Quotes LX



"Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State"
-- James Jesus Angleton, Head of CIA Counter Intelligence 1954-1974
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"People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house against another in order that they might profit by your dissensions. This policy is abhorrent to Great Britain and her Allies for there can be neither peace nor prosperity where there is enmity or misgovernment. Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.
-- General Maude, Bahghad, 1916, LINK
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"Unless the war is to be permanent, why must we have permanent accommodations for war facilities of such size? Or is the war to be permanent?"
-- Sen Arthur Vandenburg during Senate review of the Pentagon building plans, 1941, Link
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"The teaching of history is that provocation in all countries and all times – in France, England, Russia, Germany and in the United States – has been predominately a matter of policy."
-– Paul Chevigny, Cops and Rebels: A Study in Provocation
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"Without censorship things can get terribly confusing in the public mind."
-- Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Time, April 5, 1982
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"The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself."
-- Joseph Sobran
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"You know, I'm personally opposed to crucifixion but I don't want to impose my belief on others"
-- Pontius Pilate, in a column by Bishop Thomas J. Tobin
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"And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush."
--Richard Perle, 9/22/03
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Is it not at very least possible for some of us to see that no matter who prevails in the disputes that so very much absorb us in the world, the ultimate victor in every instance seems to be the state, and the state system, and the increasing forced identity of the individual with the state and the fortunes of the state?"
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, A Dangerous Place, 1978
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We do not need to force our leaders to act differently, we just need to stop following their orders.
-- Peter
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"Treason does never prosper.
What's the reason?
When it prospers,
None dare call it treason."

--Sir John Harrington
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"'Die Gedanken sind frei', that means, 'thoughts are free.' No one can deny that 'die gedanken sind frei.' They can deny me tenure, deny me the right to teach. But they will never stop me from saying what I believe."
-- Prof. Norman Finkelstein
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Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless.
-- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy - (1828-1910)
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The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment.
-- article 676 of the Catholic catechism
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"Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. My conclusion is that I am neither fish nor fowl – a pitiful individual”
-- Anton Rubenstein
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