Quotes LXIII



"I am an artist, and I should be exempt from shit."

-- P.J. Proby,
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Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

-- William Yeats, The Stolen Child
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Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

-- T. S. Eliot
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"Someday the truth of this will come out, someday it will, but we'll all be gone."

-- Dennis Eikleberry, a NSA technician aboard the USS Liberty, Link
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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

-- Alexander Solzenitsyn
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"Please realize that psy-ops is more like humidity than a douche."

-- Hugh Manatee Wins
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“In my opinion there can be no higher honor, no higher nobility, than to belong to a people who has never engaged in persecution. Since my childhood I have been proud not to have that arrogance. I belong to the highest race because it does not persecute others. We are the only ones; we never had the power to do so. Alleluia!”

-- George Steiner, American Jewish scholar, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 31 May 2003
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"We will make our hearts cruel, hard and immovable, so that no mercy will enter them, and so that they will not quiver at the sight of a sea of enemy blood. We will let loose the floodgates of that sea. Without mercy, without sparing, we will kill our enemies in scores of hundreds. Let them be thousands; let them drown themselves in their own blood! For the blood of Lenin and Uritsky, Zinoviev and Volodarsky, let there be floods of blood of the bourgeois ‑‑ more blood! As much as possible!"

-- Hirsch Apfelbaum (Zinoviev), Soviet Secret Police, Krasnaya Gazeta, Sept 1, 1918
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“We, too, are idealists and we, too, had to sacrifice our own blood before we came to power.”

-- Adolph Eichmann to Dr. Rudolf Kastner, Life magazine, 1960, Link
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“'But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked.

‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat. ‘We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.’

‘How do you know I’m mad?’ said Alice.

‘You must be,” said the Cat. ‘or you wouldn’t have come here.’”

-- Lewis Carroll
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"I'd just like to see thinking come back in style."
-- Timothy Leary
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“In my case, there’s no way the programs I want to talk to Congress about should be public ever, unless maybe in 200 years they want to declassify them. You should never learn about it; no one at the Times should ever learn about these things.”

--Former NSA officer Russell Tice, Link
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"A lame duck President always talks about Indian issues. The only one who didn't do it was Reagan. In fact, Reagan, when he was involved in talks with Gorbachev, he was telling Gorbachev about how now the Russian people can be now free like Americans. And Gorbachev asked Reagan about the American Indian problem, and Reagan told him "oh, they've been taken care of!"

-- Russell Means, Link
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Posted: Mon - October 15, 2007 at 05:10 PM            

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