Where is the wisdom we
have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
-T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"What good fortune for those in power that the
people do not think."
--Adolf Hitler
"Through clever and constant application of
propaganda people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other
way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
--Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1923
"It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure
to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to
them. "
Adolf Hitler"
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating
it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained
only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political,
economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally
important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for
the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth
is the greatest enemy of the State."
-- Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945
"My ideal of education is hard. Whatever is weak
must be hammered away. In the fortresses of my militant order a generation
of young people will grow to strike fear into the heart of the world.
Violent, masterful, unafraid, cruel youth is what I want. Young people
must be all that. They must withstand pain. There must be nothing weak or
tender about them. The free--magnificent predator must flash from their
eyes again. I want them strong and beautiful...That way I can fashion
things anew."
Adolf Hitler
“The Jewish people are to be exterminated,” says
every party member. That’s clear, it’s part of our program,
elimination of the Jews, extermination; right, we’ll do it. The wealth
that they [the Jews] had, we have taken from them. I have issued a strict
command…that this wealth is as a matter of course to be delivered in its
entirety to the Reich. We had the moral right, we had the duty to our own
people, to kill the people that wanted to kill us. We can say that we have
performed this most difficult task out of love for our people. And we have
suffered no harm from it in our inner self, in our soul, in our character.”
--Heinrich Himmler (1943), Hitler’s most faithful and obedient henchman
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who
count the votes decide everything."
--Josef Stalin
"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it
is a merger of state and corporate power--Benito Mussolini "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 befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt
business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of
the day."
--Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906
"Once a government resorts to terror against its
own population to get what it wants, it must keep using terror against its
own population to get what it wants. A government that terrorizes its own
people can never stop. If such a government ever lets the fear subside and
rational thought return to the populace, that government is
finished."
--Michael Rivero
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things
they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it
peace."
-- Tacitus
"War will exist until that distant day when the
conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the
warrior does today."
--John F. Kennedy
The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central
intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm of the President's
foreign policy advisers. In that capacity it overthrows or supports
foreign governments while reporting "intelligence" justifying
those activities. It shapes its intelligence, even in such critical areas
as Soviet nuclear weapons capability, to support presidential policy.
Disinformation is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and
the American people are the primary target of its lies.
— Ralph McGehee, Deadly
Deceits
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Only because our elections have become so dependent on
television and its emphatic emptiness, could a man of such sublime and
complacent ignorance assume the highest office in the land.
Mark Crispin Miller (author of Bush Dyslexicon)
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Former Senator William Fullbright succinctly expressed
the type of leadership we need: "The age of warrior kings and of
warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind
of leadership....a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and
rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and
to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we
must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of
intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding
between cultures."
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Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to
mankind.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech to UN General
Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed
people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has! -
- Margaret Meade
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"The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth
little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of
danger."
- Andrew Jackson
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"The number of malnourished children represents an
increase of 72% since international sanctions were imposed on
Baghdad."
- UNICEF, Nov. 1997
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"Embargo should not be imposed on any nation. . . .
It is a war against humanity and children suffer the most."
- JOHN PAUL II
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"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of moral crisis"
- Dante
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I am reminded of the old joke, "What do you get
when you cross a canary with a gorilla?" "I don't know, but when
it sings, you had better listen." Perhaps better than any image I can
come up with, this joke describes Mr. Bush as Emperor. A weak, narrow,
uninformed man married to a colossal, imperial military machine. And you
had better listen.
- John Chuckman
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"One of the penalities for refusing to participate
in politics is that you end up being governed by
your inferiors."
- Plato
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"Few of us can surrender our belief that society
must somehow make sense. The thought that The State
has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent
people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally
denied."
- Arthur Miller
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"My heart trembles for my country when I reflect
that God is just."
- Thomas Jefferson
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"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the
truth, they can be depended upon to meet any
national crisis. The great point is to bring them
the real facts."
- Abraham Lincoln
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not
mean to stand by the president or any other public
official save exactly to the degree in which he himself
stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he
efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to
oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency
or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the
country."
- President Theodore Roosevelt, 1908
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"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring
men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand
in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." -
- Samuel Adams
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Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through
fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason
towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of
Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
- Patrick Henry (from his Liberty or Death speech)
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The great liberal John Stuart Mill was correct when he
said not all stupid people are conservatives, but most conservatives are
stupid people. I would add that many who call themselves conservatives are
reactionary and ruled by their hate and fears.
- Mike Hersh
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"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold
gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly
preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
- Dresden James
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Quotes "The most important thing is for us to find
Osama bin Laden. It is our Number one priority and we will not rest until
we find him!"
- President Bush, September 13, 2001
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea
and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our
priority."
- President Bush, March 13, 2002
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not
mean to stand by the president or any other public official save exactly
to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic
to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is
unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or
otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country." -- President
Theodore Roosevelt, 1908
On May 4, 1970, four students were killed at the hands
of the National Guard during a protest against the Vietnam War at Kent
State University. They were participating in a demonstration to end that
war. What is commonly seen now as a tragic assault on the Vietnamese
people, was widely accepted at the time as a just war.
We must learn from our mistakes and insure that the
voices of dissent are no longer repressed.
Author unknown
“Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance
with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the
Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.”
(Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Ralph Mannheim, ed., New
York: Mariner Books, 1999, p. 65.)
“Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the
unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin
the fight for the ‘remaking’ of the Reich as they call it.”
(Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Ralph Mannheim, ed., New
York: Mariner Books, 1999, p. 375.)
Inspiring thoughts from noble minds
Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower:
(From a great general who fought valiantly, but who
HATED war)
"The only way to win World War III is to prevent it."
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days
governments had better get out of their way and let them have it."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
"America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our
unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we
use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment."
"Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows
that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a
community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud
confederation of mutual trust and respect."
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition
of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military
industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced
power exists and will persist."
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Adlai Stevenson......a
brilliant, honorable man, a human being and a great gentleman:
Some of the things he said:
In his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago,
July 26, 1952: "Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's
tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains."
Corruption
in public office is treason.
We must
fight falsehood and evil ideas with truth and better ideas.
My
definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be
unpopular.
When
demagoguery and deceit become a national political movement, we Americans
are in trouble, not just Democrats, but ALL of us;
"Thou
shalt not bear false witness" is still the law of God and man, I
hope. "Thou shalt not be afraid to bear true witness" is, I
think, a good rule for all of us, including timid politicians.
The
Republicans have a "me too" candidate running on a "yes
but" platform, advised by a "has been" staff. October 5,
1952
The idea
that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast
cereal--that you can gather votes like box tops--is, I think, the ultimate
indignity to the democratic process. August 17, 1956
The
Republican Party is the party which makes even its young men seem old. The
Democratic Party is the party which makes even its old men seem young.
August 14, 1952
If the
Republicans stop telling lies about us, we will stop telling the truth
about them.
Courage to
do the right thing in public office is often at the price of the office.
July 19,1952
Defeat
begins in the heart........we must not allow the recklessness of despair
to find any lodging in our hearts. September, 1952
Here's
something Stevenson said 50 years ago....how prophetic!!! "It would
seem that the overwhelming majority of the press is....against Democrats.
And it is against Democrats, so far as I can see, not after a sober and
considered review of the alternatives, but automatically, as dogs are
against cats. As soon as a newspaper....I speak of the great majority, not
of the enlightened ten percent.....see a Democratic candidate, it is
filled with an unconquerable yen to chase him up an alley. September 8,
1952
Words are
so easy, action is so difficult. To proclaim one's beliefs, to profess
one's convictions is one thing... to enact them, to do them, to face the
hard ugly realities, is quite another. July 19, 1956
The
government must be the trustee for the little man, because no one else
will be. The powerful can usually help themselves.....and frequently do.
October 29, 1955
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And from one of the noblest of our founding
fathers........Thomas Jefferson
The Press:
No
government ought to be without censors, and when the press is free, no one
ever will.
The press
is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
Representation:
When the
representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when
they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they
have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their
hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous.
The people:
And what
country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from
time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
The most
effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as
practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give
them knowledge of those facts
The man
who loves his country...can never refuse to come forward when he finds
that she is engaged in dangers which he has the means of warding off.
The people
are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on
earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and
degeneracy ...Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of
the people alone.
