(SCROLL DOWN) “The greatest crime since World
War II has been U.S.
foreign policy.” ~William
Ramsey Clark~ “The enormous gap between what US
leaders do...and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the
great propaganda accomplishments...” ~Michael Parenti~
International author and lecturer “It is part of the general pattern
of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which
was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured
upon an incessant propaganda of fear.” ~General
Douglas MacArthur~ ”Liberty and democracy become
unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.” ~Mahatma Gandhi~ “We cloak ourselves in cold
indifference to the unnecessary suffering of others--even when we cause it.” ~James Carroll~ Author, Columnist-Boston Globe
“I tremble for my country when I
reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.” ~Thomas Jefferson~ "Although ancient states
were great, they inevitably perished when they were fond of war" -- "Rulers who destroy men's
freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its form." ~Alexis
de Tocqueville~ “”The shepherd always tries to
persuade the sheep that their interest and his own are the same.” ~Marie
Beyle~ “During war, the laws are
silent.” ~Quintus
Tullius Cicero~ “Fear is perhaps the greatest
enemy of candor. How many men fear to follow their conscience because they would
rather conform to the opinion of other men than to the truth they know in
their hearts? How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to
conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?” ~
Thomas Merton~ From No Man Is an Island [1955] “None are more hopelessly
enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” ~Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe~ “The dangerous patriot… is a
defender of militarism and its ideals of war and glory.” ~Colonel
James A. Donovan~ USMC “Governments have never learned
anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.” ~Friedrich
Hebbel~ German poet and dramatist “There is no "smart"
way to run an empire: in the end, it runs you.
And then it ruins you. The smart thing to do is to refrain from acquiring an
empire, and, if one seems about to acquire you, then the really smart
strategy is to run, not walk, away from it.” ~Justin
Raimondo~ “No protracted war can fail to
endanger the freedom of a democratic country.” ~Alexis
de Tocqueville~ “The State calls its own violence
law, but that of the individual crime.” ~Max
Stirne ~ The Ego and His Own [1907] “... What an immense mass of evil
must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may
happen…” ~Leo
Tolstoy~ “Terrorism is the war of the
poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.” ~Sir
Peter Ustinov~ "Guard against the imposters
of pretended patriotism." ~
George Washington~ “One of
the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up
being governed by your inferiors. ...”
“There is nothing more difficult
to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than a
creation of a new order of things.” ~Niccolo
Machiavelli - The Prince (1513) ~ “The gods do not smile on efforts to remake the world in one’s
own image. They didn't smile on Napoleon when he invaded Spain and Russia.
They didn't smile on Hitler when he invaded Russia. They didn't smile on
Japan when it bombed Pearl Harbor. The lesson: If you are going to try to do
good, you are best advised to be careful and modest about it. Don't attack
anybody. Don't steal anyone's money. Say 'please' and 'thank you.' Remember
that you are a fool, too – along with everyone else.” ~Bill Bonner - Publisher,
Author, Financial Pundit~ “We live together, we act on, and
react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by
ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified
alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies
into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied
spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings,
insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at
second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but
never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is
a society of island universes. Most island universes are sufficiently like
one another to Permit of inferential understanding or even of mutual empathy
or "feeling into." Thus, remembering our own bereavements and
humiliations, we can condole with others in analogous circumstances, can put
ourselves (always, of course, in a slightly Pickwickian sense) in their
places. But in certain cases communication between universes is incomplete or
even nonexistent. The mind is its own place, and the Places inhabited by the
insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where
ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of
memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are
uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols
refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience.” ~Aldous Huxley – The Doors of Perception ~ “The
Mills of the Gods Grind Slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine." ~Ancient
Pagan Saying~ “There is a tragic flaw in our precious
Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: only nut cases want to
be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed
people ran for class president.” ~Kurt Vonnegut – A Man Without a Country ~ “The
selection of government rulers by means of popular elections makes it
essentially impossible for a harmless or decent person to ever rise to the
top. Presidents and prime ministers come into their position as a result of
their efficiency as morally uninhibited demagogues. Hence, democracy
virtually assures that only dangerous men will rise to the top of
government.” ~Hans Hermann-Hoppe~ Democracy: The God That Failed “In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the
liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he
pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.” “New
opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason
but because they are not already common.” ~John Locke~ “The urge to save humanity is almost always
only a false-face for the urge to rule it.” ~H. L. Mencken~
“Power
always thinks…that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his
laws.” ~John Adams~ “You
can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out
that God hates all the same people you do.” ~Anne Lamott, writer~ “Name
me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.” ~Charles V of France~ “Political
language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,
and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” ~George Orwell~ “A
tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are
less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider
god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against
him, believing that he has the gods on his side.” ~Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE) ~ “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” ~Voltaire, philosopher
(1694-1778) ~ “We
burned the thatched huts, starting the blaze with Ronson and Zippo
lighters.... Ho Chi Minh had said people were like the sea in which his
guerillas swam. We tried to solve the problem by making the whole sea
uninhabitable. In the hard logic of war, what difference does it make
if you shoot your enemy or starve him to death?” “Colin Powell - Secretary of
State - United States of America” “The
most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are
individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by
the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels
not their own.” ~Aldous Huxley~ “Military men are
just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” ~Henry Kissinger - as quoted in the book “Kiss the Boys Goodbye”~ “Whoever imagines himself a favorite with
God holds others
in contempt.” ~Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899) ~ “Every
war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an
act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.” ~George Orwell~ “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.” ~Sun Tzu – “Of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob
on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it
is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t
want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who
determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament,
or a communist dictatorship... Voice or no voice, the people can always be
brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to
tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of
patriotism and exposing the country to danger.” ~ Nazi leader, Hermann Goering - At
the Nuremberg Trials, shortly before being sentenced to death. ~ “The history of liberty is a
history of the limitation of government power, not the increase of it.” -Woodrow Wilson~ 28th president of the U.S., Nobel
peace prize winner (1856-1924) “When a candidate for public office faces the
voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief
distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing
ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental~men whose whole
thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of
what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark
with the pack or be lost. All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically,
the most devious and mediocre ~ the man who can most adeptly disperse the
notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year,
to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On
some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their
heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright
moron.” ~H. L. Mencken, in the Baltimore Sun, July 26,
1920 “Man has no right to kill
his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the
infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.” ~Percy Bysshe Shelley~ |
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“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished
unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” ~Voltaire~ (1694-1778) “History is a record of human
stupidity writ in blood. I have often said that history is a lot scarier than
Stephen King’s horror stories.” ~ Charley Reese~ ~
General Douglas MacArthur ~ 1957 “The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter
which side he’s on.” ~Joseph Heller, novelist~
(1923-1999)
~ Senator Arthur Vandenburg~ Telling President
Harry Truman what he needed to do in order to tax the American people to
pay for the weapons and covert activities of the US National Security State
that was being planned, to destroy the Russian Communist State ~ Charley Reese~ “A tyrant... is always
stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.” ~ Plato~
~ Rudolph Rummel~ ~ Ludwig von Mises~ ~ Thomas
Paine -Common Sense,
1776~ “Inflation is not caused by the actions of private
citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money
supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank
robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable
to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.” ~ Ayn Rand --"Who Will Protect Us From Our Protectors?" ~
~ Thomas Paine~ From: The Age of Reason -To Paine
belongs the honor of naming our country the United States of America. He was
the first to use the name in print, and it was his own creation
“Men never do evil so completely
and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” ~Blaise Pascal~
~ General David Sharp ~ “As for the moral burden of guilt
on the state, don’t worry. The state is a machine. It has no conscience and
no soul. The state kills innocent people all the time, usually in
wars.”
“Necessity is the plea of every
infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the
creed of slaves.” ~ William Pitt ~
~ Erik von
Kuehnelt-Leddihn~ “We should... be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.” |