QUOTES by AUTHOR - D to G | Revised : March 20, 2004
DAYAN, Moshe:
ISRAEL'S STRATEGY OF INTENTIONAL TERRORISM
In Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Sharatt's personal diaries, there is an excerpt from May of 1955 in which he quotes Moshe Dayan as follows: "[Israel] must see the sword as the main, if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may, no - it must - invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation-and-revenge...And above all - let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries, so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space." Quoted in Livia Rokach, "Israel's Sacred Terrorism." Source: The Origins of the Palestine-Israel Conflict, p. 15
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DOUGLAS, Justice William O.:
“As nightfall does not come all at once neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight. And, it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness”. --Justice William O. Douglas
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EINSTEIN, Albert:
"I don't know what the weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time"--Albert Einstein
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EISENHOWER, Dwight:
M-I Complex: "In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes." --President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Speech, January, 1961
Guns or Butter: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." --President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Speech in 1953
Source: eisenhower.utexas.edu
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FARRELL, MAUREEN:
"In the early 1950s, Madison's Capital Times editor John Patrick Hunter took to the streets with a "petition," (which was actually the Declaration of Independence, along with portions of the Bill of Rights) and tried to get people to sign it. Only one in 112 did. The rest found it too subversive."
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FASCISM: Message 18833760
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FEDERALIST PAPERS:
"For it is a truth which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when means of injuring their rights are in possession of those whom they entertain the least suspicion." -- The Federalist Papers #25
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FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence:
"Have an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out." -- Lawrence Ferglinghetti
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FOUR ALLS:
The Four Alls was a mechanic's tavern in Philadelphia that held a rump convention for a Declaration of Independence in 1776. The sign on the tavern depicted four figures: a king with the motto "I govern all",
a general with the motto "I fight for all", a minister labeled "I pray for all", and a laborer with the legend "I pay for all." Source: Kevin Phillips, "Wealth and Democracy"
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FRANCE, Anatole:
On tyranny: "A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain." --Anatole France (1844-1924), pen name of Jacques Anatole François Thibault.
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FRANKEN, AL
On Class Warfare......
"Anytime a liberal points out that the wealthy are disproportionately benefiting from Bush's tax policies, Republicans shout, "class warfare!"
In her book, "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century", Barbara Tuchman writes about a peasant revolt in 1358 that began in the village of St. Leu and spread throughout the Oise Valley. At one estate, the serfs sacked the manor house, killed the knight, and roasted him on a spit in front of his wife and kids. Then after ten or twelve peasants violate the lady, with children still watching, they forced her to eat the roasted flesh of her husband and then killed her.
That is class warfare.
Arguing over the optimum marginal tax rate for the top one percent is not."
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Al Franken, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" p. 303
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FRANKLIN, Benjamin:
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must first begin by subduing the freedom of speech."
"They that give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
-Ben Franklin
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FULBRIGHT, Senator William
"The causes of the malady are not entirely clear but its recurrence is one of the uniformities of history: power tends to confuse itself with virtue and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor, conferring upon it a special responsibility for other nations -- to make them richer and happier and wiser, to remake them, that is, in its own shining image." Former US Senator William Fulbright, "The Arrogance of Power" (1966)
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GALBRAITH, JOHN KENNETH:
On Selfishness - "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." --John Kenneth Galbraith
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GOEBELLS, Joseph:
"Propaganda has only one object - to conquer the masses. Every means that furthers this aim is good; every means that hinders it is bad." --Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Propaganda Minister
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"Let us then stand together and enter the new year with courage. The whole people should be confident of the government's thanks. Each of us is proud that we serve the people in a high position. We are all members of the people, we express its spirit and its will. The lowliest of our people is dearer to us than the king of another nation. And we would rather be the lowliest citizen of our nation than the king of another." -- Joseph Goebbels, January 1, 1934
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GOERING, Herman:
On Propaganda - "People can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. Tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism." --Herman Goeriing, Nazi Party Official
On Fooling the People: "Why 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 in America, 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 tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." --Herman Goering, interview at Nuremberg Trials
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GOETHE, Wolfgang von:
"Whatever you would do or dream of doing, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." --Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is nothing more terrifying than ignorance in action."
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GRAHAM, KATHARINE_ Washington Post Publisher
"There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows." —Katharine Graham, chairman of the board, The Washington Post Company (inherited after her husband Philip "murdered himself")
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GRAHAM, PHILLIP
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." —Philip Graham, editor Washington Post |
