Quotations Page
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?''
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
a tax return together.''
Julian Assange:
''The goal, is NOT to win these wars. The goal is to
use the wars to wash money out of the tax bases
of the United States, and out of the tax bases of
European countries and back into the hands of
a transnational security elite. THAT is
the goal. To have ENDLESS wars,
NOT SUCCESSFUL wars."
Ravi Shankar:
“In always wanting to be comfortable,
you become lazy. In always wanting
perfection, you become angry. In
always wanting to be rich, you
become greedy.”
Rabbi Amram Blau & Rabbi
Hlaron Katzinelinbyen:
''They used their own citizens like sheep to the slaughter
in order to create blood lust and enable the slaughter of
Palestinian women and children. The real target of
Netanyahu, is not Hamas, it is the Palestinian
people and their land and their offshore
gas fields. Treachery, betrayal,
genocide and theft.''
Samora Machel:
''We say that our objective is to conquer complete
independence, to install a people's power,
to construct a new society --- without
exploitation, for the benefit of all.''
Maya Angelou:
“You may shoot me with your words, you may
cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with
your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!”
Woodrow Wilson - on the USA:
“We..... are citizens of the world. The tragedy
of our times ---- is that we do not know this.”
Kanshi Ram:
''We will not stop until we unite the victims of the
system, and overthrow the spirit of inequality
in our country.''
Bruce Lee:
“Real living is living for others.”
Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
''We come to you from a tortured land and a proud, though
captive, people, having been asked to negotiate with
our occupiers, but leaving behind the children of
the Intifada, and a people under occupation
and under curfew, who enjoined us not
to surrender ...or forget. They have
the right to return. As we speak,
the silence of demolished
homes echoes through
the halls and in our
minds: we must
rebuild our
homes in
our free
state.''
Jules Renard:
''The horse is the only animal into
which one can bang nails.'
'Eino Leino:
He who a single one loves is blessed
– beloved of everybody.
Whoever self-interest forgets the best
will blessèd dreams embody.
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav:
What caused this wreck --- this brutal and ignoble collapse
of morals? What provoked the breach? What led mankind,
in spirit grand and noble --- to plunge in the mud? What
vampire? Oh, what leech, sucking the sap of life out
of the breast, constantly thirsting bloody parasite?
Ah... selfishness! — and to destroy this pest today,
we have no troops, no heroes to fight. Yes - it will
twist and tear and rend, and fall, a tyrant, on the
weak and innocent; although the world is wide
enough for all -- it would have sole control of
earth’s extent, & even possess the universe,
no less - pitching the other into emptiness.
This puffed-up arrogance, that’s dressed in
iron and armed with lethal weapons, lurks
in wait; that bulks... like stormy clouds on
the horizon, each move a threat ------ with
wide eyes full of hate; that hangs above
the earth like punishment --- and keeps
peace powerless: it coarsely swears
that it fears God alone! - But this is
meant contemptuously: in truth,
it does not care. Whether your
wisdom comes of silver years
or you’re a man in bloom, cry
to them all, “Enough!” — and
you’ll be a champion of the
world. Offer your enemy - a
brother’s hand, a white flag
over red ruin unfurled! Or…
must violence constantly
be fanned............ till it
burns out?''
George Sand:
''Guard well within yourself
that treasure.... kindness.''
Permanent Representative of the Russian
Federation to the UN --- Vasily Nebenzya:
“Very soon ------ the only topic of all international
meetings on Ukraine, will be the unconditional
surrender of the Kiev regime.”
Tim Wise:
''Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been
used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the
genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally
millions of human beings whose lives have been
snuffed out - by people who conquered under
the banner of a white god. Jesus - was not
born in a manger in central Pennsylvania.
He was a man of colour. And the fact
that we have represented him --- for
centuries literally, as a white man
- speaks to the entire history of
white supremacy.''
Rabbis Amram Blau and
Hlaron Katzinelinbyen:
''When Palestine... came under the charge of the League of Nations
and Great Britain became responsible as Mandatory the majority
of the Jews in the country were strictly orthodox. At that time
the Zionists succeeded in bringing into the Holy land .....a
growing stream of Zionist immigrants ----- people whose
ways of life and godlessness were viewed by orthodox
Jews established here, with alarm and dismay – fear
at the possibility that our children would be misled
by the ungodly & dismay at the growing influence
and determination of the godless Zionists, to be
recognized as the representatives and leaders
of all Jewry - over the whole world. Whatever
its origin, present day political Zionism is in
direct conflict with Jewish God-given Laws.
The Zionists ----- quickly replaced orthodox
religious schooling by a national system of
education and having taken all sections of
the Jewish Community under their wing --
they have been organised on foundations
which is alien to Judaism and, in fact, is
so planned ----- as to eliminate religion.''
Jean de La Fontaine:
''By the work, one knows the workman.''
Richard Price:
''Ignorance is the parent of bigotry, intolerance,
persecution and slavery. Inform and instruct
mankind and these evils will be excluded.''
William Faulkner:
''To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality
because of race or colour, is like living in Alaska and being
against snow. If we Americans are to survive it will have
to be because we choose and elect and defend to be
first of all Americans; to present to the world one
homogeneous and unbroken front --- whether of
white Americans ------- or black ones or purple
or blue or green… If we in America ----- have
reached that point in our desperate culture
when we must murder children, no matter
for what reason or what colour, we don’t
deserve to survive, and probably won’t.''
Fidel Castro:
''Reactionaries... often describe both Marx and Lenin
as theorists, without taking into consideration that
their utopias inspired Russia and China --- the two
countries called upon to lead a new world which
will allow for human survival --- if imperialism
does not first unleash a criminal,
exterminating war.''
Peng Liyuan:
''There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.'
It means, mostly, people can see through someone
else by eye contact, in seven seconds. I have a
habit that, if I meet someone I don't know, I'd
like to look at her or his eyes on purpose.
When my eyes lay on them........ I can
immediately see their true colour.''
James Welch:
''Nobody would take checks [cheques] from Indians,
nobody would give them any credit, and nobody
would let them drink in the bars. There was a
rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the
Indians were treated constantly. At a
very young age, that had entered
my consciousness.''
Aneurin "Nye" Bevan:
''The Communist Manifesto stands in a class by itself
in Socialist literature. No indictment of the social
order ever written can rival it. The largeness of
its conception --- its profound philosophy and
its sure grasp of history, its aphorisms and
its satire --- all these make it a classic of
literature, while the note of passionate
revolt which pulses through it, no less
than its critical appraisement of the
forces of revolt, make it for all
rebels - an inspiration
and a weapon.''
José María Morelos:
''May slavery be banished forever ---- together with the
distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so
Americans may only be distinguished by vice or
virtue. In the new laws --- may torture not
be allowed.''
Joel Kovel:
''What will happen in Israel? US support.... will fade,
slowly, then completely. Israel will circle wagons,
become more oppressive: Another nakba -- or a
single state? Will be determined militarily and
politically via internal and external violence
and nonviolence. Unless you're trying
to change the world, you can't
understand it.''
Tony Benn:
“Britain is the only colony in the British Empire
and it is up to us, now, to liberate ourselves.”
John 13:35:
“By this shall all men know
that ye are my disciples,
if ye have love one
to another.”
Dominique Pire:
''Peace, is not something to
say, but something to do.''
Khalil Gibran:
“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your
temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of
one religion, and it is the spirit.”
Alice Childress:
“But if we grow stronger... and rise higher than
what's pullin' us down... Yes, rise higher than
dirt... that fifty pound weight will lift and
you'll be free, free without anybody's
by-your-leave. Do something - to
wash out the sin - and nobody
would write ''peace'' on no
walls - 'cause it would be
peace - and our hearts
would be free!”
William Congreve:
''Music has charms to sooth a savage breast,
to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.''
Che Guevara:
''I know you're here to kill me.
Shoot, coward, you are only
going to kill a man.''
Heinrich Böll:
''We are talked into believing ----- that compassion
belongs in the area of sentiment. That - is a lie.
Compassion -- is a tremendous force -- a vast
energy........ and a creative imagination,
is also part of compassion.''
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal:
''Good and evil travel on the same road,
but they leave different impressions.''
Tony Benn:
“Hope is the fuel of progress....... and fear
is the prison in which you put yourself.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero:
“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or
corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible
because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing
to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting
development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe
and live as we do.”
Bob Herbert, journalst:
''I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining
about the federal budget deficits. They are like arsonists complaining about
the smell of smoke in the neighbourhood. There's a terrible sense of dread
filtering across America at the moment --- and it's not simply because of
the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war.
It is.... more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion,
that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a
radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road,
with its headlights off and with someone behind the
wheel ------- who may not know how to drive.''
Germany's Chancellor Scholz, in 2022:
We are ...pushing ahead on the purchase of the armed
Heron drone from Israel. And.. with regard to nuclear
sharing, we will procure a modern replacement for
the out-dated Tornado jets, in good time. The
Eurofighter --- is set to be equipped with
electronic war-fare capabilities. The
F-35 fighter jet --- has the potential
to be used... as a carrier aircraft.
And finally ladies & gentlemen,
we will do more to guarantee
a secure energy supply for
our country.''
Charles Dickens:
''It was the best of times... it was the worst of
times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the
age of foolishness --- it was the epoch of
belief - it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of light, it was the
season of darkness, it was the
spring of hope, it was the
winter of despair.''
Kim Il-sung:
“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only
through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth
confirmed by history. We are opposed to the
line of compromise with imperialism. At
the same time, we cannot tolerate the
practice - of only shouting against
imperialism, but, in actual fact,
being afraid to fight it.”
Peng Liyuan:
''Education --- is about women and girls. It is important
for girls to go to school, because they will become
their children's first teachers ------ someday.
Making sure that mothers are educated
means we can lift more people out of
poverty and build a more inclusive
and sustainable society.''
Bernard Le Bovier
de Fontenelle:
An educated mind is, as it were,
composed of all the minds of
preceding ages.''
Ben Okri:
“A people are as healthy and confident - as the
stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers
can make nations sick. Without stories... we
would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings
or orientation. Stories can conquer fear
you know. They can make the
heart larger.”
Catherine the Great, of Russia:
''A great wind is blowing - and that either
gives you imagination - or a headache.''
Maya Angelou:
“I've learned that people will forget
what you said, people will forget
what you did -- but people will
never forget how you made
them feel.”
George Galloway, MP:
"You will pay a high price for the role that you
have played in enabling, encouraging, and
covering for the catastrophe presently
going on in occupied Gaza, in the
Gaza Strip."
Sara Flounders:
"The 1991 Foreign Appropriations Law --- also prescribed
various forms of economic strangulation..... for several
other countries deemed enemies ----- including Angola,
Cambodia, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, N. Korea......
and Vietnam. On the other hand ---- countries moving
hastily toward a capitalist market economy in 1990
- such as Poland - were to receive special funding.
In all the expressions of concern and sympathy
for refugees and displaced people in countries
all over the globe but especially in the former
Yugoslavia, no US official ever mentions the
terrible suffering caused by US economic
strangulation."
Édouard Schuré:
''A nation is not a number of uniform values or ciphers; it is
a living being, composed of organs. So long as national
representation is not the image of this organization,
right from its working, to its teaching classes,
there will be no organic or intelligent
national representation.''
Bob Herbert, journalst:
''There is nothing more American -- than
brutal violence. The country was built
on it, revels in it -- and shows every
evidence of clinging to it with the
crazed, destructive strength of
an obsessive lover.''
Walter Rodney:
''In speaking of the European slave trade, mention must
be made of the USA, not only because its dominant
population was European, but because Europe
transferred its capitalist institutions - more
completely to North America, than to any
other part of the globe - and established
a powerful form of capitalism ------ after
eliminating the indigenous inhabitants
and exploiting the labour of millions
of Africans. However - the peasants
& workers of Europe, & eventually,
the inhabitants of the whole world
paid a huge price -- so capitalists
could make their profits --- from
the human labour that always
lies behind the machines.''
Thomas Carlyle:
“The greatest of faults, is
to be conscious of none.”
Ramin Razaheri:
''The UK is the most screwed up, being the most intractable
counter-revolutionary subversives, of every progressive
political movement, since 1789 ----------- yet somehow
seeing in its own mirror --- the beacon of fair play.
It may be interesting to supporters of the Iranian
Islamic Revolution, to know what Napoleon did
say, was perhaps ------- his biggest mistake?
Restoring the property of the old nobility
- whom he had allowed back to France
in an amnesty........ Those “Napoleonic
Wars” are more accurately titled “the
Wars Against the French Revolution”.
Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti:
''Try to understand the fact --- that for more than a
hundred years in the late fourth, third and early
second centuries BC, there was a state which
controlled... the entire natural geographical
domain of south Asia. Not even the British
controlled such a large area, for such a
long period. This fact - should, in any
case, be one of the answers to the
notion that there have only been
divisive tendencies... in the
political history of India.''
Julian Assange: "If wars can be started
by lies, peace can be started by truth."
Charles Dickens:
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes:
''Men do not realize the evil caused by divisions. Carried away
by their ambitions, their quarrels and other miserable
personalities, they see a homeland and freedom
only in the satisfaction of these vile passions,
bringing us closer, at all times, with their
recklessness: on the brink of civil war,
while the war of independence is
not even complete.''
Klitschko:
"In Europe, every young person
-------- has a legal right to a job.''
Jatzenjuk:
"Euro-association means that every
pensioner will immediately receive
at least 1,000 euros in a pension."
Ukraine woman to EU boss Borrell:
"You are a hypocrite --------- Josep!"
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal:
''There are some people who never
acknowledge themselves in the
wrong; God help them!''
Bruce Lee:
''Preparation for tomorrow
----- is hard work today.''
Abul Malik Houthi:
“The root cause of global terrorism --- is Zionism
and its tentacles of Israel, the US and Britain.”
Chief Rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef, 2010:
"Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have
no place in the world --- only to serve the People of Israel.
In Israel, death has no dominion over them. With gentiles
it will be like any person, they need to die, but [God] will
give them longevity. Why? Imagine -- that one’s donkey
would die, they'd lose their money. This is his servant.
That is why he gets a long life, to work well for this
Jew. Why are gentiles needed? They will work,
they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like
an effendi and eat. That, is why gentiles
were created."
Andre Jules Dubus II:
''Living in the world as a cripple allows you to see more
clearly --- the crippled hearts of some people whose
bodies are whole and sound. All of us -- from time
to time, suffer this crippling. Some suffer it daily
and nightly; and while most of us, nearly all of
us, have compassion and love in our hearts,
we cannot - or will not - see these barely
visible wounds of other human beings,
and so cannot or will not pick up the
telephone or travel to someone’s
house, or write a note, or make
some other seemingly trifling
gesture, to give to someone
what only we and God, can
give: an hour’s respite, or
a day’s, or a night’s; and
sometimes, more than
respite: sometimes
joy.''
Richard Price:
''Let us - in particular - take care not to forget
the principles of the Revolution... I will only
take notice of the three following: First;
The right to liberty of conscience in
religious matters. Secondly; The
right to resist power --- when
abused. And, Thirdly; The
right to choose our own
governors - to cashier
them for misconduct
----- and to frame a
government for
ourselves.'
'Bruce Lee:
''Many people dedicate their lives.... to actualizing a
concept of what they should be like... rather than
actualizing themselves. This difference between
self-actualization and self-image actualization,
is very important. Most people live only for
their image.''
Theodore Roosevelt:
''To announce ---- that there must be no criticism of the
President --- or that we are to stand by the President
right or wrong --- is not only unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned
an invisible government owing no allegiance and
acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
To destroy this invisible government, to defoul
the unholy alliance between corrupt business
and corrupt politics --- is the first task of the
statesmanship of today."
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
“If people but knew their own religion,
how tolerant they would become,
and how free from any grudge -
against the religion of others.”
Helmut Schmidt:
''The biggest room in the world
is the room for improvement.''
Catherine the Great, of Russia:
''The Equality of the Citizens consists in this; that they
should all be subject to the same Laws. This Equality
requires Institutions so well adapted as to prevent
the Rich - from oppressing those who are not so
wealthy as themselves and converting all the
Charges and Employments, intrusted to
them as Magistrates only to their
own private Emolument.''
George Harrison:
''Love one another.''
Susan B. Anthony:
"Whoever controls work and
wages, controls morals."
Jeffrey Sachs:
“History is written by the rich, and so
the poor get blamed for everything.”
Sonia Sanchez:
“The most fundamental truth to be told
in any art form, as far as Blacks are
concerned, is that America is
killing us.”
Socrates:
"The secret of change - is to focus
all of your energy, not on fighting
the old, but on building the new."
Maria Matskevich, Institute of Sociology of the Russian
Academy of Sciences in Politymagazine, issue 4, 2023:
“......in 2022-2023, the desire to live in a socialist rather
than capitalist society has risen sharply. While in 2020,
sympathies for socialism and capitalism were about
equal (26% and 21%, respectively), by mid-2022,
48% chose socialism and only 12% capitalism.
In 2023, this ratio is already 48% vs. 5%.”
Leonardo Boff:
''Today social justice represents one of the most
serious challenges to the conscience of the
world. The abyss between those who are
within the world 'order', and those who
are excluded.. is widening day by day.
The use of leading-edge technologies
has made it possible to accumulate
wealth in a way that's fantastic but
perverse.... because it is unjustly
distributed. Twenty-percent of
humankind control 80% of all
means of life. That fact,
creates a dangerous
imbalance in the
movement of
history.''
Seán MacBride:
''It is clear, that it is not man who has created the
universe - whether you believe in God or in gods
or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter
the laws that govern the universe, without
damaging it.'
Leonardo Boff:
"Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the centre,
& defends & promotes life against all the mechanisms
of death, desiccation, or stagnation. The opposite of
spirit, in this sense, is not the body, but death and
everything associated with the system of death,
understood in the widest sense of biological,
social and existential death... (failure,
humiliation, and oppression).
Nikolai Berdyaev:
''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
a weapon of mass destruction.
Unemployment is a weapon
of mass destruction.''
Bruce Lee:
''If you spend too much time thinking about a thing,
you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite
move, daily, toward your goal.''
Jean de La Bruyère:
''There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason
and good advice, and wilfully go wrong, for fear of
being controlled.''
Andrés Manuel López Obrador:
''The most important priority is neither the United States
nor the American continent. What is truly important, is
to build here on this earth the kingdom of justice and
universal brotherhood and sisterhood.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
''I regret very much. at a time when France is passing
through such a critical period, to be obliged to make
a strong denunciation of her Colonial Policy, which
today encompasses almost entirely every phase
of the problem of the Negro race.''
Xi Jinping:
''Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams
...will not come true by themselves. We need to be
down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold
the idea --- that working hard is the most
honorable, noblest, greatest and
most beautiful virtue.''
Leonardo Boff:
''Today we are in a new phase of humanity. We all
are returning to our common house, the Earth:
the people, the societies, the cultures and
religions. Exchanging experiences and
values, we enrich ourselves and we
complete ourselves - mutually.''
Cesar Chavez:
''We learned many years ago, that the
rich may have money, but the poor,
have time.''
Mark Twain:
“Why is it right that there is not a fairer division of the spoil
all around? Because laws and constitutions have ordered
otherwise. Then it follows that laws and constitutions
should change around and say there shall be a
more nearly equal division.”
Hilaire Belloc:
The microbe is so very small:
You cannot take him out at all.
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar:
''It is ironic, that the accumulation of arms
is one of the few expanding industries in
a period of economic depression
and gloom.''
James Madison Jr.:
''If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting
a foreign enemy.''
George Carlin:
''I think people should be allowed to do
anything they want. We haven't tried
that for a while. Maybe this time
it'll work.''
1960's UK PM, Harold Wilson:
''Selsdon Man --- is designing a system of society
for the ruthless and the pushing, the uncaring.
His message to the rest is ------ you're out on
your own.''
Augustine of Canterbury:
''The confession of evil works --- is
the first beginning of good works.''
Huey Long:
''We swapped the tyrant 3,000 miles away
for a handful of financial slaveowning
overlords, who make the tyrant of
Great Britain seem mild.''
Paul Laurence Dunbar:
''Poor conceited humanity!
Interpreters of God indeed.''
President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni:
“One facet of neo-colonialism and colonialism was
Africa being confined... to producing only raw
materials, crops, like coffee, and minerals.
This issue -- is the biggest factor why the
African economies are stunted; they do
not grow ---- because all the value is
taken by other people. So, what I
want to propose to Russia and
China, is to discourage as a
policy the importing of raw
materials from Africa and
to instead work with the
Africans, to add value
at source.”
President of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré:
“A slave that does not rebel does not deserve pity.
The African Union (AU) must stop condemning
Africans who decide to fight against their
own puppet regimes of the West.”
Richard Steven Hacks:
''Ukraine's army could collapse literally at any moment.
The fact that it appears incapable of launching
effective attacks of any significant size in
this "offensive" - which is the definition
of “combat effectiveness” - appears
to bear that out.''
Yanis Varoufakis:
''Unemployment & low economic activity have been held
up as proofs of insufficient competition, to be fought by
the magic of ‘deregulation’ - the releasing of bankers &
oligarchs, from government restraints. If deregulation
does not work --- more privatization is thought to be
able to do the trick instead. When this fails it must
have been the fault of the labour market --- which
must be liberated from the interference of trade
unions and the impediment of social security
benefits. And so it goes on.''
John F. Kennedy:
''Peace is not impracticable, and war is not inevitable.
Never bring an adversary to a choice between
a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.'
Paul Laurence Dunbar:
''Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in
Washington is a promise, rather than a
fulfillment. But it is worthy of note for
the really excellent things which
are promised.''
Richard Price:
''Though our immediate attention -------- must be employed
in promoting our own interest - and that of our nearest
connexions; yet we must remember that a narrower
interest ought - always - to give way to a more
extensive interest. In pursuing particularly
the interest of our country, we ought to
carry our views beyond it. We should
love it ardently, but not exclusively.
We ought to seek its good ----- by
all the means that our different
circumstances and abilities,
will allow; but, at the same
time we ought to consider
ourselves as citizens of
the world & take care
to maintain a just
regard --- to the
rights of other
countries.''
Investigative historian, Eric Zuesse:
Did you know, before you read it here, that there was any
such thing as the “Rule Against Perpetuities” and that it
had been what broke the back of feudalism in ancient
England? And did you know that, increasingly, ever
since 1986, America has reverted to this ancient
feudal system that locked-in status on the basis
of birth, locked it in, in perpetuity, for all future
generations of the ‘Nobility’ (though, without
any aristocratic titles to go along with it, so
that the U.S. regime can still pretend not
to BE an aristocracy)? The US ------ is
increasingly becoming the world’s
stand-out model of dictatorship,
locked-in -- by caste. It’s
increasingly.. winner-
take-all, and keep-
it-forever.''
RAND report --- “Executive Summary:
Weakening Germany, strengthening
the U.S.” January 25th, 2022:
''The only feasible way to guarantee Germany’s rejection
of Russian energy supplies, is to involve both sides in
the military conflict in Ukraine. Our further actions
in this country --- will inevitably lead to a military
response from Russia. Russians will, obviously,
not be able to leave unanswered the massive
Ukrainian army pressure ---- on the
unrecognized Donbas republics.
That would make it possible to
declare Russia an aggressor
and apply to it, the entire
package of sanctions...
prepared beforehand.''
Al Sharpton:
''When people discuss the 1960s and the great
Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic
terms - as if there wasn't immense work put
in and as if there wasn't immense sacrifice
that took place. But none of those battles
were easily fought and won; there were
sustained movements behind them.''
John Neal:
"The poor and the rich, are taxed under the militia law
- to defend the property of the rich man. The rich of
course, do not appear in the field. The poor do.
The latter cannot afford to keep away;
the former can."
President Putin:
“They wanted Russian soldiers to kill each other, so
that soldiers and civilians would die, so that in the
end, Russia would lose, and our society would
break apart and choke on bloody civil strife.
They rubbed their hands, dreaming of
getting revenge for their failures at
the front and during the so-called
counteroffensive, but they
miscalculated.”
Former CIA operative, Larry C. Johnson:
''The potential for the war in Ukraine to escalate dramatically
remains high. It does not appear that there is any leader of
the NATO members who can talk some sense to Poland’s
President Duda. Are the people of Poland --- ready for
World War III?''
C. J. Cherryh:
''There are three kinds of people I've found:
those who think the universe is good,
those who believe it's corrupt, and
those who don't want to think
about it any more than they
can help. I prefer the
first two.''
Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:
“By ordering the deployment of 3,000 more reservists to
Europe, US President Joe Biden is preparing to fight
Russian forces on the ground in Ukraine. I want
people to understand, what this troop
mobilization is about. It’s about
preparing for a ground war
with Russia”
André Gide:
''There are many things that seem impossible,
only so long as one does not attempt them.'
'Washingtonpost.com July the 7th, 2023:
“President Biden has approved the provision of U.S. cluster
munitions for Ukraine, with a drawdown of the weapons
from Defense Department stocks. The move... will
bypass US law prohibiting the production, use or
transfer of cluster munitions with a failure rate
of more than 1 percent...''
Robert Kennedy junior, June the 19th, 2023:
''The pattern here is clear. Not only is the
administration deceiving the American
people about the motives for this
costly and tragic war, but by
continually escalating it,
they put the whole
world at risk
of nuclear
conflagration.''
Bertha von Suttner:
''The instinct of self-preservation in human society
- acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives
in the human mind, is rebelling against the
constantly refined methods of
annihilation and against
the destruction of
humanity.''
Frithjof Schuon:
''The sacred - that which is immutable, inviolable and
thus infinitely majestic -- is in the very substance of
our spirit and our existence. The world is miserable
because men live beneath themselves; the error
of modern man, is that he wants to reform the
world... without having either the will or the
power to reform man ----- and this flagrant
contradiction ----- this attempt to make a
better world on the basis of a worsened
humanity, can only end... in the very
abolition of what is human.. and,
consequently, in the abolition
of happiness too.''
Frithjof Schuon:
''Reforming man means binding him again to Heaven,
reestablishing the broken link; it means tearing him
away from the reign of the passions, from the cult
of matter, quantity and cunning and reintegrating
him into the world of the spirit and serenity, we
would even say: into the world of sufficient
reason.”
Bruce Kent:
''We need a group campaigning on military
expenditure, to be active in every part of
this country ....that means hard and
imaginative work, and energy.''
Julius Caesar:
''And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch
and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed,
the leader will have no need to seize the rights of
the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with
fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up
all of their rights unto the leader - and
do it gladly.''
Alexis de Tocqueville:
“I cannot help fearing --- that men may reach a point
where they look on every new theory as a danger,
every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every
social advance as a first step toward
revolution, and that they may
absolutely refuse to move
at all.”
Víctor Jara:
When asked, four days before the military coup
of September 11th, 1973, what the word ‘Love’
meant to him:
''Love of my home, my wife and my children. Love for the
earth that helps me live. Love for education and of work.
Love of others who work for the common good. Love of
justice as the instrument that provides equilibrium for
human dignity. Love of peace in order to enjoy one's
life. Love of freedom, but not the freedom acquired
at the expense of others’ freedom, but rather the
freedom of all. Love of freedom to live and exist,
for the existence of my children, in my home, in
my town, my city, among neighbouring people.
Love for freedom in the environment in which
we are required to forge our destiny. Love of
freedom without yokes: not ours,
nor foreign.''
Víctor Jara:
''The cultural invasion, is like a leafy tree
which prevents us from seeing our own
sun, sky and stars. Therefore in order
to be able to see the sky above our
heads, our task is to cut this tree
off at the roots.''
Soame Jenyns:
''If christian nations... were nations of christians,
all war would be impossible and unknown
among them.''
Graham Wallas:
''The most easily manipulated State in the world, would be
one inhabited by a race of Nonconformist business men
who never followed up a train of political reasoning in
their lives, and who... as soon as they were aware of
the existence of a strong political conviction in their
minds, should announce that it was a matter of
'conscience' and, therefore, beyond the
province of doubt or calculation.”
Josiah Henson:
''Judicious men felt his pulse. Oh! he could stand the whole.
Again and again - the thong fell on his lacerated back. His
cries grew fainter and fainter, till a feeble groan was the
only response to the final blows. His head was then
thrust against the post, and his right ear fastened
to it with a tack; a swift pass of a knife - and the
bleeding member was left sticking to the place.
Then came a hurra from the degraded crowd,
and the exclamation, "That's what he's got
for striking a white man."
Gennady Zyuganov:
''Standing in the way of our fraternal aspirations, are the
selfish interests of transnational capital, epitomized by
the USA and its NATO allies. Seeking to prevent global
capitalism from sinking in a full-scale crisis - they are
using sundry mechanisms of hybrid wars, broadening
their expansion ----- and fomenting managed chaos.
The tentacles of this octopus.... have already got
a stranglehold on Ukraine. The Bandera clique
was brought to power in Kiev, in order to
impose economic bondage on the
fraternal country, to strengthen
the anti-Russian alliance in
Eastern Europe and form
the “Baltic-Black Sea
cordon sanitaire.''
Paulo Coelho:
''Everybody is a political person, whether
you say something, or you are silent. A
political attitude is not whether you go
to parliament; it's how you deal with
your life, with your surroundings.''
Bobby Fischer:
''The United States is evil. It has to be brought down,
it has to be eliminated from the world scene.
They are the ones who have made
the world the hell that it is.''
Henry de Montherlant:
''A single nation that has succeeded in lowering
the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the
human race, almost throughout the globe, is
a phenomenon never before experienced
since the beginning of time. I accuse
the United States of being in a
constant state of crime
against humanity.”
Mahatma Jyotirao Phule:
''True education signifies empowering
others and leaving the world a little
better than the one we found.''
Simone Weil:
''Human beings are so made, that the ones who
do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person
crushed, who feels what is happening.
Unless one has placed oneself on
the side of the oppressed
- to feel with them - one
cannot understand.''
William Hazlitt:
''If you think you can win, you can win.
Faith is necessary to victory.'
Ella Josephine Baker:
“In order for us - as poor and oppressed people -
to become part of a society that is meaningful,
the system under which we now exist has to
be radically changed... It means facing a
system that does not lend itself to your
needs and devising means by which
you change that system.”
Tony Benn:
''Unlike civil laws --- economic laws are imposed on
people with all the authority of immutable laws of
nature. But the economy is created by people,
and supported by government intervention,
by regulation, statute and subsidy, and
implemented in such a way, that it
gives substantial wealth and
power to a privileged few,
while a majority face a
life of relentless work,
stress -- and periodic
financial insecurity.''
Nicholas Murray Butler:
''Fundamentally, the force that rules the world --- is conduct,
whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there
may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only
no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction
of all that has been accomplished during the last
5,000 years.''
Augustine of Canterbury:
''He that is kind... is free, though he is a slave;
he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.''
Tony Benn:
''If we can find the money to kill people,
we can find the money to help people.''
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (4/3/23):
“The collapse of U.S. influence over Saudi Arabia, and the
Kingdom’s new alliances with China and Iran are painful
emblems of the abject failure of the Neocon strategy of
maintaining U.S. global hegemony --- with aggressive
projections of military power. China has displaced
the US Empire --- by deftly projecting, instead,
economic power. Over the past decade, our
country has spent trillions - bombing roads,
ports, bridges, and airports. China - spent
the equivalent, building the same across
the developing world. The Ukraine war
----- is the final collapse of the Neocon's
short-lived ‘American Century.’ Neocon
projects in Iraq and Ukraine have cost
$8.1 trillion, hollowed out our middle
class, made a laughingstock of U.S.
military power and moral authority,
pushed China and Russia - into an
invincible alliance, destroyed the
dollar as the global currency ----
cost millions of lives.. and done
nothing to advance democracy
or win friendships, or influence.”
Dame Edna:
“You mustn’t judge Australia
by the Australians.”
Thomas Lipscomb, domigood.com 5/3/23):
“If Zelensky’s cowardice, allows America’s foreign policy
neocon scum, to push Ukraine into a doomed offensive,
it will be the most wasted effusion of blood yet, in this
catastrophic ‘proxy war.’ And... it will be the most
disgraceful ending possible, to the Neocon’s 30
years ‘forever war’ that dropped the US from a
half century illusion of dominant hegemony,
to an also ran ---- with an obsolete defense
establishment, and a wrecked economy
---- all in less than 2 years.”
Sir John Davies:
Man
I know my soul has power to know all things,
Yet she is blind and ignorant in all:
I know I'm one of Nature's little kings,
Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.
I know my life's a pain and but a span;
I know my sense is mocked in everything;
And, to conclude, I know myself a Man ---
Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.
Ayn Rand:
"Whenever destroyers appear among men
they first corrupt the monetary system."
Bertolt Brecht:
“First of all, they came to take the gypsies
and I was happy because they pilfered.
Then they came to take the Jews and
I said nothing, because they were
unpleasant to me.
Then they came to take homosexuals,
and I was relieved, because they
were annoying me.
Then they came to take the Communists,
and I said nothing because I was not
a Communist.
One day they came to take me,
and there was nobody left
to protest.''
Albert Einstein:
''The world is in greater peril from those
who tolerate or encourage evil, than
from those who actually commit it''
Maxim Gorky:
''Let us not search for the guilty ones
only among others, let us speak the
bitter truth: we are all guilty ..each
and every one of us.''
''The most beautiful words... in the
English language are 'not guilty'.''
Alexander Lebed:
"There are no impossible tasks,
no hopeless situations."
Angela Davis:
“I don't think we can rely on governments,
regardless of who is in power --- to do the
work that only mass movements can do.”
Ernestine Rose:
''There is ten times more in the world --- than would
maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet, how much
misery there is in our midst; not because there is
not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.''
Jack London:
“Please remember - I am talking about the world as it is.
Those men who act without thinking, and the men who
both think and act, are the ones who mould the world.
The man who thinks and does not act - never moulds
the world. He may think that he does - but that, too,
is only a thought, the thought of a deedless,
actionless thinker.”
William Godwin:
''Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts
all obstacles, and effects what, to any
other power, would be impossible.''
Serbian Colonel General Ratko Mladic:
''I wonder, if France really wants to create a Muslim
state in Europe, why don't they empower them to
do this, in Paris or Britain?''
Sir Gerald Kaufman, UK MP, raised as an Orthodox Jew,
and who bitterly complained after visiting Gaza in 2009:
"My grandmother was ill in bed --- when the Nazis came to her
home town. A German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My
grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers
murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present
Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the
continuing guilt from gentiles, over the slaughter of
Jews in the Holocaust, as a justification for their
murder of Palestinians."
Colonel Jacques Hogard:
''Europe Died When NATO Illegally
Ripped Out Serbia's Heart
in 1999''
Yanis Varoufakis:
''John Stuart Mill, a British philosopher and political
economist, warned us in 1863, ‘It is better to be a
human being dissatisfied, than a pig satisfied,
better to be a Socrates dissatisfied, than a
fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig,
are of a different opinion, that is
because they know only their
side of the story.’''
Chairman of the CC CPRF,
Head of CPRF State Duma
Gennady Zyuganov:
We must be aware of the fact that the world is entering a period of
political & socio-economic upheavals. They have been triggered
by the irreversible crisis of the American project of neo-liberal
global expansion. With the United States on the threshold of
a veritable civil war, the turbulence is becoming still more
dangerous. The presidential elections in the USA.... may
trigger a new spiral. The prospect of the collapse of the
political, financial and economic foundations of global
capitalism.. is emerging on the world agenda. To keep
steady at the historical turning point, not to be buried
under the rubble of a decrepit system, to ensure our
independence and development – our peoples can
do this, only in close alliance with each other.
Aneurin Bevan:
''How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political power
to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of
Conservative politics in the twentieth century.''
John Hersey:
''The reality is that changes are coming...
They must come. You must share in
bringing them.''
Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
''We have seen you anguish over the transformation of
your sons and daughters into instruments of a blind
and violent occupation - and we are sure that at no
time did you envisage such a role for the children
whom you thought.. would forge your future. We
have seen you look back in deepest sorrow, at
the tragedy of your past and look on in horror
at the disfigurement of the victim turned
oppressor. Not for this... have you
nurtured your hopes, dreams
and your offspring.''
John Cheever:
“Our country is the best country in the world.. We are
swimming in prosperity and our President is the best
president in the world. We have -- larger apples and
better cotton & faster & more beautiful machines.
This makes us the greatest country in the world.
Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a
fable. In preparatory school, America is
beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean,
and it is too bad. It is bad, because
people believe it all. Because they
become indifferent. Because they
marry and reproduce and vote
and they know nothing.”
John Cheever:
“Long ago when they first invented the atomic bomb
people used to worry about its going off and killing
everybody, but they didn't know that mankind has
enough dynamite right in his guts, to tear the
f***ing planet to pieces.”
Liam Norton, on trial for shutting
down Murdoch's printworks,
to #FreeThePress:
"The only response is to show contempt,
as you show contempt to this planet,
and to ordinary citizens' right to
try and expose criminality."
Yemen’s Supreme Political Council Chair,
Mehdi Mohammad Hussein al-Mashat:
“The US and British governments, the Zionist
regime, and most of the Western & Eastern
countries --- have been trying to obliterate
the Palestinian cause.”
G. K. Chesterton:
''I do not believe in a fate that falls on men,
however they act; but I do believe
in a fate that falls on them,
unless they act.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
The problem of the Negro race first came into being in America,
by the extermination of the aboriginal Red Skins, then, by the
transplantation of natives of Africa, to fill the void created,
and at present it is confounded with the Colonial problem
which is its ultimate phase and which is now shown by
the absolute negation of the rights to property by
Negroes, by negation of their civil rights—since
their civil personality is not recognized, by the
negation of their possibilities of evolution, by
deceit, by calumnies which induce the world
to believe --- that this race is irremediably
condemned to inferiority, to stagnate...
in ignorance, brutality, and violence -
all of which is contrary --- not to
experience --- since you have
never attempted ---- in good
faith, this experience -- but
to that which we know ----
we ...who have lived with
our fathers & our mothers,
our brothers, our sisters:,
we who know - that they
are also men & women.''
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:
''The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark. The
small truth has words which
are clear; the great truth
has great silence.
''Harry S. Truman:
''You want a friend
in Washington?
Get a dog.''
John Woolman:
''There is a principle... which is pure, placed in the
human mind which, in different places and ages,
has had different names. It is, however, pure....
and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward,
confined to no forms of religion nor excluded
from any, where the heart stands in perfect
sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root
and grows, of what nation soever, they
become brothers -- in the best sense
of the expression.''
Charles Sumner:
''There is beauty in art, in literature, in science, and in
every triumph of intelligence, all of which I covet for
my country; but there is a higher beauty still — in
relieving the poor, in elevating the downtrodden
and being a succour to the oppressed. There
is true grandeur in an example of justice, in
making the rights of all.. the same as our
own, and beating down the prejudice,
like Satan, under our feet.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
''It's necessary that you should no longer allow yourself to be put
to sleep by this chloroform in strong doses - in doses in bulk -
which from time to time, in flights of oratory, members of
Parliament, and sometimes their supreme chief..
administer you.''
Louise Erdrich:
“We are never so poor, that we cannot bless
another human being, are we? So it is that
every evil, whether moral or material,
results in good. You'll see.”
Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine:
"According to Judaism ------ a person without compassion
who claims to be Jewish cannot be considered Jewish.
I mourn..... for the Judaism of love and kindness,
peace and generosity, that Israel worshipers
dismiss as a Utopian fantasy."
Mary Wollstonecraft:
''The same energy of character which
renders a man a daring villain, would
have rendered him useful in society
- had that society been
well organized.''
Lion Feuchtwanger:
''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."
''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 anyone'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.''
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
laws 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 it 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’ restrooms 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 13year 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
US, 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 international 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
Ukrainian 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.''
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.
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