Quotes and Wisdoms

[Ocean Breeze]

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose: Thomas Jefferson

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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak: Ralph Chaplin

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[Ocean Breeze]

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself: Archibald Macleish:

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There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit: John Lindsay

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We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder "censorship," we call it "concern for commercial viability.": David Mamet

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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent: Gore Vidal

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Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.: Noam Chomsky

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[Ocean Breeze]

... No "terrorist" gene is known to exist or is likely to be found... Surely the, and their supporters were afflicted by something that caused their metamorphosis from normal human beings capable of gentleness and affection into desperate, maddened, fiends with nothing but murder in their hearts and minds. What was that? Simple logic says that we must go to the roots of terror. Only a fool can believe that the services of a suicidal terrorist can be purchased, or that they can be bred at will anywhere: Ouch Borith: Permanent Representative Of The Kingdom Of Cambodia To The UN: 10/03/2001

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"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.": Thich Nhat Hanh - Vietnamese monk, activist and writer.

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Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong: James Bryce

 

[Ocean Breeze]

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men: Plato

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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world: Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888

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"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." --Henry Kissinger

 

[Ocean Breeze]

War ... should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. : James Madison (1751–1836)

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War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. : Karl Kraus (1874–1936)

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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph: Haile Selassie

 

[Ocean Breeze]

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments: Napoleon Bonaparte: French Emperor (1769-1821)

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"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.": Georges Bernanos

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How you can win the population for war: At first, the statesman will invent cheap lying, that impute the guilt of the attacked nation, and each person will be happy over this deceit, that calm the conscience. It will study it detailed and refuse to test arguments of the other opinion. So he will convince step for step even therefrom that the war is just and thank God, that he, after this process of grotesque even deceit, can sleep better: Mark Twain

 

[#juan]

"One moron can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer."

 

[Ocean Breeze]

"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." -John Adams

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"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace." George W. Bush UN Speech Sept 2004

can "you" believe that bush actually said the last one??? Talk about a disconnect from reality.

 

[Kellen]

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

- Voltaire

 

[Hard-Luck Henry]

"I hang on to my Catholicism by a tiny thread. I'm still looking for something in the sacred text that prohibits using condoms."

- Paul Farmer, of Partners in Health.

 

[peapod]

"The aluminum linoleum has a minimum of lanolin with a modicum of molybdenum." - Bill Ballance

 

[Kellen]

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

-Winston Churchill

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Religious deception is painless inoculation against truth. It cannot be removed from the conscience with surgery, yet it is the motivator of our actions and directly controls our lives. Once man gives himself over to false religion, he is no longer rational because he originates no thought. His life is controlled by whomever controls his religion.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either: Edward Zehr

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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini

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Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles: Ralph Waldo Emerson:

 

[Nascar_James]

"America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.”

... by General Patton

 

[no1important]

"America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.”

... by General Patton

Well Patton was wrong.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

"America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.”

... by General Patton

Well Patton was wrong.

:thumbleft:


( SO THERE!!! :wink: ----and he was..

 

[Nascar_James]

"America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.”

... by General Patton

Well Patton was wrong.

:thumbleft:


( SO THERE!!! :wink: ----and he was..

hmmmm ...

 

[Nascar_James]

"America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.”

... by General Patton

Well Patton was wrong.

:thumbleft:


( SO THERE!!! :wink: ----and he was..

hmmmm ...

Actually, if you look at the casualty count of troops on the US side versus those troops they were fighting with, the US has always maintained fewer casualties (including Vietnam). So in this sense, yes the US has never lost a war.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

“To initiate a war of aggresion…is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” - Nuremberg Tribunal
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"the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter." UN Chief Kofi Annan - -September 2004. Source BBC