The History of Terrorism
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"A large part of the money in our (French) banks comes precisely from the exploitation of Africa. And France would lose its global standing without its African empire." - Jacques Chirac
"A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Direct taxation leads to slavery" - Montesquieu
"Every bureaucracy seeks to increase the superiority of the professionally informed by keeping their knowledge and intentions secret ...
"Great politics is the politics of the Empires of Rome, Athens, Alexander, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon. N was a dogged defender of power, and the warrior ethos. Described his works as "assassination attempts". Called himself the apostle of "active...
"High money, high mass
"If I were to see the case of a boy aged 10 or 12 who's intensely attracted toward a man in his 20s or 30s, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual, then I would not call it pathological in any way." - John Money
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."
"In truth, we are relativists par excellence,'" II Duce emphasized, "[and] the moment relativism linked up with Nietzsche, and with his Will to Power, was when Italian Fascism, became, as it still is, the most magnificent creation of an individual...
"More and more people own their own homes in America today, 2/3rds of all of Americans own their own homes yet we have a problem because fewer than half of the hispanics and half of the African Americans own the home. ...
"Oswald was my baby" - Oliver Howlett?
"Russia has no good generals. The only exception is Bagration."-Napoleon
"The new philosopher can arise only in conjunction with a ruling caste, as its highest spiritualisation, Great politics, rule of the earth, are at hand." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The time for petty politics is over" "the very next century will bring the fight for the domination of the earth-the compulsion to great politics." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve." - H.L. Mencken
"We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it." - Claude Shannon
"We should change it back. We should change it back. We should change it back, because legacy matters. My uncle served at Bragg. I served at Bragg. It breaks a generational link".[5]
"When your scope for action is greatest, the knowledge on which you can base this action is always at a minimum. When your knowledge is greatest, the scope for action has often disappeared."
1608 All witches "convicted by the Magistrate" should be executed. He allows no exception and under this condemnation fall "all Diviners, Charmers, Jugglers, all Wizards, commonly called wise men or wise women".
1870 But the great tragedy of Science-the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact-which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers, was played, almost immediately, for the benefit of Buffon and Needham." - Thomas Henry Huxley
1934 "America is the very incarnation of doom. She will drag the whole world down to the bottomless pit." - Henry Miller
1945? "In a show of her generosity and selflessness, metropolitan France, wishing not to impose on her far-away daughters the consequences of her own poverty, is setting different exchange rates for their currency."
1946 "Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell
1949 "If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being,...
1956 John Foster Dulles wrote "the religions of the East are deeply rooted and have many precious values. Their spiritual belief cannot be reconciled with communism, athiesm and materialism. That creates a common bond between us and our task is to find it
1976 "How many lies can you allow yourself to believe before you belong to the lie?"
1988 Read my lips: no new taxes
1994 "More Americans should own their own homes..." - Bill Clinton
1998 "If you have a society that cannot hold itself together because it is so unjust then the first thing they try is propaganda to convince people to put up with it despite it being unjust."
2012 "And if you think about it the idea that you owe a debt to the cosmos, and this crops up again and again, debt to nature, debt to society, debt to these huge institutions larger than yourself is kind of absurd. Because a debt is a...
2016 "...I was teaching racism. So what I was doing was not educating but indoctrinating." referring to the racist curriculum tought in American schools. - Jane Elliott
2018 "There's 4 trillion dollars in consumer debt in this country (US) right now. ...$1.5 trillion of that is in student debt."
2020 In his comments earlier in the week, Sorkin said, "I don't in a million years expect Donald Trump will ever do the right thing, except by accident." "He's irredeemable, " Sorkin concluded, "the rest of us aren't."
2021 "Secrets are not as important to Freemasonry as are stories about Freemasonry." - John Dickie
2022 "Ukraine has biological research facilities which in fact we are quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to gain control of, so we are working...
2022 "We will not fight a war against Russia in Ukraine. Direct confrontation between Nato and Russia is World War Three, something we must strive to prevent."
2022 "We're not at war with Ukraine and Ukrainians, but at war with the USA inside Ukraine," 55-year-old Igor Sitalo said Russian soldiers told him after they shot at him.
2022 The President said: "We will defend every single inch of Nato territory with the full might of a united and galvanised Nato.
2023 "In ancient times usury was interest." - Michael Hudson
500s?-1700s "Medieval England, I think somebody calculated that 97% of all transactions in a typical English village, and this is true through to at least the 1700s, were by credit." David Graeber
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Data is the new oil
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Famous Quotes
He claimed that “it is the anti-Semite who creates the Jew.”
In an interview with Swedish political magazine OmVärlden, Akelius argued that Sweden should support more refugees, and stated that the world needed more billionaires, as "they are the only ones that reduce poverty".[18]
Mae Brussell quotes
One of his more famous quotes is: "Half of what you learn in medical school is dead wrong."
Only the dead have seen the end of war. (Not Plato but George Santayana)
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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. - Marshall McLuhan
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche