has been burned."
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:
''The highest education, is that which
does not merely give us information
but makes our life in harmony with
all existence.''
Hugh MacDiarmid:
''Auden, MacNeice, Day Lewis, I have read them all,
Hoping against hope to hear the authentic call.
And I know the explanation I must pass is this
–You cannot light a match on a crumbling wall.''
W. H. Davies:
''In half an hour ten thousand men I passed —
More than nine thousand should have been
green trees.''
Alessandro Manzoni:
''But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say,
without politics? A guide who walks on and on,
with no one following to learn the road,
so that his every step... is wasted;
just as politics without history,
is like a man who walks
along - without
a guide.''
Tim Wise:
''Many times --- people will come through the door
with good intentions, but may not be willing to
put in the work. They just want to see some
results ---- right away.''
Patch Adams:
Imagination.......... is an infinite resource ----- that can
not be diminished by overuse or underuse. I'll give
you an example - most hospitals in the countries
we go to, don't have pain medicine - they don't
have any money. So... if you're with kids with
cancer -- they can have metastases to the
bone; which some say, is the worst pain
a human can experience. So a mother
can be in a room with a child -- who
hasn't stopped screaming in five
months. .......85% of the time
I walk in there as a clown,
they'll stop screaming.''
Shashi Tharoor:
''The roots of India's soft power... run deep. India's
is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered
refuge and - more importantly - religious and
cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several
varieties of Christians, and Muslims.''
Petrarch:
''Where you are, is of no moment, but
only what you are doing there. It is
not the place that ennobles you,
but you - the place, and only
by doing that... which is
great and noble.''
John Woolman:
''To consider mankind as other than brothers.......
plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.''
Evo Morales:
''Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.''
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan:
I have one great desire. I want to rescue --- these gentle, brave,
patriotic people - from the tyranny of the foreigners who have
disgraced and dishonored them. I want to create for them, a
world of freedom where they can live in peace, where they
can laugh and be happy. I want to kiss the ground where
their ruined homes once stood ------- before they were
destroyed --- by savage strangers. I want to take a
broom... and sweep the alleys and the lanes, and
I want to clean their houses with my own hands.
I want to wash the stains of blood, from their
garments. I want to show the world -- how
beautiful they are ---- these people from
the hills, and then I want to proclaim:
“Show me - if you can, any gentler,
more courteous, more cultured
people, than these.”
Lula:''It's not like we can't survive
without the US.''
Desmond Lachman:
''Donald Trump has been systematically
destroying faith in the dollar - in both
global financial markets and among
governments and central banks.'
'President Lula:
''The world does not want - an Emperor.''
Elon Musk:
''We will coup - whoever
we want. Deal with it.''
Pablo Neruda:
''If nothing saves us from death... at
least love should save us from life.''
Jean-Jacques Dessalines:
''We have dared to be free. Let us dare to
be so... by ourselves and for ourselves.''
Fidel Castro:
''I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is
gross, it is alienating... because it causes
war, hypocrisy and competition.''
Susan B. Anthony:
"Whoever controls work and
wages, controls morals."
José Rizal:
''There can be no tyrants...
where there are no slaves.''
Ex-Chancellor Scholtz of Germany:
''We are .......pushing ahead on the purchase of the armed Heron
drone from Israel. And with regard to nuclear sharing we will
procure a modern replacement for the out-dated Tornado
jets in good time.The Eurofighter is set to be equipped
with electronic war-fare capabilities. The F-35 fighter
jet, has the potential to be used as a carrier aircraft.
And finally, ladies & gentlemen, we will do more - to
guarantee a secure energy supply for our country.''
Limmy:
''I don't want Scotland, to be more important than England.
There's just a cancer of low self-esteem in Scotland, and
a general feeling that if we were to break away it would
be game over and we would be bankrupt. If that is the
case then that's exactly what we should do. Why are
we, a country that would be bankrupt, leaching off
another one?''
Leymah Gbowee:
''There is something in this world that every
individual can do. God has created all
of us... with something unique
to contribute.''
Jean de La Fontaine:
''We like to see others, but don't
like others to see through us.''
Samora Machel:
''The state must be the first to be organized
and totally committed - to serving the
interests of the people.''
Ben Okri:
“Bad things will happen --- and good things too.
Your life.... will be full of surprises. Miracles
happen, only where there's been suffering.
So.... taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t
try and press it down. Don’t hide from it.
Don’t escape. It is life, too. It is truth.
But it will pass, and time will put a
strange honey in the bitterness.
That’s the way life goes.”
Tariq Ali:
''Time, then, to bury Lenin's body - and revive some
of his ideas. Future generations in Russia might
realise: that Lenin still has a bit more to offer
than Prince Stolypin.''
Paulo Coelho:
''You can become blind ---------- by seeing each day
as a similar one. Each day is a different one,
each day brings a miracle of its own. It's
just a matter of paying attention to
this miracle.''
Claudia Jones:
“It was out of my Jim Crow experiences as a
young negro woman, experiences likewise,
born of working-class poverty that led me
to join the Young Communist League and
to choose the philosophy of my life, the
science of Marxism-Leninism --- that
philosophy not only rejects racist
ideas, but is the antithesis
of them.”
Leonardo Boff:
''The earth has arrived at the limits of its sustainability.
Our task is not to create sustainable development,
but a sustainable society - human beings and
nature together.''
Jessie Street:
"Even at that early age (of 3), I had
some instincts as to the relations
of cause and effect -- and the
basic need to remove the
cause of the trouble."
Edgar Guest:
''If you never take a chance, you will
never be defeated - but you will
never accomplish anything,
either. For.. to see good
put in action, is what
everybody needs.''
Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
''All the trouble in the world, and all the disastrous results arising
out of it, all come from a lack of harmony. And this shows that
the world needs harmony today ----- more than ever before.
The true use of music.... is to become musical in one's
thoughts, words - and actions. We must be able to
give the harmony for which the soul yearns and
longs... every moment. All the tragedy in the
world, in the individual and the multitude,
comes from the lack of harmony. And..
harmony is best given by producing
harmony in one's own life.''
Dominique Pire:
''Let us not speak --- of tolerance. This negative
word - implies grudging concessions by smug
consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual
understanding and mutual respect.'
Karl Marx, in 'Capital':
"If money comes into the world... with a
congenital blood-stain on one cheek,
capital comes dripping from head
to toe, from every pore, with
blood and dirt."
Marshall McLuhan:
“The poet, the artist, the sleuth ------ whoever sharpens our
perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted",
he can't go along.. with currents and trends. A strange
bond often exists between antisocial types -- in their
power to see environments as they really are. This
need to interface, to confront environments with
a certain antisocial power, is manifest --- in the
famous story, "The Emperor's New Clothes".”
Asin Vern Harper:
“There’s a more militant and revolutionary theme emerging,
which is beginning to get support from all elements of the
native movement… Native and non-native people --- are
seeing that capitalism doesn’t serve the masses.
It only protects the capitalists’ interests.”
The Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC):
“The enemy - and its American protectors -
miscalculated Iran’s capabilities. Now,
they must witness the gradual
collapse of this usurping
Zionist entity.”
Eugenio Maria de Hostos:
''Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change,
and they are transformed; but is there a dead
idea, which, in the end, does not live on ---
transformed..... into a broader and
clearer goal?''
Jeremy Corbyn:
The world -- really could have stopped the genocide in Gaza. Instead,
governments --- including our own --- allowed Israel to act with total
impunity. Israel’s reckless strikes on Iran --- are the product of that
impunity. They represent --- a shameful failure of global leadership.
And they are a threat to the safety of humankind across the world.
Our government ---- needs to wake up, end its complicity in Israeli
war crimes and defend international law. That - is how we bring
about urgent de-escalation --- end the genocide -- and stop the
world from being dragged into a catastrophic, nuclear war.
We are all human beings - on one planet. Surely, that is
enough --- to try and bring about a world of peace.''
Bruce Lee:
''What you habitually think
largely determines what
you will ultimately
become.''
Jose Marti:
''We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent
to human suffering, not to profit from the people,
from the work created and sustained through
their spirit of political association, while
refusing to contribute to the political
state that we profit from.''
Charles Dickens:
“There are books of which, the backs
and covers are by far the best parts.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
''When power leads... and wisdom follows, the face
of wisdom is veiled and she stumbles; but when
wisdom leads and power follows, they arrive
safely at their destination.''
Mikhail Sholokhov:
''Vast sections of the world's population are
inspired by the same desires and live for
common interests ...that bind them
together, far more than they
separate them.''
Alexei Sayle:
"If you travel to the 'States.... they have a lot of
different words... than like what we use. For
instance: they say 'elevator' ...and we say
'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains';
they say 'president', we say 'seriously
deranged git!'"
José Emilio Pacheco:
"I like poetry... to be the interior voice,
the voice no one hears, the voice of
the person reading it. That is how
..the 'I' becomes 'you', the 'you'
becomes 'I' - and in the act of
reading is born the 'we', that
only exists in that intimate
- full moment of reading."
Augustine of Canterbury:
''The greatest evil
is physical pain.''
Michael Eric Dyson:
''When you have closed the Bible, you have neither
closed God's mind --- nor shut God's mouth. God
continues to speak, live and exist. I think: we
should consult the living God, for the living
word for living people dealing with death,
destruction and despair in the midst of
our hurt humanity. I believe love
will conquer all.''
James Madison Jr.:
''Of all the enemies to public liberty --- war is, perhaps, the
most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops
the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies;
from these --- proceed debts and taxes; and armies
and debts and taxes, are the known instruments
for bringing the many under the domination
of the few.''
Nina Simone:
''What kept me sane was knowing that things
would change..... and it was a question of
keeping myself together until they did.''
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
''Why is it so difficult to be a friend? One would think...... that it was
the easiest thing there is! The reason is - that there is something
in ourselves which is always against our being friendly. It is the
self, the ego, which the Sufi calls Nafs. As long as this ego
is standing and lives ---- a man cannot claim to be
anybody's friend... This is the first and the
last thing we have to learn.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
''We cry, ‘Justice!’ ‘Reparation!’ While we tolerate robbery, rape,
brigandage and assassination. In Colonies, it is a whole-sale
sabotage - of all the institutions and of all the principles
that are valued throughout the civilized world. These
republicans.. who go from France to the Colonies,
reject all republican doctrines. They --- are new
Federal lords ----- who arrogate to themselves
special privileges, defending them jealously
- fiercely, against the original possessors
— the rightful occupants of the land.''
Huey P. Newton:
''The United States can hide behind a facade
simply because it is sucking the blood of
other people...The Third World people:
Africa, Asia and Latin America.''
Bruce Lee:
''Knowing is not enough, we must apply.
Willing is not enough, we must do.''
James Welch:
''The townspeople outside the reservations had a very
superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of
funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they
were on the fringes of society themselves.''
Mikhail Sholokhov:
''History has a way of repeating itself,
unless we have the strength
to break the cycle.''
Hazrat Inayat Khan, Volume VII - In an Eastern Rose Garden:
''Love is the nature of life, beauty is the outcome of life,
harmony is the means by which life accomplishes its
purpose, and the lack of it results in destruction.'
Bruce Lee:
''Those who are unaware they are walking
in darkness... will never seek the light.''
Peng Liyuan:
''Did you know… The more steps you take, the bigger
your heart. If you have a big heart, then you will be
happy. If you cannot go far, let books take you
there. (Broaden your horizon with the
vision of knowledge)''
Dario Fo:
''I am the jongleur..... I leap and pirouette --- and make you laugh.
I make fun of those in power, and show you how puffed up and
conceited are the big shots who go around making wars
in which we are the ones who get slaughtered.
I reveal them for what they are. I pull
out the plug, and... pssss...
they deflate.''
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
''However much wealth or power or rank we possess, we still
depend upon the humblest and poorest person in the world.
The realization that the whole of life must be give and take
is the realization of the spiritual truth, and the fact of true
democracy. Not until this spirit is formed in the individual
himself can the whole world be raised to a higher grade
of evolution.''
Helen Joseph:
''I don't doubt for a moment ----- that the revolution
will result ---- in a nonracial society. I have just
come.. from being a patient in Groote Schuur
Hospital - where they now have integrated
wards. For the first time in my life I have
seen it --- working! The patients were
mixed..... the staff was mixed, and
the medical officers were mixed;
it was totally integrated. It was
beautiful. White and black ---
together. And... it works. To
me that's terribly exciting.'
Lula:
''No one has to agree...... with everything that someone
else says. But --- in state-to-state relations, we have
to understand, that we can help each other much
more, doing it that way. We have to be
more generous.''
Alex Krainer:
''What’s peculiar about the British financial system is that the
taxpayers are obliged to reimburse the Bank of England for
any losses it sustains on its balance sheet assets. If the
price of gilts on the bank’s balance sheet collapses,
British taxpayers --- must cover those losses and
make the bank whole. So.. what kind of money
are we talking about? As the the FT reported
last July, the BOE has estimated ---- it will
require the Treasury to transfer a total
of £150 billion by 2033 to cover the
expected losses on the central
bank’s quantitative easing
program...''
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS:
''You can't cross the sea.. merely by
standing and staring at the water.''
I. F. Stone:
''Rich people march on Washington - every day.''
On February 26th, 2014, Viktor Yanukovych:
“I, Viktor Fedorovich Yanukovich, appeal to the
people of Ukraine. As before, I still consider
myself, to be lawful head of the Ukrainian
state ---- chosen freely by the will of the
Ukrainian people. Now - it is becoming
clear that the people in south-eastern
Ukraine and in Crimea do not accept
the power vacuum, and complete
lawlessness in the country -----
when the heads of ministries
are appointed by the mob.”
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
''It is sufficient to say that even today --- in the Colonies --- there
are Administrators who insert like suppositories, cartridges
of dynamite in the natives, and order them to run; then
suddenly the dynamite explodes and the natives
are blown to pieces. This happens - in the
French Colonies!''
Sinclair Lewis:
''So much in a revolution,
..is nothing but waiting.''
Bruce Lee:
If you always put limits on what you can do,
physical or anything else, it’ll spread over
into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into
your work.... into your morality, into
your ..entire being. There are no
limits. There are plateaus, but
you must not stay there, you
must go beyond them. If it
kills you.... it kills you. A
man, must constantly
exceed his level.''
John Magufuli:
"I know what it means to be poor.
I will strive to help improve
people's welfare."
Sathima Bea Benjamin:
“Due to the Group Areas Act and living separately
under Apartheid, I always wondered, ‘What --- is
over there with the white people - that I can’t
have?’ I really wanted to know - so bad! It
was a big mystery to me. And I had to
wait until I went to Europe..... and I
found out - that here was nothing
that I really wanted. It was still
that they wanted something
---- from us.”
Alain-René Lesage:
''Justice is such a fine thing - that
we cannot pay too dearly for it.''
Mary Wollstonecraft:
''Taught from infancy, that beauty is
woman's sceptre, the mind shapes
itself to the body..... and roaming
round its gilt cage, only seeks
to adorn its prison.''
Walter Rodney:
Mistaken interpretations of the causes of
underdevelopment, usually stem either
from prejudiced thinking -- or from the
error of believing.. that one can learn
the answers ....by looking inside the
underdeveloped economy. The true
explanation lies in ----- seeking out
the relationship between Africa...
and certain developed countries
and in recognizing that - it is a
relationship of exploitation.''
Julius Nyerere:
''When we were at school, we were taught to sing the songs
of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs
of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us - have
learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and
roll and to twist... and even to dance the waltz and
foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have
even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala,
nyang umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?''
Frank Serpico:
''The fight for justice against corruption
is never easy. It never has been - and
never will be. It exacts a toll on our
self, our families, our friends.... and
especially our children. In the end
I believe, as in my case, the price
we pay is well worth holding on
to our dignity.''
Chris Hedges:
''We face existential threats. But these do not count.
The proposed budget.. for the Centres for Disease
Control & Prevention (CDC) in fiscal year 2023 -
is $10.675 billion. The proposed budget for the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - is
$11.881 billion. Ukraine alone gets more
than double that amount. War -- is all
that matters. This, is a recipe for
collective suicide.''
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva:
''My greatest desire is that the hope
that has overcome fear -- in my
country -- will help vanquish
it around the world.''
UNICEF's Eastern & Southern Africa
Regional Director, Mohamed Fall:
''Millions of children across sub-Saharan Africa continue to be
in desperate need of access to education, basic healthcare,
nutrition, clean water, protection, a birth certificate - and
hope. Tens of thousands more - are in need of mental
health and psycho-social support - as conflict and
horrific violence has become daily life for far
too many.''
George Harrison:
''People are simply screwing up, when they go
out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them
with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff
- costs a fortune, too. You could feed
a thousand people with lentil soup
for the cost of half a dozen filets.''
Sun Tzu:
"An evil man --- will burn his own nation
to the ground, to rule over the ashes."
Tony Benn:
''After the war, people said - 'If you can plan for
war -- why can't you plan for peace?' When I
was 17, I had a letter from the government
saying, 'Dear Mr. Benn.... will you turn up
when you're 17 1/2? We'll give you free
food.. free clothes, free training, free
accommodation, & 2 shillings & 10
pence a day - to just kill Germans.'
People said well, if you can have
full employment to kill people,
why in God's name couldn't
you have full employment
- and good schools, good
hospitals, good houses?”
Goethe's Faust:
''Lord, the trouble is great! The spirits I
called, I cannot now free myself from.''
In 1945 ----- a Russian Soldier
wrote on the Reichstag Wall:
''We will come back - if we have to.''
Chay Bowes.. Irish journalist,
after Cadger Callous warned
Fico -- not to attend May 9th:
''What's remarkable... is how the Russians weren't allowed
to attend the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
As far as I'm aware, Russians liberated Auschwitz!''
China Daily:
"No one will exempt the US. The problem is, that the US
has been living beyond its means -------- for decades. It
consumes.. more than it produces. It has outsourced
its production and borrowed money ------ to achieve a
much higher standard of living, than its productivity
warrants. Its people, have forgotten - how to stand
on an assembly line, and sew shirts - for example.
The US has ridden aboard the globalization train.
The US - should stop complaining about being a
victim of global trade --- and end its capricious,
destructive behaviour. Instead of complaining
- it should commit to work. Let US villagers
weep now.... when they look at the 5,000
-year-old Chinese civilization."
US President Harry Truman, when a senator, in 1940:
“If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help
Russia, and if Russia is winning, we ought to help
Germany -- and, that way, let them kill as many
as possible.”
Diana Panchenko ua @Panchenko_X
April 15th, 2025 --- at 6:38 PM, UTC:
''Ukrainians are afraid of Zelensky. You keep asking
----- why don’t people fight back against Zelensky?
Just today:
1. Lawyer Olga Panchenko arrested.
She defended Ukrainians from
illegal mobilization.
2. Journalist Volodymyr Krekotkin arrested.
He gave a platform to opposition voices.
3. Journalist Angela Gurina sentenced to
5 years in prison. She exposed illegal
mobilization with a video.
Speak out against Zelensky’s regime in Ukraine? You
could be thrown in a pit for months, tortured, or killed.
An American citizen was killed in a Ukrainian prison.
And corporate media? They’re covering it up.''
Albert Einstein:
''Unthinking respect for authority
is the greatest enemy of truth.''
Alice Childress:
“Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles
your heart, you're a gentle sinner, just a
good soul - gone wrong.”
Nicolás Maduro:
''Venezuelans...... have a long history. So we are able
to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From
here, were born the liberators of the region and
they said - before and after that process - we
have a culture of political action. We are
not in despair. That's the image
broadcast abroad.''
Chris Hedges:
'Donald Trump does not herald the advent of fascism.
He heralds the collapse of the veneer ..that masked
the corruption within the ruling class ------ and their
pretense of democracy. He is the symptom.... and
not the disease.''
Hilaire Belloc:
''Loss and possession ---
death and life are one,
There falls no shadow
where there shines
no sun.''
Richard Price:
''In pursuing particularly the interest of our country....
we ought to... carry our views beyond it. We should
love it ardently -- but not exclusively. We ought to
seek its good by all the means that our different
circumstances and abilities will allow; but -
at the same time, we ought to consider
ourselves -- as citizens of the world
and take care to maintain a just
regard ---- to the rights of
other countries.''
The Leader of the (banned)
Ukraine Opposition Party,
Viktor Medvedchuck:
''Trump must understand -- that agreements with the
Ukrainian authorities -- cannot be implemented in
principle.. since this government does not have
the real powers and capabilities to fulfill any
deals... while the country is dominated by
neo-Nazi gangs. Without the complete
denazification of Zelensky's Ukraine
- without the complete destruction
of the Nazi ideology - and getting
rid of those who are its bearers
no deals will be executed and
unfortunately --- there is no
alternative to this.''
Psychologist Albert Ellis:
“For many years now, I have had the quaint idea - that
all humans - yes, the whole 8 billion of them on this
planet - are out of their fucking minds.”
President Putin:
"If - they think they can beat us on
the battlefield, then let them try."
Bruce Lee:
''A wise man can learn more from a foolish
question, than a fool can learn from a
wise answer.''
Vladimir Zhirinovsky:
''If Russia rises - it means
that the USA falls down.'
Lucky Joestar, on MoA:
''I’m not surprised.. that Europeans are being racist ----- considering
the whole notion of “Europe” itself ----- is racist. Europe - is not a
real continent - as it has no tectonic plate of its own ---- and no
appreciable body of water separating it from the rest of Asia.
That’s right --- the REST of Asia. Even Portugal and Norway
are part of Asia, the largest continent on Earth ------ and if
Japan is part of Asia ---- then so are Britain and Ireland.
Europe’s status as a continent, is just a racist fiction
embraced by northwest Asians -- who can’t accept
that their precious white fatherlands are actually
sharing a continent with countries full of yellow
and brown people, including China and India.''
Ramakrishna:
"Never get into your head that your faith
alone is true and every other is false.
Know for certain that God without
form is real.. and that God with
form is also real. Then hold
fast ..to whichever faith
appeals to you."
George C. Marshall:
''Military power wins battles, but
spiritual power wins wars.''
John Kessel:
''At the same time King David had told --- how God's truth was
written in nature for men to read, he had also begged to be
kept free from the great transgression: doing wrong when
one believes one is doing right. How easy --- when one
followed the promptings of the traitorous heart, to
convince oneself that pure selfishness is the
ultimate selflessness, that desire is fate,
that murder is self-sacrifice.''
Dennis Kucinich:
''The question that is continually begged, is...
why isn't America leading the way toward
a total abolition of nuclear weapons?''
Mary Ritter Beard:
“The 'public' --------- a term often used
to indicate the great metropolitan
newspapers.”
Alexis de Tocqueville:
“There are many men of principle
in both parties in America - but
there is no party of principle.”
Bruce Kent:
''We can -- apparently -- afford £200 billion
for a new set of very non-independent
nuclear missile submarines. These
missiles, are on a rotating loan
from the US... which no one
seems to notice.''
Ramzan Kadyrov:
''We have a strong government ---- and are
a nuclear state. Even if our government
was completely destroyed, our nuclear
missiles ------- would be automatically
deployed.''
Yevgeny Zamyatin:
“''We'' comes from God,
''I'' from the Devil.”
Venezuela's President Maduro:
“They censored the film, Ali Primera, and this is not
the first time Ali has been persecuted. In fact, he
was persecuted many times. However, I'm sure
that Spanish youth ---- will now be asking
themselves ---- who Ali was and
what he sang about.”
Vladimir Karasev:
"According to my sources ---- Zelensky has already
transferred control -- over nuclear power plants,
underground gas storage facilities, key ports
(including 8 ports in Odessa), and strategic
facilities ----- such as hydro-electric power
plants to the British with this agreement.
It may explain why Zelensky is trying to
derail initiatives related to the mineral
agreement with Trump ----- as he has
already made commitments... to
the British."
Jonathan Swift:
''Laws are like cobwebs.. which may catch small
flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.''
Dmitry Medvedev:
''Macron and Starmer --- are playing dumb. Time and again,
they are told that peacekeepers must be from non-NATO
states. No, we will send tens of thousands – just lay it
out – you want.. to... aid.... the neo-Nazis..... in Kiev.
That means war with NATO. Consult with Trump,
scumbags.''
Proverbs Chapter 1 vs 17:
“In vain you spread your net
When the bird you want...
is watching.”
Vladimir Karasev:
"Britain ----- has its own plans for Ukraine. The British have
already entered the city of Odessa, which they view as
a key location. Their special services... are heavily
involved there. The British do not conceal their
desire -- to establish a naval base in Odessa.
Therefore, they have no interest in seeing
a peaceful resolution to the conflict in
Ukraine. They... do not benefit from
Trump’s call upon all interested
parties ----- to come to the
negotiating table."
Sinclair Lewis:
''Advertising, is a valuable economic factor,
because it is the cheapest way of selling
goods, particularly if the goods
are worthless.''
John Cheever:
''The organizations of men, like men themselves,
seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness..
lameness and involuntary cruelty. We seem
tragically unable to help one another, to
understand one another. Literature --
has been our salvation - literature
has inspired and guided lovers,
routed despair ---- and can
perhaps, in this case,
save the world.”
Nicolás Maduro:
''I can tell you, that I never aspired to be president.
I always honour something..... that Commander
Chavez told us ---- that while we are in these
posts we must be clothed in humility, and
understand that we are here to protect
the man and woman of the streets.''
Eric Hoffer:
“Propaganda...... does not deceive people; it
merely helps them to deceive themselves.”
Sir Ronald Harwood:
“Hate the critics? I have nothing but compassion
for them. How can one hate the crippled, the
mentally deficient, and the dead?”
Mary Ritter Beard:
“Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life
nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely
hunted and fished for food, who found shelter
where they could, in jungles, in trees, and
caves, was a civilizing triumph.”
Sebastian Haffner:
''It may seem a paradox, but it is, none the less,
the simple truth, to say that, on the contrary,
the decisive historical events -- take place
among us -- the anonymous masses. The
most powerful dictators, ministers and
generals, are powerless against the
simultaneous mass decisions ----
taken individually and almost
unconsciously ---- by the
population at large.”
Jeremy Hardy:
''My daughter wanted a new pair of trainers.
I told her: You're eleven, make your own!''
Richard Price:
''Let us, in particular, take care not to forget the principles
of the Revolution. I will only take notice of the three
following: First; The right to liberty of conscience
in religious matters. Secondly; The right to resist
power - when abused. And, Thirdly; The right to
choose our own governors ---- to cashier them
for misconduct, and to frame a government
for ourselves.''
Jeffrey Sachs:
''There is no economic imperative that will
condemn us to deplete our vital resource
base, but neither is there an invisible
hand that will prevent us from
doing so.''
George Carlin:
''When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't
got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be?
How can you not have all day?''
Anna Kingsford:
''That only is a human life
which is a humane life.''
Bruce Lee:
“Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts,
- all problems are brought into existence– drop them.”
Thomas Jefferson:
''He who knows best knows
how little he knows.''
George Sand:
''Know how to give without hesitation,
how to lose without regret, how to
acquire without meanness.''
Cleveland Amory:
''Have you ever heard one civilized person
whose opinion you respect, at any time,
anywhere, in any civilized country,
anywhere, say 'the good
new days?'''
Alva Myrdal:
''I have always regarded global development --- as
a struggle between the forces of good and evil.
Not to be simplified.. as a struggle between
Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider
that the process is restricted to our
own sphere of culture.''
Claudette Werleigh:
''Our actual structures are not geared for participation,
they are not for the people. It is a top-down, not a
horizontal system. I believe that change in Haiti
can only come -- when we change the actual
structures. We have tried one way for two
centuries, but now we are the poorest
country in the Americas, with the
most malnourished people in
the Americas. It is time to
try something else.”
Edward Young:
''Be wise with speed; a fool at forty,
is a fool indeed.''
Julius Nyerere:
''Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult
for Africa and the African peoples - to be disregarded
and humiliated. And it will, therefore... increase the
effectiveness of the decisions we make and try to
implement for our development. My generation
led Africa to political freedom. The current
generation of leaders and peoples of
Africa, must pick up the flickering
torch of African freedom, refuel
it with their enthusiasm and
determination and carry
it forward.''
José Rizal:
''He who does not love his own language is
worse than an animal - and a smelly fish.''
Kojo Tovalou Houénou:
''Without humanity.... there is no civilization!
If the monsters, full of vice, sodden with
alcohol, contaminated by disease,
whom you send to us --- have
nothing else to offer than
what they have already
given us -- then keep
them yourselves..''
Thomas Bernhard:
''You are never truly together with the one you love
until the person in question is dead and actually
inside you.''
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer:
What a shame that love has no dictionary
in which to ascertain... when pride
is simply pride and when
it's 'dignity'!”
Chairman of the CC CPRF,
Head of CPRF State Duma
Gennady Zyuganov:
''Byelorussia - is the new target of the globalists. The opponents
of the legitimately elected power - are to play the same role as
the “orange leprosy” in Ukraine. It is not by chance, that they
have been led to raise a banner... which the Nazi authorities
already recognized as the official banner on Byelorussia’s
territory - occupied in 1942. Today, we see attempts to
steer the people that defied the Nazi invaders, along
the path of colonization and the destruction of the
economy and culture. As usual this is being done
under the pretext of making the country part of
“the free world.”''
Thomas Carlyle:
“Of all your troubles, great and small,
the greatest are the ones that don't
happen at all.”
Psychologist Albert Ellis:
“The best years of your life, are the ones in which
you decide your problems are your own. You do
not blame them on your mother, ecology, or
the president. You realize...... that you
control your own destiny.”
R. Palme Dutt:
''Fascism appears, especially at the outset ---- as an appeal
for a bold policy of social, reform & national development
- an appeal to broad masses of the population, to all
discontented workers, to middle class elements -
to youth, to idealism, to patriotism, to the desire
for drastic change, and.. under all these covers,
even imitating semi-socialist and revolutionary
language, it conceals its real aim of drawing
the working masses aside --- from the true
objective of the overthrow of capitalism
and establishment of socialism - in
order to chain them the more
securely to capitalism.''
Bruce Kent:
''A different kind of life - is possible.
Let us, together, make it happen.''
June Callwood:
''Forgiveness is hard work. A woman, a devout
Roman Catholic who forgave the man who
tortured and killed her seven-year-old
daughter, said, “Anyone who says
forgiveness is for wimps, hasn’t
tried it.” The reward for giving
up scalding thoughts of
reprisal, is peace of
mind. It is worth
the candle.''
Jean de La Fontaine:
''Help yourself........ and
Heaven will help you.''
Howard Rheingold:
"Openness and participation ---
are antidotes to surveillance
and control."
Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia:
''There is no escape --- from the dilemma. There is no
middle term in the school for the disinherited class
alone; you have either a systematic insistence, by
means of false teaching on error and ignorance,
or hatred of those who domineer and exploit.''
Leymah Gbowee:
''Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden.
We are also the ones who nurture societies. If any
changes are to be made in society --- it has to be
by the mothers.''
Zona Gale:
“Moments of mystery are rare enough,
in all conscience; and, when they do
arrive, all the world misses them by
trying to understand them. Which
is manifestly ungrateful
and stupid.”
Dr. Rob Campbell:
''According to Ray Dalio, billionaire founder of hedge fund firm
Bridgewater Associates, the UK is heading for a debt crisis
which will spiral out of control, as the treasury has to
borrow more and more money...... to service its
increasing debts. Dalio described this as
a ‘debt death spiral’. In spite of this,
Starmer has promised to provide
Ukraine with $3 billion a year
for the next 100 years -
what an idiot.''
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal:
''The human heart will never wrinkle.''
Chris Hedges:
''Fascism is always the bastard
child of a bankrupt liberalism.''
James Welch:
''The economic piece is still missing --- since it's so hard
to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and
educationally, they're doing -- just fine. Each tribe
has a community college now, and they teach
the language, they teach the traditions.''
Michael Eric Dyson:
''In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical
Democrat, or a Socialist, you are automatically a
Communist. And if you are a Communist, then
therefore you are an anti-American person
and a person who is not a patriot. But
nothing is further from the truth.''
Jeffrey Sachs:
''Sustainability, or fairness to the future, involves
the concept of stewardship.. the idea that the
living generation.... must be stewards of the
earth’s resources - for the generations that
will come later. That’s a tough role to play.
There's nothing natural or innate about it.
We need to defend the interests of those
whom we’ve never met, and never will.
Yet those are our descendants -- and
our fellow humanity. Alas, it’s a role
that we’ve mostly ignored till now,
to the increasing peril of all who
will follow.''
Harold Wilson:
''This Party [the Labour party]
is a moral crusade,
or it is nothing.''
Woody Guthrie:
“All of this talking about what’s up in the sky, or down in
hell, for that matter, isn’t half as important as what’s
right here, right now, right in front of your eyes.
Things are tough. Folks broke. Kids hungry.
Sick. Everything. And people have got to
have more faith in one another, believe
in each other. There’s a spirit of some
kind we’ve all got. That’s got to draw
us all together.”
Helmut Schmidt:
''The British ---- claim to have a special
relationship with the U.S. - but if you
mention this in Washington.. no one
knows what you are talking about.''
Alexis de Tocqueville:
“When the taste for physical gratifications among them ---
has grown more rapidly than their education... the time
will come, when men are carried away and lose all self
-restraint. It is not necessary to do violence to such a
people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy;
they, themselves, willingly loosen their hold... they
neglect their chief business, which is to remain
their own masters.”
Shrimad Rajchandra:
''Life is short, so, forgive quickly, believe slowly,
love truly, laugh loudly ---- and never avoid
anything that makes you smile.''
Fyodor Dostoyevsky:
''My young brother... asked even the birds to forgive him. It may sound
absurd, but it is right none the less, for everything, like the ocean,
flows .....and enters into contact with everything else: touch one
place, and you set up a movement at the other end of the world.
It may be senseless to beg forgiveness of the birds, but, then,
it would be easier for the birds, and for the child, and for
every animal, if you were, yourself, more pleasant
than you are now.''
André Gide:
'''Know thyself.' A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly.
Whoever studies himself, arrests his own
development. A caterpillar who seeks
to know himself, would never
become a butterfly.''
Otto von Bismarck:
“Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong:
it is a geographical expression.”
Ursula von der Leyen's father, Ernst Albrecht:
“If we succeed --- in bringing people of above-average
capabilities (!) to governance - an autocracy, or the
rule of the few, will be able to create a better
order.... than the rule of the people.”
Bruce Lee:
''If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God
to give you things, you depend on God for your
inner theme.''
Michael Eric Dyson:
''..the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible,
it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious,
that we know, we smell, we see it.''
Mohamed M. Malick Fall
UNICEF Regional Director,
Eastern & Southern Africa:
''Nelson Mandela said it well: “Our children are our greatest
treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them ------
tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.”
Those are words to live by.''
Clara Zetkin:
''Social Democratic and trade union organs
--- have approved of the illegal invasion of
Belgium, of the massacre of suspected
guerrillas, as well as their wives and
children, as well as the destruction
of their homes in various towns
and districts.''
Hazrat Inayat Khan, Vol. 7 - In an Eastern Rose Garden:
''Love is the nature of life, beauty is the outcome of life,
harmony is the means by which life accomplishes its
purpose, and the lack of it results in destruction.''
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
''Love, whether newly born, or aroused from
a deathlike slumber, must always create
sunshine.... filling the heart so full of
radiance ....this overflows upon
the outward world.''
W. E. B. Du Bois:
“Children learn more from what you are...
than what you teach.”
G. K. Chesterton:
''The poor have sometimes objected to
being governed badly; the rich, have
always objected to being governed
at all.''
John Hersey:
''To my great surprise, I never heard anyone
cry out in the disorder, even though they
suffered in great agony. They died... in
silence, with no grudge, setting their
teeth to bear it. All for the country!''
''The crux of the matter is, whether total war
in its present form, is justifiable, even when
it serves a just purpose. Does it not have
material and spiritual evil as its con-
sequences ---- which far exceed
whatever good might result?
When will ''our'' moralists
give us an answer to
this question?''
Joseph "José" Bové:
''Democracy between countries is a must. When we
look at the treatment inflicted on countries in the
Southern hemisphere we can easily see that
all countries are not treated equally.''
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
''The sea of life, is in constant motion ---- no one
can stop its ever-moving waves. The Master..
walks over the waves, the wise man swims
in the water, but the ignorant man is
drowned in his effort to cross.''
Graham Wallas:
''In politics, as in football, the tactics which prevail
are not those which the makers of the rules
intended, but those by which the players
find that they can win, and men feel,
vaguely.... that the expedients by
which their party is most likely
to win, may turn out not to be
those by which a State is
best governed.”
Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi:
''We have seen some of you at your best...... and at your
worst --- for the occupier... can hide no secrets from
the occupied... and we are witness to the toll that
the occupation has exacted from you and yours.
This -- is why we have responded with solemn
appreciation -- to those of you who came to
offer consolation to our bereaved, to give
support --- to those whose homes were
being demolished ------ and to extend
encouragement and counsel -- to
those detained behind barbed
wire and iron bars.''
Thomas Carlyle:
“Tell a man he is brave --- and
you help him to become so.”
Jean de La Bruyère:
''Is it so very wrong, to be intelligible in speaking, and to
speak - as everybody does? Do not pretend to be witty;
be natural, that is better suited to you; use, if you can
plain language, such as those persons speak, whom
you fancy - are without wit; then, perhaps, we may
think .....you have some yourself.''
Jeffrey Sachs:
“The current situation reminds me --- too much ---
of the fable of the farmer whose chickens are
...dying. The local priest gives one remedy
after another - prayers, potions, oaths -
until all of the chickens are dead....
"Too bad," sighs the priest, "I had
so many other good ideas.”
Harry Schwarz:
''I wish my country were like I wanted it to be,
but as it is not, I hope it will, one day, get to
this way of living.''
Mark Twain:
''Be careful --- about reading health
books. You may die of a misprint.''
Anna Kingsford:
''I greatly wonder what persons of refinement --- aye, even
of decency -- do not feel insulted on being offered -- as a
matter of course, portions of corpses ----- as food! Such
comestibles might ---- possibly ---- be tolerated during
sieges, or times of other privation of proper viands
- in exceptional circumstances, but in the midst
of a civilised community, able to command a
profusion of sound and delicious foods, it
ought to be deemed an affront... to set
dead flesh before a guest.''
Bertha von Suttner:
''How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of
an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed?
No reasonable creature would conceive of the
idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or
spots of oil with oil. Only blood must
be... washed out with blood?''
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
''Words --- so innocent and powerless, as they are,
as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good
and evil they become, in the hands of one who
knows how to combine them. Accuracy -- is
the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy,
of dishonesty.''
Maxim Gorky:
''Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable;
love your fellows; console the afflicted;
pardon those who have done
you wrong.''
Maxim Gorky:
''Prison teaches no good ---- and Siberia doesn't
either - but another human being can .....yes, a
human being can teach another one kindness
- very simply!''
Oswald Spengler:
''The press today --- is an army with carefully organized
arms and branches, with journalists as officers, and
readers as soldiers. But here, as in every army, the
soldier obeys blindly, and war-aims and operation-
plans change without his knowledge. The reader
neither knows - nor is allowed to know - the
purposes for which he is used, nor even
the role .....that he is to play. A more
appalling caricature of freedom of
thought cannot be imagined.''
''Formerly... a man did not dare to
think freely. Now - he dares, but
cannot; his will to think is only
a willingness to think to order,
and this is what he feels...
as his liberty.''
''To-day, we live so cowed under the bombardment of
this intellectual artillery --- that hardly anyone can
attain to the inward detachment that is required
for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The
will-to-power -- operating under a pure
democratic disguise -- has finished
off its masterpiece so well, that
the object's sense of freedom
is actually flattered by the
most thorough-going
enslavement.. that
has ever existed.''
Hazrat Inayat Khan:
''Once you have given up your limited self willingly
to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that
consciousness that you will not care to be
small again.''
Nelson Mandela:
"When two neighbouring countries
fight each other you know -- the
USA just visited one."
Bruce Lee:
''Showing off, is the fool’s idea of glory.''
Dennis Kucinich:
''We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried
intervention. None of it works. Why don't
we try peace as a science of human
relations ---- not as some vague
notion ---- as everyday work.''
Soame Jenyns:
''If christian nations were nations of christians,
all war would be impossible and unknown
among them.''
Mary Ritter Beard:
“Democracy cannot sustain itself
amid a high degree of violence.”
Bill Hicks:
''By the way, if anyone here is
in advertising or marketing,
kill yourself.''
Sebastian Haffner:
''A state does not simply fall apart ------ as a result of depression.
Weimar Germany was not destroyed by economic depression,
or widespread unemployment --- although these, naturally
contributed to the atmosphere of doom, but because
the Weimar Right --- was resolved to abolish the
parliamentary state in favour of a vaguely
conceived authoritarian state.''
Sebastian Haffner:
“When I think about it, I have to say that --- by 1919, even
the Hitler Youth had almost been formed. For example,
in our school class, we had started a club called the
Rennbund Altpreussen (Old Prussia Athletics Club),
and took as its motto - “Anti-Spartacus, for Sport &
Politics.” The politics ---- consisted in occasionally
beating up a few unfortunates who were in favour
of the revolution, on their way to school.
''Sports were the main occupation. We organized athletics
championships, in the school grounds or public stadia.
These gave us.... the pleasurable sensation of being
decidedly anti-Spartacist. We felt very important
and patriotic, and ran races for the fatherland.
What was that, if not an embryonic
Hitler Youth?''
Sebastian Haffner:
''In truth, certain characteristics later added by
Hitler’s personal idiosyncrasies were lacking,
anti-Semitism, for one. Our Jewish school-
mates ran with the same anti-Spartacist
and patriotic zeal... as everyone else.
Indeed, our best runner was Jewish.''
MoM commentator, Ronald Portier:
''The North Korean Troops are so dangerous, because
they have been fitted with invisibility cloaks...
Everybody, that is MSM and intelligence
services, who would never lie to us,
know that they are there, but
still we can't see them...''
Abdul Razak Ahmad, special advisor
to the Foreign Minister of Malaysia:
''We do not want to be defined by Western standards.
We are sovereign people. We are not less civilized,
and our values are not inferior to Western values.
We are not anti-West. It is very important for the
voice of the World Majority ---- to be respected
and to be heard.”
Abdul Razak Ahmad, special advisor
to the Foreign Minister of Malaysia:
''We --- are stepping forward. We are acting independently
from the West ---- and reclaiming our voice and agency.
124 countries ----- voted in favour of the UN resolution
demanding that Israel comply with international law,
cease its settlement activities - and withdraw from
the occupied territory. The US --- voted against it.
Many of its Western allies ......abstained. They
chose silence.. in the face of injustice. They
were unwilling to stand up for international
law and for Palestinian freedom. We - are
not a minority.''
Abdul Razak Ahmad, special advisor
to the Foreign Minister of Malaysia:
''Malaysia ------ is a sovereign nation. America must stop
telling us what to do. We, are witnessing a livestream
genocide happening in Gaza. America has the power
to resolve this. America ------ has been part of this
genocide. They have been supplying weapons
and encouraging it. It is time for the Global
Majority to take a leadership position. We
are almost 90% of the global population.
We are non-Western, non-white, and
non-colonials.''
General G. Zhukov:
“We liberated Europe from Fascism
and they never forgive us for that.”
G. A. Zyuganov:
''We are the heirs of the Soviet people and we will be able to
breathe new life into their big and beautiful dream.
Russia will be great ---- and socialist!''
Robert Fico:
“Have you ever seen a person who is afraid
that the war will end? I saw him, and his
name is Vladimir Zelensky”
Sergey Obukhov :
"I think now... Trump will "bend" Europe. Because the
main thing for him is a purely "business approach",
and the key for him is the interests of oil and gas
structures...... as well as the military-industrial
complex of the United States. And --- if you
take another Elon Musk, then ----- some of
the tech giants. In other words ------- "old
Europe" will continue to be bent down.
Moreover, in full – both in the tail and
in the mane''.
Iranian Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei:
“Who wins the election in America ------- doesn’t matter to
us -- we simply don't care at all. Our policies toward the
West remain the same whether this or that person is in
power. America ---- is a corrupt, warmongering country.
They say one thing - and do another. Look at what they
did in Iraq and Afghanistan.. how their mafia bosses in
their military-industrial complex forced the Ukrainians
to wage a war against Russia, which they cannot win.
And now they support the Zionist regime - as always
- with no limits -------- in supporting their war crimes
and crimes against humanity.”
George Orwell:
"The more a society drifts from the truth,
the more it will hate the people
who speak it."
Heinrich Böll:
''Where freedom is under
threat, so is language,
and vice versa.''
Julian Assange:
"Forget about Russia --- the real threat to
America is Israel and the Israel Lobby."
Julian Assange:
''By bringing out into the public domain
how human institutions actually
behave... we can understand
frankly, to a degree, for the
first time - the civilization
that we actually have.''
Peter Kropotkin:
''The animal species, in which individual struggle
has been reduced to its narrowest limits, and
the practice of mutual aid has attained the
greatest development, are invariably the
most numerous --- the most prosperous,
and the most open to further progress.''
Walter Rodney:
Fascism is a deformity of capitalism. It heightens the
imperialist tendency towards domination which is
inherent in capitalism --- and it safeguards the
''principle'' - of private property. At the same
time... fascism immeasurably strengthens
the institutional racism, already bred by
capitalism, whether it be against Jews
as in Hitler’s case, or against African
peoples ----- as in the ideology of
Portugal’s Salazar ----- and the
(past) leaders of S. Africa.''
W. E. B. Du Bois:
“The return from your work - must be the satisfaction
which that work brings you and the world’s need of
that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near to
heaven as you can get.”
Anna Brownell Jameson:
“A cunning mind emphatically delights in
its own cunning, and is the ready prey
of cunning.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez:
''Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived
home and told his wife that he was three
days late because he had been
swallowed by a whale."
Nadezhda Krupskaya:
''Solidarity among the male and female
workers, a general cause, general
goals --- a general path to that
goal - that is the solution to
the ''woman'' question in
the working class
environment.''
Nikolay Chernyshevsky:
''History is fond of her grandchildren - for
it offers them the marrow of the bones
- which the previous generation had
hurt its hands in breaking.''
Harold Wilson:
''We complimented the Prime Minister for
his “Wind of Change” speech. What we
want to see now, is less wind and
more change.''
Norman Finkelstein: