iraq's
violence is 90% reduced from what it used to be,
it's still much higher than most of the region."







Israeli newspaper, Haaretz:

"Israeli analysts are noting that Mubarak’s fall
could endanger the Camp David Agreements which
Egypt signed with Israel in 1978 & the subsequent
signing of the bilateral Peace Treaty in 1979,
above all if the consequence should be the rise
to power of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood,
which enjoys broad social support."







Former CIA officer Michael Scheuer:

"We have backed the wrong horse for 50 years.
To think that the Egyptian people are going to
forget that we backed dictators for 50 years,
I think, is a pipe dream."







Iranian Blogger:

"Today, the USA and Britain are
the most hated countries in the world."







Russian Prime Minister Valdimir Putin:

"How can one intervene in defense of the
civilian population, while adopting methods
that are increasing the number of victims?"







Calon Lan (Welsh folk song):

''I ask not for ease and riches

Nor earth's jewels for my part

But I have the best of wishes

For a pure and honest heart.''







Mwambustya Ndebesa, lecturer, Uganda's Makerere University:

"Unity should be for the transformation of society
to live a better life, but if it is for enslavement,
then you first gain independence, & then you can
negotiate how you can cooperate on equal terms."







Dr Martin Luther King:

“We know through painful experience that freedom
is never voluntarily given by the oppressor;
it must be demanded by the oppressed.”







Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia:

"..the US has overstepped its national borders in every way.
This is visible in the economic, political, cultural
and educational policies it imposes on other nations.
Well, who likes this? Who is happy about this?"







George H. Bush:

"Whatever the US says, goes".







Fidel Castro:

"Intellectuals can perhaps provide an enormous
service to humanity. It is not about trying to
save humanity in terms of millenniums, maybe not
even in terms of centuries. The problem is that
our species is facing new problems, and has not
even learned to survive."

If we can achieve intellectuals’ understanding of
the risk that we are experiencing at this moment,
to which a response cannot be postponed, perhaps
they will manage to persuade the most self-satisfied
and incapable beings ever to have existed: we politicians."







District governor of Arghandab, Southern
Afghanistan, Shah Muhammed Ahmadi:

"We've had to destroy many villages, to make them safe."







Paul Craig Roberts:

"The US government is a duplicitous entity whose
raison d’etre is to control every other country."







Martin Luther King Jr.

"The greatest purveyor of violence in
the world today — my own government."







Ho Chi Minh:

"Vietnam will be free, independent and sovereign.
The enemy will be defeated & the Vietnamese people
will build a Vietnam ten times more beautiful."







Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan:

"Our prayers, cries & screams have been
echoing in the sky for 1,300 years.
Nobody is superior to anyone in these lands,
not the Sunni to the Shiites, not the Turkish
to the Kurdish, the Laz to the Circassian
or the Persian to the Arabs. We are all the
same in this land, together, brothers."







Ex UK Prime Minister Tony Blair:

“We invaded Iraq because the Arabs
need someone to run their affairs.”







President Ahmadinejad of Iran:

"Americans are worse than the most dictatorial dictators.
They assassinate nuclear scientists because they're
not strong enough to counter the Iranian nation,
& think a nation will step back with
the assassination of its loved ones,"







Mahatma Gandhi:

"Fear has its uses... but cowardice has none."







William K. Black:

"The best way to rob a bank is to own one."







John Connally, Nixon's Treasury secretary:

"The dollar is our currency, but your problem."







Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba:

"It is widely acknowledged that the principal cause
of the alteration of the world climatic system
is the pattern of unsustainable production and consumption
that prevails in the developed countries."







William Colby, former CIA Director:

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone
of any significance in the major media."







Bruce Lee’s character in “Enter The Dragon”:

“Remember, the enemy has only images & illusions
behind which, he hides his true motives;
destroy the image - & you will break the enemy.”







Ayatollah Kamenei, Iran's leader:

“The extensive propaganda of the enemy to spread
Islamophobia, its offhand efforts to create
discord among Muslim sects, to incite sectarian
prejudices, to bring about pseudo-confrontations
between the Sunnis and the Shi’ah, to create
disunity between Islamic states and to aggravate
their differences, to change them into hostility
and unsolvable conflicts, its employment of
intelligence and espionage outfits to propagate
corruption and immorality amongst the youth —
all these are nervous and bewildered responses
to the steady and firm advances of the Islamic
Ummah towards awakening, honour and freedom.”







The International Monetary Fund ( ! ):

“Violent protests could break out in countries worldwide
if the financial system is not restructured
to benefit everyone rather than a small elite.”







Joe Stack before crashing a plane into the IRS:

"The communist creed: From each according to
his ability, to each according to his need.

The capitalist creed: From each according to
his gullibility, to each according to his greed".







THE PROPHET:

"Fear the supplication of the oppressed:
because between them & God there is no barrier."








Abraham Lincoln, 1st Republican President of the US:

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side;
my greatest concern is to be on God's side."







Thomas Paine, to US Citizens, January 29th, 1803:

"Where the election is a fiction, representation
is a fiction also. Like will always produce like."







Rothschild:

"Give me the power to control any nations money
and I care not who makes it's laws"







Rothschild's mother:

"If my sons do not want war...
...there will be no war"







Cuba's Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez:

"In order to survive, a leap in the consciousness
of humanity is essential, one which is only
possible via the dissemination of truthful
information about those issues which are hidden
or ignored by most politicians, not published by
the press, and which people find so horrifying,
as to seem unbelievable."







William Pfaff in 2003:

"People outside the United States
have stopped believing the American story."







Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former Sephardi Chief Rabbi
of Israel; founder & spiritual leader of the Shas
Party, a major party in Israel's government NOW!:

"Goyim [non-Jews] were born only to serve us.
Without that, they have no place in the world;
only to serve the People of Israel. Why are
gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow,
they will reap. We will sit like a master & eat."







Aristotle:

"The antidote for 50 enemies is 1 friend."







Fidel Castro:

"Do away with the philosophy of plunder
and you will have done away forever,
with the philosophy of war!"







Martin Luther King Jr:

“The paralysis of analysis.”







Aristotle:

"You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour."







Karl Marx:

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world,
in various ways; the point is to change it."







Evo Morales, President of Bolivia:

"The mining communities were great
revolutionaries, aiming to transform."







Fidel Castro:

"Here is a conclusion I’ve come to after many years:
among all the errors we may have committed,
the greatest of them all was that we believed
that someone really knew something about socialism,
or that someone actually knew how to build socialism".







Dr Martin Luther King:

We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-
oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society.
When machines & computers, profit motives & property
rights are considered more important than people,
the giant triplets of racism, materialism,
& militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

“When Silence Is Betrayal,”

Riverside Church, April the 4th, 1967.







Fidel Castro:

"Why can't the world act like a family?
We have no other planet to move to.
Venus, named for the god of love, is terribly hot.
The star closest to Earth is four light years away
...We can't move. Our life is here, on this
planet, the only one we truly have.

"I think that we have to behave like a family
and share what we have: some have oil,
some food, those beyond, doctors…
Why can't we think of the earth as the home
of a single human family?"







Blogger on Press TV:

"Democracy - two wolves and a sheep
voting on what to have for dinner."







Confucius:

“Let humanity be the ultimate measure of all that you do”







Mahatma Gandhi:

“When I despair, I remember that all through history
the way of truth and love has always won.
There have been tyrants & murderers & for
a time they seem invincible, but in the end,
they always fall – think of it - always.”







Marcio Porto, FAO representative:

"Many seem to be unaware of the fact
that producing food is a science, and
one of the most important and dynamic ones."







The late Wangari Maathai:

"..soil is lost through wind erosion in areas
where the land is devoid of vegetative cover.
Losing topsoil should be considered analogous
to losing territory to an invading enemy."







Fidel Castro to Cuban intellectuals:

"We have a responsibility to provide information
about the situation. To produce the amount of
wheat the country consumes, 400,000 hectares of
this crop is needed, with a yield equivalent to
that attained in the United States."

"We have to inform the people of what can be extracted
from every square metre of land in our country."







Erik Reinert:

"Countries that do not add value to their raw materials
and which do not support their own industries through
subsidies and other measures, will remain poor".







President Evo Morales:

"We have to share the few things we have,
rather than what we have left over."







Statement adopted by the New York City
general assembly at Occupy Wall Street:

We come to you at a time when corporations,
which place profit over people, self-interest
over justice, and oppression over equality,
run our governments.”








Albert Einstein:

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be
achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate
a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man,
woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such
drastic measures, you must find a way of
settling your disputes without resort to arms".







British Army Journal (1949):

"The best defense against the atom bomb
is not to be there when it goes off."







SAINT CADOC THE WISE:

“I hate the judge who loves money,
the scribe who loves war,
chiefs who do not guard their subjects,
and nations without vigour.

I hate houses without dwellers,
lands untilled,
fields that bear no harvest,
landless clans,
the agents of error,
the oppressors of truth.

I hate him who respects not father or mother,
those who make strife among friends,
a country in anarchy,
lost learning,
and uncertain boundaries.

I hate journeys without safety,
families without strength,
lawsuits without reason,
ambushes and treasons,
faults in counsel,
and justice unhonored.

I hate a man without a trade,
a labourer without freedom,
a society without teachers,
false witnesses before a judge,
the undeserving exalted to high position.”