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    Herodotus
    “He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'

    The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march onto your lands. Nobody is mad enough to choose war whilst there is peace. During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.”
    Herodotus, The Histories

  • #2
    Glenn Greenwald
    “Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.”
    Glenn Greenwald

  • #3
    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #4
    Matt Taibbi
    “Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what’s happened.”
    Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

  • #5
    Glenn Greenwald
    “American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.”
    Glenn Greenwald

  • #6
    Glenn Greenwald
    “I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.”
    Glenn Greenwald

  • #7
    Noam Chomsky
    “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
    Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

  • #8
    Noam Chomsky
    “Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #9
    Noam Chomsky
    “Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,... [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
    Noam Chomsky, Propaganda and the Public Mind

  • #10
    Noam Chomsky
    “For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
    Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

  • #11
    Noam Chomsky
    “The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #12
    Chris Hedges
    “There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.”
    Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

  • #13
    Chris Hedges
    “The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.”
    Chris Hedges

  • #14
    Chris Hedges
    “War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians.”
    Chris Hedges

  • #15
    Dave Zirin
    “The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.”
    Dave Zirin, A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

  • #16
    Howard Zinn
    “Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”
    Howard Zinn

  • #17
    Howard Zinn
    “How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
    Howard Zinn

  • #18
    Howard Zinn
    “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
    Howard Zinn

  • #19
    Howard Zinn
    “Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”
    Howard Zinn

  • #20
    Andrea Camilleri
    “Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.”
    Andrea Camilleri, La pista di sabbia

  • #21
    Eduardo Galeano
    “I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.”
    Eduardo Galeano

  • #22
    Eduardo Galeano
    “I am not particularly interested in
    saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.”
    Eduardo Hughes Galeano

  • #23
    Eduardo Galeano
    “In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.”
    Eduardo Galeano

  • #24
    Herodotus
    “Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”
    Herodotus, The Histories

  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.”
    Mark Twain

  • #26
    Len Deighton
    “He had a long thin nose, a moustache like flock wallpaper, sparse, carefully combed hair, and the complexion of a Hovis loaf.”
    Len Deighton, The Ipcress File

  • #27
    “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
    Anthony G. Oettinger

  • #28
    Ray Cummings
    “Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.”
    Ray Cummings, The Girl in the Golden Atom
    tags: time

  • #29
    Moses Hadas
    “Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.”
    Moses Hadas

  • #30
    Fidel Castro
    “A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”
    Fidel Castro



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