Notable Quotable #32
“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
“My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.”
- Edward Said
“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”
- Edward Said
“Our role is to widen the field of discussion, not to set limits in accord with the prevailing authority.”
- Edward Said
"War does not determine who is right – only who is left.”
- Bertrand Russell
“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu
“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppression.”
- Malcom X
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
- Ernest Hemingway
"The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens."
- Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitab-i-Aqdas: The Most Holy Book
“ "What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
"The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace."
- James Madison
"We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy."
- Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General
"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy."
- John Pierpont Morgan
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