Notable Quotable 215

Feb 26, 2024

I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

- Stanley Hauerwas

Judging from the experience of the European War, imperialism renders no great benefit to any nation, whereas liberty for all nationalities is the only principle by which humanity will ever be saved.

- Sun Yat-sen

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

- Alan Greenspan

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

- Fran Lebowitz

The more enlightened man will become, the less he will employ compulsion and coercion. The really civilized man will divest himself of all fear and authority. He will rise from the dust and stand erect: he will bow to no tsar either in heaven or on earth. He will become fully human when he will scorn to rule and refuse to be ruled. He will be truly free only when there shall be no more masters.... anarchy therefore does not mean disorder and chaos, as you thought before. On the contrary, it is the very reverse of it; it means no government, which is freedom and liberty. Disorder is the child of authority and compulsion. Liberty is the mother of order.

- Alexander Berkman

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The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.

- Irish Proverb

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

- Aldous Huxley

History will remember this war on Palestinian civilians and their displacement as the moment the world woke up to the Zionist plans of occupation and expansion.

- Aysha Taryam

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

- Edward Said

We have destroyed our democracy to an extent the terrorists never could have. We've changed our democracy into a semi-police state.

- William Binney