To understand reality, try to change it.
-Henry Volken, Jesuit activist
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's
original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been
made, through disobedience and rebellion. -Oscar Wilde
Perhaps we cannot raise the wind.
But each of us can put up the sail,
so that when the wind comes we can catch it.
- E.F. Schumacher
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises
in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral
justification for selfishness."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Who can save our species? The blind, uncontrollable law of
the market? Neo-liberal globalization, alone and for its own sake,
like a cancer which devours human beings and destroys nature? That
cannot be the way forward or at least it can only last for a brief
period in history. ---President Castro, May 14th 1998
"If only people could see each other as agents of each others'
happiness, they could occupy the earth, their common habitation, in peace,
and move forward confidently together to their common goal.
The prospect changes when they regard each other as obstacles; soon
they have no choice left but to flee or be forever fighting. Humankind
then seems nothing but a gigantic error of nature."
Abbe Sieyes
Prelude to the Constitution
1789 France
When they arrived, we had the land and they had the Bible and they told us
to close our eyes to pray. When we opened our eyes, they had the land and
we had the Bible. - Desmond Tutu
Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundation of
our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social
responsibility other than to make as much money for their
shareholders as possible.
-Milton Friedman
If voting could change the system, it would be illegal
- attributed to anarchists
Ask not what the world is doing to you,
but what you can do with the world.
-cadre folk saying
Only when the last tree has died
And the last river been poisoned
And the last fish caught
Will we realize that we cannot eat money.
- The Cree
If we see that Germany is winning we should help Russia and if Russia
is winning we ought to help Germany and that way let them kill as many
as possible . . .
Harry S. Truman, 1941
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men
shall possess the highest seats in Government, our
country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to
prevent its ruin." - Samuel Adams
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are
men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain
without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful
roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a
physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a
struggle! Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and
it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have
found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed
upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either
words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by
the endurance of those whom they oppress."
--Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857.
[There] is looming up a new and dark power;
the enterprises of the country are aggregating
vast corporate combinations of unexampled capital,
boldly marching, not for economical conquests only,
but for political power. The question will arise
and arise in your day, though perhaps not fully in mine,
which shall rule - wealth or man; which shall lead -
money or intellect; who shall fill public stations -
educated and patriotic freemen, or the feudal serfs of
corporate capital...
- Edward G. Ryan, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court,
from an address to the 1873 graduating class
of the University of Wisconsin Law School
If you think you're too small to be effective,
You've never been in bed with a mosquito.
Did you exchange
A walk-on part in a war
For a lead role in a cage?
-Roger Waters, of Pink Floyd
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it;<br>
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Goethe
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful
committed citizens can change the world,
indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is
nearing its end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure
and blood.... It has indeed been a trying hour for the
Republic; but I see in the near future a crisis
approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble
for the safety of my country. As a result of the war
corporations have been enthroned and an era of
corruption in high places will follow, and the money
power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign
by working upon the prejudices of the people until all
wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is
destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the
safety of my country than ever before, even in the
midst of war.
--Abraham Lincoln, letter to William F. Elkins,
Nov 21, 1864. Archer H. Shaw, ed., The Lincoln
Encyclopedia 40 (1950)
"Those who can, must!" --Anonymous
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great
moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante
Only those duped by the mainstream media believe that
fascism is about jack-booted stormtroopers and swastikas
-posted to an electric pole in Wexford
"It is impossible to express a really new principle
in terms of a model following old laws."
-- Max Planck
Capitalism is the astounding belief that
the most wickedest of men will do
the most wickedest of things
for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes
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