Quotes XLVII


Millions to fight
compell’d, to fight or die
In mangled heaps on War’s red altar lie...
When legal murders swell the lists of pride;
When glory’s views the titled idiot guide
-- Shelley

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"Who is sovereign? He who commits the acts of sovereignty."
--Tocqueville
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"To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement."
-- P.K. Dick
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If the truth is the best defense, why do we have thought police?
--Forum clip
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"Together we will still be Paranoid."
-- Forum snip
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“I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. I’m too old, It’s too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.”
-- Bobby Fischer
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"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws."
-- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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"The Bush Junta is elevating itself into the ultimate
position of the asymmmetric information control
hierarchy: God.
History knows what happens next."
-- Forum clip
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“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it,”
-- Edward Bernays
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"Language was invented as a vehicle for magically altering reality through the manipulation of symbols."
-- Terry Pratchett, Headology
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"It is unbelievable, to what extent one must betray a people in order to rule it."
-- Adolph Hitler
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“Where the choice is between only violence and cowardice, I would advise violence. To take the name of non-violence when there is a sword in your heart is not only hypocritical and dishonest but cowardly ... Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission.”
-- Mohatma Gandhi
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"......Certainly, the intrinsic value of life and the duty to love oneself no less than others are the basis of a true right to self-defense ... legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another's life, the common good of the family or of the State. Unfortunately, it happens that the need to render the aggressor incapable of causing harm sometimes involves taking his life. In this case, the fatal outcome is attributable to the aggressor whose actions brought it about, even though he may not be morally responsible because of a lack of the use of reason."
-- Pope John Paul II, Encyclical Letter from 1995, EVANGELIUM VITAE
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"The next time I go to Seattle will be in a pine box."
-- Jimi Hendrix
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
-- President Woodrow Wilson, from an address to the NYC High School Teachers Association, Jan.9,1909
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“The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.”
-- Maurice Strong
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Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
-- W, Jan 11th, 2000
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"I could have gotten on a plane and rushed over and started shuttling, and it wouldn't have been clear what I was shuttling to do,"
-- Condoleeza Rice
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"I envy you. You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all - you live in the heart of the beast."
-- Che Guevara (1964)
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"A revolution is coming - a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough - but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character, we cannot alter its inevitability."
--John F. Kennedy
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“Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.”
--Bill Hicks
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Millions to fight
compell’d, to fight or die
In mangled heaps on War’s red altar lie...
When legal murders swell the lists of pride;
When glory’s views the titled idiot guide
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley, recently discovered 1811 poem http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2267182,00.html

Posted: Mon - July 24, 2006 at 12:45 AM            

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