Quotations of Truth.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:

"Unfortunately, we are witnessing the bitter truth
that some powers do not value some nations or human beings
and the only things that matter to them are themselves,
their political parties and their groups.

"In their view, human rights are tantamount to
profits for their companies and their friends.
The rights and dignity of the American people
are also being sacrificed for the selfish
desires of those holding power."

Oswald Chambers:

"People who think they are "special"...
have accepted imperfection."

Hussan Al-Suneid:

"We cannot imagine that a neighbourhood is bombed
with an excuse that 'we are searching for a terrorist."

A. J. Muste:

"The problem after a war is with the victor.
He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay."

Charles Thompson:

"For Anglo-Saxons, humans are not equals
but rivals in eternal struggle.
The strongest will.... prevail over the weak.
Anglo-Saxons don’t understand what solidarity means.
They just know about compassion.
This is the ideology of such a special people."

Mohammad Kamaali:

The day a war criminal becomes an envoy of peace
is an Orwellian nightmare having come true,
and a wake up call to us all.

UN envoy, Alvaro de Soto:

"The US clearly pushed for a confrontation between Fatah and Hamas,
so much so that, a week before Mecca, the US envoy declared
twice in an envoys meeting in Washington how much
'I like this violence',
referring to the near-civil war that was erupting in Gaza
in which civilians were being regularly killed and injured."

UN "Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment" Article 2, section 2.
(In force 1987, ratified by US, 1994):

"No exceptional circumstances whatsoever,
whether a state of war or a threat of war,
internal political instability or any other public emergency,
may be invoked as a justification of torture."

British high court judge, Justice Andrew Collins:

"America's idea of what is torture is not the same as ours
and does not appear to coincide with that of most civilized nations."

Michael Neumann:

"'collateral damage' is a rather abstract way
to describe tearing off a child's face."

Karl Marx:

"To be radical, is to grasp the root of the matter.
But for man, the root is man himself."

Blogger on CommonDreams.org:

"As a young man I gave a lot of thought to the question:
“how did Germany, with an educated public by the standards of the day,
allow itself to slip into a fascist State?
Not only a fascist state but one bent on genocide”.
Unfortunately I have the answer as I watch the United States
beg to go there consumed with hate and fear mixed with apathy."

Muhammad Ismail Yusanto, of Hizb ut-Tahrir::

"Indonesia has been living under secular ruling
since it gained its independence and we have
never had anything but misery and poverty.
That is why we have been fighting to replace
the secular system with an Islamic one."

Chekhov:

Art can carry us away
from dirt,
worthless concerns
and everyday offences.

Only the beautiful
gives peace and satisfaction.

Bolivia’s President, Evo Morales:

"Transnational corporations always provoke conflicts
to accumulate capital,
and the accumulation of capital in a few hands
is no solution for humanity.
And so I have arrived at the conclusion
that capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity."

James Madison:

"No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

Tony Blair:

“This war on all fronts should last during several generations if necessary”.

Paul Craig Roberts:

"....the reason the war against Iraq cannot end,
and the reason Iran and Syria must be attacked,
is that the US must destroy all Muslim
opposition to Israel's theft of Palestine."






Harry Belafonte:

I think they know exactly what they are doing,
and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.

David Ben-Gurion:

“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation,
land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services
to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”

Harry Belafonte:

"You can cage the singer but not the song."

Pakistani P.M., Shaukat Aziz:

"The Palestinian people deserve a homeland
and the right to live in peace."

Mark Twain

"Never try to teach
a pig to sing:
It wastes your time,
and annoys the pig."

The Living Christ Spirit:

"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me
is not worthy of me;
anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me
is not worthy of me."

June Jordan, poet (1936 - 2002):

"Just this minute and then the next
determines whether you or I
do what we can
to stop the injustice and the tyrannies
surrounding us,
and inside our hearts."

Anthony Blair:

“This country is a blessed nation.
The British are special.
The world knows it.
In our innermost thoughts,
we know it.
This is the greatest nation on earth”.

MK Rabbi Levi:

"One Jewish fingernail is worth more than one million Arabs".

Ayman al-Zawahri:

"We ask Allah ...
...that we give the blood spillers
in Washington and Europe
an unforgettable lesson...
to motivate them to review
their entire doctrinal and moral system."

Mahatma Gandhi:

"When I despair, I remember that all through history
the way of truth and love has always won.
There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time
they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall
- think of it, ALWAYS."

Japanese Proverb:

Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare.

Robert Fisk, in The Independent (quoting a CIA operative):

"One young Iraqi man told us that he was trained by the Americans
as a policeman in Baghdad and he spent 70 per cent of his time
learning to drive and 30 per cent in weapons training.
They said to him: "Come back in a week."
When he went back, they gave him a mobile phone
and told him to drive into a crowded area near a mosque and phone them.
He waited in the car but couldn't get the right mobile signal.
So he got out of the car to where he received a better signal.
Then his car blew up."

Mahatma Gandhi:

"What difference does it make to the dead,
the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction
is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

President Chavez (Venezuela):

"I want to formalise our exit from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
We are going to withdraw before they go and rob us."

Valery Giscard d'Estaing:

"Public opinion will be led to adopt,
without knowing it, the proposals that
we dare not present to them directly."

Mahatma Gandhi:

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Israeli Amira Hass describes when her mother, Hannah,
was marched from a cattle train to Bergen-Belsen.

"They were sick and some were dying.
Then my mother saw these German women
looking at the prisoners.
This image became very formative in my upbringing,
this despicable 'looking from the side'."

Mahatma Gandhi:

"Whatever you do will be insignificant,
but it is very important that you do it."

Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet:

"This Labour government.......
is party to a war crime of monstrous proportions.
Yet our political consensus prevents any
judicial or civil society response.
Britain is paralysed by its own indifference."

Zimbabwean Blogger:

"The UK should not be allowed to interact with peaceful nations,
it is too violent and Terror hardened."

Robert Jackson, chief U S counsel at Nuremberg:

"Crimes are crimes, whether we do them
or whether Germany does them, and we
are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct
which we would not be willing to have invoked against us."

John Pilger:

"The scale of death caused by the British and U.S. governments
may well have surpassed that of the Rwanda genocide,
making it the biggest single act of mass murder
of the late 20th century and the 21st century."






Literary editor of the Sydney Morning Herald:

"Our policy is not to review John Pilger".

Mencius, Chinese Philosopher (c. 372-289 BCE):

"A person without any sense of shame
is no longer a human being."

Leaders of Ecuador's popular organizations, in
"An Open Letter to the People":

"Never before has it been so clear
that it is the people who make history.
Today we are at the beginning of an era
of popular power, marked by the initial work
of the Constituent Assembly.
It flows out of the resilience of the Ecuadorian people.
It is potent and tumultuous."

Bolivian taxi driver Rosso Cano, 28,
on seeing the ocean for the first time
(two years ago during a trip to Peru):

“Man, it’s beautiful, So blue.
It looks like a ...like a big carpet,
like a big blue carpet you could walk right on top of.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki:

"The world has two options to proceed on the nuclear issue:
continued negotiations or confrontation."

Aristotle:

"Courageous people are not reckless people.
Courage is an act of willpower."

Rev. Martin Luther King Jnr (1967):

We must be prepared to match words with actions
by seeking out every creative method of protest possible.

Robert Louis Stevenson:

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ...
but by the seeds you plant!"

Leonard Nimoy:

"The miracle is this - the more we share,
the more we have."

Human Rights Watch (2007):

"The US has a flagrant record of violating the
Geneva Convention in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Detainees are routinely subject to severe beating,
painful stress positions, severe sleep deprivation,
and exposure to extreme cold and heat.
Soldiers were told that many abusive techniques
were authorized by the military chain of command
and Geneva Conventions did not apply.
Detainees at Camp Nama, a U.S. detention center at Baghdad airport
- were regularly stripped naked and subject to beatings.
Some detainees were used for target practice."





Archives of Internal Medicine (US):

"A third of all US soldiers returning from the wars
in Afghanistan or Iraq have received treatments
from the Veterans Affairs between 2001 and 2005
for mental illnesses or other psychosocial disorders."





Sorcha Faal, essayist, in Pravda:

"Under an executive order signed by President Bush
shortly after the 2001 attacks, anyone with 1 day
of active-duty military service is eligible for citizenship.
When these Foreign Mercenaries are turned loose in the U S,
to uphold laws they know nothing about,
to support a Nation they in fact despise,
only then will the full, and horrific,
implications of the recruitment, and use,
of Foreign Mercenaries be fully felt."

Rodrigue Tremblay:

"When the government and the media are both corrupted,
all the other forms of corruption follow."

Mark Twain:

"The best way to cheer yourself
is to cheer somebody else up."

Cindy Sheehan, in a letter to Bush:

"I will make it my life's work to impeach you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day of the year.

Mohammed Emami-Kashani, a member of Iran's highest arbitration body
the Expediency Council, broadcast live on state radio:

"We are not lying. Our atomic work is for
serving the nation, not for building arms."

Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes:

It is not the answer that enlightens,
but the question.

In March 2007, a vegetable seller
in Iraq is hailed as a hero.
He dies when a bomb-laden package explodes
as he carries it away from a crowded area in Sadr City.
Fellow peddler Haitham Mohammed says:

"May God bless his soul. He gave his life to save other lives."

Albert Einstein:

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all art and science."

Massie Ritsch, The Centre for Responsive Government,
(a lobbying watchdog group):

"The pro-Israel lobby is the most powerful among foreign interests
that want contact with the federal government.
Members of congress have travelled to Israel
more often in the past two years,
than they’ve been to Chicago, in our own country.
It is the most travelled foreign destination for members of congress."

Albert Einstein:

"If A equals success, then the formula is:
A = X + Y + Z
X is work. Y is play.
Z is keep your mouth shut."

Speaking at Friday prayers in Tehran,
Ayatollah Ahmad Janati:

"These so-called clerics who say
that Shiites are killing Sunnis in Iraq,
would they dare still now repeat these charges?
We ourselves do not say that it is Sunnis
who are committing these crimes.
We are saying that terrorists are doing it
under the protection of the United States and Great Britain
who act with the cunning of a fox."

Winston Churchill:

"Success is the ability to go from one failure
to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

President Chavez, Venezuela:

"We have resisted for a long time.
But no one wins a battle always staying on the defensive."

Alexander Graham Bell:

"Before anything else,
preparation is the key to success."

British military historian Corelli Barnett:

"An attack on Iran would effectively launch world war three".

Frederick Buechner:

“When you forgive somebody who has wronged you,
you’re spared the dismal corrosion of bitterness and wounded pride.
For both parties, forgiveness means the freedom again
to be at peace inside their own skins
and to be glad in each others’ presence."

W. Edwards Deming:

"It is not enough to do your best;
you must know what to do,
and THEN do your best."

"Seeds for Change" representative Matthew Herbert:

"We need to avoid this myth that there are ordinary people
and then there are strange mutants who take direct action.
In fact, there are ordinary people who don't take direct action
and there are ordinary people who do take direct action,
and it's just one short step between one and the other."

Plutarch (c. 46 A.D.-127 A.D.):

"The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and
money began to play an important part in determining elections.
Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts.
And then to the army, and finally the Republic
was subjected to the rule of emperors."

Found in a Chinese "fortune cookie":

It's not who votes that counts...
it's who counts the votes!






George Galloway, M.P:

"In Tower Hamlets last May, we witnessed the most
corrupt election held in Britain since 1872.
Hundreds of votes were purloined by crooks
applying for postal votes and getting them
redirected to an address sometimes just doors
away from the registered address of the voter.
Whole blocks of flats woke up to discover that
every one of their residents had applied for a
postal vote to be redirected to another address
without their knowledge."

Walter Winchell

"Nothing recedes like success."

Mohammed Hashim, an Afghan farmer,
whose sister and cousin died in recent fighting:

"I am not angry with anyone," he said,
"I just want the war to stop."

Andrew Carnegie:

"People rarely succeed unless
they have fun in what they are doing."

Marquis de Sade:

"What is more immoral than war?"

George R. Kirkpatrick:

Nature gave men two ends -
one to sit on and one to think with.
Ever since then man's success or failure
has been dependent on the one he used most.

Albert Pike, Scottish Rite Freemason (1809-1891):

“What we have done for ourselves alone
dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.”

Albert Einstein:

"Try not to become a man of success
but rather try to become a man of value."

Noam Chomsky:

"If the Nuremberg laws were applied,
then every post-World War II American president
would have to be hanged like the worst of
the Nazi war criminals found guilty."

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost,
by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend,
by prayer or by wine."

Winston Churchill:

“I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas…
I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes
(to) spread a lively terror…”
(The tribes were the Kurds of Iraq and the Afghans.)

David Lloyd George
(at the 1932 disarmament convention):

"We insisted on the right to bomb niggers."

Edward Abbey (1927-1989):

"The industrial way of life
leads to the industrial way of death.
From Shiloh to Dachau,
from Antietam to Stalingrad,
from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan,
the great specialty of industry and technology
has been the mass production of human corpses."





Lt. Gen. James Mattis, US commander in Iraq and Afghanistan. (February 1, 2005):

"It's quite fun to fight 'em, you know.
It's a hell of a hoot.
It's fun to shoot some people.
I'll be right up front with you...
I like brawling."

Tim Sebastian, journalist:

"All that stands between us
and whatever terrible abyss is out there
is our ability to talk to each other.
If we can't somehow urgently improve
on those communication skills,
generations are going to go on dying
locked into the same cycle of violence
that we have so conspicuously failed to break."

George Bush, EX-president:

"the Iraqi people owe the American people
a huge debt of gratitude."

Judge Robert Jackson at the Nurnberg Trials:

“The unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation
is not only a war crime, it is the supreme war crime
differing from all other war crimes only in that
it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”.

Israeli former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
on Oct. 3rd, 2001:

“...I want to tell you something very clear:
Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel.
We, the Jewish people, control America,
and the Americans know it.”

Jesus Christ

"Inasmuch as you have done it to these,
the least of my brothers,
you have done it to me"

Gandhi:

"The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Spc. Thomas Sheck, 25, who is on his second tour in Iraq:

"First it was weapons of mass destruction.
Then when there were none, it was that we had to find Saddam.
We did that, but then it was that we had to put him on trial.
So now, what will be the next story they tell us
to keep us over here?"

Pogo (U.S. Cartoonist):

"We have met the enemy and he is us."

Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri,
Saddam's "successor":

"Saddam Hussein's assassination
at the criminal hands of the US administration
and its English, Zionist and Persian Safavid allies
will only strengthen the determination of
the Baath, its people and the Arab nation
to wage jihad and resistance until
the enemy is destroyed and Iraq liberated."

Pope John Paul II:

"An invasion of Iraq would be an adventure
from which there is no return."

The Bishop of Liverpool, the Right Rev James Jones:

“We face two further possibilities:
either a conflict of attrition between the faiths
or a settlement of peaceful coexistence.
We must hope that Christians will find
the same just treatment in the Middle East
as Muslims have a right to expect in this country.”

Clausewitz, in his classic work, On War:

"We only wish to represent things as they are,
and to expose the error of believing
that a mere bravo without intellect
can make himself distinguished in war."

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams:

"... pray for the little town of Bethlehem,
and spare a thought for those who have been put at risk
by our short-sightedness and ignorance."

Bierce:

"War is God's way
of teaching Americans geography."

Prince Hassan of Jordan (March 26, 2004):

"I'm afraid the making of World War III is actually taking place in front of our eyes."

Abba Eban:

"Men and nations behave wisely
once they've exhausted all other alternatives."

Yasser Arafat:

"Bethlehem is the birthplace of
our Lord the Messiah, the Palestinian."

Radhouane Nouicer (UNHCR's deputy director for the region):

"[Palestinians in Iraq] have very limited freedom of movement
and no possibility to leave the country -
unlike Iraqis - to find a safe haven.
We ... ask the world to stop turning their back
and provide a humane solution and safe haven
to these people who have no way out."

Carne Ross, a diplomat at Britain's UN mission in New York:

"....the UK sold ...resolution 1441 explicitly on the grounds
that it did not represent authorisation for war".

Al-Hashemi, Vice-President of Iraq:

"Imagine one day waking up and finding out
that your nation's leaders had completely dismantled all police and military.
As a result, there is not one policeman,
or state, or federal law enforcement agent,
or even one national guard or any soldier
to protect you from criminal elements, or terrorists.
It will be total chaos.
Then imagine that instead of calling back the army and security forces,
the authorities in this imaginary scenario
decided to form a new army and police from racist militias,
some mercenaries and organised crime gangs.
With the new government-issued budget and government-issued vehicles,
these armed groups begin arresting, torturing, murdering innocent people
either because of their faith, or creed, or purely for profit.
This is exactly what has happened in Iraq."

Batarseh, the mayor of Bethlehem:

"We really need help
from all our Christian brothers everywhere in the world.
This is the city where Jesus Christ was born.
Now is the time to help us."

Akbar Ahmed and Allen Hertzk
(A Christian and a Muslim):

"Together Christians and Muslims make up half the world's population,
and the planet cannot sustain a war between them.
JESUS is a bridge for BOTH:
Jesus holds a unique place in the Koran,
the holy book of Islam:
He is miraculously born of the Virgin Mary.
As no other figure in Islamic history he can perform miracles,
such as breathing life into a figure of clay,
giving sight to the blind, curing the leper
and bringing the dead to life (Chapter 3, Verse 49).
He is mentioned more often in the Koran than even the Prophet Muhammad
and there is an entire chapter devoted to Mary,
the venerated mother of Jesus.
It is also well ...to recall that
the Prophet Muhammad said about himself
that there is no one closer to Jesus in love and reverence."

Blogger:

"Any American who isn't literally BURNING THEIR PHONE LINES UP
to their elected official screaming for them to
bring our troops home now and impeach the war criminals
is part of the problem, not the solution.
I call my Senator EVERY OTHER DAY WITHOUT FAIL.
My telephone is smoking. Is yours?
If not, then pick up the phone and
MAKE YOUR VIEWS KNOWN.
LOUDLY. PASSIONATELY. FORCEFULLY. OFTEN.
To the British, my only suggestion is for you to
contact your elected officials if you want British troops out of Iraq,
and DON'T GIVE UP. NEVER GIVE UP.
Change only happens when the person impeding change is UNCOMFORTABLE.
Therefore, it is our DUTY to make our governmental officials AS UNCOMFORTABLE AS POSSIBLE
regarding the illegal occupation of our troops in Iraq."

The reelected President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez:

"Jesus Christ talked to the Devil...
we can do the same.
We need moral strength to talk to the devil
....and we have it.

Let’s hope the United States
will have a good government some day."

Blogger:

"I can see the argument in favour of retaining a
nuclear capability to deter madcap "rogue states".
But why do we then need such a complex and expensive delivery system?
Discussion seems to assume that it's Trident or nothing."

The Oxford Research Group:

"Nuclear weapon modernisation is likely to serve
as a substantial encouragement to nuclear proliferation
as countries with perceptions of vulnerability
deem it necessary to develop their own deterrent capabilities."

Mohamed ElBaradei, Head of the
International Atomic Energy Agency:

The mere possession of nuclear weapons today
should be viewed with the same condemnation and horror
as we have regarded slavery and genocide
in our modern civilized world.





Kate Hudson, chair of CND, said Iran and North Korea
would see Britain's Trident decision as:

"a vindication of their own aspirations."





British Labour ( ! ) Govt spokesperson:

"What evidence is there that those countries
are watching to see what we are doing?"

Haji Zalwar Khan (Afghan tribal Elder):

"The solution is for the Americans to leave.
Since they arrived, everything has become so much worse.
We hear the firing but we have
no idea where they are staying.
We can do nothing about it.
Lumber is the only business we have.
And now they want to take that away."






Capt McKnight (U.S. Army):

"They're just a bunch of jerks who are bucking hard against their (sic) government."

Mary Baker Eddy,
the founder of The Christian Science Monitor:

"God is universal; confined to no spot,
defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.
Not more to one than to all,
is God demonstrable
as divine Life, Truth, and Love;
and His people are they that reflect Him
- that reflect Love"

A contractor in Iraq. He works as a gunner protecting convoys between Baghdad and Kuwait:

"We bring in everything - food, medical supplies and ammunition.
We had 160 in our group on my last tour.
We lost 40 guys."
Asked why he kept coming back:
"Simple. The money.
Where else can I make that?
I need to do this for another three years.
Then I can retire."

Keri Christensen, a veteran in Iraq.
One of her wartime duties had been working
next to the mortuary in Kuwait:

"You'd see their possessions in a packet, their date of birth.
They were kids — 19, 20, 21 — that was hard.
They send you home and expect you to live your life normally. You can't.
Well, maybe some people can. I wasn't able to.
I just don't like to go places.
I'd rather stay in my own house,
which I know is safe."

Istanbul Grand Mufti Mustafa Cagrici,
who prayed with Pope Benedict,
said he had faced Mecca and stood
like Muslims do when they pray aright:

"These were very nice gestures."

Herman Goering:

"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 then denounce the peacemakers
for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in any country"

William Blake:

"Kiss the joy as it flies"

Rudyard Kipling:

Once more we hear the word

That sickened earth of old:

"No law except the sword

Unsheathed and uncontrolled,"

In an interview with Al-Jazeera, the EX-prime minister agreed with
broadcaster Sir David Frost when he suggested that intervention had
"so far been pretty much of a disaster".
Mr Blair said: "It has, but you see, what I say to people is,
'why is it difficult in Iraq?'
It's not difficult because of some accident in planning,
it's difficult because there's a deliberate strategy ...
.. to create a situation in which the will of the majority for peace
is displaced by the will of the minority for war."

Madeleine Albright, former American ambassador
to the UN and former Sec. of State:

“What’s the point of having this superb military…
if we can’t use it?”







Marilyn Waring (Counting for Nothing):

"It is not an exaggeration to say that it is clearly
in the interests of the world's leading arms exporters
to make sure that there is always a war going on
somewhere."






William Ralph Inge:

"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets,
but he cannot sit on it."

Rosemary Hollis of Chatham House in London:

"It is totally logical to think that you cannot solve Iraq without involving its neighbours.
But my fear is that this will fall down in the execution.
The US and UK have no idea that the shoe is on the other foot.
It is they who are weak. Yet they still expect Iran to make all the concessions."

Castro said of Ortega's win (In Nicaragua):

This... "fills our people with joy, at the same time filling the terrorist
and genocidal government of the United States with opprobrium."

International development charity War On Want:

"How can {the British government}
hope to restore peace and security in Iraq
while allowing mercenary armies to operate
completely outside the law?
The government has failed to enact laws to punish their
human rights abuses, including firing on Iraqi civilians.
There are now some 48,000 PMSC staff in Iraq,
many of whom work for British companies.
That is six times the number of British troops.
The COST of contracts being handed out in Iraq went from
£320M in 2003 to more than £1.8 billion the following year."

The Foreign Office published a
discussion paper on regulating PMSCs four years ago
and now the government has acted on it:
THE MERCENARIES WILL "REGULATE THEMSELVES"!!!

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
(On Republican electoral defeats):

"Of course, the citizens of the United States are humans with a conscience.
It's a reprisal vote against the war in Iraq, against corruption.
All this fills us with optimism."

The World Press Freedom Index 2006,
published by the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF),
showed that the US had dropped 12 places to 53rd place,
below countries such as Ghana, Mali and Bolivia:

"the steady erosion of press freedom in the United States, France and Japan is extremely alarming".

Christine Hansen, (executive director of the
Miles Foundation, a service and advocacy agency
for victims of sexual and domestic violence
related to the U.S. military):

"The numbers of sexual assaults being reported (in Iraq)
indicates that these individuals are not rogues.
These are men who utilized the training and tactics of the armed forces
when they stalked this young woman and killed the family,
and they were part of a system
where there's no intervention or punishment for sexual assault."

Raed Jarrar:

"I am personally familiar with the kind of intimidation
that can be brought by both the U.S. military and civilian personnel,
and I would be shocked if multiple millions of
dollars in bribes are not changing hands."






The IMF in its latest report:

"Corruption related to the production and distribution
of refined fuel products is rampant."





Erik Leaver, a senior analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington:

"The disposition of Iraq's oil wealth
is definitely causing problems on the ground,
but nobody in Washington wants to talk about it.
They don't want to sound like freaks talking about blood for oil."






Iraqis in a recent poll
(asked what THEY believed was the main reason for the invasion)
76 percent said:

"To control Iraqi oil"

A private in Iraq:
(about his commanding general's comments
criticising the Iraq campaign)

"He's just saying this because he wants to take us to another ****ing war,
in Afghanistan or somewhere else. He doesn't care."

John Dugard, a UN expert on the Mid-East conflict:

"Israel is largely to blame for turning Gaza into a prison
and throwing away the key."
"Israel violates international law as expounded by the Security Council
and the International Court of Justice and goes unpunished.
But the Palestinian people are punished for having democratically
elected a regime unacceptable to Israel, the US and the EU.
In effect, the Palestinian people
have been subjected to economic sanctions
- the first time an occupied people has been so treated."

Gandhi:

"I consider writing as a fine art.
We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children
and making it the beginning of learning."

Abdullah Gul; Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs:

"The core of the problem is that if Iraq is divided,
definitely there will be civil war
and definitely neighboring countries will be involved in this.
The Middle East can't shoulder this.
It's too much."

Former U.N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan:

"The daily violence we are witnessing in Iraq and Afghanistan
provides a powerful reminder that,
without judicious intervention on the political front,
the slide to anarchy and civil war becomes inexorable."

A mother, whose teenage son had been stationed
in Sangin, Afghanistan, for five weeks:

"He has been surviving on three hours' sleep a night
for five weeks, sleeping on rocks covered in cardboard.
The men are absolutely exhausted."

Lieutenant General David Richards,
British commander of the Nato-led forces in Afghanistan:

This is "persistent, low-level, dirty fighting",
more "intense and prolonged" than any other conflict in half a century.
You have to go back to Korea to find UK forces so continually and indefinitely under attack.
"We need to realise that we could actually fail here."

Bertrand Russell:

“What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence
is an index into his desires --
desires of which he himself is often unconscious.
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts,
he will scrutinize it closely,
and unless the evidence is overwhelming,
he will refuse to believe it.
If, on the other hand, he is offered something
which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts,
he will accept it even on the slightest evidence”.

Kevin Barrett is active in "Scholars for 9/11 Truth".
The group says U.S. officials were behind the attack on the World Trade Centre on Sept. 11, 2001.
"Like Bush and the neocons, Hitler and the Nazis inaugurated their new era by destroying an architectural monument and blaming its destruction on their designated enemies,"
Barrett compares the attacks to the burning of the Reichstag, in 1933,
a key event in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship.
"That's not comparing them as people, that's comparing
the Reichstag fire to the demolition of the World Trade Center,
and that's an accurate comparison that I would stand by.
Hitler had a good 20 to 30 IQ points on Bush,
so comparing Bush to Hitler would in many ways
be an insult to Hitler."

( His essay is in "9/11 and American Empire:
Muslims, Jews, and Christians Speak Out." )

Mohamed al Fayed:

"cover-up".

United Nations report (that describes
a growing gap between rich and poor):

"One percent of the world's adults
owns 40 percent of all global assets."

Samuel Johnson:

"These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard,
are growing rich, as their country is impoverished;
they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition
adds another year to slaughter and devastation;
and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science,
while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher,
hoping for a new contract from a new armament,
and computing the profits of a siege or tempest."



The Reverend Sydney Smith - (1771 - 1845):

"If the bible is universally diffused in Hindustan,
what must be the astonishment of the natives
to find that we are forbidden to rob, murder and steal;
we who in fifty years, have extended our empire...
over the whole peninsula...and exemplified in our public conduct
every crime of which human nature is capable.
What matchless impudence to follow up such practice with such precepts!
If we have common prudence, let us keep the gospel at home,
and tell them that Machiavelli is our prophet,
and the god of the Manicheans our god."




Frederick Douglass, African-American slave and, later, abolitionist:

"Find out just what people will quietly submit to,
and you have found out the exact measure
of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them,
and these will continue till they are resisted
with either words or blows.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by
the endurance of those whom they oppress."




Rev. Martin Luther King:

"A time comes when silence is betrayal."

Joseph Goebels:

”If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,
people will eventually come to believe it.
The lie can be maintained only for such time
as the State can shield the people from the political,
economic and or military consequences of the lie.
It thus becomes vitally important for the State
to use all of its powers to repress dissent,
for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie,
and thus by extension,
the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

You just have to look at Fox News, Sky News,
or read the New York Post, Sun, or the Australian
to understand what Mr Rupert Murdoch wants you to believe.
He is one of the staunchest supporters
– among other media tycoons - of the "War On Terror".
This keeps us in fear and takes away our rights. It also demonizes Muslims.

Mr. Murdoch controls – among other things- the following:

International Book Publishing.

HarperCollins Publishing, including HarperCollins U.K.; HarperCollins Canada; and HarperCollins Australia. U.S. imprints include Perennial; Quill; Regan Books; Amistad Press; Hearst Book Group (acquired 1997); includes William Morrow; Avon; HarperCollins Children's Book Group; and Zondervan Publishing House (world's largest commercial Bible publisher).

In US.

Fox Sports Networks (21 networks covering major U.S. cities); Fox Sports Net (cable network with 60 million subscribers); Madison Square Garden Network (40 percent) with Cablevision; Speedvision (34 percent); Outdoor Life (34 percent); the Health Network (50 percent), with Liberty Media; Fox Family Worldwide; FOX News Channel; Fox Television Stations 22 stations (largest TV group in USA), Fox Entertainment, Fox Kid's Network,

Fox Sports; Fox Filmed Entertainment: TV and film production from Twentieth Century Fox; Fox Animation Studios; Fox 2000; and Fox Searchlight; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment; Twentieth Century Fox Television; Twentieth Century Fox Licencing and Merchandising , and The New York Post

In UK.

BSkyB (40 percent); Vivendi, as a result of its takeover of Universal has to divest its 24.5 percent stake in BskyB; Sky Digital, 150 channels and services including Sky One Sky News; National Geographic Channel (50 percent); The History Channel (50 percent); Paramount Channel (25 percent); Nickelodeon U.K. (50 percent); Premium channels including Sky Movies; Sky Movies Gold; Sky Sports, The Times; The Sunday Times; The Sun; The News of the World

In Australia.

More than 100 national, metropolitan, suburban, regional and Sunday titles: The Australian; The Weekend Australian , The Daily Telegraph; The Sunday Telegraph Sportsman; Cumberland Newspaper Group (20 titles in the Sydney suburbs); Herald Sun; Sunday Herald Sun; The Weekly Times (30 titles in the Melbourne suburbs); The Courier Mail (41.7 percent); The Sunday Mail (41.7 percent); Gold Coast Bulletin (41.7 percent); The Cairns Post Group (41.7 percent); North Queensland Newspaper Group; Townsville Bulletin; Quest Community newspapers (17 titles in the Brisbane suburbs); Northern Territory News; Sunday Territorian; Centralian Advocate; The Suburban; The Mercury; The Sunday Tasmanian; Tasmanian Country; Treasure Islander; Derwnet Valley Gazette and the Sunday Times.



The above list is only a part of a vast propaganda machine
that is working hard to get us to fear and hate
and pay with our money and blood,
so that the dreams and visions of a few can be realised.

People everywhere, be they Muslim, Christian, Jew, Hindu, or atheist,
would rather work and help each other than kill one another.
Nothing is more vile than killing for money and power.
Where do you think the hundreds of billions of dollars spent
on the unnecessary war in Iraq has come from
and more importantly, where has it gone?
The money has gone from millions of poor American, English
and Australian pockets into a few rich and large pockets.

Old Irish saying:

"The truth will come out on the hilltops."

Serene Sabbagh (T.V. producer) and a colleague,
in their joint letter of resignation to Fox News:

"Not only are you an instrument of the Bush White House,
and Israeli propaganda, you are war mongers
with no sense of decency, nor professionalism."

US general in Vietnam:

"We had to bomb the village to save it."

Gandhi:

"Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation,
to receive blows without returning any."

US commander(Afghanistan) Lieutenant Colonel Steven Gilbert:

"We've warned people they may see soldiers shooting in their villages.
I tell them this is the price of peace and freedom."

Dr.Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury:

"There are elements in Islam that can be used to justify violence,
just as there are in Christianity and Judaism.
These religious faiths, because they are held by human beings who
are very fallible, can be distorted in these ways
and we all need to recognise that."

President Ahmadinejad of Iran:

"My general impression is that
the people of the United States are good people.
..The people of the United States are also seeking
peace, love, friendship and justice,"

Kofi Annan:

"The events of the last 10 years have not resolved, but sharpened,
the three great challenges I spoke of - an unjust world economy,
world disorder, and widespread contempt for human rights
and the rule of law."

Hassan al-Bashir, Sudan's president:

"It is very clear there is a plan to redraw the region,
especially after the invasion of Iraq.
The main purpose [of this plan] is the security of Israel.
Any state in the region should be weakened,
dismembered in order to protect the Israelis,
to guarantee Israeli security."

Gandhi:

"If the mad race for armaments continues,
it is bound to result in a slaughter such as has never occurred in history."

Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, Simon Hart:

"This is an industry that employs more people than the steel industry.
Once in a while things will go wrong,
but the benefits of shooting are really quite breathtaking."

An email, sent by a member of 3 Para:

"I could not believe we were going to
charge off this helicopter into a wall of lead.
Not everyone wanted to get off,
one guy actually defecated."

Gandhi:

"Woman is the incarnation of ahimsa.
(Ahimsa means infinite love,
which again means infinite capacity for suffering.)"

U.S. Rep. Jane Harman of California, the ranking Democrat
on the House of Representatives intelligence committee:

"I think that there's an evidence-free zone
in the White House and the top levels of the Pentagon.
Regardless of what intelligence says,
regardless of what some of their key inside advisers say,
they say something different in public."

Rodrigue Tremblay, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Montreal:

"On September 28, 2006, Congress pretended to want to
curtail somewhat the President's power to use torture,
but finally approved a bill that suspends the
eight century old right of Habeas Corpus
for detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba,
by stripping them of the right to
challenge their detention in court.
With this new law, the American Congress
is now officially on record as going along
with the Bush administration in legalizing
the recourse to future torture techniques
by U.S. government agents, thus confirming
the moral decadence of the United States
and its decline among democratic nations."

Gandhi:

"God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist."

Rodrigue Tremblay (from book "The New American Empire"):

"The world should take notice when someone with a
fanatic mind and with powerful means receives his
marching orders from Heaven."

Bruce Kent:

“If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran,
the first thing is to call an international conference
on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.”

Elbert Hubbard:

"Laughter is higher than all pain."

Tanya Reinhart:

"Palestinians should not have to pay the price of the Holocaust.
Israel is imprisoning a whole nation."

James Leape, WWF's director-general:

"We are in serious ecological overshoot,
consuming resources faster than the earth can replace them.
The consequences of this are predictable and dire.
"The cities, power plants and homes we build today
will either lock society into damaging over-consumption beyond our lifetimes,
or begin to propel this and future generations
towards sustainable living."

Mikhail Gorbachev (in an interview with the Netzzeitung.):

"Today our American friends are suffering from an illness worse than AIDS.
And I would say this is the victor's complex.
Unable to extricate itself from its Cold War mentality,
the United States is playing a dwindling role in world politics,
while Russia, China, Brazil, Europe, India and Japan are becoming stronger.
North Korea is an example.
Only China and Russia are in a position to handle Pyongyang.
The Americans will have to understand that in future
they will have to cooperate and make decisions jointly,
instead of just always wanting to give orders."

Graham Greene (about the Vietnamese):

"They don't want to be shot at.
They want one day to be much the same as another.
They don't want our white skins around
telling them what they want."

When it was reported that British military trainers
in the south of Iraq had been instructed
not to inquire too rigorously
about a recruit's militia affiliations,
one trainer contacted the media
to inform them the story was incorrect:
"We were not told not to look too carefully," he said.
"We were told not to ask at all."

Jacques Bihozagara, former ambassador to France... from RWANDA:

"The French sent troops, weapons,
trained killers and manned roadblocks
to facilitate murderers in achieving their mission
of exterminating Tutsis."

Charlie Chaplin:

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

Moqtada al Sadr, who controls the Mahdi militia:

"Iraqis ....stop fighting each other...
concentrate on getting rid of the occupiers...
the Trio of Evil: Israel, the US, the UK."

Pape Barro,(ex)fisherman, Senegal:

"The only thing that has changed in recent years,
is the arrival of big foreign trawlers just off shore,
that sweep up far more from the sea
than the Senegalese fleet has ever done.
If Europeans take our fish...
they can take our people too."

Friedrich Nietzsche:

"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter."

Hu Jintao, Chinese president (at the opening of the Beijing Summit
of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation):

"China will forever be a good friend,
good partner, good brother of Africa."

Jacques Diouf, director-general
of the Food and Agriculture Organisation:

"Far from decreasing, the number of hungry people
in the world is currently increasing
- at the rate of four million a year."

Syrian President Bashar Assad:

"Colonialism has not ended.
In the past they used to call it colonialism,
today it is called liberation of people. ...
Names differ but the essence is the same.
As colonialism continues,
revolution and resistance continue.
We send a message to everyone
that Arabs are no longer a herd that can be sold,
bought and taken to the slaughterhouse."

Vice President Dick Cheney (in 1991):

"For the US to get involved militarily
in determining the outcome of the struggle
over who's going to govern in Iraq
strikes me as a classic definition of a quagmire."

Vremya Novostei (in Pravda):

"Moscow urges world leaders to learn lessons
from the sad Iraqi experience
not to ruin Iran as a country."

Mel Brooks:

"Humour is just another defense against the universe."

Jesus Christ:

"The world is a place of transition,
full of examples;
be pilgrims therein,
and take warning from
the traces of those that have gone before."

W.C. Fields:

"Start every day with a smile and get it over with."

Swedish proverb:

"The best place to find a helping hand
is at the end of your own arm."

Mark Twain:

"the American flag should be replaced...
with the ...skull and crossbones,
because we bring murder wherever we go."

President Hu:

"China and Africa have never tried to impose
their social and economic development models on others."

Hunter S. Thompson:

"We have become a monster in the eyes of the whole world
- a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully.
We are not just whores for power and oil,
but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts.
We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us...
No redeeming social value. Just whores.
Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you."






Erma Bombeck:

"When humor goes, there goes civilization."






James Baldwin:

"People who shut their eyes to reality
simply invite their own destruction,
and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence
long after that innocence is dead
turns himself into a monster."

Faruq Ziada:

"One of the main reasons for the drastic failure of U.S. policy in Iraq
must be attributed to the reliance on the false premise
that the Sunnis are a minority and the Shiites are a majority in Iraq.
It is very clear from the official numbers taken
from the results of the elections of January 31,
2005, and December 15, 2005, that:
the Sunnis are 60-62% of the population of Iraq
(42-44% Arab, and 16-18% Kurd and Turk Iraqis),
and only 38-40% are Shiites."

Victor Borge:

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."

Freed:

"There is no path to peace.
Peace is the path."

Tony Benn:

"If it turns out that the Labour Party have a coronation...
...we might as well have an hereditary leader of the Labour Party."

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad:

"What's the benefit of democracy if you're dead?"

Colin G, (Al Jazeera, opinion):

"I believe I know the reason for Americas recent behaviour
- they are trying to make up for the fact that
they were late for the last two world wars
by being really punctual this time."

Stephen Twigg, director of the Foreign Policy Centre:

"The consequences of military action against Iran
are not only unpalatable, they are unthinkable."

George H. W. Bush:

"I can tell you this:
If I’m ever in a position to call the shots,
I’m not going to rush to send
somebody else’s kids into a war."

Napoleon Bonaparte:

"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him."

Mr ElBaradei, director general,
International Atomic Energy Agency:

“You cannot bomb knowledge.”

Bertolt Brecht:

"He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news."

Mr ElBaradei:

"When you see here in the UK
the programme for modernising Trident,
which basically gets the UK
far into the 21st century with a nuclear deterrent,
it is difficult then for us to turn around
and tell everybody else that nuclear deterrents
are really no good for you."

Stephen King:

"You can't deny laughter; when it comes,
it plops down in your favorite chair
and stays as long as it wants."

ecowaleswoman (Guardian Blogger):

"The slogan that best captures anti-capitalism
has always been TATA to TINA
(There are Thousands of Alternatives vs
There Is No Alternative)."

Oscar Levant:

"A pun is the lowest form of humor -
- when you don't think of it first."

Michael Novak,
American Enterprise Institute (AEI):

"European elites have done their withering best
to empty Europe of its Christian spirit.
They have swept Europe clean just in time for
the rapid rise of a rival faith [Islam]
prolific with children, vitality, passion
and confidence in long-term victory."

Eddie Murphy:

"Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers
who supplied him with more than one million gags,
and he still couldn't make me laugh."

Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham,
President of the Christian Social Union (1890)

"Socialism is co-operation,
the method of Individualism is competition.
The one regards man as working with man for a common end,
the other regards man as working against man for private gain.
The aim of Socialism is the fulfillment of service,
the aim of Individualism is the attainment of
some personal advantage, riches, or place of fame."

Peter Cook:

"There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour,
no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all.
If you're born with these so-called defects
you have a very good chance of getting to the top."

George Bernard Shaw, in 1936:

"If any religion has the chance of ruling over England,
nay Europe within the next hundred years,
it could be Islam."

Malcolm Muggeridge:

"Good taste and humour...
are a contradiction in terms,
like a chaste whore."

Fred Copeman, 1948:

"No true philosophy can endure on a basis of hatred.
Socialism, to me, is beautiful and practical.
There is nothing more practical than a freely convinced human mind;
all other things, all other sacrifices, all successes, will come from that.
People in the mass will be convinced when they see
living examples of the beliefs which modern politicians proclaim."

Will Rogers:

"There's no trick to being a humorist
when you have the whole government working for you."

James Keir Hardie, 1910.
(1st Labour MP, Merthyr Tydfil...
near enough to the Rhondda - innit?):

"I have said, both in writing and from the platform many times,
that the impetus which drove me first into the Labour movement,
and the inspiration which has carried me on in it,
has been derived more from the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth
than from all other sources combined."

( Keir Hardie died of a broken heart -
when the 1st World War beat us all.)

Anonymous:

"Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?"
Let us analyze that sentence for a moment.
If you're a stickler, you probably think the
singular verb "is" should have been the plural "are,"
but if you read it closely, you'll see I'm using
the intransitive plural subjunctive tense.
So the word "is" are correct."

James Keir Hardie, From Serfdom to Socialism (1907):

"This generation has grown up ignorant of the fact
that socialism is as old as the human race.
When civilization dawned upon the world,
primitive man was living his rude Communistic life,
sharing all things in common with every member of the tribe.
Later when the race lived in villages, man, the communist,
moved about among the communal flocks and herds on communal land.
The peoples who have carved their names most deeply
on the tables of the human story
all set out on their conquering career as communists,
and their downward path begins with the day
when they finally turned away from it
and began to gather personal possessions.
When the old civilizations were putrefying,
the still small voice of Jesus the Communist
stole over the earth like a soft refreshing breeze
carrying healing wherever it went."

Mahatma Gandhi:

"Where there is love there is life."

Will Rogers:

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."

President Chavez, Venezuela:

"Those who want to go directly to hell,
they can follow capitalism.
And those of us who want to build heaven here on earth,
we will follow socialism."

Mahatma Gandhi:

"You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean;
if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty."

Anonymous:

"What matters is not the length of the wand,
but the magic in the stick."

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso:

"Until now we have cherished ourself above all others,
and for as long as we continue to do this
our suffering will never end.
However, if we learn to cherish all beings more than ourself
we shall soon enjoy the bliss of enlightenment.
The path to enlightenment is really very simple -
all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself
and learn to cherish others.
All other spiritual realizations will naturally follow from this."

Frank Moore Colby:

"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig.
How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?"

John Dugard, UN special rapporteur on human
rights in the Palestinian territories;
(to the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday):

"Of course there are similarities between the Occupied
Palestinian Territory and apartheid South Africa.
[This] places in danger the whole international
human rights enterprise".

Mahatma Gandhi:

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent.
Conquer him with love"

President Ahmadinejad:

"Arrogant powers will vanish like bubbles on water."

Mahatma Ghandi, in 1938:

"Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense
that England belongs to the English or France to the French."

Rudyard Kipling:

"If they question why we died,
Tell them because our fathers lied."

Tony Blair:

"Can't you all move on from Iraq?"

Mahatma Gandhi:

"First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win."

Karl Marx:

"The demand to give up illusions
about the existing state of affairs
is the demand to give up a state of affairs
which needs illusions."

Bolivia’s President, Evo Morales:

"Instead of making more weapons and bullets to kill humankind,
we must concentrate on producing more food."

"Mother" Jones:

"No matter what the fight,
don't be ladylike!
God almighty made women
and the Rockefeller gang of thieves
made the ladies."

Abraham Lincoln:

"And in the end it's not the
years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years.

Nuremberg prosecutor Henry King Jr. (88 YEARS OLD):

"I think Robert Jackson, who's the architect of Nuremberg,
would turn over in his grave if he knew
what was going on at Guantanamo.
It violates the Nuremberg principles...
as well as the spirit of the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
The concept of a fair trial is part of our tradition, our heritage.
That's what made Nuremberg so immortal -
fairness, a presumption of innocence, adequate defense counsel,
opportunities to see the documents that they're being tried with.
To torture people and then you can
bring evidence you obtained into court?
Hearsay evidence is allowed?
Some evidence is available to the prosecution
and not to the defendants?
This is a type of 'justice' that Jackson didn't dream of."

From wikipedia, on the subject of war:

"...psychologists have argued that while human
temperament allows wars to occur, this only
happens when mentally unbalanced people are in
control of a nation."

Frank Zappa:

"There are two things to remember,
if you want success -
1. Keep going !
2. Don't give up !"

Thomas Paine:

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again".

Mordechai Vanunu;

"I am a symbol of the will of freedom,
that you cannot break the human spirit."

Rev Al Sharpton:

"If a man knocks you down, that's on them.
If you stay down, that's on you."

Osama Bin Laden:

“In today’s wars, there are no morals,
and it is clear that mankind has descended
to the lowest degrees of decadence and oppression.
They rip us of our wealth and of our resources
and of our oil. Our religion is under attack.
They kill and murder our brothers.
They compromise our honor and our dignity
and dare we utter a single word of protest
against the injustice, we are called terrorists".

President of Iran:

"For more than 60 years, Palestine,
as compensation for the loss Jews incurred during the war in Europe,
has been under occupation of the illegal Zionist regime.

The Palestinian people have been displaced
or are under heavy military pressure, economic siege
or are incarcerated under abhorrent conditions.

The occupiers are protected and praised,
while the innocent Palestinians are subjected to
political, military and propaganda onslaughts.

The people of Palestine are deprived of water,
electricity and medicine for the sin of asking for freedom,
and the government that was freely elected
by the people is targeted.

Leave the path of arrogance and Satan,
to that of God.

This means moving to purity, honesty,
justice, and respecting human dignity."

Evo Morales, president of Bolivia:

"Some countries are in an arms race;
I don't understand that.
We are talking about social progress;
we are talking about a new constitution in Bolivia
that renounces war.

"I'm convinced that war is the industry of death,
and therefore the arms race is one more industry
that goes together with that industry of death."







President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:

Imperialism has no other option:
Respect the peoples of the world or accept defeat."







Adam Smith;

‘All for ourselves and nothing for other people’
seems, in every age of the world, to have been
the vile maxim of the masters of mankind".







Jose Martí:

"Our Homeland is humanity!"







Fidel Castro;

"an important biological species is at risk of disappearing
as a result of the rapid and progressive destruction
of its natural living conditions: humanity".







Fernando Lugo:

"Where there is a scream coming from the poor people,
where there is sweat, where people are shoeless,
we will be there. Because in such people,
there is a resurrection..."







"To an angelic soul love means glorification
To a jinn soul love means admiration
To a human soul love means affection
To an animal soul love means passion."







Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

"Christians ..will have to face the terrible alternative
of either willing the defeat of their nation
in order that Christian civilization may survive
or willing the victory of their nation
and thereby destroying civilization.
I know which of these alternatives I must choose
but I cannot make that choice from security."







Karl Marx:

"The Philosophers have only interpreted the world
in various ways; THE POINT IS, TO CHANGE IT !!!"