Quotations Page

Chris Hedges:

''The reality of empire rarely reaches the American public.

The few atrocities that come to light, are dismissed as

isolated aberrations. The public is assured: what has

been uncovered will be investigated and will not take

place again. The goals of empire, we are told by a

subservient media and our ruling elites, are

virtuous and noble. And the vast killing

machine grinds forward, feeding, as it

has always done, the swollen bank

accounts of defense contractors

and corporations.. that exploit

natural resources and cheap

labour around the globe.''

Víctor Jara:

''US imperialism understands very well the magic

of communication through music, and persists

in filling our young people with all sorts of

commercial tripe.''

''With professional expertise they have taken certain

measures: first, the commercialization of the so-

called ‘protest music’; second, the creation of

‘idols’ of protest music, who obey the same

rules and suffer from the same constraints

as the other idols of the consumer music

industry – they last a little while, and

then disappear.''

''Meanwhile, they are useful in neutralizing the innate spirit

of rebellion of young people. The term ‘protest song’, is

no longer valid, because it is ambiguous and has been

misused. I prefer the term ‘revolutionary song’.''

James Morris Lawson Jr.:

''I say we must have a movement that brings those troops

home and launch a crusade to transform our school

buildings, we launch a crusade to see to it that

every citizen has adequate and affordable

housing, we launch a crusade to make

universal health care. We need not

soldiers anymore in the world.

We've had enough of them

in western history.''

Psychologist Albert Ellis:

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

Chris Hedges:

''There are no constraints left... to halt America’s slide into a
totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The

media have been debased and defanged by corporate

owners. The working class has been impoverished

and is now being plunged into profound despair.

The legal system has been corrupted, to serve

corporate interests. Popular institutions, from

labour unions to political parties, have been

destroyed or emasculated by corporate

power. And any form of protest... no

matter how tepid.. is blocked by an

internal security apparatus that is

starting to rival that of the East

German secret police... The

mounting anger and hatred,

coursing through the blood

-stream of the body politic,

make violence and counter

-violence inevitable. Brace

yourself. The American

empire is over. And the

descent is going to be

horrifying.''

Alexis de Tocqueville:

“The American Republic will endure
until the day Congress discovers
that it can bribe the public

with the public's money.”

Marguerite Higgins:

“I thought then, how much more matter-of

-fact the actuality of war is, than any of
its projections in literature. The
wounded seldom cry - there
is no one with time and
emotion to listen.”

Marshall Berman:

''To be modern.... is to find ourselves

in an environment that promises us

adventure, power, joy, growth,

transformation of ourselves

and the world --- and at the

same time that threatens

to destroy.. everything

we have... everything

we know, everything

we are.''

Julius Nyerere:

''If real development is to take place,

the people have to be involved.''

Raymond Williams:

“To be truly radical, is to make hope possible,

rather than despair convincing. It is then, in

making hope practical, rather than despair

convincing... that we must resume and

change and extend our campaigns.“

(Sir) Walter Scott:

''To be ambitious of true honour, of the true glory
and perfection of our natures.... is the very

principle and incentive of virtue. For he
that does good - having the unlimited
power to do evil - deserves praise,
not only for the good which he

performs, but for the evil
which he forbears.''

William Faulkner:

''Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and

truth and compassion, against injustice and lying

and greed. If people all over the world… would

do this, it would change the earth.''

UN declaration:

''…while democracies share common features,

there is no single model of democracy and

democracy does not belong to any

country or region...''

Fidel Castro:

''The equal right of all citizens --- to health, education,
work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing
...that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we
began our struggle, in addition to those which

emerge.... from our dreams of justice and
equality for all inhabitants of our world
--- is what I wish.... for all.''

John Neal:

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

John Quincy Adams:

''Heaven has given to every human being

the power of controlling his passions,

and if he neglects or loses it, the

fault is his own, and he must

be answerable for it.''

Martin Luther King Jnr:

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness,

only light can do that. Hatred cannot

drive out hate, only love can do that.”

Peter Fraser:

''Every one of our countries are sovereign states

and the more independent we are, the more we

realise we are interdependent.''

About Cuba, by Fidel Castro:

''There is not Communism or Marxism,

but representative democracy, and

social justice, in a well-planned

economy.''

Jean de La Bruyère:

Modesty is to merit, what shade is

to figures in a picture... it gives it

strength and makes it stand out.

Munshi Premchand:

''The world assumes... that we are very happy...
with high mansions, fine carriages, servants

and attendants, huge investments... and

concubines. But he who is without the
honour and strength of the soul,

can be anything but happy.''

Bal Gangadhar Tilak:

"Religion and practical life are not different. To take

renunciation, is not to abandon life. The real spirit

is to make the country your family --- and work

together --- instead of working only for your

own. The step beyond, is to serve

humanity, and the next step
is to serve God."

Randa Farah, Associate Professor, Western Ontario:

“It is totally unacceptable that in the 21st century, this

scale and level of brutality against the Palestinians

unleashed on a daily basis and for over 7 decades
is met with barely a whisper from the so-called
‘international community.’ The silence in the
world is heard loudly in Palestine and is a
black page in humanity’s history, and
more so in the history of the Arab

-Islamic world.”

“I am utterly dismayed and shocked --- although not

entirely surprised --- by the level and depth of the

complicity and treachery of the Gulf oligarchies.

Who would have thought that the oil wealth that

could have been used for the development of

the Middle East and North Africa and for the

well-being of millions of people, is today,

used to empower Zionist colonization

in Palestine and to promote US and

imperial interests?”

Gustav Stresemann:

''Here, we encounter two conflicting concepts, with

which we must come to grips in our time: the idea

of national solidarity and the idea of international

cooperation. To contrast national solidarity and

international cooperation, as two opposites...

seems foolish, to me. The ''great men'' of a

nation, reach out to all mankind. They are

unifying, not divisive; internationally

conciliating, and still great,

nationally.''

(Sir) Walter Scott:

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

Mary Ritter Beard:

“In matters pertaining to the care of life

there has been no marked gain over

Greek and Roman antiquity.”

Hermann Hesse:

''I have always believed, and I still believe,

that whatever good or bad fortune may

come our way, we can always give it

meaning and transform it into

something of value.''

Amelia Boynton Robinson:

''Only until all human beings begin to recognize

themselves as human beings will prejudice be

gone forever. People ask me what race I am,

but there is no such thing as race. I just

answer: "I’m a member of the

human race."

Alexis Tsipras:

''Austerity is not part of the European treaties;

democracy and the principle of popular

sovereignty are.''

Jean de La Bruyère:

''Not to be able to bear with all bad-tempered people

- with whom the world is crowded - shows that a

man has not a good temper himself.''

Huey Long:

''I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black

and white, they all gotta have a chance.

They gotta have a home, a job, and a

decent education for their children.

'Every man a king' —
that's my slogan."

Jean de La Bruyère:

''There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth,

to whom interest and gain, are what glory and virtue
are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure,
but to acquire money.''

Claudette Werleigh:

“I have been blessed to have worked both in rich

countries and one of the most impoverished

ones, at grassroots level and at top level.

I have learned... that we all need to

acknowledge our differences, to

accept the other as equal and

to cooperate, in order to

improve life.”

Nong Duc Manh:

''The war against terrorism...... should not be used

to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.

We need to identify concrete terrorist targets ---

and do no harm to civilians.''

Alexis de Tocqueville:

“Tyranny in democratic republics, ignores the body and

goes straight for the soul. The master no longer says:-

You will think as I do, or die. He says: You are free not

to think as I do. You may keep your life, your property

and everything else. But from this day forth you shall

be as a stranger among us. You will retain your civic

privileges, but they will be of no use to you. For if

you seek the votes of your fellow citizens, they

will withhold them, and if you seek only their

esteem, they will feign to refuse even that.

You will remain among men... but you will

forfeit your rights to humanity. When you

approach your fellow creatures, they'll

shun you as one who is impure. And

even those who believe in your

innocence will abandon you,

lest they, too.. be shunned,

in turn. Go in peace, I will

not take your life... but...
the life I leave you with
...is worse than death.”

Lee Camp:

''A large 2014 Princeton study looked at 1,779 policy
initiatives and found that the American public has

zero impact --- on what gets passed through

Congress. What we, the American people

want, has no influence on American

policy. The politicians tell you, it

does. They act like they care.

But nothing you and I want

...ever gets done.''

Mary Ritter Beard:

“The 'trade agreement' has become a rather distinct feature

of the American labour movement. ...It is based on the idea

that labour shall accept the capitalist system of production

and make terms of peace with it.”

Edgar Guest:

The lectures you deliver

may be wise and true,

But I'd rather get my lessons

by observing what you do.

I may not understand

the high advice you like to give,

But there's no misunderstanding

how you act and how you live.

Steven Wright:

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

Anna Kingsford:

''No man who aims at making his life an harmonious whole,

pure, complete, and harmless to others, can endure to

gratify an appetite at the cost of the daily suffering

and bloodshed of his inferiors in degree, and of

the moral degradation of his own kind. I know

not which strikes me most forcibly in the

ethics of this question... the injustice,

the cruelty, or the nastiness of flesh

-eating. The injustice is to the

butchers, the cruelty is to the

animals and the nastiness,

concerns the consumer.''

Alexis de Tocqueville:

“I do not know if the people of the United States

would vote for superior men, if they ran for

office, but there can be no doubt
that such men do not run.”

Marguerite Higgins:

''There is much pretence in our everyday life,

and - with a skilful manner - much can be

concealed. But with a shell whistling at

you there is not much time to pretend

and a person’s qualities are starkly

revealed.''

Father Wresinski:

''Wherever men and women are condemned to live

in extreme poverty, human rights are violated. To

come together to ensure that these rights be

respected, is our solemn duty.''

Alexis Tsipras:

''There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes...

but at least they had humanity at the centre of their thinking.''

Cleveland Amory:

“What this world needs is a new kind

of army --- the army of the kind.”

Basil, fool for Christ:

''Why abstain from meat,

when you murder men?''

John Neal:

''The frontier people pick a quarrel with the Indians.

No declaration of war follows; no ceremony; but,

forth goes General [Andrew] Jackson ------ or

general somebody else; wasting and firing

the whole country. A truce follows: a

ceding of the conquered country ---

for the protection of the whites.

No people, ancient or modern

..have been so deplorably

oppressed, belied, and

wronged, in every

possible way."

John Quincy Adams:

''Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud,

is the only maxim which can ever preserve

the liberties of any people.''

Bill Waterson:

''The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in

the universe --- is that it has never tried to contact us.''

Ken Saro-Wiwa:

''We all stand before history. I am a man of peace,
of ideas. Appalled by the denigrating poverty of
my people, who live on a richly endowed land,
distressed by their political marginalization
and economic strangulation, angered by
the devastation of their land, their

ultimate heritage, anxious to
preserve their right to life
and to a decent living.''

José Rizal:

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

Nikolay Chernyshevsky:

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

Woody Guthrie:

''I would like to see every single soldier on every single side,

just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your

rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and

say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich

folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.''

Walid Jumblatt:

''The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes

and goes. Today it is Islam. According to

this plan or ideology of the born-again

Christians who formed an alliance

with Zionism, Islam is

the monster.''

Stephen Karganovic:

''The in-your-face European Parliament human rights

prize nomination of señora Añez, for the notable

accomplishment - of serving as provisional

head of state in an illegal coup regime

- which deposed the legitimately

elected President - should be

enough... to give the whole

game away, shouldn’t it?''

Eric Zuesse:

''The rich have inculcated into the public

a respect for the rich, and a contempt

for the poor.''

Jeremy Hardy:

''Capitalism is a great idea in theory,

but in practice, it just doesn't work.''

Al Sharpton:

''It seems some have chosen to ignore or

have simply forgotten... the big-picture

vision... promoted by Dr. King and his

kin. I do believe the Democrat party

has moved... far to the right. I do

believe that the party has a bunch

of elephants running around in

donkey clothes.''

Fidel Castro:

''They talk about the failure of socialism

but where is the success of capitalism

in Africa, Asia and Latin America?''

Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:

''We once formed a human chain

around Jerusalem, joining

hands and calling

for peace.''

Bertha von Suttner:

''One of the eternal truths is that happiness

is created and developed in peace, and

one of the eternal rights, is the

individual's right to live.''

Chalmers Johnson:

“As militarism, the arrogance of power, and the

euphemisms required to justify imperialism,

inevitably conflict with America’s

democratic structure of

government and distort

its culture and basic

values, I fear that

we will lose our

country.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne:

''Happiness is not found in things you possess,

but in what you have the courage to release.''

W. E. B. Du Bois:

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed

by colour, race, or poverty. But with all,
we accomplish all, even Peace.”

Elias Canetti:

''The planet's survival has become so uncertain

that any effort, any thought, that presupposes

an assured future, amounts to a mad gamble.''

President Erdogan:

''Nobody can tell Turkey

what defense systems

it can buy,''

Blogger:

''The other side of the coin

is that nobody can tell
the US... what
to sell.''

Mary Ritter Beard:

“Those who sit at the feast will continue to

enjoy themselves... even though the veil

that separates them from the world of

toiling reality below, has been lifted

by mass revolts and critics.”

Mark Twain's “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”:

''Each of the world’s strongest nations, is proceeding

with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand

and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in

the other.''

Cuban leader, Díaz-Canel:

''As long as this world order prevails,

the noblest goals will remain

a chimera.''

Walid Jumblatt:

''The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's

historic lie - that the reason for invading

Iraq was weapons of mass destruction

- is that everything is being doubted.''

Marshall McLuhan:

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a

hallucinating idiot... for he sees what no one

else does: things that, to everyone else,

are not there.”

Jean de La Bruyère:

''We must laugh before we are happy,

for fear we die before we laugh at all.''

Carl Jung:

''In my case, Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my

having to climb down a thousand ladders, until

I could reach out my hand to the little clod

of earth that I am.''

President Putin:

"We should have modernised sooner, instead of

sticking our heads into buckets of sand,
leaving our butt exposed for
anyone to kick".

Cuban leader, Díaz-Canel:

''Building the world we dream of is an enormous task,

but it is possible, if we renounce selfishness and

work together to transform the current unjust

international order into a more just,

democratic and equitable one

in which, at last, no one is

left behind.''

Vladivostok taxi driver:

"Russia not my country.... USSR my country.

In USSR everyone same, everyone friends.

Now, if you are rich and I am poor, you

cannot be my friend".

Lion Feuchtwanger:

“It is easy to possess a conscience, Monsieur,

when one only needs to talk or write about it.

But the man who has to act, is constantly

faced with the necessity, if he wishes to

deal justly with one person, of being

unjust to somebody else.”

Research published in recent days by Levada Centre:

''While one in six Russians, want to move toward

“democracy according to the model of Western

countries,” around 18% said “the current

system” was preferable.''

''49% of respondents said they would happily return

to “the Soviet system, like we had until the 1990s.”

and 30% of 18-24 year olds said that
this is also their preferred option.''

Alexis de Tocqueville:

“... everybody feels the evil... but no one has

courage or energy enough to seek the cure”

Bulgarian communist Georgi Dimitrov

Mihaylov, defined fascism as follows:

''Comrades, fascism in power... was correctly described

by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee

of the Communist International, as the open terrorist

dictatorship of the most reactionary, most

chauvinistic and most imperialist

elements of finance capital.''

UN Secretary-General António Guterres:

''Let us commit to safeguarding the principles of

equality, participation and solidarity, so that we

can better weather the storm of future crises.''

Mary Ritter Beard:

“Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive,

nothing can be understood.”

Munshi Premchand:

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

Carl Jung:

''Where love rules, there is no will to power;

and where power predominates, there,

love is lacking. The one is the

shadow of the other.''

W. E. B. Du Bois:

“Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make

hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs;

they do great and beautiful things. And shall we

not best guide humanity, by telling the truth

about all this, so far as the truth

is ascertainable?”

Jorge Amado:

''It is a very risky thing for anyone to go about

proclaiming the truth, simply because he

finds himself in possession of concrete

documentary proofs, or on the

evidence of his own eyes,

which is always over-

estimated. Love is

not to be proven

or measured. It

exists and that

is enough.''

Mary Ritter Beard:

“Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy...

has a social setting: in time, in a geographical location,

in a political economy, in a matrix of interests, and

knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon

like a balloon without moorings. It is not

produced in a vacuum and, being

creative, it does not work in a

vacuum. Nurtured on things

experienced and things

known, it reaches out

toward the unknown

like a flower on a

stalk... growing

out of the soil.”

Fidel Castro:

''The fact is, when men carry the same ideals

in their hearts, nothing can isolate them -

neither prison walls, nor the sod of

cemeteries. For a single memory,

a single spirit, a single idea, a

single conscience, a single

dignity, will sustain

them all.''

Basil, fool for Christ:

''Imitate the earth, O man. Bear fruit, as she does, lest

you prove inferior to that which is without life. She

produces her fruits, not that she may enjoy them,

but for your service. You do gather for yourself

whatever fruit of good works you have strewn,

because the grace of good works returns to

the giver. You have given to the poor... and

the gift becomes your own and comes back
with increase. Just as grain that has fallen
on the earth becomes a gain to the sower,
so the loaf thrown to the hungry man
renders abundant fruit thereafter.

The end of your husbandry.. is the

beginning of the heavenly sowing.

‘Sow,’ it is written, ‘to yourselves

in righteousness.’ 'Why then are

you distressed? Why do you

harass yourself... in your

efforts to shut up your

riches in clay and

bricks? ‘A good

name is rather

to be chosen,

than great

riches.’''

Munshi Premchand:

''Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields
grow grains, but they are consumed by the world.
Cows give milk, but she doesn't drink it herself -
that is left to others. Clouds send rain, only to

quench the parched earth. In such giving,
there is little space for selfishness.''

George Sand:

''No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are

some revolutions which humanity accomplishes

without quite knowing how, because it is

everybody who takes them in hand.''

Francis Hutcheson:

''Men have been Laughed out of Faults

...which a Sermon could not reform.''

Walid Jumblatt:

''We are all happy, when U.S. soldiers

are killed, week in and week out.
The killing of U.S. soldiers in
Iraq, is legitimate and
obligatory.''

G. K. Chesterton:

''The purpose of Compulsory Education,

is to deprive the common people
of their commonsense.''

Marshall McLuhan:

“We become what we behold. We shape our

tools, and thereafter, our tools shape us.”

G. K. Chesterton:

''Education is simply the soul of a society

as it passes from one generation

to another.''

UN Secretary-General António Guterres:

''The nuclear menace is once again on the rise.

A complete ban on nuclear testing is an

essential step in preventing the

qualitative and quantitative

improvement of nuclear

weapons... and in

achieving nuclear

disarmament.''

Bal Gangadhar Tilak:

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

our success."

Investigative journalist Kit Klarenberg:

''Analysis by Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) has

found that weapons made by numerous UK companies,

with receipts running into billions, have been used in
the [Yemen] war. In fact, over half of the equipment

used in bombing raids, is UK-supplied.. including

Typhoon and Tornado aircraft, Paveway bombs

and Brimstone and Stormshadow missiles.

Without exaggeration, every day, Yemen

is hit by UK-made bombs, dropped by

UK-made planes, which are repaired

and serviced on Saudi soil by UK

contractors, including RAF

engineers, and flown by

UK-trained pilots.''

Clara Zetkin:

''The capitalists speculate on the two

following factors: the female worker

must be paid as poorly as possible

and the competition of female

labour must be employed to

lower the wages of male

workers as much

as possible.''

George Sand:

''Life in common, among people who love

each other, is the ideal of happiness.''

Jean de La Fontaine:

''People must help one

another; it is nature's

law.''

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Karl Grossman:

''The U.S. nuclear weapons “modernization” program

violates the disarmament component of the Non-

Proliferation Treaty. Major objectives of the NPT

- an international treaty which took effect in
1970 - include preventing the spread of
nuclear weapons and achieving
nuclear disarmament. It is
putting the world on
the brink.''

Lion Feuchtwanger:

“Those who came from internment camps in Belgium

told how they had been transported across France

in sealed cars. No one had paid any attention to

the trains and the occupants had been left

without food or water. Their Belgian

guards had robbed them

of everything they

possessed.”

George Carlin (may he Rest In Peace):

''The flag is a symbol, and

I leave the symbols to

the symbol-minded."

Poet:

''The Russians, Chinese

and the English like tea.

I'm Welsh. I'll take cofi.''

Kit Klarenberg:

''In March, the United Nations ruled that Yemen remained

the world’s “worst humanitarian crisis” and that up to

80% of the population – including over 11 million

children – remained in need of urgent human-

itarian assistance. Yet, Yemen is very, very

rarely mentioned in the Western media,

and the UK’s absolutely fundamental

role in sustaining the bloodshed...

even more seldomly.''

Jeremy Corbyn:

“Britain, was responsible for the training of

the Afghan army; Britain set up an officer

training corps of the Afghan army - and

the result was not a good one.”

Clara Zetkin:

''The most important immediate task, is the formation

of a United Front of all workers, in order to turn back

fascism... in order to preserve for the enslaved and

exploited, the force and power of their organization

as well as to maintain their own physical existence.

Before this compelling historical necessity, all

inhibiting and dividing political, trade union,

religious & ideological opinions.. must take

a back seat. All those who feel themselves

threatened, all those who suffer, and all

those who long for liberation... must

belong to the United Front against

fascism and its representatives

in government.''

Nathaniel Hawthorne:

''No man for any considerable period

can wear one face to himself, and

another to the multitude, without

finally getting bewildered as to

which may be the true.''

Journalist Matt Taibbi:

“Every image coming out of Afghanistan this

past weekend, was an advertisement for
the incompetence, arrogance, and
double-dealing nature of
American foreign

policy leaders.”

Richard Medhurst:

"The only people who think Afghanistan was a failure

are people who don’t own stocks in Halliburton,

Raytheon and Boeing. Afghanistan was a

blistering success for them."

Matt Taibbi:

''The look of genuine shock on the faces of people

like Tony Blinken this weekend, should tell people

around the world something important about the

United States: in addition to all the other things

about us that are dangerous, we lack

self-knowledge.''

George Carlin:

"America is one big lie, and
you're a fool to believe it."

Jeremy Hardy:

''The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage

similar to that moment at your child's party -

where you realise you've forgotten to give

the other parents a pick up time.''

Sun Tzu:

"He will win whose army is animated

by the same spirit, throughout all

its ranks."

Anacharsis Cloots:

''What is man's chief enemy?

Each man is his own.''

Clara Zetkin:

''... reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class,

they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened

with, by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush

capitalism and to emancipate the workers from

their tyranny.''

Sukarno:

This twentieth century has been a period of terrific

dynamism. Perhaps the last fifty years have seen

more developments and more material progress

than the previous five hundred years. Man has

learned to control many of the scourges
which once threatened him.

He has learned to consume distance. He has learned

to project his voice and his picture across oceans

and continents. He has probed deep into the

secrets of nature and learned how to make

the desert bloom and the plants of the

earth increase their bounty. He has

learned how to release the

immense forces locked in
the smallest particles

of matter.

But has man's political skill marched hand-in-hand with

his technical and scientific skill? Man can chain

lightning to his command -- can he control the

society in which he lives? The answer is No!

The political skill of man, has been far

outstripped by technical skill, and

what he has made, he cannot
be sure of controlling.

The result of this is fear. And man gasps for safety and

morality. Perhaps now more than at any other moment

in the history of the world, society, government and

statesmanship need to be based upon the highest

code of morality and ethics. And, in political
terms, what is the highest code of
morality? It is the subordination
of everything, to the well-

being of mankind.

But today we are faced with a situation where the well-being

of mankind is not always the primary consideration. Many

who are in places of high power think, rather, of

controlling the world.

Mark Twain writing in response to the

U.S.'s occupation of the Philippines:

''But it was impossible to save the Great Republic.

She was rotten to the heart. Lust of conquest

had long ago done its work; trampling upon

the helpless abroad, had taught her, by a

natural process, to endure with apathy

the like at home; multitudes who had

applauded the crushing of other

people’s liberties, lived to
suffer for their mistake,
in their own persons.''

Che Guevara:

''I am not a liberator. Liberators, do not

exist. The people liberate themselves.''

G. K. Chesterton:

''I would maintain that thanks are

the highest form of thought, and

that gratitude is happiness,

doubled by wonder.''

Giacomo Leopardi:

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

Nelson Mandela:

''It is easy to break down and destroy.

The heroes, are those who make

peace and build.''

Mary McLeod Bethune:

''We have a powerful potential in our youth,

and we must have the courage to change

old ideas and practices, so that we may

direct their power toward good ends.''

Leading world virologist, Professor Luc Montagnier:

"It is the vaccines that are causing the variants

and, in all countries, the curve of vaccination,

is followed by the curve of deaths."

Hilaire Belloc:

''There is not anything... that can so suddenly

flood the mind with shame as the conviction

of ignorance --- yet we are all ignorant of

nearly everything there is to be known.''

Adam Michnik:

“I am not a capitalist; I am a socialist

who is unable to forgive socialism,

that it did not work.”

W. E. B. Du Bois:

“You are not and yet you are:
your thoughts, your deeds,
above all, your dreams,
still live.”

Patch Adams:

''Anyone can do it — BE RADIANT! Make the decision.

I want to be an agent of change to a loving world —

so I will be radiant.''

G. K. Chesterton:

''The Christian ideal has not been tried and

found wanting; it has been found difficult

and left untried.''

Hermann Hesse:

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

Richard Bach:

''It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you

can manage it, that you might somehow be

happy. Until you make room in your life for

someone as important to you as yourself,

you will always be searching and lost.''

Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

''Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.''

Giacomo Leopardi:

''I get up and I bless the light thin clouds

and the first twittering of birds,

and the breathing air

and smiling face

of the hills.''

U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge:

“The Philippines are ours forever. And just beyond

the Philippines are China’s illimitable markets.
We will not retreat from either. We will not
repudiate our duty in the archipelago.
We will not abandon our opportunity
in the Orient. We will not renounce
our part in the mission of our race
as the trustee under God of the
civilization of the world.”

Che Guevara:

''Above all, always be capable of feeling

deeply, any injustice committed against

anyone, anywhere in the world. This, is

the most beautiful quality in a

revolutionary.''

George Carlin:

''We are a nation of sheep, and

someone else owns the grass.''

Harry Schwarz:

''I believe people are not free - if all they can do is cast

a vote every five years to decide who should govern

them. What does it mean to a man in a shack built
by himself, with no amenities, and not knowing
where his next meal is coming from, to vote?

Paul Laurence Dunbar:

Slight was the thing I bought,

small was the debt I thought,

Poor was the loan at best -

God! but the interest!

Belarus' President, Alexander Lukashenko:

“The crazy European politicians directing a
hybrid war against us, Russia and even
China, isn’t just creating a hotbed of
tension: they are pushing for a
3rd world war.”

Blogger:

''The cabals' world order is crumbling, with

stagnant economies, low birth rates, high

debt, and major social problems. They

are surviving, on printing money out

of thin air. The US and its European

vassals..... are desperate to save

capitalism.... as all scams have

failed. Now they are provoking

nuclear states Russia and

China into WW3 ... for

a global reset.''

Basil of Caesarea:

'''But whom do I treat unjustly,' you say, 'by keeping what

is my own?' Tell me, what is your own? What did you

bring into this life? From where, did you receive it?

It is as if someone were to take the first seat in the

theatre, then bar everyone else from attending so

that one person alone, enjoys what is offered for

the benefit of all in common - this is what the

rich do... They seize common goods - before

others have the opportunity and then claim

them as their own - by right of preemption..

For if we all took only what was necessary

to satisfy our own needs --- giving the rest

to those who lack, no one would be rich,

no one would be poor, and no one

would be in need.''

Hermann Hesse:

''Eternity is a mere moment,

just long enough for a joke.''

Mark Twain:

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world

is being run by smart people who are

putting us on, or by imbeciles who

really mean it."

Steven Best:

''In the aftermath of 10,000 years of incessant growth

and endless wars, that humanity waged upon itself,

other species, and the earth, we now live amidst

unsustainable global capitalism, and a system

of growth that is driving natural systems to

an irreversible tipping point.''

John Quincy Adams:

''It is of no use to discover our own faults

and infirmities, unless the discovery

prompts us to amendment.''

Che Guevara:

''How easy it is to govern, when one

follows a system of consulting the

will of the people, and one holds

as the only norm all the actions

which contribute to the well

being of the people''.

Blogger:

''It was a big mistake on the part of the Cuban

government, to restore diplomatic ties with

washington and allow the maniacs to open

up an embassy in Cuba, they can now see

the results.''

Blogger:

''Russia and China should quickly

come to the aid of Cuba, before

the US and the west, take

the island.''

Daniel Berrigan:

''The God of life summons us to life;

more, to be lifegivers, especially

toward those who lie under

the heel of the powers.''

Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:

''As we speak, the tens of thousands who have been

wounded or permanently disabled, are in pain: let

peace heal their wounds. As we speak, the eyes

of thousands of Palestinian refugees, deportees

and displaced persons since 1967, are haunting

us, for exile is a cruel fate: bring them home.''

Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

''What wisdom can you find...

that is greater than kindness?''

Che Guevara:

''The true revolutionary is guided by a

great feeling of love. It is impossible

to think of a genuine revolutionary

lacking this quality.''

John Hersey:

''What has kept the world safe from the bomb

since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the

sense of fear of specific weapons, so

much as it's been memory. The

memory of what happened

at Hiroshima.''

Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:

What requiem can be sung, for trees uprooted

by army bulldozers? And, most of all, who can

explain to those whose lands are confiscated

and clear waters stolen, the message

of peace?

Mimi Smith:

"The guitar's all right John,

but you'll never make a

living out of it".

Zhu Xi:

''To fully investigate the spiritual

and understand transformation

is the flourishing of virtue.''

Arnold Wesker:

''If the electrician who comes to mend my fuse blows it

instead, so I should stop having electricity? I should

cut off my light? Socialism is my light, can you

understand that?''

Sirimavo Bandaranaike:

"As a woman and mother,

I call upon the nations of

the world to desist from

violence in their

dealings with

each other."

Alexander Lebed on, if NATO begins

expanding through Eastern Europe:

"World War Three will start. Civilized and uncivilized

states will be destroyed, everybody and everything."

José Emilio Pacheco:

''We are all hypocrites. We cannot

see ourselves or judge ourselves

the way we see and judge others.''

Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

''You forget that the fruits belong to all

and that the land belongs to no one.''

Thomas Jefferson:

''Honesty is the first chapter

in the book of wisdom.''

Recently deceased US Senator, Mike Gravel:

“Politicians are corrupt and they’re basically cowards

because we have a system that is set up - where you

give me money to help me get elected and when

I’m elected, I will vote for your economic

interest - that is bribery, and that’s the

foundation of our system in

this country.”

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:

''Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.''

Rahul Verma:

''Emergency situations prove to

us all: who are real in their
soul and face.''

Richard Bach:

''Every gift from a friend, is

a wish for your happiness.''

Blogger:

''I am an MRI Tech and I see the damage these

vaccines do. Doctors are not reporting the

link. People with no medical history, are

dying and facing debilitating sideffects.

Expect more problems in 3-5yrs, this

is how long effects take to show up,

but don't expect any links to the

vaccine to be shown and, since

the drug companies have

immunity... it really

doesn't matter.''

Harry S. Truman:

''Experience has shown... how

deeply the 'seeds of war' are

planted by economic rivalry

and social injustice.''

Victor Bello Accioly:

“Political reform is important, but no reform will

be greater than promoting popular awareness.”

Alice Salomon, about pre-nazi Germany:

“On the one hand, it was touching how families

make survival possible, for themselves, in the

face of inflation, depression & unemployment

- how they work, do business, experience joy,

celebrate parties and worry about the future

of their children...

“On the other hand, it is shocking how dullness,

monotony, political ignorance, can arise, under

socially & economically narrow & unfavorable

conditions.”

Zhu Xi:

''The petty person considers small goodness

as unbeneficial, and doesn't do it. He takes

small badness as unharmful, and doesn't

avoid it. Thus badness accumulates and

cannot be concealed, and crimes

become great and cannot be

undone.''

Mary Wollstonecraft:

''The beginning is always today.''

Frithjof Schuon said, in his early youth,

4 things always moved him profoundly:

“The holy, the great, the beautiful,
and the childlike”

John Hersey:

''It's a failure of national vision when

you regard children as weapons,

and talents as materials you

can mine, assay, and

fabricate for profit

and defense.''

UNICEF's Eastern & Southern Africa
Regional Director, Mohamed Fall:

''Children and youth are continuing brave efforts to help make

the world a better place, from addressing injustice, to taking

climate action. I appeal to governments, leaders, teachers,

parents and communities, to join them: and push harder:

in fulfilling the promises we have made to them in the

UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. This

Convention, compels us -- to act in the best

interests of the world’s youngest citizens --

and this, must be a primary consideration,

at all times. The world needs to approach

it with that healthy dose of impatience,

that youth brings --- especially as

we’re seeing hard earned

development gains...

slip away.''

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:

''Beauty is truth's smile when

she beholds her own face in

a perfect mirror.''

Che Guevara:

''Those who kill their own children and discriminate

daily against them because of the colour of their

skin; those who let the murderers of blacks

remain free, protecting them, and further-

more... punishing the black population

because they demand their legitimate

rights as free men --- how can those

who do this... consider themselves

guardians of freedom?''

G. K. Chesterton:

''The cosmos is about the smallest hole

that a man can hide his head in.''

Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:

''And what do we tell the loved ones... of those killed

by army bullets? How do we answer the questions

and the fear in our children's eyes? For one out of

three Palestinian children under occupation has

been killed, injured, or detained in the past four

years. How can we explain to our children that

they are denied education... our schools, so

often closed by army fiat? Or why their life

is in danger --- for raising a flag in a land

where even children are killed or jailed?''

Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:

''As we speak, thousands of our brothers and sisters are

languishing in Israeli prisons and detention camps,

most detained without evidence, charge, or trial,

many cruelly mistreated and tortured in

interrogation, guilty only of seeking

freedom, or daring to defy the

occupation. We speak in

their name and we say:

set them free.''

Robert Burton:

''Every man has a good and a bad angel

attending on him in particular, all his

life long.''

Daniel Berrigan:

''Because we want the peace with half a heart

and half a life and will, the war, of course,

continues -- because the waging of war,

by its nature, is total - but the waging

of peace, by our own cowardice,

is partial.''

Joke by upjoke.com:

''What do you get, if you ask a politician

to tell 'the truth, the whole truth, and

nothing but the truth'?''

3 different answers.

Alexander Lebed:

"If you don't tell the truth, you can end up

with a pile of bodies, in a sea of blood."

June Callwood:

"If any of you happen to see an injustice,

you are no longer a spectator, you are a

participant, and you have an obligation

to do something."

Graça Machel, Expert of the UN Secretary-General:

''Millions of children are caught up in conflicts

in which they are not merely bystanders,

but targets."

Daniel Berrigan:

''I don't know a more irreligious attitude,

one more utterly bankrupt of any

human content, than one which

permits children to be

destroyed.''

John Denver:

''There's an aspect of human nature in which we want

to think we're better than somebody else. They're a

different colour. They speak a different language.

They have a different name for the Creator.

Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me

to hate them, to try to get some of their

land or some of their resources.''

Former US Secretary of State,

Madeleine Albright, Dec. 2005:

"It is unfair, that a single country possesses

territories such as Siberia and the Far East,

in which, a few states... may be installed."

Kojo Tovalou Houénou:

I am ignorant of the problem as a whole, otherwise I should

have presented it. But I shall content myself with giving you

a history of its successive phases in Europe --- and shall

content myself with telling you rapidly and briefly: that

the problem arose at the moment of the discovery of

America, when Europeans, intoxicated by glory,

adventure, and above all by rapine, sought to

conquer new territories which did not

belong to them.

They destroyed the aborigines - exterminated them! Then,

terrified at the void they had created around them, and

being themselves incapable of labour, they turned to

Africa, for workmen. It was Africa that furnished

contingents for penal labour... this Africa, with

whose unhappy history you are unacquainted

but which, some day... one of her sons will

outline for you in darts of fire, a monument

of shame, for that civilization, of which,

you boast.

Without humanity, there is no civilization!

Simone Weil:

''As soon as men know that they can kill

without fear of punishment or blame,

they kill; or at least they encourage

killers, with approving smiles.''

Patch Adams:

''I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't

change from a society that worships money and power,

over to one that worships compassion and generosity,

there is no hope for human survival, this century.''

Jessie Street:

''Vital changes of policy have been

brought about by moral pressure.''

Nicholas Murray Butler:

"All the problems of the world

could be settled easily, if men

were only willing to think. The

trouble is that men very often

resort to all sorts of devices,

in order not to think -- since

thinking is such hard work"

F. Bacon’s scientific method
defined in ‘New Instrument’:

''Three main steps:

1st, a description of facts;

2nd, a tabulation or classification of those

facts, into three categories – instances of

the presence of the characteristic under

investigation, instances of its absence,

or instances of its presence in

varying degrees;

3rd, the rejection of whatever appears,