Quotes LXVI


"If you do not use your eyes to see you WILL use them to weep."
-- Johann Paul Richter

Freedom and equality demand that people and nations must be allowed to develop their own particular characteristics. Every people, every ethnic minority has its own identity, its own traditions and culture. These values have great significance for human progress and for peace."
-- John Paul II Speech in Mainz/Germany in 1980.
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“For the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing.”
-- MEChA
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Two or three days after I met Ho, he asked me to come in and stop and see him at which time he wanted to show me something, and what he wanted to show me was a draft of the Declaration of Independence that he was going to declare several days later. Of course, it was in Vietnamese and I couldn't read it and when it was interpreted to me, I was quite taken aback to hear the words of the American Declaration of Independence. Words about liberty, life and the pursuit of happiness, etcetera. I just couldn't believe my own ears.
--Archimedes Patti, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/series/pt_01.html
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"Sometimes it’s best to try and forget everything we’ve been taught including the culture or country that you’re raised in and look upon the whole world and the movements that go on simultaneously within every government and you’ll find that the same laws generally are passed in different countries at the same time and it’s not by magic. It’s by cooperation at very high levels beginning with the economic systems of every country..."
-- Alan Watt
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"It's almost as, 'if it is true, we don't want to know it.'"
-- George Noory
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"Today we would pass through the scenes of our youth like travellers. We are burnt up by hard facts; like tradesmen we understand distinctions, and like butchers, necessities. We are no longer untroubled - we are indifferent. We might exist there; but should we really live there? We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost."
-- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet On the Western Front
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"He's liberal CIA, and that's the best mafia you can deal with in the twentieth century."
-- Timothy Leary, http://www.markriebling.com/leary.html
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"The C.I.A., following the directives of it's government, wanted to create an Italian nationalism capable of halting what it saw as a slide to the left and, for this purpose, it may have made use of rightwing terrorism. I believe this is what happened in other countries as well"
-- General Maletti, Guardian, March 26, 2001
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How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
-- Bob Marley, Redemption Song
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"If you do not use your eyes to see you WILL use them to weep."
-- Johann Paul Richter
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"...just how the mark is connected with the numbering which is now taking place, and it's as if we aren't asking ourselves: "Why is it necessary? What is its significance, its meaning. Why are so many billions being spent to give every person a number? Why has this campaign received such powerful ideological support?"
-- Father Alexey Masuik, TV show transcript, St. Petersburg
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"I am neither from the revolutionary camp, nor from the reactionary camp - I am from the concentration camp."
-- Victor Bukovsky
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Time is an illusion perpetrated by the Swiss.
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"World War III will be a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation."
-- Marshall McLuhan
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"If you look too deeply into the abyss, the abyss will look into you."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy."
-- John Bolton US Ambassador to the UN
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"Anything dead tends to remain within the three ordinary dimensions, while anything living constantly transcends them"
-- Rudolph Steiner
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Those who can't find anything to live for, always invent something to die for. Then they want the rest of us to die for it, too."
-- Lew Welch, "The Basic Con"
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"You can forget about 15 minutes of fame, what about 5 minutes of truth?"
--Paul Garrin in the film Das Netz http://tinyurl.com/k5sgh
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"Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
-- James Thurber
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Posted: Sun - June 11, 2006 at 01:00 PM            

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