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This willl probably sink like a stone, but then again it might be good for a game of ping pong, I'll start....

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“There was no war. No combat. There was only a deliberate, systematic genocide of a defenseless population while barely setting foot on Iraqi soil. When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1967, ‘The greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my own government’, he could not have dreamed in his worst nightmare what the U.S. did to Iraq.”

— Ramsey Clark
“Fire and Ice: The Devastation of Iraq by War and Sanctions”

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The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

-Max Lerner

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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it ... always.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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It is this nation-state which today is making serfs of its citizens. It is this state which, to protect its particular vested interests, takes away the earnings of the people and wastes them on munitions in the constant fear of being attacked and destroyed by some other nation-state. It is this state which, by forcing passports and visas upon us, does not allow us to move freely. It is this state, wherever it exists, which by keeping prices high through artificial regulations and tariffs, believing that every state must be economically self-supporting, does not permit its citizens to enjoy the fruits of modern science and technology. It is this state which interferes more and more with our everyday life and tends to prescribe every minute of our existence.

- Emery Reves, 1945
"The anatomy of peace"

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"Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there."

-Frank Zappa

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“At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.”

— George Orwell

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[Doublethink is to tell] deliberate lies while genuinely believing them and to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies - all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.

George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty Four

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"To be lied to and told that it is for my own good, I pay for wars in which people die by the virtual extension of my own hand around their necks. I, along with so many others, have killed a thousand times with merely a payment to the taxman, let alone with a gun. I will stop one day, knowing that there is nothing I can do about it, on that day I will die."

- J. K. Bamber

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"Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people"

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"Weaselspoor is an effete monkey with a penchent for rough toilet sex with dockers"

Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald, Statement to the House, August 1924

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"The greatest hapiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters"
----Genghis Khan (1162-1227).

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"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
Former French President Charles de Gaulle

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"We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun"

- Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

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"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."
Lenin.

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"The Soviet state in all its relations is far closer to a backward capitalism than to communism"

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"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."
Benito Mussolini.

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"Inside the heart of every anarchist is a fascist trying to get out"
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"When the going gets weird...the weird turn pro"

Hunter Thompson

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We suck. Save the environment, shoot yourself in the head.

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O my soul, make thy speech fair and sweeten thy tongue and permit not thy companion to tread on thy foot, lest he tread at the last on thy breast.

from Haiqar and Nadan

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forti nihil difficile - "nothing is difficult to the strong"

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