QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, James Madison, Howard Zinn, Ramman Kenoun, Condoleeza Rice, Condescending Rice, Ramman Kenoun, Terry Liberty Parker, Thomas Paine, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Patricia Sun, Dalai Lama, William Ramsey Clark.

• A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
  ~James Madison
  
  
• Historically, the most terrible things--war, genocide and slavery--have resulted from obedience, not disobedience.
  ~Howard Zinn
  
  

• Good leaders serve the interests of their people, while unfit leaders exploit their citizens to serve their own.
  ~Ramman Kenoun
  
  
• You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
  ~Condoleeza Rice (Comment trying to convince mideast policy makers Russia, the EU and the UN to stop aid to the new Hamas Palestinian government; 1/30/06.)
  
  
• How is it possible for people to consider themselves supporters of the troops when they approve of an event that throws those troops into...peril?
  ~Ramman Kenoun
  
  
• When people have friends and customers in other lands, they tend to take a dim view of their government dropping bombs on them.
  ~Terry Liberty Parker
  
  
• He that is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
  ~Thomas Paine
  
  
• We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.
  ~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  
  
• Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
  ~Albert Einstein
  
  
• War comes from our being immature, fearful, and injured, and not being able to concieve of other ways of solving problems.
  ~Patricia Sun (Patricia Sun is an internationally renowned philosophical psychologist.)
  
  
• War is a failure of human intelligence.
  ~Patricia Sun (Patricia Sun is an internationally renowned philosophical psychologist.)
  
  
• [War] comes from an immature style of thinking where creativity and overview is scarce.
  ~Patricia Sun (Patricia Sun is an internationally renowned philosphical psychologist.)
  
  
• War may be only temporary, but its toll remains permanently.
  ~Ramman Kenoun
  
  
• All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.
  ~Dalai Lama
  
  
• The greatest crime since World War II has been US foreign policy.
  ~William Ramsey Clark (William Ramsey Clark was US Attorney General under Lyndon B. Johnson)
  
  
• The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government.
  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• Power is usurped from the people, first by implementing fear, then it is maintained by slandering as 'unpatriotic' those who refuse submission.
  ~Ramman Kenoun
  
  

 

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