156 posts tagged “ich”
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits." : Sir Josiah Stamp (1880-1941) President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, the second richest man in Britain
"Endless money forms the sinews of war." : Marcus Tullius Cicero - (106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator
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"Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people": Spencer Johnson
"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society": Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime": Ernest Hemingway
"If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war": Pentagon official explaining why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War
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"I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone": H. L. Mencken
"It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own". : Thomas Jefferson
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'Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people":
John Adams
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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq
"1,252,595"
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially
acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 4,143
http://icasualties.org/oif/
"Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution.": W. Lance Bennett - Author, professor at University of Washington Source: News: The Politics of Illusion, 1983
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"Make
men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty
follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against
the artillery of opinion.": William Godwin - (1756-1836)
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"The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men.": Robert G. Ingersoll - (1833-1899)
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"Freedom
of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of
civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which
once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded
to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought
not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.": Felix Frankfurter - (1882-1965) U.S. Supreme Court Justice - Source: Concurring Opinion, Dennis et al. v. U.S. (1951)
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"Freedom
to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would
be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to
differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order." : Justice Robert H. Jackson - (1892-1954), U. S. Supreme Court Justice Source: West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 1943
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"A man who has in mind an apparent advantage and promptly proceeds to dissociate this from the question of what is right shows himself to be mistaken and immoral. Such a standpoint is the parent of assassinations, poisonings, forged wills, thefts, malversations of public money, and the ruinous exploitation of provincials and Roman citizens alike. Another result is passionate desire - desire for excessive wealth, for unendurable tyranny, and ultimately for the despotic seizure of free states. These desires are the most horrible and repulsive things imaginable. The perverted intelligences of men who are animated by such feelings are competent to understand the material rewards, but not the penalties. I do not mean penalties established by law, for these they often escape. I mean the most terrible of all punishments: their own degradation."Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." : Samuel P. Huntington
"Beat me with the truth, don't torture me with lies": Author - Unknown
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"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.": Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) German Dramatist
"Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.": Henry Miller - (1891-1980) American writer
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different: John Dewey
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"I would like to thank Providence and the Almighty for choosing me of all people to be allowed to wage this battle for Germany," Hitler - Berlin March, 1936
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.: George W. Bush
If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us: Adolf Hitler, at the Harvest Thanksgiving Festival on the Buckeburg held on 3 Oct. 1937
"freedom and fear, justice and cruelty have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them." George W. Bush
"Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!" : Hitler - Nuremberg Sept. 13, 1936.
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"Much law, but little justic": Proverb
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all": Edmund Burke
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people: Martin Luther King Jr.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity": Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists will we be? "- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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"He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides": William Cowper
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves": William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
"If a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime": Charles Eliot Norton
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"It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like "democracy," "freedom," "rights," "justice," which have so often inspired heroism and have led men to give their lives for things which make life worthwhile, can also become a trap, the means of destroying the very things men desire to uphold." Sir Norman Angell (1874 - 1967), 1956.
"No one is more dangerous than one who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity. by definition is unassailable": James Baldwin (1924 - 1987) Notes of a native son, 1955
"When faced with a choice between confronting an unpleasant reality and defending a set of comforting and socially accepted beliefs, most people choose the later course". W. Lance Bennett.
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