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# I began this as a list of Peace Quotes, on September 11 2001 in an attempt
# to propagate the idea that the solution to violence is not more violence.
# It has since been expanded into other related areas. Hopefully, you will
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# There are currently 3343 quotes. I have combined quotes from many sources,
# so there may be a few duplications. Additionally, some quotes are commonly
# attributed to more than one person, and some have wide variations circulating.
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# Special note: Many recent quotes were found in The Vegan Sourcebook,
# by Joanne Stepaniak (1998 Lowell House), ISBN 1-56565-880-9. This is
# an excellent book, which details not only the history of veganism,
# but is also a broad treatise of the philosophy of the movement. Highly
# recommended for people researching non-violence.
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# Many other quotes were found in The Progressive Review's "Undernews",
# compiled by Sam Smith
# And here: American Vegetarians ab514@acorn.net Box 80232 Akron Oh 44308 USA
# Anarchist quotes from infoshop.org
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# TODO: get quotes from Recipients of the Gandhi Peace Award: Eleanor
# Roosevelt The Rev. Dr. Edwin T. Dahlberg Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath
# The Rev. John Haynes Holmes Dr. Linus C. Pauling James Paul Warburg
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# Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. Dr. Benjamin Spock Senator Wayne
# Morse Dr. Willard Uphaus U Thant Dorothy Day Dr. Daniel Ellsberg Peter
# Benenson and Martin Ennals Prof. Roland Bainton Dr. Helen Caldicott
# Dr. Corliss Lamont Randall Watson Forsberg Robert Jay Lifton Dr. Kay
# Camp Dr. Bernard Lown Prof. John Somerville Cesar Chavez Marian Wright
# Edelman Senator George McGovern Ramsey Clark The Rev. Lucius Walker, Jr.
# Father Roy Bourgeois Edith Ballantyne The New Haven/Leon Sister City
# Project Howard and Alice Frazier Michael True and NEPSA
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# Thanks to Xavier De Jonge for finding may typos!
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Daniel ate no flesh in Nebuchadnezzar's prison. -- Daniel 1
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Hell no, we won't go! -- 1960's Anti-war chant
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Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today? -- 1960's Anti-war slogan
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The target suffered a terminal illness before a firing squad in Baghdad.
- CIA officer testifying to US Senate hearing, after bloody CIA aided
Ba'th Party coup overthrew Iraqi Prime Minister Abdel Kassem, 1963
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It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting
and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out
Jews during the Holocaust. -- Aviva Cantor writing in MS Magazine in 1983
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We feel that animals have the same rights as a retarded human child.
Alex Pacheco, Chairman, PETA, New York Times, January 14, 1989
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The application of McDonald's hustle policy [ie. getting staff to work
at speed] in many restaurants was, in effect, putting the service of
the customer before the safety of employees. - giving evidence in the
McLibel Trial -- Health & Safety Executive report of 1992
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[E]xisting international institutions need reform. Developing countries
should be given a stronger voice in their operations. Given their enormous
- and growing - influence, these institutions should also be held more
accountable for their policies and actions. -- UNDP Human Development
Report 2002, p. 8
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[T]here is considerable room for making global institutions more
democratic. Many proposals have been made to remove such patently
undemocratic practices as the veto on the UN Security Council and the
way the leaders of the IMF and World Bank are selected. -- UNDP Human
Development Report 2002, p. 8
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We're not analyzing the media on Mars or in the 18th century or something
like that. We're dealing with real human beings now who are suffering
and dying and being tortured and starving because of policies that we
are involved in, we as citizens of democratic societies are directly
involved in and are responsible for. And what the overground media are
doing is ensuring that we do not act on our responsibilities, and that the
interests of power are served, not the needs of the suffering people, and
not even the needs of the American people, who would be horrified if they
realized the blood that's dripping from their hands because of the way
they are allowing themselves to be deluded and manipulated by the system.
Noam Chomsky, Quoted in Fraser Clark's "the UP" 108, April 3, 2002
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The label full spectrum dominance implies that US forces are able
to conduct prompt, sustained, and synchronised operations with
combinations of forces tailored to specific situations, and with access
to and freedom to operate in all domains - space, sea, land, air and
information. Additionally, given the global nature of our interests
and obligations, the United States must maintain its overseas presence
forces and the ability to rapidly project power worldwide in order to
achieve full spectrum dominance. -- Joint Vision 2020, the blueprint
the United States Department of Defence will follow in the future
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My body has never been defiled by animal flesh. -- Ezekiel 3 and 4
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The wolf shall lie down with the lamb. They shall not hurt nor destroy
in all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of
the Lord. -- Isaiah 65
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Methionine in meat becomes homocysteine. High homecysteine levels
quadruple the chance of heart attack. -- Time Magazine August 97 (quoting
Finnish hospital study)
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Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human
population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and
magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions
are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and
Space-Age Sleaze. -- Edward Abbey
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell --
Edward Abbey
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. -- Edward Abbey
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The rancher, with a few honorable exceptions, is a man who strings barbed
wire all over the range; drills wells and bulldozes stock ponds; drives
off elk and antelope and bighorn sheep; poisons coyotes and prairie dogs;
shoots eagles, bears, and cougars on sight; supplants the native grasses
with tumbleweed, snakeweed, povertyweed, cow shit, anthills, mud, dust,
and flies. And then leans back and grins at the TV cameras and talks
about how he loves the American West. -- Edward Abbey
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They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness,
that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when
their populations are doubled again and again. They would never understand
that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false
to all that is human. -- Edward Abbey
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By accepting responsibility, we take effective steps toward our goal:
an inclusive human society on a habitable planet, a society that works
for all humans and for all nonhumans. By accepting responsibility, we
move closer to creating a world that works for all. -- Sharif M. Abdullah
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Our world today is marked by Auto-Totality (using Vaclav Havel's
term). Auto-Totality is like a totalitarian system, but unlike the
monarchist, fascist, or communist systems with which we are familiar,
Auto-Totality is not created or kept in place by military force or secret
police. It is kept in place by me, you, all of us. Collectively, our
millions of actions every day create, support, reinforce, and maintain
a system in which no one is free. In traditional dictatorships, kicking
out the ruling clique meant that something changed. Under Auto-Totality,
we keep kicking out the incumbents, but the beast lives on. The problem
is not bad people but a bad system. -- Sharif M. Abdullah
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Anger looks to the good of justice -- St. Thomas Acquinas, quoted by
Daniel C. Maguire, Professor, Marquette University, Redefining the
Ministry of Reconciliation
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Everything that we tried to achieve for the past several years was
annihilated after the bombing began. -- A Serbian peace movement activist,
via e-mail
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Thus began my political and spiritual journey toward including animals in
my theory and my practice. It did not require that I travel outside this
small village of my childhood-though I have; it involved running up to the
back pasture behind our barn, and encountering the dead body of a pony I
had loved. That evening, still distraught about my pony's death, I bit
into a hamburger and stopped in midbite. I was thinking about one dead
animal yet eating another dead animal. What was the difference between
this dead cow and the dead pony whom I would be burying the next day? I
could summon no ethical defense for a favoritism that would exclude the
cow from my concern because I had not known her. A year later, I became
a vegetarian. Later, as I began to work on my first book I was struggling
to find a way to explain why people eat animals and why it is so difficult
to discuss the issue. I realized that it was because of what I call the
structure of the absent referent: Behind every meal of meat is an absence:
the death of the animal whose place the meat takes. The "absent referent"
is that which separates the meat eater from the animal and the animal
from the end product. The function of the absent referent is to keep our
"meat" separated from any idea that she or he was once an animal, to keep
something from being seen as having been someone. -- Carol J. Adams, The
Sexual Politcs of Meat, from the Preface to the Tenth Anniversary edition
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It is an important and popular fact that things are not always how they
seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man has always assumed that he
was more intelligent than dolphins, because he had achieved so much -
the wheel, New York, wars, and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever
done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely,
the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent
than man - for precisely the same reason. -- Douglas Adams, author.
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the
comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it
is violating all his laws. -- John Adams
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Today's business corporation is an artificial creation, shielding
owners and managers while preserving corporate privilege and
existence. Artificial or not, corporations have won more rights under
the law than people have -- rights which government has protected with
armed force. -- Richard Grossman and Frank Adams
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If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in
peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the
hand that feeds you; and posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. --
Samuel Adams
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It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless
minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. -- Samuel Adams
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You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who
is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your
health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill
yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not
blocking my driveway. -- Scott Adams (of Dilbert)
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Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and
left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. -- Jane Addams
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until
it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. --
Jane Addams
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more
perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects
of others. -- Joseph Addsion
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It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. --
Alfred Adler
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Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks:
they're only animals. -- Theodor Adorno
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We hang the petty thieves, but appoint the great ones to public office. --
Aesop
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The government is only as lasting as your understanding of
administration. The Army is nothing without people, the Air Force is
grounded without your endorsement, the ships of the Navy could never have
sailed if your leaders didn't have you sail 'em, and the brutal depravity
of police would be non-existent if you didn't wear the uniform. --
John Africa, On the Move, (1975)
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify
the hunters. -- African Proverb
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As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian
attitudes towards the Earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship
between out respective species is no longer entirely reciprocal. Such
exploitation is now here more evident than in the capture and display of
cetaceans for profit. Stripped of their natural identity, deprived of
their own culture and environment, the dolphin and whale incarcerated
within the oceanarium not only symbolizes an abuse of that ancient
relationship, but above all our estrangement from nature as a whole. --
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan.
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In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no
matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again:
and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility
toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of
terror, and of God. -- James Agee
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But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of
the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. US
national security, as preached by US leaders, is the security of the
capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people. --
Philip Agee, CIA Diary
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Up to one-fifth of America's food goes to waste each year, with an
estimated 130 pounds of food per person ending up in landfills. The annual
value of this lost food is estimated at around $31 billion. Roughly 49
million people could be fed by those lost resources, more than twice
the number of people in the world who die of starvation each year. --
U.S. Department of Agriculture, "A Citizen's Guide to Food Recovery,"
1999.
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Perhaps the phrase 'fair world order' better sums up what we should
strive for. It recognizes that we live in a society, not a marketplace. It
admits of concepts of justice and human solidarity. It acknowledges that,
while not everyone will live in the same way, we are all entitled to
dignity and decency. -- Bertie Ahren, Prime Minister of Ireland, at the
UN Millennium Summit, September 6, 2000
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The butcher relenteth not at the bleating of the lamb; neither is the
heart of the cruel moved with distress. But the tears of the compassionate
are sweeter than dew-drops, falling from roses on the bosom of spring. --
Akhenaton (c.BC 1375)
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U.S. elites like war. War sends the message that laws do not bind
U.S. elites, that morality does not bind U.S. elites, that nothing
binds U.S. elites but their estimates of their own interests. It
trumpets that everybody else better ratify our plans, or at least get
out of the way. Likewise, for U.S. elites, war preparedness is good
economics. Military spending primes the capitalist pump and spurs its
engines, but crucially military spending doesn't give those in the middle
and at the bottom better conditions or better housing or more education
or better health care or anything else that will make people less afraid,
more knowledgeable, more secure, and particularly more able to develop
and pursue their own agendas regarding economic distribution. War empowers
the rich and powerful, but its real virtue is that it disempowers working
people and the disenfranchised poor. War annihilates deliberation. It
elevates mainstream media to dominate communication even more than in
peacetime. War abets repression by demanding obedience. It labels dissent
treason, or in this case, incipient terrorism. Elites like all this,
not surprisingly. -- Michael Albert, Editor of Z-Magazine and Z-Net,
from "Peace Movement Prospects" 9/01
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I think this is a very hard choice, but ... we think the price is worth
it. -- Madeline Albright, May 12, 1996, when asked by Leslie Stahl (60
Minutes) about the 500,000 Iraqi children killed by American sanctions.
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and
reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when
the victory is won. -- Louisa May Alcott, vegetarian
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst
for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more
effectively. Look for the learning. -- Louisa May Alcott, vegetarian
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I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a
nigger. -- Muhammad Ali
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Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it. --
Muhammad Ali, (1942 - )
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Every time you were seen not smiling you were called to the corner and
told to smile. -- Siamak Alimi, McDonald's Training Squad, Colchester
(UK), 1985 - 1987, from his McLibel witness statement
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I knew of cases where employees in my store worked as much as 26 hours
in a row. -- Siamak Alimi, McDonald's Training Squad, Colchester (UK),
1985 - 1987, from his from his McLibel witness statement
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If anyone joined a Union or even seriously considered joining a union,
they would be sacked. -- Siamak Alimi, McDonald's Training Squad,
Colchester (UK), 1985 - 1987, from his McLibel witness statement
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Once you accept your own death all of a sudden you're free to live. You
no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as
your life can be used tactically - to promote a cause you believe in. --
Saul Alinsky
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Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do
to watch people who can't do anything -- Fred Allen
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More than at any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One
path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total
extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. --
Woody Allen
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No thank you. I don't eat meat. -- Kirsty Alley's character in Look
Who's Talking Too, when offered chicken
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Liberating our language by eliminating the word 'pet' is the first step
... In an ideal society where all exploitation and oppression has been
eliminated, it will be NJARA's policy to oppose the keeping of animals
as 'pets.' -- New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, "Should Dogs Be Kept
As Pets? NO!" Good Dog!, February 1991, p.20
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Although other animals cannot reason or speak the way humans do, this
does not give us the right to do with them as we like. Even though our
supposed possession of a soul and superior intelligence are used to
create an arbitrary dividing line over rights, the fact remains that
all animals have the capacity to experience pain and suffering, and in
suffering they are our equals. -- Nathaniel Altman, (1948- )
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Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal
flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech. --
Nathaniel Altman
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Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat
them. We must live by the love of what we will never see. This is the
secret discipline. It is a refusal to let the creative act be dissolved
away in immediate sense experience, and a stubborn commitment to the
future of our grandchildren. Such disciplined love is what has given
prophets, revolutionaries, and saints the courage to die for the future
they envisaged. They make their own bodies the seed of their highest
hope. -- Ruben Alves, Tomorrow's Child
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You buy the land out there now for the same price as a couple of bottles
of beer per acre. When you've got half a million acres and 20,000 head
of cattle, you can leave the lousy place and go live in Paris, Hawaii,
Switzerland, or anywhere you choose. -- American rancher who owns grazing
land in the Amazon
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Despotism does not cease to be despotism because it is elective. Nor
does despotism become agreeable because the Despots belong to our
own kindred. To make it subject to election is no guarantee against
despotism. The real guarentee against despotism is to confront it with
the possibility of its dethronement, of its being laid low, of its being
superseeded by a rival party. -- Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Indian statesman
and social reformer (1891-1956)
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Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary
change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and
catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor... And advanced forms of
biological warfare that can "target" specific genotypes may transform
biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful
tool. -- from "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and
Resources For a New Century," September, 2000. (ED : Note the date)
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Every animal knows more than you do. -- Native American Proverb
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Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed
voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself,
until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does
away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity. --
Henri F. Amiel
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I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters,
dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their
mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras. (Pate de foie gras
is covered in the film Mondo Kane which shows the force feeding of
geese. Food is stuffed down their throats with a pole.. when they want
to regurgitate.. a brass ring is tied around the throat.. the excess
food creates a stuffed liver pleasing to gourmets.) -- Cleveland Amory,
TV Guide and Parade columnist, ommitting caviar, which comes from the
ripping out of the ovaries of the mother sturgeon fish
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I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped
alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers
and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras. -- Cleveland Amory, TV Guide
and Parade columnist. Pate de foie gras is covered in the film Mondo
Kane which shows the force feeding of geese. Food is stuffed down their
throats with a pole.. when they want to regurgitate.. a brass ring is tied
around the throat.. the excess food creates a stuffed liver pleasing to
gourmets. Not mentioned is caviar, which comes from the ripping out of
the ovaries of the mother sturgeon fish.
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If I'm lucky enough to get to heaven I might find that God is a beaver
or a burro. What a sad world it would be if only the two-legged were
here. We have established a Let's Hunt The Hunters Club... and we have
certain rules: a. we're only doing it for their good... to cull the
herd b. we don't interfere with their mating season in parked cars
c. we don't encourage anyone to mount a hunter on the hood d. in wall
mounting you may include the cap and the jacket. -- Cleveland Amory,
Harvard Crimson editor, Parade columnist
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No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest
people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to
be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might
otherwise. -- Marian Anderson
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Thomas Merton notwithstanding, "Ahimsa" does not mean exclusively, or even
primarily, non-violence between and among the living beings called human.
That is not what it meant to Gandhi. To try and "westernize" Ahimsa
by subjecting it to church teaching, amounts to its complete denial.
This is the second time recently that I've encountered discussions of
Ahimsa-non-violence based on Thomas Merton's book, that distort both
Gandhi and Ahimsa to the point of misrepresentation. Ahimsa means
absolute harmlessness to all living beings. -- Robert Andrews, Order of
Ecumenical Franciscans mailing list
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I am sometimes asked 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money
talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I
answer: 'I am working at the roots.' -- George T Angell (1823-1909)
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Spare an animal; eat a vegetable! -- Friends of Animals, slogan
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Freedom knows no borders ... a fiery voice of liberty in one country can
raise the spirits of another far away. -- Kofi Annan, Ghanese diplomat,
Secretary-General of the UN (1938-)
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Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the
citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged
sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when
the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with
hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing
the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear
and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the
leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And
I am Caesar. -- Anonymous, circa ?
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Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door. -- Anonymous, on
the use of steel traps to capture fur-bearing animals, cited in Audubon,
November 1990
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do
because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. -- Susan
Brownell Anthony, American feminist leader and suffragist
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The difference between gas in warfare and gas in a gas chamber
is quantitative, not qualitative. -- NPR caller to Ray Suarez show
discussing anthrax
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the
heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the
eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and
don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the
endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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In my book, A Guiltless Feast, I theorise that there are two
great contending traditions of human thought: the holistic and the
anthropocentric. By the holistic tradition, I understand a fundamental
belief that human beings are an integral part of nature. They are caught
in a web relationships, well understood by modern ecologists: what
happens to one part of nature has an impact on another. Ecology assumes
a biological relationship. But in the past, the holistic tradition has
suggests other bases for the relationship. Much of paganism is founded on
a magical relationship between human beings and the natural world. Many
religions are founded on mysticism, a belief in direct communion with a
God which is the unit of all things. My argument is that, whatever, the
basis of holistic beliefs, they lead to certain philosophical attitudes:
a reverence for all life and a profound egalitarianism. By contrast,
the anthropocentric tradition takes human beings as the centre of
things. Nature is a separate entity. It is something to be used by us,
or something that can abuse us. Rather than a reverence for all life,
nature is there to be exploited or controlled. Rather than egalitarianism,
the view that humans are above nature suggests a natural hierarchy in
the world. -- Derek Antrobus, Philosophy of diet - or philosophy of life?
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I sometimes think, would I drink the milk from the breast of a woman I
don't know? No. So I think, why would I drink it from a cow? -- Devon Aoki
(Heat)
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A little carrot works better than a big stick. -- Ancient aphorism
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I was sitting here eating my plate of chicken salad, and suddenly I
looked down and saw all the meat on my plate and just wasn't hungry
anymore. So I've decided I'm not going to eat meat. -- Shiri Appleby
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I was eating lunch on the Married With Children set, and they served me
some kind of meat (I don't even know the names of them all anymore because
it's been so long). I looked down and there was blood on my plate, and
it was that realization, that I can't eat something that has been alive,
I just can't do it. So I stopped, and that was it. That was the last
time. -- Christina Applegate
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My animals are my life! They remind me always of unconditional love and
to just be in the moment. -- Christina Applegate (PETA celebrity cookbook)
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When I became a vegetarian, I just started reading more and more about
where fur comes from and what they do to the animals. It all went
hand-in-hand together. That was when I was 15. -- Christina Applegate
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Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the
obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since
charity, according to its very notion, causes peace. -- Thomas Aquinas
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Blood can not be washed out with blood -- Arab proverb
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Fear not the path of truth for lack of people walking on it. -- Arabic
Proverb
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the
other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left
to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. -- Hannah Arendt,
(1906-1975), German-born U.S. political philosopher. "On Violence,"
Crises of the Republic (1972).
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up
their minds to be good or evil. -- Hannah Arendt, 20th-century German
political philosopher and author
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When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional
populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a
vanguard against abuse. -- Hannah Arendt, 20th-century German political
philosopher and author
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing
line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is
a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. -- Oscar Arias
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We desire, Athenians, to speak ill of no man; but on the contrary to
say much good of everyone, and to do the like. We have had enough of
misfortunes and calamities. -- Aristophanes, in the play Lysistrata,
410 BC
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found
in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share
in government to the utmost. -- Aristotle
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it. -- Aristotle
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Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is
his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the
people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader. -- Aristotle
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What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. -- Aristotle (384-322 BC)
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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love
and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me,
they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number. --
Edith Armstrong
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Coercion is the central principle of government. -- Lord Armstrong
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It really puzzles me to see Marijuana connected with Narcotics - Dope
and all that crap...it's a thousand times better than whiskey - it's an
Assistant - a friend. -- Louis Armstrong
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The awful cruelty and terror to which tens of thousands of animals killed
for human food are subjected in traveling long distances by ship and
rail and road to the slaughterhouses of the world. God disapproves of all
cruelty.. whether to man or beast. The occupation of slaughtering animals
is brutalising to those who are required to do the work.... I believe
this matter is well worthy of the serious consideration of Christian
leaders. -- Mrs. Booth and General Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army
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Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at
an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to
discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped
with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not
occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision,
and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our
benefit. -- Rudolf Arnheim
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Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur
around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It
seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me... her leg had probally
been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it. -- Bea Arthur
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To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty,
my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode
our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to
America's enemies and pause to America's friends. -- John Ashcroft,
curiously aligning himself with the peace-loving people, testimony before
the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dec. 6, 2001
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Isaac Asimov
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter
of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with
their fellow men. -- St. Francis of Assisi (mystic and preacher)
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If you have men who will exclude any of god's creatures from the shelter
of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with
their fellow men. -- St. Francis of Assisi
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Lord, let me be an instrument of thy Peace. Let me be an instrument
of thy Peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is
injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair,
hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to
console; to be understood as to understand to be loved, as to love; for it
is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and
it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. -- St. Francis of Assisi
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Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to
them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission, to
be of service to them whenever they require it... If you have men who
will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and
pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. --
St. Francis of Assisi (mystic and preacher), Quoted in the Life by St.
Bonaventura
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it
even more fully in your heart. -- St. Francis of Assisi
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Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to
them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission-to be
of service to them whenever they require it... If you have men who will
exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity,
you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. --
Saint Francis of Assisi (mystic and preacher)
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We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association,
covenant to affirm and promote ... respect for the interdependent web
of all existence of which we are a part. -- Unitarian Universalist
Association, Principles and Purposes
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A stripling of an oak, descended from perhaps the most famous tree in
America, bravely today was striving to fill the shoes of its illustrious
ancestor, The Tree That Owns Itself. And now Athens has the only tree in
the world that ''inherited'' the land on which its forbear once lived.
It was Wm. H. Jackson, son of famous James Jackson, who is credited
with giving the land to the original ''Tree That Owns Itself.'' William
H. Jackson's father was one of the great men of Georgia history. --
Athens (Georgia) Banner-Herald, Dec. 5, 1946
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I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with
God's work. -- Brooks Atkinson
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The impact of countless hooves and mouths over the years has done more to
alter the type of vegetation and land forms of the West than all the water
projects, strip mines, power plants, freeways, and subdivsion developments
combined. -- Philip Fradkin in Audubon, National Audubon Society, NY
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? --
St. Augustine
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Life is life, whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference
there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception
for man's own advantage. -- Sri Aurobindo
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Life is life-whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference
there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception
for man's own advantage... -- Sri Aurobindo, poet and philosopher
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Yes, sometimes unusual things happen after a switch to a vegetarian
diet. I've seen a number of cases in which the poor people broke out in
violent attacks of good health, followed by bouts of physical exercise and
sweet thoughts. -- Anonymous author, from "May All Be Fed", John Robbins
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A person who loves is a theist, whether he goes to a temple or church
or not. You have to proceed from the known to the unknown. Then the love
expands in ever widening circles until it covers all nature, until even
plucking a leaf from a tree affects you so painfully that you dare not
injure it. -- Sai Baba
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A person who loves is a theist, whether he goes to a temple or church or
not. You have to proceed from the known to the unknown. Then the love
expands in ever widening circles until it covers all nature, until even
plucking a leaf from a tree affects you so painfully that you dare not
injure it. -- Sai Baba
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Why pluck a flower and hasten its death? -- Sai Baba
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I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy
jobs. -- Bruce Babbitt
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In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers. --
August Babel, 1870
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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn
how? -- Joan Baez
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On a wagon bound for market lay a cow with 2 mournful eyes... lay
a cow with 2 mournful eyes. -- Joan Baez, Dona Dona. (If one passes
slaughterhouse trucks on Rt 80 bound for Manhattan or the slaughterhouses
of S Phily, in winter, with the freezing wind from mountain passes
ripping through the slats, one sees their noses pressed to the bars,
and their sad and frightened eyes.)
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That's all nonviolence is - organized love. -- Joan Baez
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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of
nonviolence has been the organization of violence. -- Joan Baez
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The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor,
beneath which we can no longer sink; a platform which stands a few
feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs,
[and] the works. Give a man a decent place to stand. He's been wallowing
around in human blood and vomit and burnt flesh screaming how it's going
to bring peace to the world. -- Joan Baez, folk singer and peace activist,
from her memoir "Daybreak"
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Right human relations is the only true peace. -- Alice A. Bailey
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Many people have preconceived notions about what it means to be a
vegetarian, that vegetarians subsist on lettuce and carrot sticks and
are undernourished and emaciated, and the concept of veganism doesn't
even exist for them. I have always had diffuculty with my weight and
did experience a significant weight loss when I first became vegan. But
becoming vegan did not resolve my food issues, like eating in response
to emotion rather than hunger. I have had nonvegetarians look me up
and down in disbelief when I told them I was vegetarian. It has been
very difficult coming to terms with society's notion of fat and thin
and the ideal female body. I know some animal rights groups promote
vegetatianism in their literature as a panacea for weight problems,
which I think is a betrayal of activists whose bodies do not reflect
this notion. I actually reached my highest body weight ever as a vegan,
and I feel it is extremely important that, as vegans, we don't try to
capitalize on society's obsession with thinness and dole out the same
bill of goods the media does. -- Lisa Robinson Bailey
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There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence
occurred but for which the word violence was never used...Violence is
shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these
myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for
what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one
moment thought of their act as violence; rather they though of it as an
act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of
the violence we humans have ever committed. -- Gil Bailie
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It is in the battery shed that we find the parallel with Auschwitz.... To
shut your mind, heart and imagination from the sufferings of others is to
begin slowly, but inexorably, to die. Those Christians who close their
minds and hearts to the cause of animal welfare, and the evils it seeks
to combat, are ignoring the Fundamental spiritual teachings of Christ
himself -- John Baker, Bishop of Salisbury
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It is in the battery shed that we find the parallel with Auschwitz....To
shut your mind, heart and imagination from the sufferings of others is to
begin slowly, but inexorably, to die. Those Christians who close their
minds and hearts to the cause of animal welfare, and the evils it seeks
to combat, are ignoring the Fundamental spiritual teachings of Christ
himself -- John Baker, Bishop of Salisbury
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Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it. --
James Baldwin
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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country
so distrustful of the independent mind. -- James Baldwin
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Nobody is more dangerous that he who imagines himself pure in heart;
for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin
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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own
destruction. -- James Baldwin
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Many people, infused with the fire of the newly-aware, go on a crusade
to root out these animal products, in order to be completely consistent,
to purify themselves and become the perfect vegan. This process can
have several severe side effects. The most common result of the pure
vegan campaign is to quit the entire process. I have known many people
who became overwhelmed with the extent of animal abuse in this world,
bogged down in ingredients, by-products, nit-picking, and perceived
inconsistencies... Since they cannot achieve perfection avoiding all
suffering they choose to do nothing, and go back to overt cruelty like
eating animals... When they finally become aware of everything that
goes on behind the scenes, some people become overwhelmed by the amount
of suffering and submit to the despair brought about by their relative
powerlessness. I can certainly understand these reactions, but I must say
that they do not do anything to help the animals or ourselves. We so
often overlook the second half of ahimsa: the positive, life-embracing
aspects that the philosophy entails. If we want to make our world a better
place, we must accept the fact that in order to make a difference, we
have to be a part of a world that is corrupt, cruel, and indifferent. We
cannot remove ourselves entirely from exploitation and suffering, and
still be a part of the change so desperately needed. -- Matt Ball, Vegan
Outreach Cofounder, quoted in The Vegan Sourcebook by Joanne Stepaniak
(1998 Lowell House)
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To this day, I dread disucssing vegetariansim. Since I met my roommate
ten years ago, I have seen factory farms and been to slaughterhouses;
the screams of these animals stay eith me every day. It is the worst
when I am faced with someone who reacts as I once reacted, not wanting to
hear, not wanting to question, not wanting to change. The agonies of the
animals, living and dying hidden from our eyes and ears, their corpses
disguised and exalted on our plates, struggle against my sympathy for
the person confronted and my desire to avoid judgement. While I try to
be moderate and reasonable, I know that eating meat is not a matter of
choice any more than slavery or child abuse is a matter of choice. It
is the exploitation and murder of fellow sentient beings who feel pain
and fight to stay alive. In the face of this injustice and suffering,
of what compulsion is conformity? -- Matt Ball, Vegan Outreach Cofounder,
quoted in The Vegan Sourcebook by Joanne Stepaniak (1998 Lowell House)
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We are the lucky ones - we are not standing day after day in a tiny
space, breathing the stench of our own waste, waiting only to be
slaughtered. We must do everything possible for those suffering lives
of pain and terror. -- Matt Ball, Vegan Outreach Cofounder, quoted in
The Vegan Sourcebook by Joanne Stepaniak (1998 Lowell House)
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What could I do? My head knew that this was true, and my heart was
repulsed at the thought of factory farms and slaughterhouses. Meat is
murder, and it is wrong. Yet my traditions, everything I had been taught
to believe and to honor, said that eating meat was okay, unquestionably
accepted and inherently good. To listen to my own thoughts and decide for
myself would be to reject the central celebration of meat by my friends
and family, for I know that once I accepted the cruelty and cut meat from
my diet, it would not be okay to be around others and remain silent,
as if nothing were amiss, as if nothing had changed. -- Matt Ball,
quoted in The Vegan Sourcebook by Joanne Stepaniak, 1998 Lowell House,
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How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness in righteous? One man
must not kill. If he does it is murder. But a state or nation may kill
as many as they please, and it is not murder...Only get enough people
to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly
innocent. But how many does it take? -- Adin Ballou, 1845
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I can't tell you how bad the civilian casualties were. I saw a couple
of pictures. . . . But we really don't know from this latest adventure
from the American military what this thing looked like and why perhaps
we should never do it again. The other thing is that so many voices
were silent in this war. We all know what happened to Susan Sarandon
for speaking out, and her husband, and we all know that this is not
the way Americans truly want to be. Free speech is a wonderful thing,
it's what we fight for, but the minute it's unpalatable we fight against
it for some reason. -- Ashleigh Banfield, NBC and MSNBC correspondent,
on the media's coverage of the Iraq war of 2003
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You didn't see where those bullets landed. You didn't see what happened
when the mortar landed. A puff of smoke is not what a mortar looks like
when it explodes, believe me. There are horrors that were completely left
out of this war. So was this journalism or was this coverage-? There is
a grand difference between journalism and coverage, and getting access
does not mean you're getting the story, it just means you're getting
one more arm or leg of the story. And that's what we got, and it was
a glorious, wonderful picture that had a lot of people watching and a
lot of advertisers excited about cable news. But it wasn't journalism,
because I'm not so sure that we in America are hesitant to do this again,
to fight another war, because it looked like a glorious and courageous
and so successful terrific endeavor, and we got rid oaf horrible leader:
We got rid of a dictator, we got rid of a monster, but we didn't see what
it took to do that. -- Ashleigh Banfield, NBC and MSNBC correspondent,
on the media's coverage of the Iraq war of 2003
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I was attracted to Earth First! because they were the only ones willing
to put their bodies in front of the bulldozers and the chainsaws to save
the trees. They were also funny, irreverent, and they played music. But
it was the philosophy of Earth First! that ultimately won me over. This
philosophy, known as biocentrism or deep ecology, states that the Earth is
not just here for human consumption. All species have a right to exist
for their own sake, and humans must learn to live in balance with the
needs of nature, instead of trying to mold nature to fit the wants of
humans. -- Judi Bari, Ms. Magazine 1992
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Once I was fishing and caught the hook in the fish's eye. That was
the last time I ate a killed creature (paraphrased). -- Janet Barkas,
editor of Grove Press
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Once I was fishing and caught the hook in the fish's eye. That was the
last time I ate a killed creature. -- Janet Barkas, editor of Grove Press
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We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's
going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or
rodeos. -- Bob Barker (television personality and Animal Rights advocate)
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When I became a vegetarian, I gave up red meat and fowl, and gradually
fish and dairy products as well. I did it out of concern for animals, but
I have certainly learned why so many people are becoming vegetarians out
of concern for health reasons. I can control my weight better than before,
I feel better, I have more energy, and I think that it is certainly a
healthful way of life. -- Bob Barker (television personality and Animal
Rights advocate)
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But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth
having. -- John Perry Barlow
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One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff
to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven,
I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary
household brooms from the getaway vehicles? -- John Perry Barlow
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Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by
physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest,
and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. -- John Perry Barlow
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I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived
next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one
as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation
for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no
significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his
companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other
chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made
a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such
sensitive creatures. -- Christian Barnard, surgeon
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I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived
next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one
as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation
for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no
significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his
companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other
chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made
a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such
sensitive creatures. -- Christian Barnard
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A comparison of populations indicates that death rates for cancers of
the breast, colon, and prostate are directly proportional to estimated
dietary fat intakes -- Neal Barnard, President of the Physicians Committee
for Responsible Medicine, USA, from his McLibel witness statement
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An accurate description of the effects of meat consumption would note its
links to heart disease, cancer (particularly colon and prostate cancer),
obesity, and other health problems. -- Neal Barnard, President of the
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, USA, from his McLibel
witness statement
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As a result of their high content of fat and cholesterol, McDonald's
products contribute to heart disease, certain forms of cancer, and other
diseases. The links between high-fat diets and certain diseases are
established beyond any reasonable doubt. -- Neal Barnard, President of
the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, USA, from his McLibel
witness statement
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McDonald's advertising has been misleading regarding its fat content. --
Neal Barnard, President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine, USA, from his McLibel witness statement
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all
the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile
accidents combined. If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people',
you'd better live real close to a real good hospital. -- Neal Barnard,
M.D., President of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
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To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse. -- Dr. Neal
Barnard, MD, psychiatrist and founder of the 6000 physician coalition
Physicians For Responsible Medicine. (child's diabetes related to cows'
milk. His book Food For Life cites 300 dietary studies.)
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To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse. -- Dr. Neal
Barnard, Md, psychiatrist and founder of the 6000 physician coalition
Physicians For Responsible Medicine: (Childhood diabetes related to cows'
milk. His book Food For Life cites 300 dietary studies.)
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Safety is not seen as being important at store level. -- Jill Barnes,
McDonald's UK Hygiene and Safety Officer
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There exists a substantial body of competent and reliable scientific
evidence that eating eggs increases the risk of heart attacks or
heart disease.... This evidence is systematic, consistent, strong,
and congruent. -- Judge Ernest G. Barnes
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America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the
Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical
change in the underdeveloped world because independent governments
would destroy the world economic and political system, which assures
the United States its disproportionate share of economic and political
power ... America's preeminent wealth depends upon keeping things in the
underdeveloped world much as they are, allowing change and modernization
to proceed only in a controlled, orderly, and nonthreatening way. --
Richard Barnet, Intervention and Revolution
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The deer study data is incomplete and should not be used to justify
killing the deer. -- Enriqueta Barrera, an associate professor of geology
at the Univ. of Akron (Sara Debanne, assoc. professor at CWRU agrees.)
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A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person
-- Dave Barry
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The thing that has been weighing on my mind this week is that I wanted
to go and save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them
back in the ocean. Imagine me being arrested for that. -- Drew Barrymore
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The earth is the Lord's and the fullness Thereof, Oh, God, enlarge
within us the Sense of fellowship with all living Things, our brothers
the animals to Whom Thou gavest the earth as Their home in common with
us ... May we realize that they live not For us alone but for themselves
and For Thee and that they love the sweetness Of life. -- St. Basil,
Bishop of Caesarea (330-379)
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If you could feel or see the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give
back life. Don't eat meat. -- Kim Basinger (The Compassionate Cook)
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The major problems in the world are the result of the differences between
the way nature works and the way people think. -- Gregory Bateson
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Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'. -- Luther Standing Bear
(Oglala Sioux Chief)
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All creation has the same right to life. -- Sun Bear and Jaya Bear
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One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen
these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding
fathers used in the great struggle for Independence. -- Charles A. Beard
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...the surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other
people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to
tend to our own affairs. -- Melody Beattie, Co dependent No More
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Having the wisdom to face the truth will bring us closer to peace. --
Melody Beattie, Journey to the Heart
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Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are
the only things that distinguish us from other animals. -- Pierre-Augustin
de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784
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...Emerson's inspiring lectures, essays, and poems elucidated a philosophy
of life based on the inner resources of the self and revelation from
the divine presence of the soul. "Trust yourself," he would say, and
live spontaneously and freely in harmony with nature. He described the
spiritual laws of life in essays like "Compensation", "Spiritual Laws",
"Love", "Self-Reliance" and "The Over Soul". He found his own insights
echoed in the Hindu scriptures and the Romantic poets. He urged an
American renaissance of culture and influenced writers such as Thoreau,
Whitman, Hawthorne, and the Alcott family." -- Sanderson Beck
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...In a discussion with Thomas Carlyle at Stonehenge a few years
later, Emerson put forward the pacifist philosophy of non-resistance
and non-cooperation with governments which institutionalize violence,
as an indigenous American conviction; this idea was championed by the
abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and others who would not compromise
on this point as Channing had. Emerson gave one or two anecdotes which
made an impression on Carlyle, and concluded, "Tis certain as God liveth,
the gun that does not need another gun, the law of love and justice alone,
can effect a clean revolution." -- Sanderson Beck
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For Emerson, the soul transcends all conflict and has no enemies; soldiers
he considered to be ridiculous. War is "abhorrent to all right reason"
and against human progress. From the perspective of spiritual oneness
he spoke of "the blazing truth that he who kills his brother commits
suicide" -- Sanderson Beck
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From the ancient sages and mystics to modern political activists,
the essential reality of a life of peace has not changed. Love for our
fellow beings is always superior to hatred and fear. It does not take
a great philosopher to understand that peace and justice in the world
would be for the good of all, while war and oppression benefit a few at
the expense of many. Those who truly realize that love and understanding
are more effective in peacemaking than hatred and force are the people who
will be changing the world for the better by communicating and educating
others. As Einstein clearly saw, what is needed is a chain reaction of
awareness from person to person to person. Once the truth is known in
one's heart, there is no way it can be unlearned. In this time of awful
danger for our planet, everyone has a moral obligation to act in some way
to save humanity from the horrible designs of the hateful, the fearful,
the selfish, and the greedy." -- Sanderson Beck
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If you're not fighting for what you want, you don't want it enough. --
Dave Beckwith, Field Consultant - Center for Community Change
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It just seemed like a good thing to do in 1970. But it was so hard back
then that I was only a vegetarian for about a year. Then I started eating
some fish because I couldn't find vegetarian food when I traveled. I'd
do a movie in some distant city or even on location and they wouldn't
have anything to eat. I became a vegan again in 1992. I discovered then
how much easier it was to be a vegetarian and to indeed be a vegan. --
Ed Begley, Jr.
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The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. --
Heda Bejar
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Kennels are cat jail. I pay someone to be in the house with my animals
when I'm on vacation. -- Art Bell, radio talk show host
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The old assumption that animals acted exclusively by instinct, while man
had a monopoly of reason, is, we think, maintained by few people nowadays
who have any knowledge at all about animals. We can only wonder that so
absurd a theory could have been held for so long a time as it was, when
on all sides the evidence of animals' power of reasoning is crushing. --
Ernest Bell (1851-1933)
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I am a free prince and have as much authority to make war on the whole
world as he who has a hundred sail of ships and an army of a hundred
thousand men in the field. And this my conscience tells me; that there
is no arguing with such sniveling puppies who allow superiors to kick
them about the deck at pleasure, and pin their faith upon the pimp of a
parson, a squab who neither practices nor believes what he puts upon the
chuckle-headed fools he preaches to. -- Black Sam Bellamy, pirate captain
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The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy
around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources
from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower
in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also
contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and
leaves others hungry. -- Dr. Walden Bello
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The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But
tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in
producing beef and other livestock, food for the well off, while millions
of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation. --
Dr. Walden Bello
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The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those
rights which never could have been withheld from them but by the hand
of tyranny ... a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more
rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day,
or a week or even a month old. But suppose the case were otherwise,
what would it avail? The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they
talk? But, can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to
any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its
mantle over everything which breathes.... -- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
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The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather,
"Can they suffer?" -- Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832
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The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? But rather,
Can they suffer? -- Jeremy Bentham, 19th century Philosopher, Oxford
University
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The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against
the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he
knows he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take
punishment and prison and remain steadfast - that is a man of courage. The
fellow whom you taunt as a "slacker" because he refuses to turn murderer -
he needs courage. But do you need much courage just to obey orders, to do
as you are told and to fall in line with thousands of others to the tune
of general approval and the 'Star Spangled Banner'? -- Alexander Berkman
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The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be pulling the
finger. -- Dr. Leonard Berkowitz
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If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is
now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will
without their knowing it. -- Edward Bernays, father of the Public
Relations industry
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The biggest part of reporting the truth is the news agenda itself. What
we choose to put on the air, what we think is a page one story, what our
priorities are. I would not be fooled by the old myth that reporting is
about objectivity. Deciding what is news is the most subjective of acts
and it is probably the most important thing that we do. -- Carl Bernstein
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Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look
on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked
it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for
your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to
lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even. -- Daniel Berrigan, SJ
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The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially
toward those who lie under the heel of the powers. -- Daniel Berrigan
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For a long time I've been astonished by the fact that the human family
has not caught on, not caught on at all, to the bankruptcy of violence
and killing. Violence is, was, always will be, bankrupt, anti-human,
criminal - always! -- Philip Berrigan, anti-war activist, and priest,
and founding member of the international Ploughshares group, which
organizes non-violent direct action against first strike nuclear weaponry.
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A difficult challenge I've faced being vegan is simply trying to live
a cruely-free life in a society in which practically every commercial
product is polluted with animal ingredients and animal pain. -- Rynn Berry
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Being vegan has sensitized me to the feelings of all my fellow beings. I
can truthfully say that being vegan has made me a more compassionate
persion. If, as the Buddah said, "eating meat extinguishes the seed of
compassion", then the converse is true: Being vegan fosters the growth
of the seed of compassion that is within all of us. -- Rynn Berry
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I was impelled to become a vegan when I realaized that being a
lactovegetarian who wore clothes made of wool and shoes made of leather
still involved me in animal suffering. -- Rynn Berry
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My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal
calf is a by-product of dairying, and the in essence there is a slice of
veal in every glass of that I had thought was an innocous white liquid -
milk. -- Rynn Berry
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The term vegan signifies a way of living that liberates humans and
animals from centuries of mutual enslavement. Veganism is more than a
dietary regime; it is a way of life that promises a richer and nobler
existence for all creatures small and great. -- Rynn Berry
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It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we
do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story,
the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have
not learned the new story. -- Thomas Berry
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The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects. --
Thomas Berry
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Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic
survival, physical well-being, and spiritual integrity. -- Thomas Berry
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Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts. -- Wendell Berry,
"The Man Farmer Liberation Front"
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The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household
or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of
nature. We have built our household on the assumption that the natural
household is simple and can be simply used. We have assumed increasingly
over the last five hundred years that nature is merely a supply of
'raw materials,' and that we may safely possess those materials by
taking them.... And so we will be wrong if we attempt to correct what
we perceive as 'environmental' problems without correcting the economic
oversimplification that caused them. -- Wendell Berry
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There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first
is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this world; then
if we wish to live, we cannot exempt ourselves from using the world. If
we cannot exempt ourselves from use, then we must deal with the issues
raised by use. And so the second law is that if we want to continue
living, we cannot exempt use from care. -- Wendell Berry
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There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the
flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business
the desecration of the country for which it stands. -- Wendell Berry
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In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain,
agony, teerror, anger from all the animals being butchered there. --
Annie Besant
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In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain,
agony, teerror, anger from all the animals being butchered there. --
Annie Besant, around a century ago
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We find amongst animals, as amongst men, power of feeling pleasure,
power of feeling pain; we see them moved by love and by hate; we see
them feeling terror and attraction; we recognize in them powers of
sensation closely akin to our own, and while we transcend them immensely
in intellect, yet in mere passional characteristics our natures and
the animals' are closely allied. We know that when they feel terror,
that terror means suffering. We know that when a wound is inflicted,
that wound means pain to them. We know that threats bring to them
suffering; they have a feeling of shrinking, of fear, of absence of
friendly relations, and at once we begin to see that in our relations to
the animal kingdom a duty arises which all thoughtful and compassionate
minds should recognize - the duty that because we are stronger in mind
than the animals, we are or ought to be their guardians and helpers,
not their tyrants and oppressors, and we have no right to cause them
suffering and terror merely for the gratification of the palate, merely
for an added luxury to our own lives. -- Annie Besant (1847-1933)
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The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more
complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension
of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall
never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are
other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow
prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth. -- Henry Beston,
The Outermost House, 1928
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We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept
of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated
artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass
of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole
image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness,
for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves.
And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man.
In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and
complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never
attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren,
they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in
the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail
of the earth. -- Henry Beston, Author (1888-1968), The Outermost House
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The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a
strange protein and resists it with a similar energy. -- W.H. Beveridge,
British Economist
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Don't hate the media; become the media! -- Jello Biafra
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The peace makers shall be called the children of God. -- Bible
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Thou Shalt not Kill. -- Bible
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Seek peace, and pursue it. -- Bible [Proverbs 34:14]
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Foreigner: A villain regarded with various and varying degrees of
toleration, according to his conformity to the eternal standard of our
conceit and the shifting one of our interests. -- Ambrose Bierce
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There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection
in the name of Science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the
name of religion. -- Henry J. Bigelow
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The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the
oppressed. -- Steve Biko
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Be not lax in celebrating. Be not lazy in the festive service of God.
Be ablaze with enthusiasm. Let us be an alive, burning offering before
the altar of God. -- Hildegard of Bingen
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I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to
the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why
it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for
animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really
fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And
I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll
find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days. -- Linda Blair
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's
grief, and not seek for kind relief? -- William Blake
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I must create my own System, or be enslaved by another Man's. I will
not Reason and Compare - my business is to Create! -- William Blake
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To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. --
William Blake
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The dream of every leader, whether a tyrannical despot or a benign
prophet, is to regulate the behaviour of his people. -- Colin Blakemore
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The libertarian philosophy has been around from the time God gave Moses
the Ten Commandments telling the world that it is wrong to lie, steal
and cheat. If every individual followed the libertarian philosophy of not
initiating force on others, there would indeed truly be world peace. --
Howard J. Blitz, The Yuma Sun (Arizona), January 7, 2004
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It is sort of fascinating that you can have 100 percent certainty about
weapons of mass destruction and zero certainty of about where they are. --
Hans Blix, former head of the UN Weapons Inspections Team
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Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God. -- Leon Bloy
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I'm frightened for your children, that the life that we are living is
in vain. -- The Moody Blues, The Story in Your Eyes
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Why do we never get an answer, when we're knocking at the door? With a
thousand million questions, about hate and death and war. 'Cause when
we stop and look around us, there is nothing that we need. In a world
of persecution, that is burning in its greed. -- The Moody Blues, Question
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A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force. --
William Blum
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From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than
40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist
movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process,
the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several
million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and
despair. -- William Blum
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If I were the president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the
United States in a few days. Permanently. I would first apologize to
all the widows and orphans, the tortured and impoverished, and all the
many millions of other victims of American imperialism. Then I would
announce, in all sincerity, to every corner of the world, that America's
global interventions have come to an end, and inform Israel that it is
no longer the 51st state of the USA but now - oddly enough - a foreign
country. I would then reduce the military budget by at least 90% and
use the savings to pay reparations to the victims. There would be more
than enough money. One year's military budget of 330 billion dollars is
equal to more than $18,000 an hour for every hour since Jesus Christ was
born. That's what I'd do on my first three days in the White House. On
the fourth day, I'd be assassinated. -- William Blum
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Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel
and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy
establishment ... People capable of expressing a full human measure of
compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers ... do not
become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary
of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor
do they want to. -- William Blum, Rogue State
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The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia - George W. Bush, Donald
Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz,
Richard Perle, et al. ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama
bin Laden. -- William Blum
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The U.S. record of war crimes has been, from the nineteenth century to
the present, a largely invisible one, with no government, no political
leaders, no military officials, no lower-level operatives held accountable
for criminal actions. A culture of militarism has saturated the public
sphere, including academia, endowing all U.S. interventions abroad with a
patina of patriotic goodness and democratic sensibilities beyond genuine
interrogation. Anyone challenging this mythology is quickly marginalized,
branded a traitor or Communist or terrorist or simply a lunatic beyond
the pale of reasonable discussion. -- Carl Boggs
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From drug detection, undercover infiltration and electronic tracking,
to incarcerating those captured and convicted, private companies are
cashing in on the War on Some Drugs and profiting from the police
state. This new breed of "copitalist" is a powerful force with a
strong self-interest in keeping certain drugs illegal and their users
vilified. Many of the groups that profit from the War on Some Drugs
are well-known. Federal and state law enforcement agents, for example,
depend on the continued War, as do attorneys and others in the so-called
"criminal justice system." Correctional officers (aka prison guards)
are now a powerful political lobby, and everyone knows that tobacco,
alcohol and pharmaceutical companies have a profit motive in keeping other
drugs illegal. In this article, I will discuss a number of lesser-known
companies and industries that are cashing in on the War on Some Drugs,
point out some of the attendant dangers of privatizing the police state,
and suggest one possible strategy that might deliver a blow to the very
foundation of the War. -- Richard Glen Boire, "Copitalism: Police State
Promoters and Profiteers" 1998, The Entheogen Law Reporter Issue No. 16
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This war [Iraq], should it come, is intended to mark the official
emergence of the United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing
sole responsibility and authority as planetary policeman. It would be
the culmination of a plan 10 years or more in the making, carried out
by those who believe the United States must seize the opportunity for
global domination, even if it means becoming the "American imperialists"
that our enemies always claimed we were." -- Jay Bookman, The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
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The awful cruelty and terror to which tens of thousands of animals killed
for human food are subjected in traveling long distances by ship and
rail and road to the slaughterhouses of the world.. God disapproves of
all cruelty.. whether to man or beast. The occupation of slaughtering
animals is brutalising to those who are required to do the work.... I
believe this matter is well worthy of the serious consideration of
Christian leaders. -- Mrs. Booth and General Bramwell Booth, of the
Salvation Army (daughter in law and son of the founder of the SA)
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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these
differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend
and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world
and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people? --
Frank Borman
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The human race has today the means for annihilating itself, either in
a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war ... or by the careless
handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and
of deterioration in its genetic structure. -- Max Born
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There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension
of our every waking activity. -- Elise Boulding
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For our economic textbooks to have been accurate, they would need to be
printed in blood. The blood of indigenous peoples destroyed so their
land could be taken, bought, and sold. The blood of salmon, beaver,
and buffalo commodified and killed for the money they have come to
represent. The blood of all of us whose lives are diminished in the act
of commodifying others. The blood of slaves and wage slaves who spend
their lives toiling so their owners may have the leisure that is the
birthright of every living being. The blood of the land itself, poisoned
by "externalities," those cumbersome details too dark or difficult or
inconvenient to take their place in the economic equations that guide
so much of our lives. The blood of everyone who is silenced by economic
theory. In the same vein as our science and religion, the most obvious
function of our economics is the erection of a sociopolitical framework on
which to base a system of exploitation. Anyone who believes exponential
growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an
economist. -- Kenneth Boulding, economist.
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The closed earth of the future requires economic principles which are
somewhat different from those of the open earth of the past. For the
sake of picturesqueness, I am tempted to call the open economy the
"cowboy economy," the cowboy being symbolic of the illimitable plains
and also associated with reckless, exploitative, romantic, and violent
behavior, which is characteristic of open societies. The closed economy
of the future might similarly be called the "spaceman" economy, in which
the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs
of anything, either for extraction or for pollution, and in which,
therefore, man must find his place in a cyclical ecological system which
is capable of continuous reproduction of material form even though it
cannot escape having inputs of energy.... This idea that both production
and consumption are bad things rather than good things is very strange
to economists.... -- Kenneth E. Boulding, The Economics of the Coming
Spaceship Earth, 1966
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I think it's really disgusting that designers use fur, and it's disgusting
that people wear fur. It has to stop. It's so unnecessary in today's
world, with the technology we have. I'm wearing fabulous ultrasuede
tonight. This is totally the look of leather. There's a way to get it
without death involved. We should be part of the solution, not part of
the problem. -- Marc Bouwer, Designer (PETA Gala)
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We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our
children. -- David Bower
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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the
throat. -- John Boyes
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the
Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know
more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know
about living. -- General Omar Bradley
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In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass
through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages. --
Swami Brahmanada
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We definitely take up more environmental space when we eat meat. I
think it's consistent with environmental values to eat lower on the food
chain. -- Barbare Bramble, National Wildlife Federation
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The function of the press is very high. It is almost holy. It ought
to serve as a forum for the people, through which the people may know
freely what is going on. To misstate or suppress the news is a breach
of trust. -- Louis D. Brandeis
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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth
concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. -- Louis
Brandeis
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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth
concentrated in the hands of a few; but we can't have both. -- Louis
Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1916-1939
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I'm 23 now, and I've grown into this woman. I feel sexy and more mature. I
wanted these inside changes to be reflected in both my look and music. I
am a vegan now, and it was a conscious decision. I studied a lot about
African culture and health and the best way to take care of the body. I
really wanted to be healthy. At first I was just trying to challenge
myself; I thought it was a phase and that I would grow out of it,
but it wasn't. I found out a lot about the body and what [hormones]
they put in meat. My taste buds started changing, and I didn't crave
[meat and dairy products] anymore. -- Brandy (Essence.com)
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When one eats cow's tongue, who is tasting whom? -- Mark Braunstein
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Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas
turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent
bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its
young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're
gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family. -- Berke Breathed,
Bloom County Babylon
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The recent quantum leap in the ability of transnational corporations to
relocate their facilities around the world in effect makes all workers,
communities and countries competitors for these corporations' favor. The
consequence is a "race to the bottom" in which wages and social conditions
tend to fall to the level of the most desperate. -- Jeremy Brecher
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The animals voices are silent... but their cries can be heard... if you
care enough to listen. -- Gerry Brehm
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Many vegetarians would like to see fast food restaurants cater to them
more, but I question why? Why should vegetarians support a multinational
corporation like McDonalds, which profits from hellish treatment of
farm animals and the slaughter of millions every year? -- Davida Gypsy
Breier, Cheap Fast Food But At What Price, Friends of Animals Action Line,
Summer 2002
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Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies ... that
which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself. --
T. Casey Brennan
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A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. --
David Brenner
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Staff were only allowed to go for 'a quick fag or coffee' or a burger
out the back to keep them awake. -- Adrian Brett, McDonald's 2nd Asistant
Manager, Colchester (UK), May 1986 - May 1991, from his McLibel witness
statement
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Syrups and shake mix were always watered down on a regular basis,
i.e. daily. -- Adrian Brett, McDonald's 2nd Asistant Manager, Colchester
(UK), May 1986 -, from his McLibel witness statementMay 1991
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The shake machine was never cleaned properly and on one occassion maggots
were actually found in the shake machine in Bury St Edmunds. -- Adrian
Brett, McDonald's 2nd Asistant Manager, Colchester (UK), May 1986 -
May 1991, from his McLibel witness statement
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The transition to veganism came on the heels of my having decided that
I wanted no part in killing humans directly or indirectly. This was not
a popular position to take considering that I was at the time serving
in the United Stats Navy.... By the time I applied for a conscientious
objector discharge from the military, I had come to see the killing of
humans and other animals as one in the same. -- Brian Graff.
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The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel
from which guns are made. -- Aristide Briand, French statesman, Nobel
Peace Prize, 1926
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[T]here seems to be nothing to prevent the transnational corporations
taking possession of the planet and subjecting humanity to the
dictatorship of capital.... In order to crush any thought of organized
resistance to the supporters of the new world order, tremendous
police and military forces are being used to establish a doctrine of
repression...." -- Christian la Brie, Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris)
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If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system. -- Ashleigh
Brilliant
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I went snorkeling and noticed how gently the fish welcomed us into
their world, as compared to the violence with which we welcomed them
into ours. I became a vegetarian. -- Syndee Brinkman
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I went snorkeling and noticed how gently the fish welcomed us into their
world.. as compared to the violence with which we welcomed them into
ours. I became a vegetarian. -- Syndee Brinkman
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Remember 'the Earth is not dying, it is being murdered and the people
murdering it have names and addresses' -- British EF!, seen in DiY
Culture: Party and Protest in Nineties Britain (Verso)
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The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing
which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. --
Vera Brittain, 1964
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"Blaming the victim" is a common technique to shift blame and
responsibility from systems and structures onto particular individuals
and groups. This approach justifies inequality and suffering by finding
fault in the victims of inequality, either innate or cultural, thereby
diffusing any systemic critique or threat, and supporting the dominant
interests of society. The formula for blaming the victim is quite
simple: identify a problem, study those affected to find differences,
and then define the differences as the cause of the problem.-- Dan Brook,
Sociological Snippets
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I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for
behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior
species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality,
and moral choice - and that is precisely why we are under an obligation
to recognize and respect the rights of animals. -- Brigid Brophy
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The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away
with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to
anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've
got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit,
fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives,
not taking others'. -- Brigid Brophy
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What the factory farmers emphasize is that animals are different from
humans: we can't, we are told, judge their reactions by our own, because
they don't have human feelings. But no one in his senses ever supposed
they did. Anyone acquainted with animals can guess pretty well that they
have less intellect and memory than humans, and live closer to their
instincts. But the reasonable conclusion to draw from this is the very
opposite of the one the factory farmers try to force upon us. In all
probability, animals feel more sharply than we do any restrictions on
such instinctual promptings as the need, which we share with them, to
wander around and stretch one's legs every now and then; and terror or
distress suffered by an animal is never, as sometimes in us, softened by
intellectual comprehension of the circumstances. -- Brigid Brophy (1929- )
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Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they
are about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic,'
they mean they are going to make money out of it. -- Brigid Brophy
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Most people involved in health education know that a typical McDonald's
meal does not comply with current healthy eating recommendations and that
is why their literature states that the two golden rules for healthy
eating are 'variety' and 'moderation' - vague terms which do not help
the average person choose a health promoting diet. -- Jane Brophy,
from her McLibel witness statement
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A meat-fed world now appears a chimera. World grain production has grown
more slowly than population since 1984, and farmers lack new methods for
repeating the gains of the `green revolution.' Supporting the world's
current population of 5.4 billion people on an American-style diet would
require two-and-ahalf times as much grain as the world's farmers produce
for all purposes. A future world of 8 billion to 14 billion people eating
the American ration of 220 grams of grain-fed meat a day can be nothing
but a flight of fancy. -- Alan B. Durning and Holly Brough, Worldwatch
Institute, Washington, D.C.
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Political discussion in the United States is usually restricted to
the moderate to conservative range that precludes discussion of class
conflict. If "class warfare" is mentioned, it is because a conservative
wants to suggest that certain matters should be kept off-limits in
American political discussion -- Steve Brouwer
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All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent. --
David Brower
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People people, we gotta get over before we go under. Hey country,
didn't say what you meant; just changed - brand new funky president.
Stock market going up, jobs going down. And ain't no funking jobs to
be found. Taxes keep going up; I changed from a glass - now I drink out
of a paper cup It's gettin' bad. -- James Brown, Funky President
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Being vegan has made it even more difficult to relate to my family and
extended circle of friends, who, for the most part, do not understand my
choice to be vegan, or choose not to understand my choice to be vegan,
or choose not to understand because it would require them to reassess
their own choices. -- Jeffery Brown
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Why would it be necessary for human beings to drink the milk of another
mammal to be healthy? A mother cow's milk is designed specifically for
her calf; likewise, a human mother's milk is designed specifically for
a human baby. Does the calf have to drink the human mother's milk to be
healthy? If not, then why should a human being drink the milk of a cow
to be healthy? -- Jeffrey Brown
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Since 1950 demand for lumber (trees) has doubled. Fossil fuel consumption
has quadrupled. China's desire for grain-fed beef (adds even more
pressure). -- Lester Brown, World Watch Inst. annual State of the World
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This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts,
when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs,
they'll kill you. -- H. Rap Brown
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because
I hate plants. -- A. Whitney Brown
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How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone
dying - before you ask yourself why? -- Jackson Browne
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God made all the creatures and gave them our love and our fear, To give
sign, we and they are His children, one family here. -- Robert Browning
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I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice,
vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far
as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the
pretense of sparing me a twinge or two. -- Robert Browning (poet)
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I sort of felt sorry for the damn flies. They never hurt anybody. Even
though they were supposed to carry diseases I never heard of anybody
saying they caught something from a fly. My cousin gave two guys the
clap and nobody ever whacked her with a paper. -- Lenny Bruce
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Let us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete jungles,
from our firesides, from the leather nooses and chains by which we enslave
it. -- John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic,
PETA, 1982, p.15.
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Let us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete jungles-
from our firesides, from the leather nooses and chains by which we enslave
it. -- John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic
(Washington D C, PETA, 1982). p. 15
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I plan to remain a Unitarian Universalist all of my life. I also plan to
remain a committed vegetarian. Perhaps more than 1 of every 100 Americans
is a vegetarian. Less than one in a thousand Americans is a Unitarian
Universalist. My daddy says I have to be patient, but I hope that one
day in my lifetime, our commitment to the inherent worth and dignity of
every soul, our wish for peace, and our respect for the interdependent
web of life will show us that vegetarianism is a commitment of the UU
faith. I hope it will become necessary part of our religion. -- Kathleen
I. Bryant (age 12), Vegetarianism: a commitment of UU Faith
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Unfortunately, we can't do what we would have done 20 years ago and knock
the crap out of them...Sometimes, I miss those days. -- SPD Capt. Bryant,
commander of the North Precinct, responding in a meeting with University
District merchants to complaints about youth loitering on public sidewalks
on the Ave.
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Broken homes, uprooted families, vanished dreams, delinquency, vandalism,
crime-these are the hidden costs of free trade. -- Pat Buchanan, The Great
Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice are Sacrificed to
the Gods of the Global Economy.
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All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See
yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do? --
Buddha
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Better than a thousand hollow words, Is one word that brings peace. --
Buddha
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In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the
world's true strength. -- Buddha
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May all that have life be delivered from suffering. -- Buddha
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Never in the world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled
only by non-hatred. This is the law eternal. -- Buddha
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Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life
of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. -- Buddha
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To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. --
Buddha
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When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. --
Buddha (563? - 483? B.C.)
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Your Work Is To Discover Your World And Then With All Your Heart Give
Yourself To It. -- Buddha
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He who can control his rising anger as a coachman controls his carriage
at full speed, this man I call a good driver; others merely hold the
reins. -- Gautama Buddha
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If one is trying to practice dhyana (spiritual meditation) and is still
eating meat, he would be like a man closing his ears and shouting loudly
and then asserting that he heard nothing... How can a bhikshu (student
of spirituality) who hopes to become a deliverer of others, himself
be living on the flesh of other sentient beings? -- Gautama Buddha,
5th Century, B.C.
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The fool says, These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money. In
reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land or money. --
Gotama Buddha
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The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion. -- The
Buddha (circa 563-483 B.C.) Indian avatar
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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave,
and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no
real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality, not as we expect
it to be but as it is, is to see that unless we live for each other and
in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily;
that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this
sense, love. -- Carl Frederick Buechner
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[T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight
to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it,
but ... to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive
with gladness. -- Carl Frederick Buechner
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like
to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can
never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy
finally for you too. -- Frederick Buechner
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There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders. -- Ralph Bunche
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Violence among young people ... is an aspect of their desire to
create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do
the opposite and destroy. -- Anthony Burgess, (b. 1917), British author
and critic. London Independent (London, Jan. 31, 1990).
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men [and women]
to do nothing "-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing. -- Edmund Burke
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing. -- Edmund Burke
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When bad men combine, the good must associate, lest they fall, one by
one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptuous struggle. -- Edmund Burke
(1729-1797)
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But man to whom alone is given, A ray direct from pitying, Heaven
Glories in his heart humane, And creatures for his pleasure slain. --
Robert Burns, from "On Scaring Some Waterfowl
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say,
"I want to see the manager." -- William S. Burroughs
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In the course of preparing myself... I realized afresh that I hate
Churchill and all of his kind. I hate them virulently. They have stalked
down the corridors of endless power all through history.... What man of
sanity would say on hearing of the atrocities committed by the Japanese
against British and Anzac prisoners of war, 'We shall wipe them out,
everyone of them, men, women, and children. There shall not be a Japanese
left on the face of the earth'? Such simple-minded cravings for revenge
leave me with a horrified but reluctant awe for such single-minded and
merciless ferocity. -- Richard Burton, actor, in an article for the New
York Times about his experience playing the role of Winston Churchill
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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never
worshipped anything but himself -- Sir Richard F. Burton
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A column of ants began to follow me onto the tennis court. Because I would
not step on them, I lost the match. But I won with God. -- Peter Burwash
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I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half of my teeth were
knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis
court ... But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me.
When I walked out of there, I knew all the physiological, economic,
and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand
experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork
for my commitment to vegetarianism. -- Peter Burwash, A Vegetarian Primer
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I'm the commander. See, I don't have to explain why I say things. That's
the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs
to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe
anybody an explanation. -- George W. Bush, whom Jim Hightower calls
"King George the Dubya", in an interview with Bob Woodward
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If you feed a terrorist or fund a terrorist, you're a terrorist. -- George
W. Bush, whose country has funded international terrorism for 50 years
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When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who
they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today,
we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there. --
George W. Bush
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You folks are the haves and the have-mores. Some call you the elite.
[Long pause.] I call you my base. -- George W. Bush, whom Jim Hightower
calls "King George the Dubya", at a charity dinner in NYC, Oct. 2000
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I just couldn't stand the idea of eating meat, and I really do think
that it has made me calmer...People's general awareness is getting much
better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves
are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us can't
really be right, and if you've seen a cow in a state of extreme distress
because it can't understand why its calf isn't by it, it can make you
think a lot. -- Kate Bush (singer and songwriter)
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The most un-Texan things about me are that I'm going up north for
college-and I'm a vegetarian. -- Lauren Bush (Glamour)
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God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he
instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined
to solve the problem in the Middle East. -- President George W. Bush,
as quoted in the Israeli daily Ha'aretz
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I will never apologize for the United States of America - I don't care
what the facts are. -- President George Bush, 1988 [Bush was demonstrating
his patriotism by excusing an act of cold-blooded mass-murder by
the U.S. Navy. On July 3, 1988 the U.S. Navy warship Vincennes shot
down an Iranian commercial airliner. All 290 civilian people in the
aircraft were killed. The plane was on a routine flight in a commercial
corridor in Iranian airspace. The targeting of it by the U.S. Navy was
blatantly illegal. That it was grossly immoral is also obvious. Except
to a patriot.],
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I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a high
class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In
short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. I helped purify Nicaragua
for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1910-1912. I
helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests
in 1914. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar
interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the
National City [Bank] boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape
of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall
Street. In China in 1927 l helped to see to it that Standard Oil went
its way unmolested. I had a swell racket. l was rewarded with honors,
medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best
he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines
operated on three continents. -- General Smedley Butler, 1935
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If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are
being used by the owning elites as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon
squad. -- General Smedley Butler, USMC, winner two Medals of Honor
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The spectacle of the United States, armed with its weapons of mass
destruction, acting without Security Council authority to invade a
country in the heartland of Arabia and, if necessary, use its weapons
of mass destruction to win that battle, is something that will so deeply
violate any notion of fairness in this world that I strongly suspect it
could set loose forces that we would deeply live to regret. -- Richard
Butler, former U.N. arms inspector,
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to
enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances
will allow. -- Samuel Butler
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims
he intends to eat until he eats them. -- Samuel Butler
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But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict
between giant organized systems of self-righteousness, each system only
too delighted to find that the other is wicked, each only too glad that
the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. --
Herbert Butterfield
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One can understand the anger and shock of any President after the Savage
attacks of September 11. One can appreciate the frustration of having
only a shadow to chase and an amorphous, fleeting enemy on which it is
nearly impossible to exact retribution. But to turn one's frustration
and anger into the kind of extremely destabilizing and dangerous foreign
policy debacle that the world is currently witnessing is inexcusable from
any Administration charged with the awesome power and responsibility of
guiding the destiny of the greatest superpower on the planet. Frankly many
of the pronouncements made by this Administration are outrageous. There
is no other word. -- Sen. Robert Byrd, Wednesday, February 12, 2003
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On profit-driven factory farms, veal calves are confined to dark wooden
crates so small that they are prevented from lying down or scratching
themselves. These creatures feel; they know pain. They suffer pain
just as we humans suffer pain. Egg-laying hens are confined to battery
cages. Unable to spread their wings, they are reduced to nothing more
than an egg-laying machine.... The law clearly requires that these
poor creatures be stunned and rendered insensitive to pain before
[the slaughtering] process begins. Federal law is being ignored. Animal
cruelty abounds. It is sickening. It is infuriating. Barbaric treatment
of helpless, defenseless creatures must not be tolerated even if these
animals are being raised for food-and even more so, more so. Such
insensitivity is insidious and can spread and is dangerous. Life must
be respected and dealt with humanely in a civilized society. -- Senator
Robert Byrd (on the floor of the U.S. Senate, July 9, 2001)
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On what is possibly the eve of horrific infliction of death and
destruction on the population of the nation of Iraq - a population, I
might add, of which over 50% is under age 15 - this chamber is silent. On
what is possibly only days before we send thousands of our own citizens to
face unimagined horrors of chemical and biological warfare-this chamber
is silent. On the eve of what could possibly be a vicious terrorist
attack in retaliation for our attack on Iraq, it is business as usual in
the United States Senate. We are truly "sleepwalking through history.
In my heart of hearts I pray that this great nation and its good and
trusting citizens are not in for a rudest of awakenings. To engage in
war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be a last resort,
not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any President
who can say that a massive unprovoked military attack on a nation which is
over 50% children is "in the highest moral traditions of our country". --
Senator Robert Byrd, Senate Floor Speech, Wednesday, February 12, 2003
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Today I weep for my country. No more is the image of America one of
strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. ... Around the globe, our friends
mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned.
We flaunt our superpower status with arrogance ... After war has ended the
United States will have to rebuild much more than the country of Iraq. We
will have to rebuild America's image around the globe. May God continue
to bless the United States of America in the troubled days ahead, and
may we somehow recapture the vision which for the present eludes us. --
Senator Robert Byrd, (D) West Virginia, "The Arrogance of Power", Mar
19 2003, given on the floor of the U.S. Senate after U.S. begins bombing
and invasion of Iraq
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and
those who dare not, are slaves. -- George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824),
English romantic poet (Lord Byron)
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The IMF holds the haft of the sword, while the rest of the world holds
the blade. -- Jamaican cabdriver
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Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection,
we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our
clothes, food and adornments. -- S. Parkes Cadman
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Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the
citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged
sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when
the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with
hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing
the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear
and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the
leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And
I am Caesar. -- Julius Caesar
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Hope for the earth lies not with leaders but in your own heart and
soul. If you decide to save the earth, it will be saved. Each person can
be as powerful as the most powerful person who ever lived - and that is
you, if you love this planet. -- Helen Caldicott, M.D. If You Love This
Planet: A plan to heal the earth. W.W. Norton & Company, New York and
London. 1992.
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Some people called me a fanatic, but fanaticism is important when life
on earth is in the balance -- Helen Caldicott
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Women are a tremendous force - if you empower them. They're as
difficult to organize as doctors, but once you get them going they're
unstoppable. Women are much more open with their feelings and the
truth, and they're one of the golden keys to the salvation of this
planet. -- Helen Caldicott, Co-founder of the Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Founder of the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament
and the International Physicians to Save the Environment
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You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love
this planet. -- Dr. Helen Caldicott
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these they misname Empire, and where
they make a desert, they call it peace. -- Calgacus
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When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why
the poor have no food, they call you a communist. -- Archbishop Helder
Camara, Brazilian liberation theologist
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God looks unjust but is not. God asks more from those who more
is given. They are not greater or better; they have greater
responsibility. They must give more service. Live to serve. -- Dom
Helder Camara
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When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the
poor have no food, they call me a communist. -- Dom Helder Camara
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An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, stays bought. --
Simon Cameron (Lincoln's Secretary of War)
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It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in. -- General Colin
Powell [When asked about the number of Iraqi people who were slaughtered
by Americans in the 1991 Desert Storm terror campaign (200,000 people!)]
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Conventional oil - and I will explain what I mean by that - provides
most of the oil produced today, and is responsible for about 95% all oil
that has been produced so far. It will continue to dominate supply for
a long time to come. It is what matters most. Its discovery peaked in
the 1960s. We now find one barrel for every four we consume. Middle East
share of production is set to rise. The rest of the world peaked in 1997,
and is therefore in terminal decline. World peak comes within about five
years. The poor countries of the world will bear most of the burden. But
the United States will be in serious difficulties. There is, I think,
a strong danger of some ill-considered military intervention to try to
secure oil. -- C. J. Campbell, Petroleum Geolgist, "Peak Oil", Dec. 2000,
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Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases. --
Dr. Campbell
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Casein quite simply, is a carcinogen. Make no mistake about that. There is
no other chemical that is as carcinogenic as animal protein. The evidence
is deep. The evidence is relevant because it occurs at common levels of
intake. We're talking about the kind of intakes people consume each day in
this country. And the evidence is broad. It does not exist for soy protein
and wheat protein. -- T. Colin Campbell, PhD, VegSource Conference 2002
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I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about
twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade or
so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying
attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came
first. -- T. Colin Campbell
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I would have assumed that containing small amounts of animal based
foods, like they do in China, that it wouldn't have been enough to show
problems... But we found the closer one gets to a plant-based diet,
the healthier they are going to be. It's an aggregate effect, even for
regular levels of intake... Disease was occurring at a level of animal
protein intake that wasn't very much. Some in China consume one-tenth of
what we consume here, and it still starts to cause Western diseases. --
T. Colin Campbell, PhD, VegSource Conference 2002
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In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in
comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians. -- T. Colin Campbell,
PhD Professor of Nutrition, Cornell University (letter dated 3/29/98)
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Policy protects the corporations, it doesn't help the consumer. --
T. Colin Campbell, PhD, VegSource Conference 2002
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Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic
development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing
that this is not a very smart move and the Chinese are listening. They
are realizing that animal-based agriculture is not the way to go.... We
are basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety
of plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods.... Once people
start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the
mischief starts. -- T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., of Cornell University,
director of a study of 6,500 Chinese that found a close correlation
between meat consumption and the incidence of heart disease and cancer.
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Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic
development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing that
this is not a very smart move and the Chinese are listening. They are
realizing that animal-based agriculture is not the way to go.... We are
basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety of
plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods.... "Once people
start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the
mischief starts. -- T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., of Cornell University,
director of a study of 6,500 Chinese that found a close correlation
between meat consumption and the incidence of heart disease and cancer.
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South Carolina's marine mammal protection law serves a valuable
purpose. By enacting this forward-thinking legislation, we have taken
a strong stand against the inhumane treatment of animals. -- Governor
Carroll Campbell, South Carolina.
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no
criminal's deed, however calculated, can be compared. For there to be an
equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had
warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death
on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for
months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. -- Albert Camus
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Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves. -- Albert Camus
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I
don't want any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood
and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive. -- Albert
Camus, "Letters to a German Friend", from Resistance, Rebellion and Death
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It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the
executioners. -- Albert Camus
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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and
good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack
understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however,
isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this
that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of
an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for
itself the right to kill. -- Albert Camus, The Plague
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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so
vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside
ourselves. -- Albert Camus
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Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same
for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help
themselves. -- Dr. Louis J. Camuti
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The United Kingdom diet is unhealthy largely because it contains
too much fat, saturated fats, sugar & salt and is correspondingly
inadequate in bread and cereal foods (preferably wholegrain), vegetables
and fruit. lnsofar as the Defendants are making this point in their
criticism of the foods available at Mc Donalds, what they say is valid
and now generally accepted not only by the scientific community but
also by government. -- Geoffrey Cannon, Nutritional consultant, from
his McLibel witness statement
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It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting
and torturing people.. catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews
during the Holocaust. -- Aviva Cantor, writing in MS Magazine in 1983:
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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of
nearly every other form of freedom. -- Benjamin R. Cardozo
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It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading
us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most
significant propaganda acheivments of the twentieth century. -- Alex
Carey, Managing Public Opinion: The Corporate Offensive, 1978, in Taking
the Risk Out Of Democracy
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The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great
political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate
power, and the growth of corporte propaganda as a means of protecting
corporate power against democracy. -- Alex Carey, Taking the Risk Out
of Democracy
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I cheer when a bull at Pamplona sinks his horns deep into the lower
intestines of some drunken European macho swine. And my cheers grow louder
when the victim is a young American macho-jock tourist asshole. Especially
if the bull is able to swing the second horn around and catch the guy
right in the nuts. -- George Carlin (Brain Droppings)
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Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the
music. -- George Carlin
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The meat industry is huge, but kind people are making a difference. There
are more vegetarians and vegans than ever. The example I try to set
for family and friends as we share scrumptious vegan holiday meals has
far-reaching effects for the animals. -- Belinda Carlisle
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The obvious difference between Iraq and the United States is that this
nation is a democracy. That means that we US citizens are responsible for
the behavior of George W. Bush in ways that the people of Iraq are not
responsible for Saddam Hussein. There is good reason to believe that Bush,
in his highly personal, irrational, and thoroughly Manichaean campaign
against Hussein, has set the very world on a course toward disaster. No
one can change that course but us. -- James Carroll
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength
that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as
actual beauty in the migration of birds, the ebb and flow of tides, the
folded bud ready for spring. There is something infinitely healing in
the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after
the night and spring after the winter. -- Rachel Carson
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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is, whether
its victim is human or animal, we cannot expect things to be much better
in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in
killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates
such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity. --
Rachel Carson (marine biologist)
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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether
its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be much better
in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in
killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates
such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity. --
Rachel Carson
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As to the dolphinarium's alleged public education value, recent evidence
suggests it is worthless. It may be, indeed, subversive of education in
that, like circuses, it perpetuates an unrealistic and intellectually
sterile anthropomorphism. -- N. Carter
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Now there is only one superpower, with unprecedented military and
economic strength. Instead of entering a millennium of peace,
the world is now, in many ways, a more dangerous place. There is a
plethora of civil wars... and recent appalling acts of terrorism have
reminded us that no nations, even superpowers, are invulnerable. It is
clear that global challenges must be met with an emphasis on peace, in
harmony with others, with strong alliances and international consensus.
Imperfect as it may be, there is no doubt that this can best be done
through the United Nations... War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But
no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. The bond
of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears
and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to
alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can
make these changes - and we must. -- Jimmy Carter, Former United States
President, Nobel peace prize acceptance speech, Oslo Norway, Dec 10, 2002
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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here
that our democratic system is worthy of emulation. -- Jimmy Carter,
Former United States President
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Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual
than use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the
laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use. --
President Jimmy Carter, August 2, 1977
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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it
and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs
most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for
a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. -- Pablo Casals
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop
at the border? -- Pablo Casals
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Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to
others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you... Look at
every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think
necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question.... Does
this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; If it doesn't it
is of no use. -- Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan
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Drugs will do it, but you can do it with a vegetarian diet. In the World
Health Organization's statistics of 191 countries, the U.S. is 24th for
longevity. But someday heart heart disease will be the least popular
cause of death, because we know how to solve it - through a low-fat
vegetarian diet. -- William Castelli, MD, VegSource Conference 2002
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The U.S. is the grease ball kingdom of the world. -- William Castelli,
MD, VegSource Conference 2002
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The better you lower overall cholesterol, the better your survivability
and reversibility of heart disease. -- William Castelli, MD, VegSource
Conference 2002
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Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rates of coronary
disease of any group in the country ... Some people scoff at vegetarians,
but they have a fraction of our heart attack rate and they have only 40
percent of our cancer rate. They outlive other men by about six years
now. -- Dr.William Castelli, M.D.
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We tried to get people down in their cholesterol numbers by using the
vegetarian diet, and it took only two months for them to lose their
angina; we expected it to take a year. -- William Castelli, MD, VegSource
Conference 2002
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When you see the golden arches you are probally on your way to the pearly
gates. -- William Castelli, M.D.
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When you see the golden arches, you're probably on the road to the pearly
gates -- Dr. William Castelli, Director of the Framingham Heart Study
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Revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the
death between the future and the past. -- Fidel Castro
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Corporate executives dream of a global market made up of people with
homogenized tastes and needs.... Logos on bottles, boxes, and labels
are global banners, instantly recognizable by millions who could not
tell you the color of the U.N. flag. -- Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh
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Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone. --
Lesley Stahl of CBS, re: the much missed Charles Kuralt
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Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You
won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come
looking for you. -- Ajahn Chah (Reflections)
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The [a recent headline] is pretty much a reflection on the culture of the
modern day. The article says with prices rising, cheaper cuts of meat
need tender loving care. Not loving care for the defenseless animals
that are slaughtered to whet the lusty appetite of humans. We seemingly
attach great importance to life, go to great lengths to save a whale, but
contribute to the butchering of countless animals daily. This wholesale
slaughter is not necessary to prevent us from starving. It is economically
extravagant and ethically reprehensible. Is there a connection between
violence human beings inflict on each other and violence humans inflict
on animals? We jokingly attribute unfortunate occurrences in our lives
to bad karma. But the law of karma is no joking matter. It operates
impartially and unerringly. It ensures that those who cause violence and
suffering to other living beings must themselves experience equivalent
suffering now or in the future. -- Yadatore S. Chandrashekhar, Endicott
NY, letter to the Binghamton Press and Sun Bulletin, Thanksgiving day 2003
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Bush, you liar: your cowboy ass is fired! -- Chant, heard at May 4,
2003 protest at Kent State University, marking 33 year anniversary of
the killing of 4 student protesters by the National Guard
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Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and
gravity, shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second
time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire. --
Teilhard de Chardin
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. --
Charles Dickens.
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There is little to be learned about watching three-ton animals in an
oversized swimming pool. Animal shows may increase appreciation of
some species. But there's a fine line between teaching people to value
wildlife and parading these animals for witless amusement. There is
a danger that we might see more, not less exploitation of wildlife -
an exploitation that is all the while touted as educational ! Wildlife
should stay in the wilds. All we learn from animal shows are the habits
of humans. And what we learn is not flattering. -- Alton Chase, columnist.
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The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all
sentiment of humanity. -- Constantin Francois Chasseboeuf
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I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was
my dog Boycott who led me to question to right of humans to eat other
sentient beings. -- Cesar Chavez, pacifist head of the United Farm Workers
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Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized
society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings
or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture
or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and
cock fighting, bullfighting, and rodeos are cut from the same fabric:
violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we
have learned to live well ourselves. -- Cesar Chavez, letter to Eric Mills
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Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But
once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things. --
Cesar Chavez
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Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand
the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those
who have been involved in bringing about change and see the difference
between violence and non-violence are firmly committed to a lifetime
of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly,
but because it is an effective and very powerful way. -- Cesar Chavez
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Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the
timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to
sacrifice. It is the patience to win. -- Cesar Chavez
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal
to the brain. -- Cesar Chavez
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The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation
with everything humiliating. -- Cesar Chavez
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The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill
of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God. --
Cesar Chavez
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There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence. -- Cesar Chavez
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Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about
nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God,
and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however
just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence. --
Cesar Chavez
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Violence just hurts those who are already hurt... Instead of exposing
the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. -- Cesar Chavez
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We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We
are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and
moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for
that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle. --
Cesar Chavez
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You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because
society puts them in that spot. You've got to change it. You don't just
change a man - you've got to change his environment as you do it. --
Cesar Chavez
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We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on
this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom
generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past
nor dim its future. -- Bernard Lown and Evjueni Chazov
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Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract
ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments
using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take
the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not
forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the
somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence,
should we know better? -- Peter Cheeke, Professor of Animal Agriculture,
Contemporary Issues in Animal Agriculture, 1999
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Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract
ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments
using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the
lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not forced
to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat
frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence, should we
know better? -- Peter Cheeke
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The reason to have a military is to be prepared to fight and win
wars...it's not a jobs program. -- Richard Cheney, Fmr. Sec. of Defense
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"My country, right or wrong," is like saying, "My mother, drunk or
sober." -- G.K. Chesterton
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All centralized systems mean the rule of the few; and industrial machinery
is the most centralized of all systems. If the modern American really
wants to know what his fathers meant by democracy, he will never learn
it from a Ford car. He must make the supreme and awful sacrifice. He
must get out and walk. -- G.K. Chesterton, 11/13/26
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Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly. -- G.K. Chesterton
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have
always objected to being governed at all. -- G.K. Chesterton
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in
doing it -- G. K. Chesterton
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Whenever we cause suffering or death to any other being, we cause
suffering to the Great Life Force. -- Shik Po Chih
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We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling
on them forever, because they are prostrate. -- Lydia Maria Child
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Hope for peace is within each individual's heart, but only through
learning to listen to your heart can the potential of this hope be
realized. -- Doc Childre, Cut-Thru
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He who says it cannot be done should get out of the way of the one who
is doing it. -- Chinese Proverb
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If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are
headed. -- Chinese Proverb
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If you are thinking one year ahead, sow seed. ,If you are thinking
10 years ahead, plant a tree. ,If you are thinking 100 years ahead,
educate the people. -- Chinese proverb
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If your vision is one year, plant rice. If your vision is ten years,
plant trees. If your vision is 100 years, teach children. -- Chinese
proverb
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There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth. -- Chinese
Proverb
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To use violence is to already be defeated. -- Chinese proverb
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The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we
been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give
donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed
to the poor. -- Joan Chittester, OSB
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[Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in
igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical
idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse
for it. -- Margaret Cho (PETA gala)
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied today, then every Post-War American
president would have to be hanged. -- Noam Chomsky
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise,
we don't believe in it at all. -- Noam Chomsky
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If you're interested in terror, you should look at its causes.... [But]
you're not allowed to look at the causes because that's considered
rationalization or justification.... And there's a good reason for
that. As soon as you look at the causes, you start looking in the
mirror. -- Noam Chomsky
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It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of
intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy
evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes wilful
and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them. -- Noam Chomsky,
The World After Sept. 11th, AFSC Conference, 08 Dec 01
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It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, the Himmlers and the
Mengeles, convince themselves that they were engaged in noble and
courageous acts. -- Noam Chomsky, Necessary Illusions(1989)
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It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose
lies. -- Noam Chomsky
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It now stands as the only state on record which has both been condemned
by the World Court for international terrorism and has vetoed a Security
Council resolution calling on states to observe international law. --
Noam Chomsky, about the US, referring to the reactions to their support
to the contras terrorists attacking Nicaragua in the 1980's, The New War
Against Terror, speech at at The Technology & Culture Forum at MIT 011018
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It should be unnecessary to point out that massive terrorism is a standard
device of powerful states.... Some cases are not even controversial. Take
the US war against Nicaragua, leaving tens of thousands dead and the
country in ruins. Nicaragua appealed to the world court, which condemned
the US for international terrorism ("the unlawful use of force"),
ordering it to desist and pay substantial reparations. The US responded
to the court ruling by sharply escalating the war, and vetoing a security
council resolution calling on all states to observe international law. The
escalation included official orders to attack "soft targets" - undefended
civilian targets, like agricultural collectives and health clinics -
and to avoid the Nicaraguan army. The terrorists were able to carry out
these instructions, thanks to the complete control of Nicaraguan air
space by the US and the advanced communications equipment provided to
them by their supervisors. -- Noam Chomsky
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It's a very serious analytic error to say, as is commonly done, that
terrorism is the weapon of the weak. Like other means of violence,
it's primarily a weapon of the strong, overwhelmingly, in fact. It is
held to be a weapon of the weak because the strong also control the
doctrinal systems and their terror doesn't count as terror. Now that's
close to universal. I can't think of a historical exception, even the
worst mass murderers view the world that way. So pick the Nazis. They
weren't carrying out terror in occupied Europe. They were protecting the
local population from the terrorisms of the partisans. -- Noam Chomsky,
The New War Against Terror, speech at at The Technology & Culture Forum
at MIT 011018
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More generally, people have little specific knowledge of what is
happening around them. An academic study that appeared right before the
presidential election reports that less than 30 percent of the population
was aware of the positions of the candidates on major issues, though
86 percent knew the name of George Bush's dog. The general thrust of
propaganda gets through, however. When asked to identify the largest
element of the federal budget, less than 1/4 give the correct answer:
military spending. Almost half select foreign aid, which barely exists;
the second choice is welfare, chosen by 1/3 of the population, who
also far overestimate the proportion that goes to Blacks and to child
support. And though the question was not asked, virtually none are
likely to be aware that `defense spending' is in large measure welfare
for the rich. Another result of the study is that more educated sectors
are more ignorant, not surprising, since they are the main targets of
indoctrination. Bush supporters, who are the best educated, scored lowest
overall. -- Noam Chomsky
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Only through their own struggle for liberation will ordinary people
come to comprehend their true nature, suppressed and distorted
within institutional structures designed to assure obedience and
subordination. Only in this way will people develop more humane ethical
standards, 'a new sense of right', 'the consciousness of their strength
and their importance as a social factor in the life of their time' and
their capacity to realise the strivings of their 'inmost nature.' Such
direct engagement in the work of social reconstruction is a prerequisite
for coming to perceive this 'inmost nature' and is the indispensable
foundations upon which it can flourish. -- Noam Chomsky, preface to
Rudolf Rocker's Anarcho-Syndicalism, p. viii
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Religious fundamentalists alone are a huge popular grouping in the United
States, which resembles pre-industrial societies in that regard. This is
a culture in which three-fourths of the population believe in religious
miracles, half believe in the devil, 83 percent believe that the Bible
is the 'actual' or the inspired word of God, 39 percent believe in the
Biblical prediction of Armageddon and 'accept it with a certain fatalism,'
a mere 9 percent accept Darwinian evolution while 44 percent believe that
'God created man pretty much in his present form at one time within the
last 10,000 years,' and so on. The 'God and Country rally' that opened
the national Republican convention is one remarkable illustration, which
aroused no little amazement in conservative circles in Europe. -- Noam
Chomsky, From: 'Mandate for Change,' or Business as Usual, Z Magazine,
February 1993, pp. 32-33
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Rogue states that are internally free - and the U.S. is at the outer
limits in this respect - must rely on the willingness of the educated
classes to produce accolades and tolerate or deny terrible crimes. --
Noam Chomsky, Rogue States
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Somebody's paying the corporations that destroyed Iraq and the
corporations that are rebuilding it. They're getting paid by the
American taxpayer in both cases. So we pay them to destroy the country,
and then we pay them to rebuild it. Those are gifts from U.S. taxpayer
to U.S. corporations... -- Noam Chomsky
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Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist
attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to
their gladiators. -- Noam Chomsky
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The U.S. will not permit constructive programs in its own domains,
so it must ensure that they are destroyed elsewhere to terminate "the
threat of a good example". -- Noam Chomsky
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The US has always regarded international laws as an annoying encumbrance,
unless they can be used to advantage against an enemy. -- Noam Chomsky
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the
rigidity of the system of ideological control-indoctrination, we might
say-exercised through the mass media. -- Noam Chomsky, Politics (1979).
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The author (Douglas Farah) of that article, at least when he's not writing
for the Post, knows the answer perfectly well. The U.S. led a devastating
terrorist war throughout the region to try to prevent democracy and social
development. These billions of dollars of aid that he talks about were
billions of dollars spent to destroy these countries. That's why they
are worse off than before. But the Post can't say that. No matter how
overwhelming the evidence is, it's perfectly possible simply to disregard
it and to go on with fantasies that are much more pleasing to powerful
interests and to oneself. -- Noam Chomsky
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The contempt of the world's leading power for the framework of world
order has become so extreme that there is nothing left to discuss. --
Noam Chomsky, analyzing the extralegal U.S.-led war against Serbia.
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The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where
everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created
wants, and the wants are created -- Noam Chomsky
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The special importance of propaganda in what Walter Lippmann referred to
as the "manufacture of consent" has long been recognized by writers on
public opinion, propaganda, and the political requirements of social
order. Lippmann himself, writing in the early 1920s, claimed that
propaganda had already become "a regular organ of popular government,"
and was steadily increasing in sophistication and importance. We do not
contend that his is all the mass media do, but we believe the propaganda
function to be a very important aspect of their overall service. --
Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent, preface, pg xi
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The way we live now is criminal. Denial of freedoms, death by starvation
and exploitation, denigration of people's capabilities everywhere. If you
see that these outcomes are socially produced, then you understand that
every person who dies as a result was effectively murdered. Once you
accept the possibility of attaining a humanist alternative, you have
to be a terrible hypocrite, coward or cynic to live passively with the
contrast between what is and what could be. -- Noam Chomsky, (1928 - )
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There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and
privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown
social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that
are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And
if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions
that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past. --
Noam Chomsky
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There's no atrocity that's been carried out that hasn't been described
as humanitarian and beneficial to its victims. -- Noam Chomsky
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Those who do not accept the fundamental principles of state propaganda are
simply excluded from the debate (or if noticed, dismissed as "emotional,"
"irresponsible," etc.) -- Noam Chomsky, with Edward S. Herman, After
the Cataclysm, 1979
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When a Federal Building was blown up in Oklahoma City, there were
immediate cries to bomb the Middle East. These terminated when it was
discovered that the perpetrator was from the US ultra-right militia
movement. The reaction was not to destroy Montana and Idaho, where the
movements are based, but to seek and capture the perpetrator, bring him
to trial, and - crucially - explore the grievances that lie behind such
crimes and to address the problems. -- Noam Chomsky, Composite Interview 2
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[In response to "What in your view are the main reasons for patriotic
feelings in the USA? Do you believe that such feelings can ever be
justified? Do you think such feelings exist on a similar scale (in a
similar manner) outside the USA, and do you think they can be justified
in other countries?"] The questions are serious and important, and merit
reflection and analysis. To begin with, we have to be more clear about
what we mean by patriotic feelings. For a time when I was in high school,
I cheered for the school athletic teams. That's a form of patriotism --
group loyalty. It can take pernicious forms, but in itself it can be quite
harmless, maybe even positive. At the national level, what "patriotism"
means depends on how we view the society. Those with deep totalitarian
commitments identify the state with the society, its people, and its
culture. Therefore those who criticized the policies of the Kremlin under
Stalin were condemned as "anti-Soviet" or "hating Russia". For their
counterparts in the West, those who criticize the policies of the US
government are "anti-American" and "hate America"; those are the standard
terms used by intellectual opinion, including left-liberal segments,
so deeply committed to their totalitarian instincts that they cannot
even recognize them, let alone understand their disgraceful history,
tracing to the origins of recorded history in interesting ways. For the
totalitarian, "patriotism" means support for the state and its policies,
perhaps with twitters of protest on grounds that they might fail or
cost us too much. For those whose instincts are democratic rather than
totalitarian, "patriotism" means commitment to the welfare and improvement
of the society, its people, its culture. That's a natural sentiment and
one that can be quite positive. It's one all serious activists share,
I presume; otherwise why take the trouble to do what we do? But the
kind of "patriotism" fostered by totalitarian societies and military
dictatorships, and internalized as second nature by much of intellectual
opinion in more free societies, is one of the worst maladies of human
history, and will probably do us all in before too long. With regard
to the US, I think we find a mix. Every effort is made by power and
doctrinal systems to stir up the more dangerous and destructive forms
of "patriotism"; every effort is made by people committed to peace and
justice to organize and encourage the beneficial kinds. It's a constant
struggle. When people are frightened, the more dangerous kinds tend to
emerge, and people huddle under the wings of power. Whatever the reasons
may be, by comparative standards the US has been a very frightened
country for a long time, on many dimensions. Quite commonly in history,
such fears have been fanned by unscrupulous leaders, seeking to implement
their own agendas. These are commonly harmful to the general population,
which has to be disciplined in some manner: the classic device is to
stimulate fear of awesome enemies concocted for the purpose, usually
with some shreds of realism, required even for the most vulgar forms
of propaganda. Germany was the pride of Western civilization 70 years
ago, but most Germans were whipped to presumably genuine fear of the
Czech dagger pointed at the heart of Germany (is that crazier than the
Nicaraguan or Grenadan dagger pointed at the heart of the US, conjured
up by the people now playing the same game today?), the Jewish-Bolshevik
conspiracy aimed at destroying the Aryan race and the civilization that
Germany had inherited from Greece, etc. That's only the beginning. A
lot is at stake. -- Noam Chomsky, November 2002
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[S]uppose I'm talking about international terrorism, and I say that we
ought to stop it in Washington, which is a major center of it. People
back off, "What do you mean, Washington's a major center of it?" Then
you have to explain. You have togive some background. That's exactly what
Jeff Greenfield is talking about. You don't want people who have to give
background, because that would allow critical thought. What you want is
completely conformist ideas. You want just repetition of the propaganda
line, the party line. For that you need "concision". I could do it too. I
could say what I think in three sentences, too. But it would just sound
as if it was off the wall, because there's no basis laid for it. If
you come from the American Enterprise Institute and you say it in three
sentences, yes, people hear it every day, so what's the big deal? Yeah,
sure, Qaddafi's the biggest monster in the world, and the Russians are
conquering theworld, and this and that, Noriega's the worst gangster
since so-and-so. For that kind of thing you don't need any background. You
just rehash the thoughts that everybody's always expressed and that you
hear from Dan Rather and everyone else. That's a structural technique
that's very valuable. In fact, if people like Ted Koppel were smarter,
they would allow more dissidents on, because they would just make fools
of themselves. Either you would sell out and repeat what everybody else
is saying because it's the only way to sound sane, or else you would say
what you think, in which case you'd sound like a madman, even if what
you think is absolutely true and easily supportable. The reason is that
the whole system so completely excludes it. It'll sound crazy, rightly,
from their point of view. And since you have to have concision, as Jeff
Greenfield says, you don't have time toexplain it. That's a marvelous
structural technique of propaganda.... -- Noam Chomsky
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I will not raise my child to kill your child. -- Barbara Choo, Seeds
of Peace
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Vegetarianism is a healthier diet. -- Deepak Chopra, MD (at Border's):
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When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those
who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what
happened. -- Carol Christensen, quoted in Making It Happen: A Positive
Guide to the Future
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Compared to most other industries, the crime control industry is in a
most privileged position. There is no lack of raw-material; crime seems
to be in endless supply. Endless are also the demands for the service,
as well as the willingness to pay for what is seen as security. And
the usual industrial questions of contamination do not appear. On the
contrary, this is an industry seen as cleaning up, removing unwanted
elements from the social system. Only rarely will those working in or
for any industry say that now, just now, the size is about right. Now
we are big enough, we are well established, we do not want any further
growth. An urge for expansion is built into industrial thinking, if for
no other reason than to forestall being swallowed up by competitors. The
crime control industry is no exception. But this is an industry with
particular advantages, providing weapons for what is often see as a
permanent war against crime. The crime control industry is like rabbits
in Australia or wild mink in Norway - there are so few natural enemies
around. -- Nils Christie, Crime Control as Industry, 3rd edition, p. 7.
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The saints are exceedingly loving and gentle to mankind, and even to
brute beasts.... Surely we ought to show [animals] great kindness and
gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the
same origin as ourselves. -- St. John Chrysostom (347-407)
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Whoever is not angry when there is cause for anger, sins! -- John
Chrysostom, quoted by Daniel C. Maguire, Professor, Marquette University,
Redefining the Ministry of Reconciliation
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it
takes to sit down and listen. -- Winston Churchill
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Democracy's the worst form of government, except for all the others. --
Winston Churchill
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England is lost in a pacifist's dream. If people are dreaming, it means
they're asleep. -- Winston Churchill
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I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger
even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit
that right. I do not admit for instance that a great wrong has been
done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I
do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that
a stronger race, a higher grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it
that way, has come in and taken their place. -- Winston Churchill, 1937,
(said of the Palestinians)
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If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed;
if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not to costly;
you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds
against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even
a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory,
because it is better to perish than live as slaves. -- Winston Churchill
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. -- Winston Churchill
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Odd things animals. All dogs look up to you. All cats look down to
you. Only a pig looks at you as an equal. -- Winston Churchill
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Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler) --
Winston Churchill
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The miracle of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the
virtuous. -- Winston Churchill
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You might however consider whether you should not unfold as a background
the great privilege of habeas corpus and trial by jury, which are the
supreme protection invented by the English people for ordinary individuals
against the state. The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison
without formulating any charge known to law, and particularly to deny
him the judgement of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is
the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist
. . . Extraordinary power assumed by the Executive should be yielded up
when the emergency declines. Nothing is more abhorrent than to imprison a
person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the
test of civilisation. -- Winston Churchill, writting to Herbert Morrison
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Your movement [Mussolini's fascism] has abroad rendered a service to the
whole world... Italy has shown that there is a way to combat subversive
forces. Winston Churchill
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A man of courage is also full of faith. -- Marcus Tilluis Cicero (Roman
orator and philosopher and statesman, 106-43 BC)
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An unjust peace is better than a just war. -- Marcus Tilluis Cicero
(Roman orator and philosopher, and statesman 106-43 BC)
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But what pleasure can it possibly be to a man of culture ... when a
splendid beast is transfixed with a hunting spear? -- Marcus Tilluis
Cicero (Roman orator and philosopher, and statesman 106-43 BC)
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Freedom is participation in power. -- Marcus Tilluis Cicero (Roman orator
and philosopher, and statesman, 106-43 BC)
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our
joy and the dividing of our grief -- Marcus Tilluis Cicero (Roman orator
and philosopher and statesman, 106-43 BC)
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Life is nothing without friendship. -- Marcus Tilluis Cicero (Roman
orator and philosopher and statesman, 106-43 BC)
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Six Mistakes: 1. The delusion that individual advancement is made by
crushing others. 2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot
be changed. 3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot
do it ourselves. 4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences. 5.
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not aquiring the
habits of reading and study. 6. Attempting to compel others to believe
and live as we do. -- Marcus Tilluis Cicero (Roman orator and philosopher
and statesman, 106-43 BC)
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The work can wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow
won't wait while you do the work. -- Patricia Clafford
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It is the belief that power corrupts, and that people become
irresponsible in their exercise of it, that forms the basis for much
of their [anarchists] criticism of political authority and centralised
power. Power must be dispersed they say, not so much because everyone
is always good, but because when power is concentrated some people tend
to become extremely evil. -- John Clark, The Anarchist Moment
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Irradiation does not protect consumers from contaminated meat. It kills
only selected pathogens. ..It does nothing to hardy pathogens such as
the hepatitis virus or to those inside a large slab of meat or to those
added during subsequent processing. -- Maynard Clark
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The media, owned by the wealthy, speaking for the plutocracy, has the
dual role of anaesthetizing the public to prevent serious consideration
or debate of such staggering human issues as world hunger, AIDS,
regional civil wars, environmental destruction, and social anarchy, and
emotionalizing the people for aggression, all without a serious military
threat in sight. -- Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General, in is
book The Fire This Time: US War Crimes In The Gulf
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I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates
wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. -- Septima Poinsette Clark
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War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits. -- Major General
Carl von Clausewitz, 1832
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War is simply politics carried out by other means. -- von Clausewitz
(similar to a quote by one of Otto von Bismark's generals)
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The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in
all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium
and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. --
Henry Clay, 1834
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If we hadn't lost the Civil War, we wouldn't have had to deal with this
crap. -- Pres. Bill Clinton, speaking to a group of Southern Democrats
on the subject of affirmative action.
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We...have to take this moment once again to hammer home to all the
children of America that violence is wrong. -- Pres. Bill Clinton,
taking time out from his daily regimen of bombing Serbia back to the
stone age to comment (with a violent metaphor, hammer, no less) on the
school shootings in Colorado April 20.
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Free your mind, and your ass will follow! -- George Funkadelic Clinton
(similar to a Marcus Garvey quote)
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Never forget your country has 4 percent of the world's people and 22
percent of its wealth. We've got to sell something to the other 96 percent
if we want to hold on to our standard of living. -- U.S. President Bill
Clinton, in a speech before the Democratic Leadership Council, October
13, 1999 penpress.org 020619
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The most rewarding aspect of being vegan is that the peactice of
nonviolence and compassion also includes extending this to myself and
increases my ability for self-love and self-acceptance. By doing this,
I am able to share more love, compassion, and acceptance with others, no
matter what their lifestyle is or the choices they make. -- Sally Clinton
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Veganism is a lifestyle choice based on the principle of ahimsa,
or nonviolence. It is more than a diet. It is something that affects
every aspect of my life, from the food I eat, the products I buy, and
the clothes I wear, to my thoughts, actons, and relationships with other
people, animals, and the planet. Being vegan also means accepting and
being tolerant of others' choices while still being true to what you
believe and feel is right. -- Sally Clinton
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found
in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share
in government to the utmost. -- Aristotle If something makes you cry;
you have to do something about it. That's the difference between politics
and guilt. I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the
status quo: your time has come - and gone. -- William Jefferson Clinton
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Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroos, deer,
all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes, and dingoes
- by the million in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed.
Then he kills domestic animals by the billion and eats them. This in
turn kills man by the million, because eating all those animals leads
to degenerative - and fatal - health conditions like heart disease,
kidney disease, and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions
more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions
of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because
food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile,
some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills
so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for
"Peace on Earth". -- C. David Coates, Old McDonald's Factory Farm, 1989
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He is a Buddhist and will not harm even a fly. -- friends descrbing
James Coburn
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Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation,
cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable
of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end,
self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly
into the world for the purpose of killing them. -- J. M. Coetzee
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human. --
Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Jr.
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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only
reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the
environment . -- Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Jr.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for
anything but love. -- William Sloan Coffin
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A world in which others controlled the course of their own development
... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously
endangered. -- Benjamin Cohen
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It's to the point where Brit Hume, the ABC correspondent at the White
House, plays tennis with George Bush.... You find these relationships are
so close that reporters don't challenge the subjects of their stories,
they just tell you what the government is saying. In other words, they
have become stenographers for power and not journalists. -- Jeff Cohen,
Taking Risk out of Democracy
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I dream that someday the United States will be on the side of the peasants
in some civil war. I dream that we will be the ones who will help the poor
overthrow the rich, who will talk about land reform and education and
health facilities for everyone, and that when the Red Cross or Amnesty
International comes to count the bodies and take the testimony of women
raped, that our side won't be the heavies. -- Richard Cohen
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The journey to a different future must begin by defining the problem
differently than we have done until now... The task is not to find
substitutes for chemicals that disrupt hormones, attack the ozone layer,
or cause still undiscovered problems, though it may be necessary to use
replacements as a temporary measure. The task that confronts us over the
next half century is one of redesign. -- Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski,
John Peterson Myers
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The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in
the major media. -- William Colby, former director of the CIA. Source:
"Derailing Democracy" by Dave Mcgowan, published by Common Courage Press.
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...many vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human
lives. They are Iying. The truth is that animal experiments kill people,
and animal researchers are responsible for the deaths of thousands of
men, women and children every year. -- Dr. Vernon Coleman, Fellow of
the Royal Society of Medicine, UK.
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[M]any vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human
lives. They are lying. The truth is that animal experiments kill people,
and animal researchers are responsible for the deaths of thousands of
men, women and children every year. -- Dr. Vernon Coleman, Fellow of
the Royal Society of Medicine, UK.
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Being vegan has given me a receptacle into which I can put my views of
the world. I have a place to put my moral outrage against human cruelty
to all species. I have a place to put my fears about the environmental
future of this planet. I have a way of looking at the world and saying,
"This is my place in it". -- Jennie Collura
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I love being vegan. I love the word. I love all the decisions I've made,
even when they are sometimes less than simple. All the moral and ethical
judgements that go along with that decision bolster everything else. It
is my religion, my road map, my reason for being. Once you take out an
ethical yardstick in one area of you life, it's difficult to ignore it
everywhere else. -- Jennie Collura
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Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US, Causing 250,000
Deaths Every Year
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We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt and
that it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels fo the past... while we
silence the rebels of the present. -- H.S. Commager
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The fact that some elements (of the U.S. government) may appear to be
potentially "out of control" can be beneficial to creating and reinforcing
fears and doubts within the minds of an adversary's decision makers. ...
That the U.S. may become irrational and vindictive if its vital interests
are attacked should be a part of the national persona we project to all
adversaries... It hurts to portray ourselves as too fully rational and
cool-headed... -- U.S. Strategic Command, 1995
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We aren't likely to survive very long [if we eliminate biodiversity]. --
David Comming, WWF
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We must become the owners, or at any rate the controllers at the source,
of at least a proportion of the oil which we require. -- British Royal
Commission, agreeing with Winston Churchill's policy towards Iraq, 1913,
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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. --
James Bryant Conant
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The discipline and restraint showed by officers...demonstrated the
high quality, strength, and training of our regional law enforcement
officers. -- The Seattle Police Department After Action Report [on the]
World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference
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To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. --
Confucius
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Coexistence... what the farmer does with the turkey - until
Thanksgiving. -- Mike Connolly
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Efforts should be made to bring an end in due course the keeping of
cetaceans in captivity. -- consensus, Whales Alive Conference.
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Amendment IX The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall
not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. --
the United States by the Constitution
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To The Question Of Your Life You Are The Answer, And To The Problems Of
Your Life You Are The Solution. -- Joe Cordare
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Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never
boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take
offense, and it is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other
people's sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse,
to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to
an end. -- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ( Jerusalem Bible )
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My research indicated that before humankind began deforesting to create
the Sahara and other deserts, there were no violent thunderstorms.. nor
drought.. only the gentlest mist. -- Al Couch, 90 year old fruitarian
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I have never read Marx. Well, I read a few pages then decided he was a
bore. Karl didn't invent the class struggle, he merely wrote about it
in a way that impressed some people, using lots of big words. While it
can certainly be useful to know about the history of the working class,
you don't need to have studied Marxist theory to know that being bossed
around is degrading. -- Dave Coull
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The media are only as liberal as the conservative businesses that own
them. -- 1999 Common Courage Political Literacy Course
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I came up with the word ["Corporateering"]. It is a new word. I felt
there needed to be a word to describe when corporations prioritize
their commercial gain over individual, societal and cultural gain. The
phenomenon that has been most devastating to the public, which the public
rarely sees, is that corporations in the last 20 years have changed
social mores, the rule of law, and ethical custom to their advantage and
to the individual's detriment. -- Jamie Court, Foundation for Taxpayer
and Consumer Rights
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The public is bombarded by $1 trillion of marketing worldwide with the
message that the corporation has human values. McDonalds wants to see
you smile. But the public suspects that there is something else behind
the smiley face. But it doesn't have a lexicon or perspective to discuss
it. And it doesn't have a clear political theory that says that over the
last 30 years, corporations have been mucking around in our culture in
a way that they hadn't before. -- Jamie Court, Foundation for Taxpayer
and Consumer Rights
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All things are possible once enough human beings realize that everything
is at stake. -- Norman Cousins
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Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of her (or his) own
conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life. --
Norman Cousins
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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great
indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow
the latter. Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his
conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life. --
Norman Cousins, Human Option
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War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace
with justice. -- Norman Cousins
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Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our
relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry
land. That this will come to pass is [my] dear wish. -- Jacques Cousteau
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The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our
job is to salvage Mother Nature...We are facing a formidable enemy in
this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their
guns on the wall is going to be very difficult. -- Jacques Cousteau
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Experiments performed in marine zoos may be interesting and instructive so
long as we do not forget that the subjects used in these experiments have
been conditioned and deformed, and that they bear little resemblance to
dolphins living in the freedom of the seas. It is especially important
to bear this in mind when dealing with the psychological aspects of
beings as complex as marine mammals. It is certain that the study
of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons,
would also lead to misinterpretations and absurd generalizations. --
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer.
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Aquariums, particularly marine mammal circus acts, are bound to disappear
as the public is educated and revolts against it. -- Jean-Michel Cousteau,
oceanographer, documentary film maker.
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One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently
faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does,
but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does.
Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night.
Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people. Marijuana does not
suppress medical research. Marijuana does not peek in bedroom windows.
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists
at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more
people than marijuana ever could. -- Richard Cowan, Former head of NORML,
now editor of
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I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat, and
commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy, and
trusted at home. -- Archibald Cox, former Nixon cabinet member
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When I first decided to become a vegan, my then-husband was not ready to
do the same. That was okay with me. I did not expect anyone else to follow
my belief system, but I did not want to be held back from following it
myself. I disposed of my leather shoes, bags, belts, etc. My husband
became upset, which confused me; I found it difficult to live with
his being upset. I wanted him to know that it was okay with me for him
to believe differently. I just wanted him to let me follow my beliefs
without protest. -- Lorene Cox
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None of the plaintiffs' promotional literature I have seen can be fairly
said to give a truly balanced viewpoint. It is, therefore, essential
that public comment and indeed vigorous criticism be allowed, no matter
how ruffling it may be to the plaintiffs' own self-esteem. -- Peter Cox,
author of "Why You Don't Need Meat", from his McLibel witness statement
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The plaintiffs are in the business of selling hamburgers. Had they left
it at that, they could not be reasonably criticised for 'deliberately
misleading the public as to the nutritional value of the food they
sell'. However, the plaintiffs have deliberately sought to pass their
products off as 'a very valuable part of a healthy diet'. In these
health-conscious times, this is no doubt an extremely effective marketing
device. But that is all it is. It is not the truth. -- Peter Cox, author
of "Why You Don't Need Meat", from his McLibel witness statement
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The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an
independent self. But, in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self
without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self
without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food we eat....So
the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal
relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence. -- Peter Coyote
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Most of the crew in store were generally made to feel as if they were
fully expendable. -- Andrew Cranna, McDonald's management, West Ealing,
London (UK), 1984 - 1986, from his McLibel witness statement
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During my visit to Indonesia and Malaysia this spring, deep concern
was being publicly expressed by health workers, that this had already
happened: diabetes and heart disease were appearing as a new health
problem. The high profile Western foods and fast foods outlets such as
McDonald's, is seen as playing a significant part in the introduction of
these diseases which are new to these parts of the world. -- Michael
Crawford, Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human
Nutrition, from his McLibel witness statement
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If it harms none, do as you will. -- Wiccan Creed
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If you make yourself a floorcloth, people will wipe their feet on you. --
Creole proverb, British Honduras
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We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by
embracing one another. -- Luciano de Crescenzo
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No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of
sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons. -- Croesus, King
of Lydia, in Herodotus' The Persian Wars
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If any kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming they
would never touch meat again. I was so moved by the intelligence,
sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on 'Babe'
that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian. -- James Cromwell (actor)
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If any kid realized what was involved in factory farming, they would
never touch meat again. I was so moved by the intelligence, sense of fun,
and personality of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of
the film I was a vegetarian. -- James Cromwell (Newark Star-Ledger)
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We are humans who see clearly the barbarity of all ages except our own. --
Ernest Crosby
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Fight war, not wars; destroy power, not people. -- Cross
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In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions
and human success, but rather on how much we have loved. -- St. John of
the Cross
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Being vegan is not what others imagine it to be. So many people think I
eat this way because I want to be healthy. My health is important to me,
but the fate of the animals and the Earth comes before any sense of my
personal well-being. It is imporatant for me to make that distinction
at whatever level I can. -- Irene Cruikshank
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I am vegan for reasons of wanting to be nonviolent. It is difficule for
me to see people using veganism in militant and aggressive ways toward
those who are not vegan. Harmlessness extends to human animals as well. --
Irene Cruikshank
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Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards
attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of
life which it is able to assure for its weakest members. -- H.E. Javier
Perez de Cuellar, Secretary General of the United Nations
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Large Corporations, run by an elite of white men, do not have the right to
Govern the U.S.; the people must and will reclaim their democracy, However
long and difficult the process. -- POCLAD and Syracuse Cultural Workers.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night
to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any
human being can fight, and never stop fighting. -- e. e. cummings
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America's punitive and reactive response to crime is an integral part
of the new social Darwinism, the criminal justice counterpart of an
increasingly harsh attack on living standards and social supports,
especially for the poor ... America [is] a society in which a permanent
state of social disintegration is held in check only by the creation of
a swollen apparatus of confinement and control that has no counterpart in
our own history or in any other industrial democracy. -- Elliott Currie,
Crime and Punishment in America
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[T]he prison has become a looming presence in our society to an
extent unparalleled in our history - or that of any other industrial
democracy. Short of major wars, mass incarceration has been the most
thoroughly implemented government social program of our time. --
Elliott Currie
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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at
peace as the American. -- Edward Dahlberg
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Allow yourself to think, let yourself understand, free yourself to
feel. As much as the heart shapes the deed, the deed can also shape the
heart. -- Saurabh Dalal
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Vegan: respectful and positive with a sincere desire toward the
uncompromisingly ethical. -- Saurabh Dalal
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It is impossible for the world economy to grow its way out of poverty
and environmental degradation.... As the economic subsystem grows it
incorporates an even greater proportion of the total ecosystem into itself
and must reach a limit at 100 percent, if not before. -- Herman Daly
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If I said we'll have lesbian carpenters control the economy, you would
say I was crazy. They're less than one percent of the population. Right?
Well, what percentage of the world are rich, white millionaires? --
Kevin Danaher
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It has been said that the invisible hand of the market can't operate
without the invisible fist that is the military power. The problem is
that the market's hand is not invisible for millions of parents whose
children are going hungry because of the inequality built into the global
economy. And the fist is not invisible for the victims of the so-called
'collateral damage'. The millions of people around the world struggling
to change inhumane economic and military policies realize that these hands
and fists will not bring global justice. Only a new ethic that values life
over profit can do that. -- Kevin Danaher, Cofounder of Global Exchange
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Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your
own. You may both be wrong. -- Dandemis
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great
moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. -- Dante
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It's just not good for the animals to be kept there - physically
or mentally. But it's 1991. Twenty-five years of learning about them
[orcas] says they don't belong in captivity. -- Dr. Jim Darling, research
biologist, West Coast Whale Research Foundation.
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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than
any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for
decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for
the developing of character in man, than any other association of men. --
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), U.S. lawyer, writer. The Railroad Trainman
(Nov. 1909).
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The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it
is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. -- Charles Darwin
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. --
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) English biologist and naturalist
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are
the vegetarian miners of Chile. -- Charles Darwin
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There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals
in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly
feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery. -- Charles Darwin
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[T]he difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great
as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. We have seen
that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties,
such as love, memory, attention, curiosity, imitation, reason, etc.,
of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in
a well-developed condition, in the lower animals. -- Charles Darwin
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[T]here is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals
in their mental faculties... [T]he lower animals, like man, manifestly
feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery... [A]nimals not only love,
but have desire to be loved. -- Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
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I am saddened that this President failed so miserably at diplomacy that
we're now forced to war. Saddened that we have to give up one life,
because this President couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that
was so critical for our country. -- Tom Daschle, Senate Minority Leader,
2003, over G.W. Bush's military agression against Iraq
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In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namaste," which means:
I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor
the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place
in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within
you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me,
there is only one of us..... "Namaste." -- Ram Dass
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Not having known anything better does not alleviate the suffering of the
animal. Its fundamental desires remain and it is the frustration of those
desires that is a great part of its suffering. There are so many examples:
the dairy cow who is never allowed to raise her young, the battery hen who
can never walk or stretch her wings, the sow who can never build a nest
or root for food in the forest litter, etc. Eventually we frustrate the
animal's most fundamental desire of all - to live. -- David Cowles-Hamar.
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Not having known anything better does not alleviate the suffering of the
animal. Its fundamental desires remain and it is the frustration of those
desires that is a great part of its suffering. There are so many examples:
the dairy cow who is never allowed to raise her young, the battery hen who
can never walk or stretch her wings, the sow who can never build a nest
or root for food in the forest litter, etc. Eventually we frustrate the
animal's most fundamental desire of all - to live. -- David Cowles-Hamar
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As prisons proliferate in U.S. society, private capital has become
enmeshed in the punishment industry. And precisely because of their
profit potential, prisons are becoming increasingly important to the
U.S. economy. If the notion of punishment as a source of potentially
stupendous profits is disturbing by itself, then the strategic dependence
on racist structures and ideologies to render mass punishment palatable
and profitable is even more troubling. -- Angela Y. Davis, "Masked Racism:
Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex"
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Many corporations whose products we consume on a daily basis have learned
that prison labor power can be as profitable as third world labor power
exploited by U.S.-based global corporations. Both relegate formerly
unionized workers to joblessness and many even wind up in prison. Some
of the companies that use prison labor are IBM, Motorola, Compaq, Texas
Instruments, Honeywell, Microsoft, and Boeing. But it is not only the
hi-tech industries that reap the profits of prison labor. Nordstrom
department stores sell jeans that are marketed as "Prison Blues," as
well as t-shirts and jackets made in Oregon prisons. The advertising
slogan for these clothes is "made on the inside to be worn on the
outside." Maryland prisoners inspect glass bottles and jars used by
Revlon and Pierre Cardin, and schools throughout the world buy graduation
caps and gowns made by South Carolina prisoners. -- Angela Y. Davis,
"Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex"
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Mass incarceration is not a solution to unemployment, nor is it a solution
to the vast array of social problems that are hidden away in a rapidly
growing network of prisons and jails. However, the great majority of
people have been tricked into believing in the efficacy of imprisonment,
even though the historical record clearly demonstrates that prisons do
not work. Racism has undermined our ability to create a popular critical
discourse to contest the ideological trickery that posits imprisonment as
key to public safety. The focus of state policy is rapidly shifting from
social welfare to social control. -- Angela Y. Davis, "Masked Racism:
Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex"
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We have to abolish prisons and the idea of them as solutions for spurious
problems that they cannot possibly begin to solve. We should start to
think imaginatively about the kinds of institutions that would solve
the problems that prisons cannot ... like schools and mental health
care. ... Affirmative action is also an alternative. -- Angela Davis
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Becoming Vegan is an expression of one's profound reverence for life. For
many, it is also a deliberate step towards the preservation of this planet
and a reflection of concern for the health of all its inhabitants. To
me, every step a person takes on the path towards a vegan diet is a
step towards a more compassionate world - and that is truly cause for
celebration. -- Brenda Davis, registered dietician author, Becoming Vegan
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A report published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
Economic Research Service states: "Microbial pathogens [pathogens are
microorganisms that cause disease including viruses, bacteria, parasites,
and fungi] in food cause between 6.5 million and 33 million cases of human
illness and up to 9,000 deaths each year in the United States. Over 40
different foodborne pathogens are believed to cause human illness. The
annual cost of human illness caused by seven foodborne pathogens for which
we have estimates ranges between $5.6 billion and $9.4 billion. Meat
and poultry are the primary sources." -- By Karen Davis, PhD, "Chicken
for Dinner, it's enough to make you sick"
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Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through
your spaghetti. -- Jim Davis
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Can one regard a fellow creature as a property item, an investment,
a piece of meat, an 'it,' without degenerating into cruelty towards
that creature? Human slavery was brutal. Does anyone really believe
that nonhuman slavery operates on a higher plane? -- Karen Davis, PhD,
Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs, 1996
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Can one regard a fellow creature as a property item, an investment, a
piece of meat, an "it," without degenerating into cruelty towards that
creature? -- Karen Davis, PhD (Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs; 1996)
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My most difficult challenge is the world of human indifference. It is
standing in line at the supermarket and realizing that for the majority
of people in the world, the misery and slaughter of animals is not an
issue. -- Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns
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The human commitment to harmony, justice, peace, and love is ironic
as long as we continue to support the suffering and shame of the
slaughterhouse and its satellite operations. -- Karen Davis, PhD (Prisoned
Chickens, Poisoned Eggs; 1996)
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Veganism has made me more conscious of behavior patters that are not
consistent with my adherence to philosophic veganism. Being vegan has not
made my personality more peaceful, as by some sort of physiological or
mystical transformation or holistic purification, however, it has made
me intellectually more aware of my feelings and behavior and less able
to rationalize and do certain things that I might otherwise overlook. --
Karen Davis
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Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we
have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see
anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful. --
Doris Day
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An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of
the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all. -- Dorothy Day
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It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks
of community living. -- Dorothy Day
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No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work
to do. -- Dorothy Day
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Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy rotten system. --
Dorothy Day
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The greatest challenge of the day is how to bring about a revolution
of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us. --
Dorothy Day,
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We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to
remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and
abundance may manifest for all. -- Dorothy Day
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Whenever I groan within myself and think how hard it is to keep writing
about love in these times of tension and strife which may, at any moment,
become for us all a time of terror, I think to myself: What else is
the world interested in? What else do we all want, each one of us,
except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our
relationships? God is Love. Love casts out fear. Even the most ardent
revolutionist, seeking to change the world, to overturn the tables of the
money changers, is trying to make a world where it is easier for people
to love, to stand in that relationship to each other. -- Dorothy Day
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Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see
that we must lay one brick at at time, take one step at a time; we can
be responsible only for the one action in the present moment. But we can
beg for an increase of love in our hearts that will vitalize and transform
all our individual actions, and know that God will take them and multiply
them, as Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes. -- Dorothy Day, 1963
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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends, you talk to
your enemies -- Moshe Dayan (similar to a Nelson Mandela quote)
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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to
your enemies. -- Moshe Dayan
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In 1993 I published a more precise scientific article, fully based on MAFF
data and published scientific facts, and using conservative assumptions,
and standard epidemiological and mathematical techniques to calculate
the risk to humans. This assumed that all cattle with disease were
reported by farmers, that all cattle with BSE disease were diagnosed,
and that BSE behaved like any other TSE. This showed to the risk to be
unacceptably high. -- Stephen Dealler, Medical microbiologist, from his
McLibel witness statement
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It was therefore known at that time that a risk was present to humans and
that the calculation of this risk was currently impossible. -- Stephen
Dealler, Medical microbiologist, from his McLibel witness statement
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The major problem with BSE is that there is no evidence that BSE will
not infect humans to produce a similarly untreatable, undiagnosable,
fatal disease (indeed we can estimate that there is a 70% chance that
humans could be affected). -- Stephen Dealler, Medical microbiologist,
from his McLibel witness statement
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Another basic reason to become a vegetarian is to promote good health. God
has given us our bodies as gifts, and we need to treat them well, so that
we can serve others and be instruments of God's peace. Up until about
15 years ago, it was assumed by most physicians that human beings had to
eat meat to survive. Nowadays, not only is everyone in agreement that our
bodies thrive on a vegetarian diet, but medical groups like the American
Dietetic Association (ADA) and the American Medical Association (AMA)
have concluded that vegetarians are actually healthier. Vegetarians tend
to weigh less and suffer at a fraction of the rate of meat-eaters from
heart disease, cancer, and stroke - America's three biggest killers. Meat
is entirely devoid of carbohydrates and fiber, the nutrients we need to
keep our bodies in good working order. But meat does have heavy doses
of artery-clogging saturated fat and cholesterol. -- Father John Dear,
Christianity and Vegetarianism
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As I consider what it means to be a Christian today, reflecting on the
radical, nonviolent life of Jesus, I believe that today Jesus sides with
the starving, the homeless, the refugees, and the children of the world,
who continue to be crushed by first-world greed and warmaking. If Jesus
lived in our culture of violence, he would do everything he could to
confront the structures of death and call for a new culture of peace
and life. He would want us to change every aspect of our lives, to seek
complete physical, spiritual, emotional, and ethical wholeness, to become
people of nonviolence, children of the God of peace. -- Father John Dear,
Christianity and Vegetarianism
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I agree with Mahatma Gandhi, Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker movement,
and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that the only way out of this
culture of violence is through the ancient wisdom of nonviolence. --
Father John Dear, Christianity and Vegetarianism
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If we desire to live in a non-violent world, we need to first eliminate
the violence in our own lives, and our own bodies. -- Father John Dear,
talk in Binghamton NY, author of Christianity and Vegetarianism
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It is clear that for the first three centuries after Christ, a Christian
could not kill or participate in war. Christians were nonviolent. Some
scholars argue that most early Christians were also vegetarians and
that meat-eating was not officially allowed until the fourth century,
when the church embraced Constantine and the Roman Empire. Then, just
as Christians rejected Jesus' nonviolence and devised the heresy of the
so-called "just war theory," they deliberately approved meat-eating.
Regardless of this past practice, though, the question we Christians have
to ask ourselves is how can we become more Christlike and more faithful
to the nonviolent Jesus. Where in our lives could we be more merciful,
more compassionate? -- Father John Dear, Christianity and Vegetarianism
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Many early Christians advocated vegetarianism, including Tertullian,
the great advocate of nonviolence; St. John Chrysostom, the patriarch
of Constantinople; and St. Jerome, a doctor of the church and an early
translator of the Bible. The theologian Clement of Alexandria urged
Christians to become vegetarians, saying, "It is far better to be happy
than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals." -- Father John
Dear, Christianity and Vegetarianism
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Nonviolence begins with the insights that all life is sacred, that all
human beings are children of the God of peace, and that as God's children,
we are under certain obligations. Of course, we should never hurt or kill
another human being, wage war, build nuclear weapons, or sit idly by while
millions of human beings starve to death each year. Nonviolence invites
us, also, to reevaluate the way we treat animals in our society. While we
resist violence, injustice, and war, and while we practice nonviolence,
seek peace, and struggle for justice for the poor, we are also invited
to break down the species barrier, extending our belief in Christian
compassion to the animal kingdom by, among other things, adopting a
vegetarian diet. -- Father John Dear, Christianity and Vegetarianism
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I would no more teach children military training than I would teach them
arson, robbery, or assassination. -- Eugene Debs
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The strike is the weapon of the oppressed, of men capable of
appreciating justice and having the courage to resist wrong and contend
for principle. The nation had for its cornerstone a strike, and while
arrogant injustice throws down the gauntlet and challenges the right to
conflict, strikes will come, come by virtue of irrevocable laws, destined
to have a wider sweep and greater power as men advance in intelligence
and independence -- Eugene V. Debs, 1888 Speaking during the strike of
engineers and firemen on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail Line
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They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic
duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But
in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice
in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any
nation in any age has ever been declared by the people. -- Eugene Debs,
Socialist candidate for president, June 16, 1918. The speech led to Debs
being stripped of his citizenship and sent to jail for 10 years.
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The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has
always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and
nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and
all to lose, especially their lives. -- Eugene Victor Debs
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War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a
premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It
crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time
and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope,
and put the prophets to death. -- Charles DeGaulle
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I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say
because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother
is attractive, but I have photographs of her. -- Ellen DeGeneres
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History is the sum total of the things they're not telling us. --
Don DeLillo
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Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was
war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love
or total war. -- Dave Dellinger
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Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him
the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know
that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better
than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation? --
Barbara Deming
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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is
one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept
familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is
oppressive. -- Barbara Deming
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The longer we listen to one another, with real attention, the more
commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful
to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions. --
Barbara Deming
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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience
one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and
engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be
nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does
it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation. It
can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new
situation which we have created. -- Barbara Deming
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What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that
some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And
we need at last to form a circle that includes us all, in which all of
us are seen as equal... We do not belong to the other, but our lives
are linked; we belong in a circle of others. -- Barbara Deming
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The man holds no gift who loves freedom when it is his own. Let me see
him praise it in others. -- Demosthenes
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Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food
yield as a solution to world hunger. -- John Denver
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Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them. the higher food
yield as a solution to world hunger. -- John Denver, on the Larry King
Show (paraphrased)
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If war aims are stated which seem to be solely concerned with
Anglo-American imperialism, they will offer little to people in the rest
of the world. The interests of other peoples should be stressed. This
would have a better propaganda effect. -- Private memo from The Council
of Foreign Relations to the US State Department, 1941
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[Middle East oil is] a stupendous source of strategic power, and one of
the greatest material prizes in world history. -- U.S. State Department,
1945
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Gilded Age elites shifted constitutional powers from the public to
corporations and their leaders-a legal and political transformation that
continues today in subtle yet alarming ways. The result was a tension
between corporate and popular sovereignty that exploded violently in
epic riots and strikes at the end of the last century - but is being
played out today largely off the public radar screen. -- Charles Derber,
Corporation Nation
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Leaders symbolize what the country stands for. As corruption becomes
routine in Washington in both parties, it trickles down as a corrupting
influence in everyone's lives... Democracy is the ultimate casualty,
and the sapping of democratic life is the most serious contribution
of corporate ascendancy to our spiritual decline. As democracy ebbs,
Americans retreat into private cocoons, feeling helpless to make a
difference... In a democracy, civic participation and the belief in
one's ability to contribute to the common good is the most important
guarantor of public morality. When that belief fades, so too does the
vision of the common good itself. -- Charles Derber, Corporation Nation
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Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief
in the value of government. If government does not assume and carry
out public responsibilities, less accountable institutions such as the
corporation will do the job in their own self-interest. -- Charles Derber,
Corporation Nation
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Rockefeller, for example, readily used Darwinist language: "The growth
of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest ... it is merely
the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God." Rockefeller could
conclude that "God gave me my money. -- Charles Derber, Corporation Nation
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Social Darwinism dominated the thinking of the Gilded Age. It made
poverty, competition, and exploitation all part of the natural struggle
for existence. Said one railroad baron, "Society as created was for the
purpose of one man getting what the other fellow has." Social Darwinism
and rugged individualism intertwined to create a theology that gave
spiritual meaning to the terrible gulf between rich and poor. The robber
barons' conversion of their own ill-begotten wealth into a symbol of God's
favor, and reading of God's mysterious purposes into the misery of the
poor, was the great spiritual accomplishment of a passionately commercial
and otherwise notably nonspiritual age. It helped engender the public
worship of wealth and acceptance of poverty that is among the cruelest
of the robber-baron legacies. -- Charles Derber, Corporation Nation
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The robber barons virtually reinvented politics. Had they been only
wealthy captains of industry, they would be today simply a fascinating
historical curiosity. But because their economic achievements were
based on a political reconstruction of the corporation that eroded the
sovereignty of the public, they had a profound and enduring impact on
American democracy. -- Charles Derber, Corporation Nation
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A long-term resident of the United States who President Bush believes
may have aided a terrorist can now be tried in secret by a military
commission and be sentenced to death on the basis of hearsay and rumor
with no appeal to any civilian court, even the Supreme Court. -- Alan
M. Dershowitz (Village Voice, Nov. 21, 2001)
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In a family you don't say, 'This baby is a nuisance and making no
contribution to her welfare. She doesn't bring anything in' ... but
which one of us would ever have said 'So this child must not be loved,
this child must not be fed, this baby must not be clothed' No, no. In
a healthy family we say to each according to their need, and from each
according to their ability. Now apply that in the world. -- Desmond Tutu.
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God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented
cages. -- Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
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Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life
of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange,
the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and communication. --
John Dewey
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic. -- John Dewey
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Cheeseburgers stop a beating heart! -- Ahimsa Dhamapada
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In every criminal case, always ask: 1: "What is the name of the victim,
and the nature of the injury?" 2: "What is the name of the civilian that
has made a complaint against the accused?" 3: "What is the evidence to
suggest that the accused caused the injury to the victim?" -- Ahimsa
Dhamapada, Lawful Arrest FAQ
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Should we teach our children to follow the rules of law by their own free
choice, because they are good rules, or do we teach them to "get in line,
shut the hell up, and do as you are told", in fear of the harsh hand of
a psychopathic, antisocial, and unconstitutional government power? --
Ahimsa Dhamapada, Lawful Arrest FAQ
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We kill the killer, why? Because our premise is that killing is wrong!
Does anyone see the contradiction in this line of thinking? -- Ahimsa
Dhamapada, Lawful Arrest FAQ
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Full of love for all things in the world, practising virtue, in order
to benefit others, this man alone is happy. -- Dhammapada (Buddhist)
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A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is
not agitated by praise or blame. -- The Dhammapada (ancient Buddhist text)
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Whoever does harm to an innocent is a fool, and has that evil come
back upon him, like a fine dust thrown into the wind -- The Dhammapada
(ancient Buddhist text), verse 125
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You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the
rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. -- Harvey Diamond
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I decline to go fox hunting -- Diana, Princess of Wales, (nor did she
want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).
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She gave up eating pork three years ago, despite her proud pork-loving,
half-Cuban heritage, because she was told pigs share the same mental
capacity as 3-year-old children. 'My niece was 3 at the time, which is
a magical age,' she said, horrified. 'I thought, Oh, my god, it's like
eating my niece!' This, then, also put an end to her preferred hangover
cure: Egg McMuffins with Canadian bacon, natch, and beer. -- Cameron Diaz
(Esquire)
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Children are a major influence on household food purchases and have been
described by one major marketing company as an 'advertisers' dream',
an important force in the market place not only on their own account,
but on the amount of influence they exert on the purchases of their
parents. This 'pester power' is highly influential. Research has also
shown that two-thirds of children who asked their parents for advertised
products were granted their requests. -- Sue Dibb, from her McLibel
witness statement
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I shall not live in vain: If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool
one pain, Or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not
live in vain. -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
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Love the fellow of the resurrection, scooping up the dust and chanting
"Live!" -- Emily Dickinson
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Fascism (noun): A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of
the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business
leadership, together with belligerent nationalism. -- American Heritage
Dictionary, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983)
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peaceful: (adjective): of or relating to a state of activity in which
a small, isolated, largely defenseless territory is carpet-bombed into
submission in preparation for military forces to conduct a systematic
program of genocide against its people, and in preparation for corporate
interests to plunder its resources. Usage: In 1975, It was necessary for
the United States of America to provide the military equipment which
was essential to the Government of Indonesia's invasion and forcible
annexation of the territory of East Timor, in order "to keep that area
peaceful." (David T. Kenney, United States Department of State, Country
Officer for Indonesia) -- Orwellian to English Translation Dictionary
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Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. -- John
Diefenbaker
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"big government should not stand between a man and his money", i mean,
"what's good for business is good for the country", our children still
take that lie like communion, the same old line the Confederacy used on
the Union, conjugate liberty into libertarian, and medicated associated
with deregulation privitization, we won't even know we're slaves on a
corporate plantation, somebody say hallelujah, somebody say damnation,
cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance, and the path
of least resistance is what makes the river crooked, makes it serpentine,
capitalism is the devil's wet dream. -- Ani Difranco, "Serpentine"
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Cuz take away our Playstations, And we are a third world nation, Under
the thumb of some blue blood royal son, Who stole the Oval Office and
that phony election, I mean, It don't take a weatherman, To look around
and see the weather, Jeb said he'd deliver Florida, folks, And boy did
he ever, And we hold these truths to be self evident, Cuz I am a poem
heeding hyper-distillation, I've got no room for a lie so verbose, I'm
looking out over my whole human family, And I'm raising my glass in a
toast. -- Ani DiFranco, "Self-Evident"
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I call upon you, in the name of mercy and of justice, to speak out and to
work for the the eventual freedom of all creatures ... to refuse to buy,
sell, or utilize in any manner, shape of form any product of the cruelty,
slavery, exploitation, pain, or death of an animal.... The cry for freedom
and the right to live a peaceful life for oneself is formed on untold
millions of mute tounges. If we who can speak for them remain silent,
the very "stone will cry out of the wall!" -- Jay Dinshah, Ahimsa, 1961
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I do not believe that a conscience should be treated as the child
of the mind, to be properly decorative, but not expected to express
especially valuable opinions! Rather, it must be a constant guide for our
everyday actions in our meetings with all creatures, human and otherwise.
It is the primary function of this publication to arouse your thinking
processes and encourage you to align your actions with the dictates of a
fertile and active conscience. It is only then one stops repeating trite
excuses and vain half-truths that one can really begin to hrar the voice
of conscience. Every day we are faced with many decisions of an ethical
moral nature - at every meal and in every business, personal, and social
transaction. Why do so many people thoughtlessly forfeit theor own duty
of consicence, surrendering to "convention" just because everyone else
does it? -- Jay Dinshah, Ahimsa, Nov 1960
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Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement,
or civilization than other creatures, and at the same time live by lower
standards than the vulture or hyena. -- Jay Dinshah
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There is no peace through force or through fear. Unless Man learns to
love his brother as himslef, he will be left with neither brother nor
self. The practice of Ahimsa is not a luxury, but an urgent worldwide
necessity. -- Jay Dinshah, Ahimsa, March 1961
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I've been a rebel of sorts all my life, having been taught at an early age
that just because it is fashionable to follow the crowd does not mean that
happiness or, more important, innner joy will result. -- Roshan Dinshah
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When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice
who scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey and Minnie were born. --
Walt Disney (paraphrased). Walt would not like animals advertised on
his network as hamburgers
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Justice is truth in action. -- Benjamin Disraeli
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Obedience to the law is freedom. -- Sign over the prison stockade at
Fort Dix
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Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government,
writers are routinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies. --
E.L. Doctorow
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Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new
rival... First, the US must show the leadership necessary to establish
and protect a new order that holds the promise of convincing potential
competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a
more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests. We must
account sufficiently for the interest of the advanced industrial nations
to discourage them from seeking to overturn the established political and
economic order. Finally, we must maintain the mechanism, for deterring
potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global
role. -- 1992 Pentagon policy document, The New York Times, March 8, 1992
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Anarchy doesn't mean out of control. It means out of 'their' control. --
Jim Dodge
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But he who has no confidence in the creative capacity of the masses
and in their capability to revolt doesn't belong in the revolutionary
movement. He should go to a monastery and get on his knees and start
praying. Because he is no revolutionist. He is a son of a bitch. --
Sam Dolgoff
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The 1950's American dream of owning a mink coat is as dead as the 60
mink killed to make that coat. -- Trish Donnally
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At some ideas you stand perplexed, especially at the sight of human sins,
uncertain whether to combat it by force or by human love. Always decide,
"I will combat it with human love." If you make up your mind about that
once and for all, you can conquer the whole world. Loving humility is a
terrible force; it is the strongest of all things and there is nothing
like it. -- Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazo
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Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object
of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last,
but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one
tiny creature, and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would
you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell
the truth. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (novelist)
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Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy
untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive
them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not
pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and
you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it,
and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of
almost every one of us! -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
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Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too. -- Chief Justice
William O. Douglas
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor
freedom and yet deprecate agitation are people who want crops without
plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. That
struggle might be a moral one; it might be a physical one; it might be
both moral and physical, but it must be struggle. Power concedes nothing
without a demand. It never did and never will. People might not get all
that they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all
they get. -- Frederick Douglas, Abolitionist
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Arson and cruelty to animals are 2 of 3 childhood warning signs regarding
the potential to be a serial killer. -- John Douglas, profiler of serial
killers for the FBI, upon whom Silence Of The Lambs FBI character
was based. (To no longer objectify living beings by ceasing hunting
and fishing takes one 1 step further away from the murder of humans.)
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Arson and cruelty to animals are 2 of 3 childhood warning signs regarding
the potential to be a serial killer. -- John Douglas, profiler of serial
killers for the FBI, upon whom Silence Of The Lambs FBI character was
based. Thus, we can infer that by ceasing hunting and fishing we take
one step further away from the murder of humans.
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The ordinary corporation is a "person" for purposes of the adjudicatory
process. So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers,
lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even
air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern
life...With all respect, the problem is to make certain that the inanimate
objects, which are the very core of America's beauty, have spokesmen
before they are destroyed...The voice of the inanimate object, therefore,
should not be stilled...That is why these environmental issues should be
tendered by the inanimate object itself. Then there will be assurances
that all of the forms of life which it represents will stand before
the court -- the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear,
the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams. Those inarticulate
members of the ecological group cannot speak... -- United States Supreme
Court Justice Douglas, Sierra Club vs. Morton,
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Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They
accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to
the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which
maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike. --
William O. Douglas, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1969
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Find out just what people will quietly submit to, and you have found out
the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them,
and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or
blows. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those
whom they oppress. -- Frederick Douglass
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Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies
and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search
out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the
side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me,
that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns
without a rival. -- Frederick Douglass
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to
favour freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are people who want rain
without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of
its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did
and it never will. -- Frederick Douglass, slavery abolitionist
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last
finding the other end fastened about his own neck. -- Frederick Douglass,
(1817 - 1895)
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Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will. --
Frederick Douglass
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The whole history of progress of human liberty shows that all concessions
yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. If there
is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom,
and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up
the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning, they want the
ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be
a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and
physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a
demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people
will quietly submit to and you have found the exact measure of injustice
and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till
they are resisted. . . -- Frederick Douglass (1857)
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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?...There is not
a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody,
than are the people of these United States, at this very hour. --
Frederick Douglass
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The first thing to be disrupted by our committment to nonviolence will
be not the system but our own lives. -- James Douglass
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Oprah has power because Oprah is believable. People do not believe
the beef industry. Shouldn't we be concerned about the first amendment
rather than protecting powerful agribusiness? -- Morton Downey, on the
beef libel suit
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction
of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change
it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin
to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way
again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species
you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless
permutations of suffering that support our society. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
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Violence recoils on the violent. -- Arthur Conan Doyle, through
Sherlock Holmes, criticism of a character who enjoyed inflicting pain
on cockroaches
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If a ferret bites you it is nearly always your own fault. -- Phil Drabble
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The modern broiler chicken is a genetic freak, the product of generations
of selection for fast growth. This selection has shown a marked lack of
concern, on the part or poultry scientists, for the birds' well-being. --
Clare Druce, from her McLibel witness statement
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He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool;
and he that dares not reason is a slave. -- William Drummond (1585-1649)
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Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals -
have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel
pain. A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential
if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them,
eat them - without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is
unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals,
to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals
renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us. --
Dr. Carl Sagan & Dr. Ann Druyan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, 1992
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Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden
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Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for
pearls must dive below. -- John Dryden, All for Love
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Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. --
Rene Dubos
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As the environmental movement has come to include an environmental health
movement, it has come to include women in leadership. -- Barbara Dudley,
Executive Director - Greenpeace
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The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls
it, at the expense of whoever does not. -- William Dugger
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A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated and are
not eliminated by violence. -- John Foster Dulles
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Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full
resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize
the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities,
which we usually reserve for war. -- John Foster Dulles, War or Peace
1950.
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The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war
the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism
and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. -- John Foster
Dulles, who offered France the use of US nuclear weapons to clear the
'red termites' from the hills around Dien Bien Phu
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The weight of our civilization has become so great, it now ranks as
a global force and a significant wild card in the human future along
with the Ice Ages and other vicissitudes of a volatile and changeable
planetary system -- Dianne Dumanoski, Rethinking environmentalism
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Human superiority is as much a lie as male superiority. Gorillas are
stronger yet gentler than humans, cheetahs swifter and more graceful,
dolphins more playful and exuberant. Bees who perceive ultraviolet light
and dance a message of angle and distance; fish who simultaneously see
forward, above, below, and behind while swimming through endlessly varied
tropical color; birds who navigate over hemispheres, sensing the earth's
magnetic field and soaring in rhythm with the rest of their flock;
sea turtles who, over decades, experience vast stretches of ocean -
what wisdom and vision are theirs? Other animals have other ways of
knowing. -- Joan Dunayer, "Sexist Words, Speciesist Roots"
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Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future. --
Jack DuVall
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God brings millions of flowers to bloom without force. -- Wayne Dyer,
per John J Price
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How many times must the cannonballs fly, before they're forever
banned? ...How many deaths will it takes till he knows that too many
people have died? -- Bob Dylan, Blowin' in the Wind
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The battle outside ragin' will soon shake your windows and rattle your
walls. -- Bob Dylan, The Times they are a-changin'
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Wherever one looks in the world of human organization, collective
responsibility brings a lowering of moral standards. The military
establishment is an extreme case, an organization which seems to have
been expressly designed to make it possible for people to do things
together which nobody in his right mind would do alone. -- Freeman Dyson,
Weapons and Hope
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Chartered privileges are a burthen, under which the people of Britain,
and other European nations, groan in misery. -- Thomas Earle, The Right
of States to Alter and Annul Charters, Considered, and the Decisions of
the Supreme Court of the United States Therein Examined (1823)
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After all else has failed, men turn to reason. -- Abba Eban, Israeli
political leader (1967)
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I am a dog lover, but I am not a dog fancier. I can understand people
who dote on their dogs, but I cannot understand dog shows, which make
dogs miserable while bringing out the worst traits of their owners. Dogs
were not put on earth to pose, prance, sit, point, and have their coats
shampooed. They were created to chew shoes, bark at cars, have accidents
on the rug, and get their tummies scratched. -- Roger Ebert, Reviewing
Best in Show (Chicago Sun-Times)
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I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that
God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves
are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts;
even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other;
yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above
a beast: for all is vanity. -- Ecclesiastes
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What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen
hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my
time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is
always needing to be born. -- Meister Eckhart
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A renewal of economic life depends on the conscious choices and
commitments of individual believers who practice their faith in the
world ... we cannot separate what we believe from how we act in the
marketplace and the broader community. -- Pastoral letter on the US
economy, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC
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Seven Deadly Sins: Politics without Principle. Wealth without
work. Commerce without morality. Pleasure without Conscience. Education
without Character. Science without Humanity. Worship without Sacrifice. --
Mohadas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) [N.B. By "sacrifice", we believe Gandhi
meant "giving away something precious", or "abstinance from something
desired". We are sure that he did not refer to the Christian meaning
of sacrifice: "the murder of an innocent creature in order to please
a god". To Gandhi, abstaining from food was a sacrifice. To him, Jesus
wasn't a a sacrifice, he was a murder victim. -- ED]
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The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy
so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. -- J. Edgar Hoover.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all
evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still
savages. -- Thomas Edison, Harpers Magazine
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Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. --
Thomas A. Edison
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his
patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and
prevention of disease. -- Thomas Edison
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the
sword. -- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Business, as exercised by modern companies, is a matter of generating
maximum profits at minimum cost in minimum time. This is their absolute
goal. I use the word 'absolute' advisedly: maximum profit generation,
for the modern company, is the final, unconditional reason for being. By
implication this means that all other goals are secondary, and justifiable
only in terms of their contribution to the absolute goal of profit. Thus
all recruitment, training, accommodation, administration, advertising,
production, storage, profit-sharing -all aspects of company activity-are
justifiable only to the extent to which they contribute to the absolute
goal. Any activity compromising or conflicting with that goal is not, in
corporate terms, justifiable. As we have discussed, this logic applies as
much to human behavior as it does to everything else. All human behavior
at work is justifiable only to the extent to which it serves the absolute
goal: generating revenue, minimizing costs, cutting time, in order to
generate more profit. The point is that there is no room for compromise
in the essentially fanatical system of profit-orientation. Indeed,
given the (economically logical) indifference with which corporations
maintain 'a good investment climate' at the expense of human life in
the Third World, it is more accurate to describe the corporate system
as essentially psychopathic. -- David Edwards, The Pathology of Profit,
from "Burning All Illusions", South End Press, 1996
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The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority
indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as
such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This
obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many
individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the
truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands
a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident
common sense. -- David Edwards, author of Burning All Illusions
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When even a few people gain sufficient information and motivation to
organize and protest, the illusion of popular impotence begins to be
eroded. The economic costs of controlling protests are high, whilst
the very act of confrontation threatens to dissolve the illusions of
freedom and democracy on which the system depends. Protests of this type
can lead to the identification of a 'crisis of democracy', as occurred
during the 1970s when anti-war and civil rights protesters threatened
to become involved in the political arena. Now, as then, politicians
insist that peaceful protest is a threat to democracy. This is certainly
true if by democracy we mean government by the few, for the few. Genuine
freedom and democracy, however, have only ever been won by this type of
collective action and protest. This is why it has always been important
for those who govern us to keep us as isolated as possible, to ensure
that we are imbued with a sense of impotence before our 'superiors' and
'betters' (the British class system functions as a non-stop illusion
factory in this respect, spinning all manner of fictions regarding
the innate superiority of the wealthiest sections of the population).
The widespread sense of apathy, hopelessness and even despair among
many (particularly young) people today is not at all a reflection of
the realities of what is possible, but rather of the sophistication of
the system of thought control by which those possibilities have been
obscured. -- David Edwards, 'Burning All Illusions' South End Press,
1996 (perhaps quoting either Gore Vidal or H. L. Mencken)
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You are only what you are when no one is looking. -- Robert C.Edwards
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Dr. Dolittle is a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian. Being around all
the animals in the film made me one too. -- Samantha Eggar (paraphrased)
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Dr. Dolittle is a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian. Being around all
the animals in the film made me one too. -- Samantha Eggar, paraphrased
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Animal foods cannot build good blood; in fact, do not build human blood
at all, because of the biological fact that man is by nature a fruit
eater. -- Arnold Ehret, who developed the Mucusless-Diet
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... there are reformist strategies that waste the energies of women, that
raise expectations of great change, and that are misleading and alienating
because they cannot deliver the goods. The best (or worst) example is
electoral politics. Some socialists (beguiled by the notion of gradualism)
fall for that one. Anarchists know better. You cannot liberate yourself
by non-liberatory means; you cannot elect a new set of politicians (no
matter how sisterly) to run the same old corrupt institutions - which
in turn run you. -- Carol Ehrlich, Socialism, Anarchism, and Feminism,
in Howard J. Ehrlich (ed.), Reinventing Anarchy, Again
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A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "universe", a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and
feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons
nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by
widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature in its beauty. -- Albert Einstein
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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the 'Universe',
a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts
and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons
nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this
completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part
of the liberation and a foundation for inner security. -- Albert Einstein
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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the 'Universe',
a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts
and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons
nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this
completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of
the liberation and a foundation for inner security. -- Albert Einstein,
New York Post, 28 November 1972
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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would
indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment
and hope of reward after death. -- Albert Einstein
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in
the opposite direction. -- Albert Einstein (E. F. Schumacher quote?)
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Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on
mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of
justice and police. -- Albert Einstein
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The
latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit
to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his
intelligence. -- Albert Einstein
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Great spirits often encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds. --
Albert Einstein
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He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the
spinal cord would suffice. -- Albert Einstein
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the
spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should
be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality,
deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how
despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be
a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the
cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. -- Albert Einstein
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He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the
spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be
done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this,
how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than
be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under
the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. -- Albert Einstein
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense
that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! --
Albert Einstein
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I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard
existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land
of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime. --
Albert Einstein, 1947
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I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual
workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and,
also generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political
field. -- Albert Einstein, (commenting on why he joined the American
Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO)
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
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If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence
is from injury to animals. -- Albert Einstein
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If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence
is from injury to animals. -- Albert Einstein (Leo Tolstoy quote?)
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It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical
effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the
lot of mankind. -- Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel 1921, letter to
Vegetarian Watch-Tower More praise of peace is easy but ineffective. What
is needed is active participation in the fight against war and everything
that leads to it. -- Albert Einstein
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It is not enough for a handful of experts to attempt the solution of a
problem, to solve it and then to apply it. The restriction of knowledge
to an elite group destroys the spirit of society and leads to its
intellectual impoverishment. -- Albert Einstein
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Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of
a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet? But it is
not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a
stellar explosion to understand vividly the growing scope of atomic war
and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to
ring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now
hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it. --
Albert Einstein
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts
can be counted. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can
be counted counts. -- Albert Einstein, (presumably), Sign hanging in
Einstein's office at Princeton
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of
life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. -- Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of
life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. -- Albert
Einstein, (1879-1955) German American physicist, Nobel 1921
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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. --
Albert Einstein
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Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. --
Albert Einstein
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Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the
middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained
through understanding. -- Albert Einstein (perhaps an Emerson quote)
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Precious few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their
own hearts. -- Albert Einstein
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Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main
sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most
cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective
conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights. --
Albert Einstein.
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Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with
their own hearts. But it is their strength that will decide whether
the human race must relapse into that state of stupor which a deluded
multitude today regard as the ideal. -- Albert Einstein
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more
certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not
lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith,
but through striving after rational knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
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The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all
time. The terror of their tyranny is, however, alleviated by their lack
of consistency -- Albert Einstein
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The men who possess real power in this country have no intention of
ending the cold war. -- Albert Einstein
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is
the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is
a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. -- Albert Einstein
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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse
military service. -- Albert Einstein
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The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of
thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If
only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. -- Albert Einstein
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There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a
miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert
Einstein
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To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with
methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys
the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils
and produces a subservient subject. -- Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions
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Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole
world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind." --
Albert Einstein
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We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace
that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that
is more important or closer to my heart. -- Albert Einstein
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You cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that created it. --
Albert Einstein
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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the
universe. -- Larry Eisenberg
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How strange then - and utterly paradoxical - that, whereas there is not a
single business or professional man, such as those who constitute by far
the majority of our gathering today, who would for a moment challenge
this fundamental axiom of our society that it is fit and proper for
our commodities and services to carry their appropriate price-tags;
that though we dub as communistic and subversive of our complex and
delicately adjusted free enterprise any suggestion that men shall
be rewarded without adequate toil, or that we can build our business
enterprises without the sweat of our brows or without long hours of
labor - how strange, I repeat, that when it comes to the acquisition of
such cherished goals as justice and peace and brotherhood, then by some
peculiar, fantastic illogic we actually do believe - or, at any rate,
we act as though we did implicity and without question believe - that
these sublime and coveted objectives can be easily attained "without
price," without effort, without sacrifice, without pain, without "blood,
sweat and tears." If we do but mouth our protestations of brotherly love;
if we do but worship on a single day in the week the Prince of Peace;
if we profess in our confessions of faith or mechanically mumble our
noble prayers that the "time may not be distant" when "swords will
be beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks," we become
smugly satisfied that we have expended our full complement of effort
for brotherhood and peace. -- Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath, Of Holy Blossom
Temple, 23 Feb 1956, "THE PRICE OF BROTHERHOOD"
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are
not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is
not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the
genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children ... his is not a way
of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war,
it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890-1969)
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Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and
rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine --
Dwight Eisenhower (Republican), 1954, President of the U.S.
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to
promote peace than are governments. Indeed, I think that people want
peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of
the way and let them have it. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The problem of defense is how far you can go without destroying from
within what you are trying to defend from without. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days the
government had better get out of their way and let them have it. --
Dwight David Eisenhower
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All of us have heard this term 'preventive war' since the earliest days
of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it. In this
day and time...I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I
wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about
such a thing. -- President Dwight Eisenhower, 1953
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Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people,
a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to
collapse. -- Kurt Eisner
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Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses
the line between a cut of beef and a piece of a dead cow. -- Bob Ekstrom
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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal
vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the
consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. -- John Philpot
Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790 Dublin
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It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take
their life away for fashion. -- Carmen Electra
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The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to
dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of living
with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of
poverty and indulgence. -- Duane Elgin
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Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own
generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of
our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from
beneath the ground. -- T. S. Eliot
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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the
man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way;
and there are many victories worse than defeat. -- George Eliot
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness
that we repent of, but our severity. -- George Eliot
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If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would
be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day
One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift,
also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our
choices built from love or from fear.. -- Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that
true peace which is within the souls of men. -- Black Elk
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The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is
guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we
recognize them and learn from them, the transition will proceed faster
and in more resource-efficient ways. If, on the other hand, we prefer the
short-term comfort of burying our failures, or of blaming scapegoats,
the transition will be significantly slowed, or could even be derailed
completely. -- John Elkington
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems
are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the
president. You realize that you control your own destiny. -- Albert Ellis
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The sun, moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been
within the reach of predatory human hands -- Havelock Ellis
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better
achieve without it. -- Havelock Ellis
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[John Adams] regarded the cyclical pattern of nations as a commonplace
assumption shared by most members of the revolutionary generation,
one of those self-evident truths with a darker side that Jefferson had
neglected to mention in the Declaration ... The essence of the theory
was that all societies go through the same developmental stages and the
same aging process as human beings ... In the typical Adams formulation,
every aspiring nation-state was like an enterprising young man. His
ambition produces worldly success, which then corrupts his character
until, sapped of his earlier energy and work habits, he descends into
depravity. "Former ages have never discovered any remedy against the
universal gangrene of avarice," he wrote in a characteristic version of
the story, and "the steady advance of Wealth ... has overturned every
Republic from the beginning of time." -- Joseph Ellis, in Passionate Sage:
The Character and Legacy of John Adams
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It is not for us to demonstrate respectful dominance over those creatures,
but only respect. Sea World makes clowns of the orcas, depriving them
of their dignity. Furthermore, orcas are among the most family-oriented
animals we know.They live in tight groups, and removal of any father,
mother, or juvenile - even if for hours - is a severely traumatic
experience. -- Richard Ellis, biologist, author.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of
principles. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained
through understanding. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (perhaps an Enstein quote)
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People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always
difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To
map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the
same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes
brave men and women to win them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is
concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. --
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fate
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is
concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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About 2,000 pounds of grains must be supplied to livestock in order to
produce enough meat and other livestock products to support a person for
a year, whereas 400 pounds of grain eaten directly will support a person
for a year. Thus, a given quantity of grain eaten directly will feed 5
times as many people as it will if it is eaten indirectly by humans in
the form of livestock products.... -- M. E. Ensminger, Ph.D.
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There can be no question that more hunger can be alleviated with a
given quantity of grain by completely eliminating animals [from the food
production process]. About 2,000 pounds of concentrates [grains] must be
supplied to livestock in order to produce enough meat and other livestock
products to support a person for a year, whereas 400 pounds of grain
(corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, etc.) eaten directly will support a person
for a year. Thus, a given quantity of grain eaten directly will feed 5
times as many people as it will if it is first fed to livestock and then
is eaten indirectly by humans in the form of livestock products.... --
M. E. Ensminger, Ph.D., internationally recognized animal agriculture
specialist, former Department of Animal Science Chairman at Washington
State University, currently President of Consultants- Agriservices,
Clovis, California
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There can be no question that more hunger can be alleviated with a
given quantity of grain by completely eliminating animals [from the food
production process]. About 2,000 pounds of concentrates [grains] must be
supplied to livestock in order to produce enough meat and other livestock
products to support a person for a year, whereas 400 pounds of grain
(corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, etc.) eaten directly will support a person
for a year. Thus, a given quantity of grain eaten directly will feed 5
times as many people as it will if it is first fed to livestock and then
is eaten indirectly by humans in the form of livestock products.... --
M. E. Ensminger, Ph.D., internationally recognized animal agriculture
specialist, former Department of Animal Science Chairman at Washington
State University, currently President of Consultants-Agriservices,
Clovis, California
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To the fervent proponents of ruthless corporate capitalism I say: make
a millionaire CEO live as a poor sweatshop worker in Indonesia for one
month and then ask him about the merits of the world economic system. --
Vassilis Epaminondou
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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and
willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then
why call him God? -- Epicurus
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful
pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. -- Epicurus
(341 BC - 270 BC)
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. --
Epicurus
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There is a sense of community and connection I feel with other vegans. I
have met the most wonderful people ever, people I probably would not
have otherwise met! My reasons for becoming vegan have been enhanced and
validated many times over since being around other people who share the
same beliefs about living a compassionate life. -- Alan Epstein
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War is sweet to those who have not tasted it. -- Erasmus, 1530
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. --
Desiderius Erasmus
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To produce a pound of wheat requires 60 pounds of water. A pound of meat
requires 2,500 to 6,000 pounds. -- Paul and Ann Erlich
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Before NAFTA we thought corporations could only buy Southern
governments. Now we see they also buy Northern governments. -- Ignacio
Peon Escalante, Mexican Action Network on Free Trade
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Coronary Artery Disease need never exist, and if it does exist, it need
never progress - a low-fat plant-based diet will prevent or reverse it. --
Caldwell Esselstyn, MD, Cleveland Clinic, VegSource Conference 2002
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I hate risk factors: We're all walking toward a cliff and risk factors
only indicate how quickly you're walking. Wouldn't it be easier to
just say, 'Here's the diet you can eat where you will never, ever have
this disease?' -- Caldwell Esselstyn, MD, Cleveland Clinic, VegSource
Conference 2002
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Now we know that a single fatty meal compromises coronary flow. This
is true even in young people. Arteries are crying for oxygen; you can
see it with a scan 5 minutes later. 120 minutes later, effects are
still obvious. -- Caldwell Esselstyn, MD, Cleveland Clinic, VegSource
Conference 2002
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The Cleveland Clinic has been top ranked heart clinic in a row for 5
years. Top ranked NOT in preventing heart disease, but simply in ripping
it out once you get it. How do we keep those wheels churning? How do we
keep the tables busy? Well, we have a McDonald's on the first floor! And
we then treat people on the second floor. -- Caldwell Esselstyn, MD,
Cleveland Clinic, VegSource Conference 2002
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There was a big breakthrough during WWII, when Norway was occupied. They
took away livestock and dairy and the populations were subsisting on plant
foods. During those war years, deaths from stroke and CAD plummeted for
the duration of the war, during times of greatest stress and duress. --
Caldwell Esselstyn, MD, Cleveland Clinic, VegSource Conference 2002
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When you're talking about prevention, I think everyone should be making
these same dietary changes, not just those who are sick. Moderation
doesn't cut it. We're all marching toward the cliff, where there are
all these huge problems. We should treat them before we get there. --
Caldwell Esselstyn, MD, Cleveland Clinic, VegSource Conference 2002
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Aerosol DU (Depleted Uranium) exposures to soldiers on the battlefield
could be significant with potential radiological and toxicological
effects. [...] Under combat conditions, the most exposed individuals
are probably ground troops that re- enter a battlefield following the
exchange of armour-piercing munitions. [...] We are simply highlighting
the potential for levels of DU exposure to military personnel during
combat that would be unacceptable during peacetime operations. [...DU
is..]... a low level alpha radiation emitter which is linked to cancer
when exposures are internal, [and] chemical toxicity causing kidney
damage. [...] Short term effects of high doses can result in death, while
long term effects of low doses have been linked to cancer. [...] Our
conclusion regarding the health and environmental acceptability of DU
penetrators assume both controlled use and the presence of excellent
health physics management practices. Combat conditions will lead to the
uncontrolled release of DU. [...] The conditions of the battlefield,
and the long term health risks to natives and combat veterans may
become issues in the acceptability of the continued use of DU kinetic
penetrators for military applications. -- Excerpts from the July 1990
Science and Applications International Corporation report: ' Kinetic
Energy Penetrator Environment and Health Considerations', as included in
Appenix D - US Army Armaments, Munitions and Chemical Command report:
'Kinetic Energy Penetrator Long Term Strategy Study, July 1990' These
documents state clearly and equivocally that the US army was well aware
of the radioactive and toxic dangers of Depleted Uranium ammunition long
before the first shots of the war were fired.
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Thou shalt not kill. -- Exodus 20:13 (The Bible)
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You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing
more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. -- Antoine de
Saint Exupery
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A diet high in fat, sugar, animal products and salt, and low in fibre,
vitamins and minerals,is linked with cancer of the breast and bowel and
heart disease. -- McLibel defendants quoting London Greenpeace Factsheet
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It is our objective to dominate the communications area...because we
are competing for a share of the customer's mind. - giving evidence
in the McLibel Trial. -- Alistair Fairgrieve, McDonald's UK Marketing
Services Manager
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The Indochina War has become France's number one dollar-earning export. --
Bernard Fall, on U.S. military aid to France
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Someone showed a film of animals being slaughtered at our grade school. I
remember which people in the class cried. -- Dom Fallucco
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It's interesting that we're in jail and the murderers are outside. --
Medina releaser of animals in a mink farm (reported in the ABJ) (The
Animal Liberation Front includes industrial agents of vivisection,
fur, meat trades etc, who seek to involve the group in the tarbrush
of violence and to deflect rivers of energy into sand. The best way to
change animal suffering in the world is to stop eating and using animals
and to convince others. Nevertheless, God has a different work for each
soul, different drummer thoughts for each mind, freedom of conscience
and freedom to disobey civilly.)
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never
stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No
matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not
for cash, your picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just
refuse to bear them. -- William Faulkner
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No one cared, as long as they were Communists, that they were being
butchered. No one was getting very worked up about it. -- Howard
Federspiel, the Indonesia expert at the State Department's Bureau
of Intelligence and Research, describing the US supported overthrow
of Sukarno in 1965 and the associated genocide of at least 500,000
Indonesians
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I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a
network executive or a politician. -- Marty Feldman
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Aquariums and marine parks did a good job changing public opinion about
killer whales at first. But I don't think what they are doing anymore
is necessary. They are going in the other direction - they are making
the public think that these whales are playful, acrobatic animals. --
Fred Felleman, biologist.
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I would dearly love to see an ad showing some poor guy struggling with
his tax forms, only to hear a big voice echoing from the sky: "If you
pay your taxes, you ARE supporting international terrorism". Then we
see him tearing the forms up and tossing them into the wastebasket. --
Bradley Felton, in response to US Propaganda commercials equating
marijuana use with supporting terrorism
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As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the
spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures, just as
soon shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty but of crime. --
Miriam Ferguson, former governor of Texas
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As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the
spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures, just as
soon shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty but of crime. --
Miriam Ferguson, former governor of Texas:
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They say you should eat nothing that has a face. -- Metro Bus driver
Sam Filer
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They say you should eat nothing that has a face. -- Sam Filer, Metro
Bus driver
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No animals were harmed in the making of this film -- An innaccurate
statement seen at the end of many motion picture films (celluloid comes
from animal bones, and let's not forget what was served to the crew from
the catering truck!)
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If one talks the talk he should walk the walk. -- Joe Finan (Nov 9, 97 in
the context that nearly all religion's scriptures promote vegetarian diet)
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The strongest bulwark of the capitalist system is the ignorance of its
victims. -- Adolf Fischer
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I asked [Israeli reporter Amira Haas] for her definition of journalism
and she gave me the best definition I'd ever had. She said, "Journalism
is about monitoring the sources of power." I used to think it was
about, you know, telling the truth and being the first witness to
history - which is true. But monitoring the sources of power is what we
should be doing. The American press doesn't do it. The Canadian press,
unfortunately, largely doesn't do it, the British press largely doesn't
do it. Monitoring the sources of power - what a wonderful definition. --
Robert Fisk, War correspondent, on the state of journalism today
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When Mr. Rumsfeld can claim so outrageously - as he did when asked for
proof of Iraq's nuclear potential - that the "absence of evidence doesn't
mean the evidence of absence," we might as well end all moral debate. --
Robert Fisk (Guardian, Sep. 15, 2002)
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The mental trick of picturing the victim of an attack in the role of the
cruel and dangerous assailant is an established mechanism for diminishing
a sense of guilt. -- C. P. Fitzgerald
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For many years the media have been afraid of the Goliath power of the
meat industry. -- -- Pegeen Fitzgerald, WOR TV/Radio in NY
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There is no question that the choice to become vegetarian or lower meat
consumption is one of the most positive lifestyle changes a person could
make in terms of reducing one's personal impact on the environment --
Christopher Flavin, Worldwatch Institute, (in E Magazine)
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The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder,
rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a
destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally
capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal
peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal
mines. -- John T. Flynn, As We Go Marching
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A. said that those who live with cockroaches are filthy. If God created
cockroaches does that make God filthy? -- FN
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There are vibrations to every food. Meat is the densest, the most gross,
the slowest, then dairy, then vegetables. Fruit vibrates closest to pure
light. -- FN
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Social obligation is much bigger than supporting worthy causes. It
includes anything that impacts people and the quality of their lives . --
William Ford, Jr., Chairman, Ford Motor Co.
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The thousands of people who have suffered food poisoning after eating beef
will, no doubt, appreciate that their beef was aesthetically acceptable,
even though it made them ill. `Lovely to look at, dangerous to eat' is not
a standard that is likely to help beef sales. -- Carol Tucker Foreman,
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture during the Carter administration,
commenting on the inadequacy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
Streamlined (Meat) Inspection System (SIS).
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I think the whole concept of private property as an ultimate 'good'
has got to be replaced. There's a higher good out there than private
property.... -- David Foreman, co-founder and leader, Earth First! (Animal
Rights Reporter, June, 1989)
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I think the whole concept of private property as an ultimate good
has got to be replaced. There's a higher good out there than private
property. -- David Foreman, co-founder and leader, Earth First!, Animal
Rights Reporter, June, 1989
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Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that
link us with all those that have being. If we can discover the meaning
in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us
not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion. -- Adrian Forsyth,
A Natural History of Sex, 1986
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Man is not the lord of all the world's animals. He is the protector. --
John Forsythe
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The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers
of song; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and
the woods belong. -- Sam Walter Foss
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"When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past
and concentrate more on the preservation of the future." -- Dian Fossey,
last entry into her journal the night she was murdered.
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The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity. -- Charles de Foucauld
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The essential political problem for the intellectual is not to criticize
the intellectual contents supposedly linked to science, or to ensure
that his own scientific practice is accompanied by a correct ideology,
but that of ascertaining the possibility of constituting a new politics
of truth. The problem is not changing peoples' consciousnesses - or what's
in their heads - but the political, economic, institutional regime of the
production of truth. It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every
system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)
but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social,
economic, and cultural, within which it operates at the present time,
-- Michel Foucault
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Peace is a gift, It is a gift we give to ourselves, And then to each
other. -- Richard Goode Founder, "2 Billion Voices for Peace" project,
Australia
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Now I understood for the first time that all these problems are caused
by a race asleep and thrashing about in its panicked nightmares. There
will be wars and holocausts and genocides as long as God is portrayed and
thought of as a tight-minded legislator, a feudal lord, an offended King,
a hypersensitive Artisan - even if church managers condescendingly tack
onto that ridiculous list the not-very-convincing footnote that He is
also loving. As long as people dream that they are insecure and needy in
some sort of eternal jeopardy, there will be atrocities. But as the human
race grows up spiritually, and as individuals gain a personal experience
of the God they have been worshipping in fear, they will recognize that
much of their theology and philosophy is built on nightmares. That will
be the day of peace. I suddenly found myself unwilling to sit it out in
the mountains of Utah. I wanted to play an active role in the process
of the world's awakening. -- George Fowler, "Dance of a Fallen Monk"
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Animals arrive at the slaughterhouse, many, in a 4D state (dead, diseased,
dying, debilitated.) -- Michael Fox, DVM of the Humane Soc. of the US
(These animals sometimes go into the pet food tankers)
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Animals arrive at the slaughterhouse, many, in a 4D state (dead, diseased,
dying, debilitated.) -- Michael Fox, DVM of the Humane Soc. of the US
(These animals sometimes go into the pet food tankers).
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Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals
once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature
were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. -- Michael Fox, Sierra,
November-December 1990
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Agribusiness has developed an immense slaughtering machine that causes
great suffering to animals, creates long-term environmental disasters,
endangers healthy food production, and ultimately, threatens the economic
independence of developing countries who support this growing American
appetite -- Micheal W. Fox, Humane Society of the U.S.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing
-- Anatole France
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep
under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. -- Anatole
France
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Imagine sitting down to eat an eight ounce steak. Then imagine the room
filled with 45 to 50 people with empty bowls in front of them. For the
'feed cost' of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a
full cup of cooked cereal grains. -- Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a
Small Planet
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Evolutionary theory, common sense, and ordinary language all point
to the possession of consciousness, indeed, of a complex mental life,
by nonhuman animals. Normal mammals aged one year or more all (human
and nonhuman) share mind states such as perception, memory, desire,
belief, self-consciousness, intention, a sense of the future, emotion,
and sentience. -- Gary Francione (citing Tom Regan). Animals, Property,
and the Law
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I argue that all sentient beings should have one right: the right to to
be treated as our property, the right not to be valued exclusively as
means to human ends. -- Gary Francione, Friends of Animals Action Line,
Summer 2002
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Jane Goodall is currently urging that African people eat goats instead
of chimpanzees. Why? Because chimpanzees are more 'like us' than are
goats? This makes no sense to me and Goodall's position is the antithesis
of the animal rights view. -- Gary Francione, Friends of Animals Action
Line, Summer 2002
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On the one hand, we regard animals as having morally significant
interests. For example, most of us agree with the idea that it is morally
wrong to inflict "unnecessary" suffering on animals. The humane treatment
principle says that we should "balance" human and animal interests in
order to determine whether animal suffering is necessary in a particular
situation. ... The problem is that we do not practice what we preach and
the humane treatment principle, in effect, means nothing. The overwhelming
portion of our infliction of pain and suffering on animals cannot be
justified. No one maintains that eating meat is necessary for health
and it may very well be harmful for us, and there can be doubt that the
environmental consequences of a meat based diet are disastrous. It is
not necessary to hunt, and most recreational hunting involves species of
animals whose habitats are purposely manipulated in order to increase the
number of "game" animals. And the use of animals in "entertainment,"
such as in rodeos, circuses, films, and zoos, is, by definition,
only for purposes of amusement and cannot in any way be described as
"necessary." -- Gary Francione, Our Moral Schizophrenia about Animals,
Introduction to Animal Rights
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The reason for the profound inconsistency between what we say about
animals and how we actually treat them is the status of animals as our
property. -- Gary Francione, Introduction to Animal Rights
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The theory of animal rights is simply not consistent with the theory of
animal welfare or other approaches that reject the rights view and, more
importantly, embrace animal exploitation. Animal rights means dramatic
social changes for humans and nonhumans alike; if our bourgeois values
prevent us from accepting those changes. then we have no right to call
ourselves advocates of animal rights. -- Gary Francione, Director of
the Rutgers Animal Rights Law Clinic, The Animals' Voice, VOL. 4, NO. 2,
pp. 54-55
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[J]ust because a cow does not have the same cognitive characteristics as
does a chimpanzee does mean that it is OK to eat cow any more than the
fact that the cow may have different characteristics from a fish mean
that it is OK to eat the fish. -- Gary Francione, Friends of Animals
Action Line, Summer 2002
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I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and
death ... I think peace and tranquillity will return again. -- Anne Frank
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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these
differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend
and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world
and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people? --
Borman Frank
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With each passing day, it is becoming increasingly clear that the strategy
of environmental exploitation that characterized the 20th century is
reaching the end of its natural life. We are in the early stages of a
transition from an attitude that, in Herman Daly's felicitous phrase,
'treats the Earth like a business in liquidation' to one that is committed
to preserving the planet's 'natural capital.' The principle underlying
this shift is really quite simple: if we want a high quality of life
for ourselves and future generations - a high quality of life in all
its senses - we cannot continue to degrade the quality of the natural
systems of which we are a part. -- Carl Frankel
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Flesh eating is unprovoked murder. -- Ben Franklin
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I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable
creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences
without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war,
or a bad peace. -- Benjamin Franklin
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I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth;
but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others,
and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody. --
Benjamin Franklin
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My refusing to eat meat occasioned an inconveniency, and I have been
frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows
for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker
comprehension. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman,
inventor and author
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The eagle does not make his living honestly. It would be better to have
something else as the national symbol. -- Benjamin Franklin
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The eagle does not make his living honestly. It would be better to have
something else as the national symbol. -- Benjamin Franklin, Jan 26,
1874 letter
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There never was a good war or a bad peace. -- Benjamin Franklin
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There never was a good war or bad peace. -- Benjamin Franklin, Sept
11, 1773
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. -- Benjamin Franklin
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Propaganda exploits a strong human tendency: the automatic and strong
tendency to believe what we're told. Believing what one's government
tells one is relatively easy. It takes no effort at all. Disbelief, on
the other hand, seems to run contrary to human nature. We are, it would
seem, inherently lazy in such matters. It actually requires considerable
intellectual and psychological effort to disbelieve what our leaders
tell us. Added to that is the commonly applied social stigma that comes
with disbelief. Disbelievers - may God save them - lack patriotism,
a sin seen by most Americans as being on the order of patricide. --
Richard L. Franklin
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Important signs of drug use in children: Excessive preoccupation with
social causes, race relations, environmental issues, etc. -- from
"How Parents Can Help Children Live Drug Free," published last year by
Gerald Smith, Director of the Criminology program at the Univ. of Utah,
and others (with a foreward by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin
Hatch, R-UT.
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A man who does not live according to his own chosen moral principles,
resembles a man who has none. -- Will Freedom
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History is subjectively observed, recorded with loss and distortion,
selectively retreived, then transmitted with bias, thus, its accuracy
and relevence should be questioned always. All arguments which appeal to
"historical fact" are suspect. -- Will Freedom
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I will try to love all things, and all life, as life and love are better
than alternatives. I will try to have no ill-consideration for any
thing, especially things with eyes and a brain, for this is my kind, my
kin, my family. I will universally oppose *all forms* of human-caused
usurpation, maliciousness, war, injury, theft, dishonor, coercion,
violence, cruelty, suffering, torture, imprisonment, enslavement,
destruction, and the "ownership" of, the abuse towards, and especially
the killing of any creature with eyes and a brain. I believe that
liberty of mind, of spirit, of movement, and in deed for all creatures
with eyes and a brain is the most natural and perfect state imaginable,
and may even be vital for life, and that active, non-violent protest is
the only righteous method towards causing these ends. It is time for
a necessary social evolution of the human kind, of our kind, as if we
choose to not be ready for the coming time, when beauty, truth, honor,
and love will be cherished things, a future-present when violence is
forsaken for the higher virtues of persuasiveness and persuadability,
and love, truth, and gentleness, are sought above profit, If we choose
not to move foward towards a sustainability of this beautiful Earth,
(our home, and our Mother), then I fear this will all pass away.
This Earth will be saved by our choices, and we must choose carefully,
as this place is the body of our Mother, and the source of all life.
She is the future home of our children, and our neighbor's children.
Our Mother must be honored, as the enjoyment of this place is the natural
and divine birthright of all natural beings, having all been created of
equal beauty, in the eyes of God. -- Will Freedom, Freedom Prayer
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Thankfully, only a few are afflicted with genuine stupidity, and usually
die quite young. Ignorace can at least be cured through experience,
which leads to longevity (if desired :). -- Will Freedom, letter to Bryan,
July 15 2004
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They talk about who is on the left and who is on the right, as if there
were just two kinds of people. This just makes me laugh! The human
soul is a song, a polychromatic multi-timbral rainbow in 12 dimensions.
This Left/Right rubbish falsly diagnoses the entire human race of Bipolar
Disorder -- Will Freedom
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We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country if we are
not scrutinized carefully. -- Louis Freeh, FBI director, to the House
Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, 1997, quoted by Gary Fields in USA TODAY
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The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, faithful animal
race, form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history. -- Edward
Augustus Freeman
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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves
responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. --
Sigmund Freud
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All right, let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly. We
are going to ignore the United Nations in order to make clear to Saddam
Hussein that the United Nations cannot be ignored. We're going to wage
war to preserve the UN's ability to avert war. The paramount principle
is that the UN's word must be taken seriously, and if we have to subvert
its word to guarantee that it is, then by gum, we will. Peace is too
important not to take up arms to defend. Am I getting this right?
Further, if the only way to bring democracy to Iraq is to vitiate the
democracy of the Security Council, then we are honor-bound to do that
too, because democracy, as we define it, is too important to be stopped
by a little thing like democracy as they define it. -- Peter Freundlich,
Illogical Reasoning of a War Against Iraq (1of3), All Things Considered:
March 13, 2003
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Also, in dealing with a man who brooks no dissension at home, we cannot
afford dissension among ourselves. We must speak with one voice against
Saddam Hussein's failure to allow opposing voices to be heard. We are
sending our gathered might to the Persian Gulf to make the point that
might does not make right, as Saddam Hussein seems to think it does. And
we are twisting the arms of the opposition until it agrees to let us
oust a regime that twists the arms of the opposition. We cannot leave
in power a dictator who ignores his own people. And if our people, and
people elsewhere in the world, fail to understand that, then we have no
choice but to ignore them. -- Peter Freundlich, Illogical Reasoning of
a War Against Iraq (2of3), All Things Considered: March 13, 2003
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Listen. Don't misunderstand. I think it is a good thing that the members
of the Bush administration seem to have been reading Lewis Carroll. I
only wish someone had pointed out that "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through
the Looking Glass" are meditations on paradox and puzzle and illogic and
on the strangeness of things, not templates for foreign policy. It is
amusing for the Mad Hatter to say something like, `We must make war on him
because he is a threat to peace,' but not amusing for someone who actually
commands an army to say that. As a collector of laughable arguments, I'd
be enjoying all this were it not for the fact that I know-we all know-that
lives are going to be lost in what amounts to a freak, circular reasoning
accident. -- Peter Freundlich, Illogical Reasoning of a War Against Iraq
(3of3), All Things Considered: March 13, 2003
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[F]or globalism to work, America can't be afraid to act like the almighty
superpower it is... The hidden hand of the market will never work without
a hidden fist. McDonalds cannot flourish without McDonald Douglas, the
designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for
Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force,
Navy and Marine Corps -- Thomas Friedman, New York Times (March 28, 1999),
"What the World Needs Now, A Manifesto for the Fast World"
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Totalitarianism defined: 1. A single mass party, led by one man, which
forms the hard core of the regime and which is typically superior to or
intertwined with the governmental bureaucracy. 2. A system of terror by
the police and secret police which is directed against real and imagined
enemies of the regime. 3. A monopolistic control of the mass media.
4. A near monopoly of weapons. 5. Central control of the economy.
6. An elaborate ideology which covers all aspects of man's existence and
which contains a powerful chiliastic [messianic or religious] moment. --
C. J. Friedrich, American political scientist, quoted in "Fascism:
a very short introduction" by Kevin Passmore Oxford University Press, 2002
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One major constraint on the corporate political system is that, because
its operation does not fall within the purview of the democratic ideology,
much of what it does must be, and is, kept secret. In addition, a good
deal of fraud and corruption take place within the corporate political
system and in its interactions with the individual political system,
mostly because of the realities of the politics of property and the
democratic creed are quite far apart from each other. The role of
policy-planning groups, of interest groups, of government advisory
councils, and of the many direct relationships between business and
government are hidden from most of us and only surface form time to time
when a scandal is particularly obvious. Most Americans prefer to believe
that the democratic creed is the sole influence in the governmental
process, mainly because it is, in principle, obviously more just,
more equal, and, at the simplest level, more easily understood. --
Creel Froman, from The Two American Political Systems 1984
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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human
existance. -- Eric Fromm
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Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be,
when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the
necessary condition for relating oneself to others. -- Erich Fromm
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Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the
torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. -- Froude
(1818-1894)
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Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the
torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. --
James Anthony Froude, 1818-1894, Oceana, 1886
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the reason Japanese people are so short and have yellow skins is because
they have eaten nothing but fish and rice for two thousand years... if
we eat McDonald's hamburgers and potatoes for a thousand years we will
become taller, our skin become white and our hair blonde. -- Den Fujita,
McDonald's Japanese President, from Behind the Arches, the authorised
biography of McDonald's.
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Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something
you do, something you are, something you give away. -- Robert Fulghum
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. -- Buckminister
Fuller
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,
sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with
the rest of humanity around the earth.... We are not going to be able to
operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we
see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. -- Buckminster Fuller
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You never change the existing reality by fighting it. Instead, create
a new model that makes the old one obsolete. -- Buckminster Fuller
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Rankism occurs when rank-holders use the power of their position to secure
unwarranted advantages or benefits for themselves. It typically takes
the form of self-aggrandizement and exploitation of subordinates. It is
the opposite of service. Good leaders eschew rankism; bad ones indulge
in it. It can be found in governments, businesses, families, workplaces,
schools and universities, as well as religious, nonprofit and healthcare
organizations. It distorts personal relationships, erodes the will to
learn, fosters disease, taxes productivity, undermines public trust,
stokes ethnic hatred and incites revenge. Recent front-page examples of
rankism include corporate and philanthropic corruption, sexual abuse by
clergy, school hazing and abuse of elders. -- Robert Fuller
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Today's N-word is "nobody." The successes of affirmative action herald
the day when the victims of indignity, injustice and inequity are as
apt to be white as black, male as female, or straight as gay. Even now,
what primarily marks people for mistreatment and exploitation is low rank
and the powerlessness it signifies. Overcoming rankism is democracy's
next step. In taking it, we will have the opportunity to honor the
dual commitment to both freedom and justice that our nation's founders
imprinted on the American psyche. -- Robert Fuller
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If everybody in the world says that they want peace how can we still
have nuclear bombs? Somebody in the world must be lying. -- Joan G,
age 10, Please Save My World
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. - Galatians 5:22-23
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Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the
change from one generation to the next. -- J. K. Galbraith
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The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the
dominant economic interest... What economists believe and teach, whether
in the United States or in the Soviet Union, is rarely hostile to the
institutions (the private business enterprise, the Communist Party) that
reflect the dominant economic power. Not to notice this takes effort,
although many succeed. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice
of the masses. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of
thinking. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in
moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification
for selfishness. -- John Kenneth Galbraith, economist and author
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. --
Galileo Galilei
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You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him to discover it
within himself. -- Galileo
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The anarchists' electoral abstentionism implies not only a conception that
is opposed to the principle of representation (which is totally rejected
by anarchism), it implies above all an absolute lack of confidence in the
State. And this distrust, which is instinctive in the working masses,
is for the anarchists the result of their historical experience with
the State and its function, which has, at all times and in all places,
resulted in a selfish and exclusive protection of the ruling classes
and their privileges. Anarchist abstentionism strips the State of the
constitutional fraud with which it presents itself to the gullible as
the true representative of the whole nation, and, in so doing, exposes
its essential character as representative, procurer, and protector of
the ruling classes. -- Luigi Galleani, The End of Anarchism?
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Be the Change you Wish to See in the World -- Gandhi
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then we win. -- Gandhi
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First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you.
Then you win. -- Gandhi
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I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to
protection by man from the cruelty of man. -- Gandhi, An Autobiography,
The Story Of My Experiments
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I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings
called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with
such things as crawl upon earth. -- Gandhi, Words Of Gandhi
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If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton,
even under medical advice, I would prefer death. -- Gandhi, address,
Nov. 20, 1931
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The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the
wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. -- Gandhi
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the
way its animals are treated -- Gandhi, the Moral Basis of Vegetarianism
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Whatever you do will seem insignificant, but it is very important that
you do it. -- Gandhi
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You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do
nothing, there will be no results. -- Gandhi
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Nonviolence is not pacifism; nonviolence is not just keeping quiet and
not doing anything about it. Nonviolence is very active. It seeks to seek
justice through nonviolent means rather than violent means. -- Arun Gandhi
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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty,
disease and ignorance. -- Indira Gandhi, 1966
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi, 1971
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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must
be unaffected by outside circumstances. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries
stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. -- Mahatma
Gandhi (statesman and philosopher)
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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to
conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy,
even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power that can
move the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of
God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary
compassion towards our fellow creatures. -- Mahatma Gandhi (statesman
and philosopher)
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It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men
are partisans of a pure vegetable diet. -- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Hindu pacifist, spiritual leader
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Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat
is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. --
Mahatma Gandhi
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Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal
to the brain. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between
individuals. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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The future depends on what we do in the present. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way
its animals are treated.... I hold that, the more helpless a creature,
the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man. --
Mahatma Gandhi, The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism
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We must be the change we wish to see. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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What you do is of little significance. But it is very important that
you do it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth
and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a
time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall, think of it,
ALWAYS! -- Mahatma Gandhi
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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A Satyagrahi loves his so called enemy even as he loves his friend. He
owns no enemy. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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A person who has realized the principle of nonviolence has the God-given
strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that
can match it. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Ahimsa means not to injure any creature by thought, word or deed, not
even to the supposed advantage of this creature. -- Mohandas Gandhi
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An "eye for an eye" and a "tooth for a tooth" leaves everyone blind and
toothless. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is
more so. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Brahmacharya means control of the senses in thought, word and deed. --
Mohandas Gandhi
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Democracy and violence can ill go together. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Experience teaches that animal food is unsuited to those who would curb
their passions. But it is wrong to over-estimate the importance of food in
the formation of character or in subjugating the flesh. -- Mohandas Gandhi
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I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the
rest of humanity. -- Mohandas Gandhi
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to
kill. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I
believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I
believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed. --
Mohandas Gandhi
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I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way
of life of the future... without having to wait for others to do so. --
Mohandas K. Gandhi
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I claim no perfection for myself. But I do claim to be a passionate
seeker after Truth, which is but another name for God. -- Mohandas Gandhi
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I claim to be no more than an average person with less than average
ability. I have not the shadow of doubt that any man or woman can achieve
what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the
same hope and faith. -- Mohandas Gandhi
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we
should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our
bodily wants. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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I do not envisage God other than truth and non-violence. If you have
accepted the doctrine of ahimsa without a full realization of its
implications, you are at liberty to repudiate it. I believe in confessing
one's mistakes and correcting them. Such confession strengthens one
and purifies the soul. Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to
suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any. --
Mohandas Gandhi
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I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under
any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live. I
hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the
lower animal world - if we are superior to it. -- Mohandas Gandhi
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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the
lower animal world if we are superior to it. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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I hold that the true education of the intellect can only come through a
proper exercise and training of the body. But unless the development of
the mind and body goes hand in hand with a corresponding awakening of
the soul, the former alone would prove to be a poor lopsided affair. By
spiritual training I mean education of the heart. -- Mohandas Gandhi
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is
only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. -- Mohandas Gandhi
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If we are to reach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry
on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children. --
Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Live simply that others may simply live. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts
are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency
which the world does not yet know. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi, (1869-1948),
Indian political and spiritual leader. Non-Violence in Peace and War,
vol. 1, ch. 256 (1942).
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Non-violence to be a creed has to be all pervasive. I cannot be
non-violent about one activity of mine and violent about another --
Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and
done by non-violent nations in the face of odds. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Science of war leads one to dictatorship pure and simple. Science of
non-violence can alone lead to pure democracy. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Search for Truth is search for God. Truth is God. God is because Truth
is. -- Mohandas Gandhi
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The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than
the material force of nature. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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The freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth. --
Mohandas Gandhi
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To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget
ourselves. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human
being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of
the human body. -- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
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True nonviolence should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger
and hate and an overflowing love for all. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realisation. --
Mohandas Gandhi
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Truth never damages a cause that is just. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there,
and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce
others to act according to his own view of truth. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
%
Vivisection is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at
present committing against God and his fair creation. It ill becomes us
to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate,
if we in turn will not practise elementary compassion towards our fellow
creatures. -- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
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Vivisection is the blackest of all the black crimes that man is at
present committing against God and His fair creation. It ill becomes us
to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate,
if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our
fellow creatures. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), The Moral Basis
Of Vegetarianism
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought,
word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong
progress towards it. The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person,
a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of
nonviolence for each. -- Mohandas Gandhi
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What do I think of Western Civilization? Well, I think it would be a
good idea! -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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What is brahmacharya? It is the way of life which leads us to Brahma
(God). -- Mohandas Gandhi
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Whatever may be true of other modes of warfare, in Satyagraha it has
been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within. --
Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Whenever you are in doubt or when the self becomes too much with you,
try the following experiment: Recall the face of the poorest and most
helpless person you have ever seen and ask yourself if the step you
contemplate is going to be for any use to him or to her ... Then you
will find your doubts and your self melting away. -- Mohandas Gandhi
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An eye for an eye will blind the world. -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. -- Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
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It is for those who are custodians of a great faith to show that
patriotism based on hatred killeth, but that patriotism based on love
giveth life. -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
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To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice. -- Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi (1869-1948)
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I have [lost work for my anti-war position]. And that's irrelevant
to me. I actually lost a potentially lucrative job as the voice for a
software company. That's OK. It's no big loss in the big picture. Nobody
gives a shit whether I'm the voice of it or not. The more I became
involved with the anti-war movement, the more it was clear that they were
not going to use me. That's fine. That's their choice. But the point
is I'm not sorry for speaking out for my First Amendment rights. I'm not
sorry that I have demanded that my news do its job. I'm not sorry about
that. This will potentially be one of the worst chapters in American
history that will go on for twenty or thirty years, until democracy,
in some fashion, is established. -- Janeane Garofalo, interviewed by
Elizabeth DiNovella, The Progressive, April 30, 2003
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If I thought the anti-war movement was getting proper coverage in
the mainstream media, I would have said no. You don't need actors to
make this a mockery. But as it became abundantly clear that no one was
getting on TV talking about this, and when I was specifically approached
by the founders of Win Without War and some people at MoveOn.org, I said
yes. And I wasn't reluctant about it. I can't stand watching history
roll right over us. It's like they're asking you to bend over, put
your head in the sand, and put a flag in your ass. -- Janeane Garofalo,
interviewed by Elizabeth DiNovella, The Progressive, April 30, 2003
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It is possible [to have a liberal media network]. What's not possible
is to penetrate the wall of opposition. The myth is it can't work. Phil
Donahue was working, but MSNBC took it off for their own rightwing
agenda. A liberal radio network can easily work. What will accompany it,
unfortunately, will be an overwhelming opposition to it in the mainstream
media and by the punditocrity. Again, a lot of these pundits just sit
around on these chat shows and repeat each other. They repeat phrases
and words, and the news cannibalizes itself. -- Janeane Garofalo,
interviewed by Elizabeth DiNovella, The Progressive, April 30, 2003
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On the one hand, [being on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox, speaking out against
the war, has been] so bad that it's enjoyable. Some of the anchors or
journalists or whatever you want to call them, personalities, have been
kind and it's been fine. But for the most part, you just have to defend
yourself. You don't get a chance to have a real debate. You don't get a
chance to discuss anything. You defend your position, defend your career
choice, defend your patriotism, defend your intelligence level, and then
no information has been disseminated to people watching the show. --
Janeane Garofalo, interviewed by Elizabeth DiNovella, The Progressive,
April 30, 2003
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The mainstream media has, in my opinion, been so grossly negligent,
so disturbingly devoid of authentic debate, and actual dissemination of
information. They are, in theory, the custodians of fact, the watchdogs
of government. That's the theory. At a time as important as this,
they have absolutely rolled over to the conservative hawkish agenda.
The parents of the troops who die and the parents of Iraqi civilians who
die should have the right to slap a lot of these media outlets with a suit
of criminal negligence. Military parents would have a legitimate case,
especially against Fox and the New York Post for cheerleading this thing
the whole way, for waving the flag, and using knee-jerk, sycophantic,
pseudo-patriotism as a tool to galvanize public opinion. That brings us
to some of the rightwing pundits who dominate the radio, like Mike Savage,
or some of the commentators at Fox - the Ann Coulters, what have you. I
think what they do is they turn their own personal issues - whether they
be racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, or imperialistic - and they
wrap them in the flag and hide them behind Jesus. -- Janeane Garofalo,
interviewed by Elizabeth DiNovella, The Progressive, April 30, 2003
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There's nothing you could point to in the Bush Administration with pride.
Nothing. There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that
the Bush Administration has been good for America. -- Janeane Garofalo,
interviewed by Elizabeth DiNovella, The Progressive, April 30, 2003
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What's brave about [speaking out against war]? There's nothing brave
in saying, "Hey, I don't think this is right." There's nothing brave
about saying, "I feel we are not functioning under a true democracy,
I feel like we are being manipulated." That's not brave, that's common
sense. I guess it's brave to go on television. It's certainly brave and
sadomasochistic to go on Fox. But my choice is either I can yell at Fox on
my couch or I can get in there and voice my opinion. -- Janeane Garofalo,
interviewed by Elizabeth DiNovella, The Progressive, April 30, 2003
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I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this
subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell
him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell
the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it
has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.
I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not retreat a single inch;
and I will be heard. -- William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879)
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I've always been very bonded to animals -- more so than most people. I
don't think that they can defend themselves, so we have to help them. --
Jennie Garth
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Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of
men. -- Marcus Moziah Garvey, Jamaican black nationalist leader 1887-1940,
similar to a George Funkadelic Clinton quote
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People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind
of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy
sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising
the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?' -- Bill Gates,
World Economic Forum, Feb. 2002
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Mother, Mother there's too many of you crying. Brother, brother, brother
there's far too many of you dying. -- Marvin Gaye, 1971, "What's Going On"
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Clearly, a main purpose of the advertising aimed at two to eight year
olds is precisely to encourage children to ask their parents to take
them to McDonald's - otherwise what would be the point in advertising
directly to such young children? -- Juliet Gellatley, researcher, from
her McLibel witness statement
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McDonald's have clearly succeeded in indocrinating many children to
believe that indeed they are not normal if they do not patronise their
outlets. -- Juliet Gellatley, researcher, from her McLibel witness
statement
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No other burger chain has ever been raised in school talks. I found
the widespread worry (particularly of teenagers) to not be able to go
into McDonald's quite extraordinary. -- Juliet Gellatley, researcher,
from her McLibel witness statement
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And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is
upon the face of the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit of
a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. -- Genesis 1:29
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And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb-bearing seed which is
upon the face of the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a
tree yielding seed: to you it shall be as meat.... -- Genesis 1:29
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But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye
not eat. -- Genesis 9:4
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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither
works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither
has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may
move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the
meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought
she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth
from them than peace. -- St. Catherine of Genoa
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To maintain this position of disparity (U.S. economic-military
supremacy)... we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and
day-dreaming.... We should cease to talk about vague and... unreal
objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standard and
democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to
deal in straight power concepts.... The less we are then hampered by
idealistic slogans, the better. -- George Kennan [Director of Policy
Planning U.S. State Department 1948],
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I used to like her, but I don't anymore because she goes around shooting
pheasants. She's trying to be all English. I've seen pictures of [her
and husband Guy Ritchie] going out and shooting innocent birds. What did
they ever do to her? She's got enough feathers. -- Boy George, on Madonna
(The Advocate)
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Today the State more often than not protects not the right to food but
those who violate the right to food. This is the case in countries
in the First or Third Worlds which are governed on behalf of banks,
corporations or the landholding classes; where the rights of property
always supersede the right to eat. -- Susan George
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The dominance hierchy that is natural in wild cetacea can lead to severe
injury and death of subordinate individuals in captivity. The restricted
space in Dolphinaria seems to intensify such natural behavior. --
Dr. Joseph Geraci, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
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As custodians of the planet it is our responsibity to deal with all
species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer
through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this
madness. -- Richard Gere
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People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's
not as bad as mass animal death in a factory. -- Richard Gere (Time
Out magazine)
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This country was founded on a belief that citizens should be involved
in decisions affecting their lives. -- Kevin L. Gericke, Jay Sullivan,
and J. Douglas Wellman, Public Participation in National Forest Planning
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I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a
socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative. --
Katharine Fullerton Gerould, (1879-1944), U.S. author. Modes and Morals,
ch. 3 (1920).
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A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of
peace. -- Gersonides
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The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to
the fox. -- Maneka Ghandhi
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...[A woman is like] a rose -- you water it and keep it at home for
yourself to look at and smell. It is not supposed to be taken out of the
house to be smelled. -- Syed Ghiasuddin, the Taliban's education minister
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The principles of a free Constitution are irrevocably lost when the
legislative power is dominated by the executive. -- Edward Gibbon
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Looking back now, I find it alarming that the labour rate was the only
thing taken into account when setting staffing levels, safety played
absolutely no part. -- Simon Gibney, McDonald's Floor Manager, Colchester
(UK), June 1984 - Nov 1987, from his McLibel witness statement
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In India it is believed that all creatures have a purpose. -- Mel Gibson,
on NPR 11/15/97
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to
restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. --
Andre Gide
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Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as 'sentimental',
'impractical', or 'womanish', etc., by those whose fun, profit or
convenience was at stake. -- Joan Gilbert
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Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns. -- William
S. Gilbert
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Whoever controls the media controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg
(similar to a Jim Morrison quote)
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The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within reach,
is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see,
and to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look. -- Fra Giovanni,
letter 1513
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In the name of peace, they waged the wars; ain't they got no shame? --
Nikki Giovanni, The Great Pax Whitie, 1979
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They are politically correct: vegetarian. pacifist... nonterritorial
and don't discriminate based on color. -- Lynn Scher of 20/20 on giraffes
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A diet based on MEAT! Where you can eat just MEAT only MEAT, all the MEAT
you want! And still lose weight! Just like a caveman. The only difference
is, the caveman spent 2 weeks chasing after the thing before he clubbed
it and ate it. -- Greg Giraldo, Comedy Central Presents
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He is closest to God who harms no living creature. -- Bhagavad Gita
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One is dearest to God who has no enemies among the living beings, who
is nonviolent to all creatures. -- Bhagavad Gita
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It would be a terrible mess, but it wouldn't be unmanageable. -- Louis
Giuffrida, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, on nuclear war.
Source: Interview with Robert Scheer of the Los Angeles Times in "With
enough shovels" (1982).
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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the
Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. --
William Gladstone (1809 - 1898)
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And now, the connection between the military goals and the economic
ideology are also coming clear. With all the Bush-talk of 'democracy for
Iraq', the U.S. has also announced, even before a new constitution, even
before free elections, even before a new government, that we will require
in Iraq the establishment of the world's most radical right wing economy.
Whatever the new government, it may be forced to be completely open to the
financial entry of global corporations like Citibank, McDonald's, Exxon,
Union Carbide, Halliburton, et. al. There'll be no requirements for local
management participation, or local control or to support local businesses.
No other country in the world has ever given away that kind of access.
So, the invasion was really not just about oil; it was about taking
over everything. Old-style colonialism looks benign by comparison, and
if it succeeds in Iraq, watch out.... [N]ow it's structural adjustment
by military means. Empire, by any means necessary. -- International
Forum on Globalization, Jan 2004 mailing
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I've been a vegetarian for 32 years. I don't ride in cars. I don't own
anything. I rent an apartment paid entirely by Ithaca Hours. I consider
myself wealthy if I can appreciate the beauty of the day. -- Paul Glover,
inventer of "Ithaca Hours" (local currency)
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You Shall Love Each Other. Thou shalt not kill. -- God (supreme being),
The Bible
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God protect the small creatures who have no words to protect themselves.
Prayer posted in Brody Nickol's computer room, (paraphrased)
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People have the misimpression that cows in a blizzard die of the
cold. They often die of thirst, unable to process enough ice into their
water needs (paraphrased) -- Dick Goddard, longtime Fox 8 (Cleveland,
OH) weatherman
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There are a thousand forms of subversion, all of them interesting. But
few, in my opinion, can equal the convenience and immediacy of the cream
pie. -- Noel Godin, European Master Entarteur
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There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For
intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to
the stronger, 'and this will always be the man in the street.' Arguments
must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions
and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely
subordinate to tactics and psychology. -- Dr Joseph Goebbels
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If a lie is repeated often enough, the gullible public will eventually
believe it. -- Paul Joseph Goebbels, Chief Minister of Public
Enlightenment and Propaganda for Adolph Hitler, speaking about propaganda
techniques still practiced today by the Public Relations and Advertising
industries.
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It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public
opinion. -- Paul Joseph Goebbels, Chief Minister of Public Enlightenment
and Propaganda for Adolph Hitler
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The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield
the people from the political, economic, and/or military consequences
of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all
of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of
the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy
of the State. -- Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Chief Minister of Public
Enlightenment and Propaganda for Adolph Hitler
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The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we
imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and
repetitious. -- Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda
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Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being
attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. -- Hermann Goering, NAZI Luftwaffa chief of staff,
sentenced to death at Nuremburg warcrimes trials (committed suicide),
in a conversation with prison psychologist and U.S. Army Captain Gustave
M. Gilbert that took place in Goering's jail cell.
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Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a
farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it
is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people
don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter
in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the
country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag
the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or
a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people
can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All
you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the
peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It
works the same in any country. -- Hermann Goering, NAZI Luftwaffa chief
of staff, sentenced to death at Nuremburg warcrimes trials (committed
suicide), in a conversation with prison psychologist and U.S. Army
Captain Gustave M. Gilbert that took place in Goering's jail cell.
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Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must
do. -- Goethe
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In all things it is better to hope than to despair. -- Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible
man hardly anything. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. -- Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat
him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what
he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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These are rich men in expensive suits conducting statecraft not to
protect the U.S., but to protect the profits of Halliburton and Bechtel.
Then they turn around and accuse us of being unpatriotic. That is truly
Orwellian. My question to Mr. Bush is this: how many more of our sons do
you need [to die] before you bring the troops home? They were told it
would be like [World War II soldiers] going into Paris. It's a lot more
like Mogadishu. Bush and [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld care for
soldiers like Tyson Foods cares for chickens. -- Stan Goff, Veterans For
Peace, 26-year Army veteran and former special forces member, Aug 2003,
National Press Club
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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever
loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in
love is done well. -- Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
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Since visiting the abattoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat. --
Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theodore
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Since visiting the abbatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat. --
Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theodore
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Food poisoning is becoming bigger, more complex and harder to
control. Meat is a main culprit because bugs love it! Bacteria can
multiply extremely rapidly given the opportunity, and meat, cheese, eggs
and milk all provide the ideal environment for bacterial growth. From
cradle to grave, or should I say from birth to plate, food poisoning bugs
have six chances to infect meat: The conditions in which the animal lives,
the food that animals eat, the slaughterhouse, during butchering and
processing, restaurant kitchens, and cross-contamination in the home. --
Emanuel Goldman, PhD.
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Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. --
Emma Goldman
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How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the
mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen. -- Emma Goldman
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If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution. -- Emma
Goldman, anarchist author
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It takes less mental effort to condemn than to think. -- Emma Goldman
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Life without an ideal is spiritual death. -- Emma Goldman
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Oscar Wilde defines a perfect personality as one who develops under
perfect conditions, who is not wounded, maimed, or in danger. A perfect
personality, then, is only possible in a state of society where man is
free to choose the mode of work, the conditions of work, and the freedom
to work. One to whom the making of a table, the building of a house,
or the tilling of the soil, is what the painting is to the artist and
the discovery to the scientist - the result of inspiration, of intense
longing, and deep interest in work as a creative force. -- Emma Goldman,
Anarchism: What It Really Stands For
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Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained
through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of
his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit. --
Emma Goldman, Patriotism (1911)
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Resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal. -- Emma Goldman
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Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through
the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent
minorities, and not through the mass. -- Emma Goldman
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The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is
invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of
governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war
preparations, with the result that peace is maintained. -- Emma Goldman
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The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. --
Emma Goldman, American anarchist and feminist, 1869-1940
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The most violent element in society is ignorance. -- Emma Goldman
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The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own
children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means
obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister. --
Emma Goldman
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The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair,
sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. ... An army
and navy represents the people's toys. -- Emma Goldman
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We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are
opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of
projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. --
Emma Goldman
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When a child has reached manhood, he is thoroughly saturated with the
belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country
against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose
that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and
ammunition. -- Emma Goldman
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You get your information from the daily press. Yet that is the very last
place on earth to seek for truth in any state of form. --- Emma Goldman,
March 1 1933
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What an astounding thing it is to watch a civilization destroy itself
because it is unable to re-examine the validity, under totally new
circumstances, of an economic ideology. -- Sir James Goldsmith, the
richest man in Europe, 1994
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What an astounding thing to watch a civilization destroy itself because
it is unable to re-examine the validity under totally new circumstances
of an economic ideology. -- Sir James Goldsmith
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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough
to take it all away. -- Barry Goldwater
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What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails, More
books and less arsenals, More learning and less vice, More constant
work and less crime, More leisure and less greed, More justice and less
revenge -- Samuel Gompers, 1893
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In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so
very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we
should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show
to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we
recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes. -- Jane Goodall (ethologist)
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Condoleezza Rice was on the board of Chevron, the largest oil company,
headquarters in California. But it's not just Condoleezza Rice. It is
a group in Washington D.C. in the government that I think very much
has lost touch with the American people. We have not seen the level of
protest in this country in many, many years. This is far greater than
we saw before the Vietnam War, and I really do think the most important
message right now is that war is not inevitable. -- Amy Goodman, Host
of Democracy Now!, on the Charlie Rose show, 12 Mar 2003
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I think people in this country and around the world are against a
U.S. invasion of Iraq. The media will sometimes show a picture of a
target on Saddam Hussein's forehead. I think it would be much more
accurate to show a target on the forehead of a little Iraqi girl
because that's who dies in war. The majority of people who die in war
are innocent civilians. And there are people all over in this country
in those protests holding signs that say things like how many lives per
gallon and no blood for oil. They don't think that little Iraqi girls
should die for their gas tank. Another thing - I often refer to the
Bush administration as the "Oiligarchy-" look at who we have there -
we have George Bush who was an oil man. You have Dick Cheney the vice
president former head of the largest oil services corporation in the
world. You have Condoleezza Rice. She had a Chevron Oil tanker named
off her the Condoleezza Rice. And they represent a force that people are
beginning to very clearly understand. And they are saying no to it. --
Amy Goodman, Host of Democracy Now!, on the Charlie Rose show, 12 Mar 2003
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There's a powerful force not only in the country but around the world -
on February 15th, 30 million people the world gave a global response
war and they said no. Tens of thousands of people marched. Hundreds of
thousands, millions and New York alone around half a million people. This
is unprecedented. You have one force that is George Bush representing
the most powerful arsenal on earth and then you have another force, the
voice of people - not their so called leaders but the people around the
world. -- Amy Goodman, Host of Democracy Now!, on the Charlie Rose show,
12 Mar 2003
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Unfortunately not everyone [is opposed to Saddam Hussein]. Ask Donald
Rumsfeld. He should be asked this question. We have the defense secretary
who in 1983 and in 1984 went to Baghdad, shook hands with Saddam Hussein,
at a time when both the State Department and United Nations had come
out with reports saying he had used chemical weapons against Iranian
soldiers, there was Donald Rumsfeld as Pres. Reagan's envoy there, sent
there to normalize relations with Saddam Hussein. So I think he needs to
be asked why he served as the point man to normalize relations to allow
for U.S. companies to sell all sorts of support to Saddam Hussein. We have
to look at that history and understand how Saddam Hussein was shored up
- this dictator - all of these years. -- Amy Goodman, Host of Democracy
Now!, on the Charlie Rose show, 12 Mar 2003
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We're talking about terror. Right now we're talking about use of chemical
and biological weapons. Where did he get these? There's a joke (which
unfortunately is not a joke) going around: the reason that the U.S. knows
he has various components for weapons is because the U.S. has got the
receipts. It is very important to point out that they knew he was using
this at the time, and by the way, the U.S. not only normalized relations
with Saddam Hussein, but they also provided coordinates, the intelligence
for him to gas Iranian soldiers. -- Amy Goodman, Host of Democracy Now!,
on the Charlie Rose show, 12 Mar 2003
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We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between
humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility. -- Mikhail
Gorbachev, President, Green Cross International
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Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds
have always understood the peacemaking role of women. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
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In reality, most people in America live in a police state, and are
completely unaware of it. -- George Gordon
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I find it astounding in the last decade of the 20th century that there
should be governments that claim the right to be able to wrong other
people and to do so with impunity. -- Sen. Slade Gorton, 3-12-98,
promoting his bill which attacks Native American tribal sovereignty
rights, apparently oblivious to his having described the entire body of
U.S. foreign policy.
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I hunted as a kid. I couldn't kill today. -- Ron Goson, park enjoyer
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Patriotism itself - love of one's country and one's people - is a natural
and reasonable human feeling. But patriotism which measures one's country
by military superiority over all rivals regardless of consequence is
irrational... There is surely a more rational form of patriotism that
searches for excellence in social, economic and moral spheres rather
than in weapon systems. -- Thomas Bodenheimer and Robert Gould, Rollback
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The teachings of traditional religions only make sense to me up to
a point. Veganism offers a clarity that I believe is in harmony with
the spirit of all religous and spiritual beliefs. But it's much more
than a cause for hope; it offers serious and practical answers to many
perplexing problems facing individuals and all humanity. -- Brian Graff
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los leyes son sus limpias balas / los balas son sus sucios leyes ( laws
are their clean bullets / bullets are their dirty laws ) -- grafitti,
Buenos Aires, February, 2002
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To create a new culture does not only mean to make original discoveries on
an individual basis. It also and especially means to critically popularize
already discovered truths, make them, so to speak, social, therefore give
them the consistency of basis for vital actions, make them coordinating
elements of intellectual and social relevance. -- Antonio Gramsci
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The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by
their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves
of the oppression, if they are strong enough, either by withdrawal
from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more
acceptable. -- Ulysses S. Grant, Memoirs, 1885
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When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not
give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The
bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your
closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet
belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs
to the poor. -- Basil the Great
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Most people will agree that it is wrong to sacrifice one human for the
"greater good" of others because it would violate her or his right to
live. But when it comes to sacrificing animals, the assumption is that
human beings habe this right to live while animals do not. Yet there is
no moral reason to deny animals the same rights that protect individual
humans from being sacrificed for the common good. -- Anne Green
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Some say it is natural to kill and therefore it is OK. While it is true
that some animals kill other animals in nature, moral philisophy is
based on principles, not excused by the lack of morality in others. Some
humans assault, rape, or kill other humans, yet we do not condone these
actions. Not all other animals act with savagery and amorality; there
are many examples of animals acting compassionately. Most of the animals
we exploit do not kill other animals. It would seem that if we cannot
define our own ethics and are looking elsewhere for models of morality,
we would follow the best exemples, not seek out the worst. -- Anne Green
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In response to the McLibel defendants question, 'is Coca Cola nutritious',
he said it is: providing water, and I think that is part of a balanced
diet - giving evidence in the McLibel Trial -- David Green, Senior
Vice-President of Marketing (USA)
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The two kinds of people who exist in this world [at any one time]
are the decent and the indecent. Color, religion and nationality are
irrelevant. Kindness, decency and behavior are what matters most. Our
collective challenge, it seems, is to create a city and community where
decent people of all races, ethnicities and religions can look into
the faces of other decent people and see only one thing, God's image
smiling back. -- Rabbi Micah Greenstein
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The greatest hope for a more peaceful, just, non-violent, loving
world lies with each of us striving to bring alive in every aspect of
our individual lives the compassion and understanding that forms the
foundation of veganism. -- Brian Greff
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I like to think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking
personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's
challenging oneself to open one's eyes and question society's assumptions
and habits. It's about critical thinking and compassion and how one
would like to see the world evolve. -- Michael Greger
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I took a trip to a stockyard in Pennsylvania and witnessed the beatings
of older dairy cows and veal calves. A visual display like that forces
one to confront the realities of the system. Being vegan is a matter of
being able to look at myself in the mirror every day. -- Michael Greger
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Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain,
the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant,
cruel, and brutal taking of life. -- Dick Gregory (Marin Independent
Journal)
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Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of
a car. -- Dick Gregory, author of Harper Collins' Cookin With Mother
Nature For Folks Who Eat
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Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a
car. -- Dick Gregory, author of Cookin With Mother Nature For Folks
Who Eat
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If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions
of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one. -- Dick Gregory
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Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend
nonviolence to the mother and her calf. -- Dick Gregory
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The quest for homeland security is heading, in ad hoc fashion, toward the
quasi militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere,
maybe everything must be protected and policed. -- William Greider
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The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry -
some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A
society bingeing on fear makes itself vulnerable to far more profound
forms of destruction than terror attacks. The "terrorism war", like a
nostalgic echo of the cold war, is using these popular fears to advance a
different agenda - the re-engineering of American life through permanent
mobilization. -- William Greider
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I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that
I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let
me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come
this way again. -- Stephen Grellett, 1773-1855 (or a William Penn quote?)
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If history shows that a violent response to an act of terrorism begets
more terrorism, then why is a violent response the predominant choice
of the experts and politicians of the world? -- Beau Grosscup
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One of the major accomplihments of the [American] revolution was to
kick private corporations out of this country, to kick some out (like
the Hudson Bay Company), which were very powerful private corporations
of the day, and to transform what had been private stock corporations
chartered by the king. Massachusetts Bay Corporation ..., the Virginia
Corporation, the Carolina Corporation, the Maryland Corporation, the
Pennsylvania Corporation, these were business corporations that settled
and created the 13 colonies. They were dictatorships, there was no
pretense. The people who ran those companies decided what you could grow,
where you had to ship your products, what kind of work you did. They could
conscript you into the militia. They were dictatorships. The revolution
fundamentally transformed those companies into constitutional states. Not
perfect by any means. But it shifted the source of political power. It
shifted the nature of sovereignty so that there became institutional
processes for making decisions: legislatures, the courts, separation
of powers, terms of office for those holding office.... So in effect,
by force of arms, the colonists transferred the sovereignty that had
set with the King of England to the people. The king was the sovereign;
he got his sovereignty allegedly from God. All his rulers ruled in his
name. That sovereignty, with the revolution, passed to "the people". --
Richard Grossman, Revoking the Corporation
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I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate
themselves. -- Che Guevara
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Man really attains the state of complete humanity when he produces,
without being forced by physical need to sell himself as a commodity. --
Che Guevara (1928-1967), seen as the message of the day on the indymedia
irc server.
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We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage
of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The
strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism.
Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the
world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed
nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians,
and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of
domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an
absolute dependence. -- Che Guevara (1928-1967), seen as the message of
the day on the indymedia irc server.
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We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of
capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic
end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share,
the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is
to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from
where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor,
and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and
all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence. --
Che Guevara
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For almost two years I went against everything I ever believed in by
selling out to the McDonald's corporate juggernaut by playing Ronald
McDonald to thousands of innocent, trusting children. -- Geoffrey
Guiliano, former Ronald McDonald actor, from a public statement
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I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children
everywhere for selling out to concerns who make millions by murdering
animals. -- Geoffrey Guiliano, the first Ronald McDonald actor
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I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children
everywhere for selling out to concerns who make millions by murdering
animals. -- Geoffrey Guiliano, the main Ronald McDonald actor in the
1980's who quit and publicly apologised
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I want to apologize for participating in helping to brainwash North
America's young people into doing something that I now know to be
contrary to the purpose of life. -- Geoffrey Guiliano, the first Ronald
McDonald actor
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This show [his new television show] is my way of saying sorry for selling
out so blatantly to concerns who make their millions off the murder of
countless animals and the exploitation of children for their own ends. --
Geoffrey Guiliano, former Ronald McDonald actor, from a public statement
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Belief is the wound that knowledge heals -- Ursala K. Le Guin
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We can't become nonviolent on the basis of intellectual
conviction. Commitment to nonviolence demands a very profound conversion
of mind and heart. If we take the time to pray with Jesus, we too will
be converted in mind and heart. It won't work if we try to reason it
out. The only way is through a change of heart, a coming into a way of
being that is the way of Jesus. -- Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
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Results from animal tests are not transferable between species, and
therefore cannot guarantee product safety for humans...In reality these
tests do not provide protection for consumers from unsafe products, but
rather they are used to protect corporations from legal liability. --
Herbert Gundersheimer, M.D., member, PCRM (Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine), Baltimore, Maryland, 1988
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If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what
we're killing folks for -- Woody Guthrie
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A man can live a good life without religion. But a man cannot live
without a kind heart. If a man's religion does not cause a kind heart,
then he should leave it by the side of the road. -- Tenzin Gyatso,
14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, intervied by Bill Moyers
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I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as
human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live
without meat. -- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
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Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants
happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do
other creatures. -- Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence
of violence. Peace is, I think, manifestation of human compassion. --
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
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It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members
of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals,
and who claim to be God-loving men and women, but who, nevertheless,
encourage by their patronage the killing of animals merely to gratify
the cravings of appetite. -- Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish
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It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members
of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals,
and who claim to be God-loving men and women, but who, nevertheless,
encourage by their patronage the killing of animals merely to gratify
the cravings of appetite. -- Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish (1844-1936)
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Here are some things to give us some calm comfort. France and Germany are
together in something at last, and our man in the White House deserves
a Nobel Peace Prize at least for that, if for nothing else. The man in
the White House is the best political organizer we have ever had. He
generated the largest protest demonstrations the earth has ever seen
last month. He has us organizing on the peace front, the civil liberties
front, the environmental front, the domestic budget front - everywhere
people are waking up after a long sleep. It is a dangerous time, but a
great time - a great awakening - and we must give credit to the man whose
monumental presumption has made this possible. -- Doris Haddock, a/k/a
"Granny D", 93 year old activist who walked across the U.S. in 2000 to
call attention to the corruption of big money in our political system.
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We meet in disturbing times but we must not be disturbed. We must
be calm and peaceful, for peace cannot come from hearts disturbed
and angry. And peace, if it is to come, must come first from our own
hearts. -- Doris Haddock, a/k/a "Granny D", 93 year old activist who
walked across the U.S. in 2000 to call attention to the corruption of
big money in our political system.
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The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too. -- Hermann Hagedorn
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Let them march all they want, so long as they continue to pay their
taxes. -- Gen. Alexander Haig, in response to the early '80s anti-nuclear
movement
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The whole point of brainwashing, is that those being brainwashed don't
know it. -- Graham Haley
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Meat has nitrosamines (carcinogenic - formed by sodium nitrate food
agents interating with animal amino acids in the stomach) -- Bill Hall,
WNIR Radio Sat. Aug 30 97
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Only the grand scale and technocratic impersonality of the crimes
conceived and directed by the [U.S.] ruling elite acting under cover
of state authority distinguish them from garden variety killers. --
Darrell Hamamoto
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For 3000 years, people of the Jain faith have lived by ahimsa
(non-violence). The Jains established ahimsa as the core and essence
of their lives. To this day, Jainism remains as the only faith to
implement peace, not merely viewing it as an ideal. -- H. Ethan Hamburg.
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The cycle of flesh eating and violence is neither
innate, ineluctable, or necessary. -- H. Ethan Hamburg.
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Leftover eggs are a potential cause of food poisoning. -- Suzanne Hamlin,
food writer for the New York Times
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Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is
possible- not to have to run away. -- Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)Former
UN General Secretary
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either
victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials
and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never
abandoned. -- Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)Former UN General Secretary
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Some social factors, such as public attitudes and political consensus,
can change very rapidly - far more rapidly than population size or energy
consumption. -- Allen Hammond
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I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in
order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their
suffering. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
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If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic
kind of peace work. -- Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist Monk
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In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the
sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted
thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be
able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack
only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot
see them does not mean that they do not exist. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world
will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against
nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity
of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace. -- Thich
Nhat Hanh
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Suppose we say that we don't want to kill animals (that is why we became
a vegetarian). And every time we eat lettuce or we boil a vegetable we
feel better, and we might have the impression that we don't kill any
living beings. But in fact every time we boil water, many tiny living
beings die. We don't know that our vegetable dish is not entirely
vegetarian. But it is very obvious that eating vegetables causes much
less pain than eating meat. The way we raise chickens, cattle, we treat
animals, is very violent. Even when we drink a glass of milk, we know
that it is not perfectly non-violent. The way they treat the cows,
the way they take the calf from his mother, the way they kill the calf,
do you know that in this country and in many other countries, the calf
has the right to live only one hundred days. The calf doesn't have the
right to run or move, they leave him in one place, and one hundred days
later they kill him for food (veal). So even if we drink some milk,
we still feel some pain within us. That is why many of us prefer soy
milk to cow's milk. -- Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist Monk.
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The Buddha, Shakyamuni, our teacher, predicted that the next Buddha would
be Maitreya, the Buddha of love.... It is possible that the next Buddha
will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form
of a community, a community practicing understanding and lovingkindness,
a community practicing mindful living. And the practice can be carried
out as a group, as a city, as a nation. -- Thich Nhat Hanh, "The Next
Buddha May Be A Sangha" in Inquiring Mind, Vol 10, No. 2, Spring 1994.
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The real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to
walk on earth. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
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There cannot be perfect non-violence. The issue is to try to do the
least violence possible, and that is our practice. -- Thich Nhat Hanh,
Buddhist Monk.
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No peace among the nations without peace among the religions. No peace
among religions without dialogue between the religions. No dialogue
between the religions without investigation of the foundation of the
religions. -- Hans Küng
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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man
living. -- James Keir Hardie, (1856-1915), British first British Labour
Party member of Parliament. Remark to friends, August 6, 1914, after
being howled down in Aberdare, Wales, for speaking against World War I
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A nation that combines the America predilection towards violence, the
American stockpile of weapons and the American lack of empthy for the
earth's humiliated peoples is a dangerous nation. -- Vincent Harding,
Motive, April 1968
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[I]ironically, perhaps, the best organised dissenters in the world
today are anarchists, who are busily undermining capitalism while the
rest of the left is still trying to form committees. -- Jeremy Hardy,
The Guardian (UK)
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It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage
another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need,
constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation. -- Bernard Haring
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Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests
of cosmetics and household products... despite the fact that the test
results do not help prevent or treat accidental or purposeful misuse of
the products. Please join me in using your voice for those whose cries
are forever sealed behind the laboratory doors. -- Woody Harrelson
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I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm
obviously much healthier. -- Woody Harrelson
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Suppose that tomorrow a group of beings from another planet were to
land on Earth, beings who considered themselves as superior to you as
you feel yourself to be to other animals. Would they have the right to
treat you as you treat the animals you breed, keep and kill for food? --
John Harris (1946- )
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Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible,
says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it
impossible, says the realists. -- Sydney J. Harris
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When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is
waiting there. -- George Harrison, "Within You Without You"
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I believe there was very much a hidden agenda of expoitation of crew
members wherever possible by all levels of management. -- Kevin Harrison,
McDonald's 2nd Assistant Manager, Colchester and Ipswich (UK), 1986 -
1987, from his McLibel witness statement
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Family organisation is broken and young animals are increasingly being
denied a mother to turn to for comfort and for grooming. One of the
saddest and most pathetic of farm practices - inevitable at the present
time for the supply of dairy produce - is the separation of the calf
from the cow at birth or soon after. -- Ruth Harrison
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In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be
cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in
the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of
money are at stake, will be defended to the last blow. -- Ruth Harrison,
author of Animal Machines
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In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be
cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in
the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of
money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent
people. -- Ruth Harrison, author of Animal Machines
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Vivisection is barbaric, useless, and a hindrance to scientific
progress. -- Dr. Werner Hartinger, Chief Surgeon, West Germany, 1988
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This [eating animals] appears from the frequent hard-heartedness and
cruelty found among those persons whose occupations engage them in
destroying animal life, as well as from the uneasiness which others feel
in beholding the butchery of animals. It is most evident in respect to the
larger animals and those with whom we have a familiar intercourse-such
as oxen, sheep, and domestic fowls, etc. They resemble us greatly in
the make of the body, in general, and in that of the particular organs
of circulation, respiration, digestion, etc.; also in the formation of
their intellects, memories and passions, and in the signs of distress,
fear, pain and death. They often, likewise, win our affections by the
marks of peculiar sagacity, by their instincts, helplessness, innocence,
nascent benevolence, etc., and if there be any glimmering hope of an
'hereafter' for them - if they should prove to be our brethren and
sisters in this higher sense - in immortality as well as mortality,
in the permanent principle of our minds as well as in the frail dust of
our bodies - this ought to be still further reason for tenderness for
them. -- David Hartley (1705-1757)
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As Daniel Quinn so elegantly points out in Ishmael, the concept of
"you may compete but you may not destroy your competitors" is one of
the basic laws of nature. With very few exceptions, animals and plants
compete with each other for food and access to sunlight energy, but
they do not set out to utterly destroy other species as part of that
competition. This concept, as an alternative to genocidal warefare,
is one that we desperately need to incorporate into the weave of our
cultural fabric. -- Thom Hartmann, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
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One cannot fight against war. One can only see it for the vulgarity
it is and choose, as the Shoshone people did for ten thousand years,
to walk away from it. -- Thom Hartmann, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
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Our dominator culture is, in many ways, a cult of death. Our leaders and
image-makers seem to love war. They use the term to describe actions we
consider good, such as the "war on poverty" or the "war on illiteracy"
or the "war on drugs".... War is vulgar. The continual glorification
of this killing throught nationalism and media and dominant culture in
general only guarantee more pain and human suffering in the future. --
Thom Hartmann, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
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Somewhere along the line our culture came up with the idea that everything
on the planet exists for us. No matter that a forest may be filled with
other life-forms, from mammals to lizards to birds to insects: because
the world was made for us we can wipe it out and convert the soil to
the production of human food. This and the war mythos are inextricably
intertwined. If another non-human life-form begins to compete with
our Younger Culture for our food or the space to grow that food, we
exterminate it. [But] on the other side of human culture are people
who see other life-forms as having the same right to the Earth as do
humans. -- Thom Hartmann, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
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The mythos of the warrior-hero is intrinsic to the industrialized culture
East and West. This mythos enabled Hitler to gain the support of his
people as he moved against his neighboring states. This enabled Tojo to
do the same in his war against China. THis cultural myth ensured that
"pioneers" who "conquered the West" would be viewed romantically by
Americans (and other nationalities). -- Thom Hartmann, The Last Hours
of Ancient Sunlight
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Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals
suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. --
Paul Harvey
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I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age
has ended. Today, many things indicate that we are going thorough a
transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out
and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something were
crumbling, decaying, and exhausting itself, while something else, still
indistinct, were arising from the rubble. -- Vaclav Havel, The Need for
Transcendence in the Postmodern World
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The world is not divided into two types of being, one superior and the
other merely surrounding it. Being, nature, the universe - they are all
one infinitely complex and mysterious metaorganism of which we are but
a part, though a unique one. -- Vaclav Havel
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If [corporations] believe they are in business to serve people, to
help solve problems, to use and employ the ingenuity of their workers
to improve the lives of people around them by learning from the nature
that gives us life, we have a chance. -- Paul Hawken
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The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less
is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent,
even competitive. -- Paul Hawken
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We need a collective intelligence of a kind that may not have
characterized the human species in the past; but we see no reason
to believe that... a whole population cannot reach a stage of mature
self-consciousness much as an individual does. -- Paul Hawken, James
Ogilvy, Peter Schwartz, "Seven Tomorrows", 1982
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Shall the railroads govern the country or shall the people govern the
railroads? ... This is a government of the people, by the people and for
the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations
and for corporations. -- President Rutherford B. Hayes
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long
ago. -- William Hazlitt
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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest
violence. -- Hebrew Proverb
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War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and
the press ... have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very
essence - death - is hidden from public view. -- Chris Hedges
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We will no longer be led by that half of the population whose
socialization, through toys, games, values, and expectations, sanctions
violence as the final assertion of manhood, synonymous with nationhood. --
Wilma Scott Heide
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How good it is to be well-fed, healthy, and kind all at the same time. --
Henry J. Heimlich
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Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. --
Heinrich Heine
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Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people. --
Heinrich Heine
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I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I
am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable,
I tolerate them; if I find them to obnoxious, I break them. I am free
because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. --
Robert Heinlein
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To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn
old falsehoods. -- Robert Heinlein, as Lazarus Long
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Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and
leave the whole field to private industry. -- Joseph Heller
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Globalisation is not about trade. It is about power and control. It is
about the reshaping of the world into one without borders ruled by a
dictatorship of the worlds most powerful central banks, commercial banks
and multinational companies. It is an attempt to undo a century of social
progress and to alter the distribution of income from inequitable to
inhuman. -- Paul Hellyer
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Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the hands
of the wrong people. -- Jesse Helms
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I'm the one who's gonna die when it's time for me to die, so let me live
my life the way I want. -- Jimi Hendrix
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know
peace. -- Jimi Hendrix
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White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic
finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna
wave my freak flag high. -- Jimi Hendrix, If Six Was Nine
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You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to
die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all
these things. You have to go on & be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. --
Jimi Hendrix
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Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between
meals. -- Ammon Hennacy, US Labor leader
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I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war. -- Ammon Hennacy,
US Labor leader
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No Larry and he doesn't eat them either -- Mary Lu Henner, when asked by
Larry King, "Is that true... that Danny DeVito won't harm cockroaches
on the set of Taxi?" Mary Lu is herself a vegetarian because of Danny
DeVito's example
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None so blind as those who will not see. -- Matthew Henry
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who
approaches that jewel. -- Patrick Henry
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To erect and concentrate and perpetuate a large moneyed interest...must
in the course of human events produce one or other of two evils, the
prostration of agriculture at the feet of commerce, or a change in the
present form of federal government, fatal to the existence of American
Liberty. -- Patrick Henry
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There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.. -- Nat Hentoff,
of the Village Voice, about Cardinal Bernardin's philosophy
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Yesterday's Seattle Times had an article on the delegation of anarchists
from Eugene, Oregon, who are being blamed for most of the violence. The
Eugenians - playing the always-useful role of outside agitators -
published a manifesto denouncing the unions and NGOs protesting the
WTO as part of the glue holding a rotting order together. It's time to
create a new world from the ashes after the ruined one. Fight back and
don't get caught. And they didn't; almost all the arrestees were doing
nothing violent, while the window-smashers seem to have skipped town
unhindered. Before leaving, though, the Eugene anarchists amazingly
flattened the tires of eight police cars and spray-painted them with
the circled A that symbolizes anarchism. Doing that takes amazing nerve;
getting away with it is stunning. -- Doug Henwood
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire. -- Heraclitus,
(c. 535-475 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Diels-Kranz, Fragmente der
Vorsokratiker
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He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass
himself; for every man has a need to be forgiven. -- Lord Herbert
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PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government
and one's "country"; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by
the desire to dominate and kill; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced
when contemplating heaps of charred "enemy" corpses; 4) The first, last,
and perennial refuge of scoundrels. PATRIOT, n. A dangerous tool of the
powers that be. A herd member who compensates for lack of self-respect
by indentifying with an abstraction. An enemy of individual freedom. A
fancier of the rich, satisfying flavor of boot leather. -- from The
American Heretic's Dictionary edited by Chaz Bufe (See Sharp Press)
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As human rights conditions deteriorate, factors affecting the "climate
of investment," like the tax laws and labor repression, improve
from the viewpoint of the multinational corporation. This suggests an
important line of causation, military dictatorships tend to improve the
investment climate... The multinational corporate community and the
U.S. government are very sensitive to this factor. Military dictators
enter into a tacit joint venture arrangement with Free World leaders:
They will keep the masses quiet, maintain an open door to multinational
investment, and provide bases and otherwise serve as loyal clients. In
exchange, they will be aided and protected against their own people,
and allowed to loot public property. -- Edward Herman
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Doing terrible things in an organized and systematic way rests on
"normalization." This is the process whereby ugly, degrading, murderous,
and unspeakable acts become routine and are accepted as "the way things
are done." There is usually a division of labor in doing and rationalizing
the unthinkable, with the direct brutalizing and killing done by one
set of individuals; others keeping the machinery of death (sanitation,
food supply) in order; still others producing the implements of killing,
or working on improving technology (a better crematory gas, a longer
burning and more adhesive napalm, bomb fragments that penetrate flesh in
hard-to-trace patterns). It is the function of defense intellectuals and
other experts, and the mainstream media, to normalize the unthinkable for
the general public. The late Herman Kahn spent a lifetime making nuclear
war palatable (On Thermonuclear War, Thinking About the Unthinkable),
and this strangelovian phoney got very good press. -- Edward Herman
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Economists have provided capitalists with a comforting concept called the
"free market." It does not describe any part of reality, at any place
or time. It's a mantra conveniently invoked when it is proposed that
government do something the faithful don't like, and just as conveniently
ignored whenever they want government to do something for them. --
Edward S. Herman, The Real Terror Network
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Established institutions, with overwhelmingly dominant power, tend to
line up in goose-step fashion in support of any state foreign venture, no
matter how immoral (until the cost becomes too high). -- Edward S. Herman,
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, 1979, preface, p. 2
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If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve
the welfare of the entire body of citizens, the U.S. model has clearly
been a major failure. It has served a minority, and the majority have
not only failed to share in the income gains yielded by the model, they
have suffered from reduced benefits, greater job instability and stress,
and a diminution of expectations and sense of hope for the future. --
Edward S. Herman, The Real Terror Network
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Just as the United States trained Latin American military and police in
methods of fighting against "populism" in their countries, by this means
helping to produce a "favorable climate of investment" by bringing into
power National Security States, so a large, well-trained, and ruthless
police is needed in the home country as it pushes a right-wing agenda
that is contrary to the interests of a vast majority. -- Edward S. Herman
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The concept of the banality of evil came into prominence following
the publication of Hannah Arendt's 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A
Report on the Banality of Evil, which was based on the trial of Adolph
Eichmann in Jerusalem. Arendt's thesis was that people who carry out
unspeakable crimes, like Eichmann, a top administrator in the machinery
of the Nazi death camps, may not be crazy fanatics at all, but rather
ordinary individuals who simply accept the premises of their state
and participate in any ongoing enterprise with the energy of good
bureaucrats. -- Edward Herman
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The failure to provide relevant context, the acceptance and dissemination
of myths, the application of double standards as virtual standard
operating procedure, and participation in ideological bandwagons and
campaigns, have been extremely important in [New York] Times coverage
of foreign affairs. -- Edward S. Herman, The Real Terror Network
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The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World
package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package,
the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western
complicity, must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under
the rug. -- Edward S. Herman
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The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without
limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact,
major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to
comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers. -- Edward S. Herman,
political economist and author
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There is usually a division of labor in doing and rationalizing the
unthinkable, with the direct brutalizing and killing done by one set
of individuals ... others working on improving technology (a better
crematory gas, a longer burning and more adhesive napalm, bomb fragments
that penetrate flesh in hard-to-trace patterns). It is the function of
the experts, and the mainstream media, to normalize the unthinkable for
the general public. -- Edward Herman, American essayist
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[T]he operative priciples dictating U.S. support and hostility in the
Third World have been business criteria first, military convenience
second, and any humanistic considerations third and thus effectively
irrelevant. In fact, they are less than irrelevant - they are in conflict
with the first two criteria, and therefore ... humanizing forces [become]
"threats". -- Edward Herman
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In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. --
Herodotus
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Veganism, startling and extreme to so many at its inception, now
after ten years, finds its ideals echoed throughout the world. Among
a discerning monority in Europe, North America, in India and in Japan,
the word "veganism" is known, its meaning and significance accepted an
acknowledged. -- John Heron, editor of The Vegan, winter 1954-1955
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Michael W. Fox, vice-president of the Humane Society, said that, "to
call an animal with whom you share your life a 'pet,' is reminiscent of
men's magazines where you (a figure of speech, don't take it personally)
have the Pet of the Month." It is supposed that the continued use of the
word "pet" to designate dogs or cats threatens to reduce their level of
respect to the current status of twentieth century North American women.
Now that's radical. -- The McGill Red Herring
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My experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust had a profound
impact on my subsequent life choices. I felt some guilt that I lived
when so many others didn't and a sense of duty to redeem my survival
by assuming their share of responsibility for making this planet
a better place to live for all its inhabitants. After the war,
I became active in the religious freedom, civil rights, peace, and
environmental movements, receiving much fufullment but always feeling
that I was missing something. Following my deeply emotional experience
at the World Vegetarian Congress in 1975, I took time to reflect on the
root of the key problems challenging planetary survival, i.e., disease,
hinger, environmental devastation, oppression, and war. Amazingly,
all evidence pointed to animal agriculture as the common root cause. My
life's mission then became crystal clear. In particular, my experiences
in the Nazi Holocaust allowes me to empathize with the condition of farm
animals in today's factory farms, auction yards, and slaughterhouses. I
know first-hand what it's like to be treated like a worthless object,
to be hunted by the killers of my family and friends, to wonder each
day if I will see the next sunrise, to be crammed in a cattle car on
the way to slaughter. -- Alex Hershaft
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The last thing my father told me before he was taken to his death... was
to love all creation. -- Alex Hershaft, concentration camp survivor and
coordinator of The Great American Meatout (1 800 Meatout)
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The last thing my father told me before he was taken to his death... was
to love all creation. -- Alex Hershaft, concentration camp survivor and
coordinator of The Great American Meatout, 1 800 Meatout
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You save your soul by saving someone else's body. -- Arthur Hertzberg
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Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our
name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours,
ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government
with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent
acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions
overseas, we in effect endorse them. -- Mark Hertzgaard
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I'm not a vegetarian but I want you to know that my four dogs are safe. --
Charlton Heston
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Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography
and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I
do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body -
as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? -- Bill Hicks
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I'm glad that psilocybin mushrooms are illegal. Know why? Because
when I took them, I laid in a field of green grass, thinking "I love
everything!" The heavens parted, God looked down and rained Gifts of
Forgiveness unto my being, healing me on every level, psychically,
physically, emotionally, and I realized that our true nature is spirit,
not body, that we are eternal beings, and God's love is unconditional and
there's nothing we can ever do to change that, it is only our illusion
that we are separate from God or that we are alone; in fact, the reality
is that we are One with God and that He loves Us. Now. If that isn't a
hazard to this country... do you see my point? How are we going to keep
building nuclear weapons, what's going to happen to the arms industry
when we realize we are all One? It's gonna fuck up the economy! --
Bill Hicks, Rant in E minor
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I'm so sick of arming the world, then sending troops over to destroy
the arms, you know what I mean? We keep arming these little countries,
then we go and blow the shit out of them. We're like the bullies of the
world, y'know. We're like Jack Palance in the movie Shane, throwing the
pistol at the sheepherder's feet. "Pick it up." "I don't wanna pick
it up, Mister, you'll shoot me." "Pick up the gun." "Mister, I don't
want no trouble. I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy
for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I ain't looking for no trouble,
Mister." "Pick up the gun." (He picks it up. Three shots ring out.) "You
all saw him - he had a gun." -- Bill Hicks
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It's called logic; it will help you. -- Bill Hicks, Sane Man
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Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy
condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness
experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death. Life
is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves... Here's Tom
with the weather -- Bill Hicks, Sane Man
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Several of the greatest American corporate leaders were in league with
Nazi corporations before and after Pearl Harbor, including I.G. Farben,
the colossal Nazi industrial trust that created Auschwitz. -- Charles
Higham, Trading with the Enemy, 1983
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The tycoons were linked by an ideology: the ideology of Business as
Usual. Bound by identical reactionary ideas, the members sought a
common future in fascist domination regardless of which world leader
might further that ambition. -- Charles Higham, Trading with the Enemy,
1983, pxiv
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What would have happened if millions of American and British people,
struggling with coupons and lines at the gas stations, had learned that
in 1942 Standard Oil of New Jersey [part of the Rockefeller empire]
managers shipped the enemy's fuel through neutral Switzerland and that
the enemy was shipping Allied fuel? Suppose the public had discovered
that the Chase Bank in Nazi-occupied Paris after Pearl Harbor was doing
millions of dollars' worth of business with the enemy with the full
knowledge of the head office in Manhattan [the Rockefeller family among
others?] Or that Ford trucks were being built for the German occupation
troops in France with authorization from Dearborn, Michigan? Or that
Colonel Sosthenes Behn, the head of the international American telephone
conglomerate ITT, flew from New York to Madrid to Berne during the
war to help improve Hitler's communications systems and improve the
robot bombs that devastated London? Or that ITT built the FockeWulfs
that dropped bombs on British and American troops? Or that crucial balI
bearings were shipped to Nazi-associated customers in Latin America with
the collusion of the vice-chairman of the U.S. War Production Board in
partnership with Goering's cousin in Philadelphia when American forces
were desperately short of them? Or that such arrangements were known
about in Washington and either sanctioned or deliberately ignored? --
Charles Higham, researcher, about U.S.-Nazi collaboration during WWII
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People say that Bush isn't smart. OK, so he doesn't have the mental muscle
for heavy lifting, but that's not his role. He's the amiable figurehead
who can hide the theivery. That's what he did as governor, and that's
his role now. Could you imagine Cheney as President? He couldn't do it.
Cheney has a smile like a landlord who's just evicted another widow. --
Jim Hightower, on Democracy Now!, Aug 19 2003
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The corporations don't have to lobby the government any more. They are
the government. -- Jim Hightower
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The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is
creative. -- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the
expense of his fellow men. -- Napoleon Hill
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A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment
the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All of us occupied
the same space, the men behind the desk no less than those about to be
questioned. What distinguished each of us was only our inner attitude. --
Etty Hillesum (concentration camp victim)
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I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all
the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything
in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the
only lesson to be learned from this war. -- Etty Hillesum (concentration
camp victim)
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The word terrorist is bandied about like it has any legitimacy. After
all, what is a terrorist but a soldier on a low budget? -- Thomas J.
Hillgardner, on the Alliance for Community Media "Access-Forum" list
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Dissent is the essence of democracy. -- Maurice D. Hinchey,
U.S. Representative D-NY
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Do no harm. -- Hippocrates
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First do no harm. -- Hippocrates
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Harm none. -- Hippocrates
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The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each
is different. -- Hippocrates (philosopher)
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What we want to have in existence, what we ought to have been creating
in this time is some administration with Arab institutions which we can
safely leave while pulling the strings ourselves; something that won't
cost very much, which the Labour government can swallow consistent with
its' principles, but under which our economic and political interests
will be secure. [.....] If the French remain in Syria we shall have to
avoid giving them the excuse of setting up a protectorate. If they go,
or if we appear to be reactionary in Mesopotamia, there is always the
risk that [King] Faisal will encourage the Americans to take over both,
and it should be borne in mind that the Standard Oil company is very
anxious to take over Iraq. -- Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Head of the British
government's 'India Office Political Department.' 1919,
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McDonald's are notoriously litigous. - during an episode of the TV show
Have I Got News for You. -- Ian Hislop, Editor of Private Eye
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We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free
enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic
order. -- Adolph Hitler
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Not to kill is a supreme duty. -- Hitopadesa
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Those who have forsaken the killing of all; those who are helpmates
to all; those who are a sanctuary to all; those men are in the way of
heaven. -- Hitopadesa
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What is religion? Compassion for all things which have life. What
is happiness? To animals in this world, health. What is kindness? A
principle in the good. What is philosophy? An entire seperation from
the world. -- Hitopadesa
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on
machines, and in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and
the robots that guard them. -- Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what
they killed there would be no more war. -- Abbie Hoffman
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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what
they killed, there would be no more wars. -- Abbie Hoffman
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Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb
and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at
all. -- Abbie Hoffman, The Sixties - by Richard Avedon
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than
drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness
is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. --
Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. -- Abbie Hoffman
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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the
institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral. --
Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book
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We are here to make a better world. No amount of rationalization or
blaming can preempt the moment of choice each of us brings to our
situation here on this planet. The lesson of the '60s is that people
who cared enough to do right could change history. We didn't end racism
but we ended legal segregation. We ended the idea that you could send
half-a-million soldiers around the world to fight a war that people do
not support. We ended the idea that women are second-class citizens. We
made the environment an issue that couldn't be avoided. The big battles
that we won cannot be reversed. We were young, self-righteous, reckless,
hypocritical, brave, silly, headstrong and scared half to death. And we
were right. -- Abbie Hoffman
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You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the
freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. -- Abbie Hoffman, seen on
a bumper sticker.
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Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end
drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war? --
Albert Hofmann, who isolated Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD-25)
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There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those
who enjoy the peace of God sleep better. -- L. Thomas Holdcroft
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I will not keep quiet as I watch the land that I love turn into a rogue
nation. I will not keep quiet as I watch scheming men profit economically
and politically from blood shed by others. I will not keep quiet as I
watch as nearly six decades of international law and institutions are
crushed in an effort to bring a Pax Americana to the world. I will not
keep quiet as I watch my government manipulate the fears of the citizenry
to grab more power for itself. I will not keep quiet as we wage a war
that is - by any objective standard - unjust, immoral, illegal and just
plain stupid. And I will not allow anyone to attempt to silence me,
for I and others who are opposed to this unjust, immoral, illegal and
stupid war still have the right to dissent and the obligation to speak
up when our nation is doing something that is terribly, terribly wrong.
Dissent is the essence of democracy. The suppression of dissent is the
essence of tyranny. Those who wish to shut up those who oppose this war
do democracy a disservice. -- Randolph T. Holhut, The American Reporter,
April 5, 2003, A Duty To Speak Up
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I am not basically a conservationist. When the last great whale
is slaughtered, as it surely will be, the whales' suffering will
be over. This is not the whales' loss, but man's. I am not concerned
about the wiping out of a species - this is man's folly - I have only
one concern, the suffering which we deliberately inflict upon animals
whilst they live. -- Clive Hollands (1929- )
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A dog is not almost human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine
race than to describe it as such. -- John Holmes
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Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original
dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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We are now in an era when film and video, camera and typewriter, handled
by dedicated naturalists, can at last reveal to us and show to the public
what wild animals really look like and how they behave and live... If
intentions are educational, then it would be far better to invest in
securing and widely distributing more such material than in constructing
yet more oceanaria. -- Dr. Sidney Holt, marine biologist.
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I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of
oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate
commerce. -- J. Edgar Hoover
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If I told you what I really know it would be very dangerous to the
country. Our whole political system could be disrupted. -- J. Edgar Hoover
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Justice is incidental to law and order. -- J. Edgar Hoover
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The real immorality of the hunting movement is not its willingness
to kill, per se, but its unwillingness to respect the biological and
esthetic integrity of the natural world. In its selective, self-serving
attitudes toward wildlife, in its eagerness to manipulate the environment
for the sole sake of its sport, the hunting movement displays an ultimate
insensitivity to all lower life forms: it exemplifies the belief that
the only legitimate function of our planet and its organic community is
to satisfy the wishes of mankind, no matter what form these wishes may
take. This is the same inglorious ethic that guides the conscience of
a strip miner or real estate speculator. -- Jack Hope, Hunters: Useful
Pruners of Nature or Just Killers?, Smithsonian, January, 1974, p. 84
(Vol. 4, #10).
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As these forests were not ecologically sustainable, I believe that the use
of products using material from these forests was self evidently damaging
to the environment. -- Theo Hopkins, from his McLibel witness statement
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I believe that the temperate and boreal forests that were the source
of the paper used by the McDonald's Corporation in 1989/1990 are and
were not fully sustainable, and specifically, were not ecologically
sustainable. -- Theo Hopkins, from his McLibel witness statement
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Great Spirit gave us this land. White men came and killed our animals
and destroyed our land, then told us to go to work for a living. We
don't want what they call civilization. -- Crazy Horse
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While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. -- Doug Horton
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No hygiene checks or quality control measures were carried out at the
premises and my suggestions to set up a surface swab programme were met
with strong resistance. -- Marja-Liisa Hovi, former veterinary surgeon at
a slaughterhouse supplying McDonald's, from her McLibel witness statement
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The carcasses were washed with high pressure water before the
inspection. This practice is dangerous as it can lead to the inspectors
missing pathological changes and leads to airborne contamination. --
Marja-Liisa Hovi, former veterinary surgeon at a slaughterhouse supplying
McDonald's, from her McLibel witness statement
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The chillers were as a rule overfilled, this leading to contact
contamination and preventing proper chilling of the carcasses. --
Marja-Liisa Hovi, former veterinary surgeon at a slaughterhouse supplying
McDonald's, from her McLibel witness statement
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The slaughterhouse and the cutting premises operated with a considerable
overcapacity causing the meat to be cut and dispatched at temperatures
higher than required (+7 C) leading to an added risk of contamination
and bacterial growth. -- Marja-Liisa Hovi, former veterinary surgeon at
a slaughterhouse supplying McDonald's, from her McLibel witness statement
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There was no proper separation between the 'dirty' and the 'clean'
side of the slaughterhouse leading to a considerable risk from airborne
contamination of the dressed carcasses. -- Marja-Liisa Hovi, former
veterinary surgeon at a slaughterhouse supplying McDonald's, from her
McLibel witness statement
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There was no separate, chilled detention room for condemned or detained
carcasses. This often lead to a situation where detained carcasses
were kept in the same chillers with carcasses that had past the
inspection. This practice easily leads to either contact or airborne
contamination. -- Marja-Liisa Hovi, former veterinary surgeon at a
slaughterhouse supplying McDonald's, from her McLibel witness statement
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Throughout the plant there was a shortage of facilities for disinfection
of hand tools and knives leading to contamination of the carcasses and
meat. -- Marja-Liisa Hovi, former veterinary surgeon at a slaughterhouse
supplying McDonald's, from her McLibel witness statement
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We enjoy the economic stability that the Armed Forces guarantee us. This
[economic] plan can be fulfilled dispite its lack of popular support. --
Martinez de Hoz, financial minister of the Argentine military government,
1976
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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. --
Kin Hubbard
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Winter is not an enemy...It is a walk that I enjoy at any time of the
year...When the drifts are hip high, as they are today where the lane
skirts the river's cliffs at Pigeon Hawk Bluff, I try to urge them to
break a path, but they look at me wisely and pretend that they are too
loyal and obedient to do anything but walk at my heels. Pantywaist dogs,
I scold. This makes them wag their tails happily. Are they my dogs or
am I their human?" -- Sue Hubbell, Author, A Country Year
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We are walking abbatoirs of innocents, our brains are incinerators of
their cries. (a dog ate and) all the deaths it had gulped.. could not
digest their shrieking finales. -- Ted Hughes, husband of Sylvia Plath
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We are walking abbatoirs of innocents.. our brains are incinerators of
their cries..(a dog ate and) all the deaths it had gulped.. could not
digest their shrieking finales -- Ted Hughes, husband of Sylvia Plath:
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First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is
necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals. --
Victor Hugo (poet, novelist, and playwright)
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In the relations of man with animals, with the flowers, with all the
objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic scarcely seen as
yet, but which will eventually break through into the light and be the
corollary and the complement to human ethics. -- Victor Hugo
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No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with
thought and reason as well as men. The arguments are in this case so
obvious, that they never escape the most stupid and ignorant. -- David
Hume (philosopher)
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Respect the old and cherish the young. Even insects, grass and trees
you must not hurt. -- Attr. Ko Hung (284-363 AD) (Confucian-Taoist)
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At my age (seventies), a number of my nonvegan friends suffer various
aches and pains. I am fortunate to have none; no heart surgery, no high
blood pressure, etc. I feel happy, energetic, active, and healthy. I
have helped some friends become aware of the benefits of lower-fat vegan
eating. They seem to be able to understand about clogged arteries and
high blood pressure even when they can't understand about the animals,
the rain forest, the soil, or the oceans. -- Shirley Hunting
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I hear people shaking with shudders at the thought of Germany collecting
taxes in Holland. I have not heard a word against Holland collecting
one twelfth of poor people's wages in Asia. Hitler's crime is that he
is actually doing a thing like that to his own kind... -- Zora Neale
Hurston, black writer, at the start of World War II
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Truman is a monster. l can think of him as nothing else but the Butcher
of Asia. Of his grin of triumph on giving the order to drop the Atom
bombs on Japan. Of his maintaining troops in China who are shooting the
starving Chinese for stealing a handful of food. -- Zora Neale Hurston,
black writer, 1946
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Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it's apt to give a person wind
and self-righteousness. -- Robert Hutchinson
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24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions
in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born
on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there
than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are
more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy
of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a
twenty-year erosion of its social contract. -- Will Hutton
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It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem
all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way
of advice than "try to be a little better." -- Aldous Huxley
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The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing
something, but by refraining from doing. -- Aldous Huxley
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Man is biologically a primate, a fruit eater. -- Thomas Huxley, English
biologist (friend of Charles Darwin), Man's Place in Nature
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Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up
every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss
Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. -- Thomas H. Huxley (biologist)
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We are indeed told...that the belief in the unity of origin of man and
brutes involves the brutalization and degradation of the former. But is
this really so? Could not a sensible child confute, by obvious arguments,
the shallow rhetoricians who would force this conclusion upon us? --
Thomas H. Huxley (biologist)
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We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain
duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can
influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it
was before he entered it. -- Thomas Huxley
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We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain
duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can
influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it
was before he entered it. -- Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)
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I like the fact that PETA gets up people's noses and they make people
think and that they're confrontational. [Some] people don't like their
methods, but I'll tell you something, we don't like [animal abusers']
methods. People think PETA is confrontational. Well, we're never as
confrontational as to trap something or put a gun to its head. --
Chrissie Hynde, (PETA Gala)
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One person can make all the difference in the world....For the first
time in recorded human history, we have the fate of our whole planet in
our hands...It's a very exciting time for vegetarians. -- Chrissie Hynde
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Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20
years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war
to destroy him. -- King Baudouin I, King of Belgium
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I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized
tribes. The moral effect should be good... and it would spread a lively
terror... -- Winston Churchill commenting on the British use of poison
gas against the Iraqis after World War I
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People must not attempt to impose their own 'truth' on others. The right
to profess the truth must always be upheld, but not in a way that involves
contempt for those who may think differently. -- John Paul II, 1/1/91
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Authentic religion does not advocate terrorism or violence, but seeks to
promote in every way the unity and peace of the whole human family. --
Pope John Paul II
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In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even
a country. Now it is the whole planet that has come under threat. This
fact should compel everyone to face a basic moral consideration; from
now on, it is only through a conscious choice and then deliberate policy
that humanity will survive. -- Pope John Paul II
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Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless
it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. -- Pope John Paul II
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Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation,
depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face. --
Pope John Paul II
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Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous
rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out
struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy. --
Pope John Paul II
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Efforts to deepen democracy in international institutions must confront
the realities of global power. Powerful countries will inevitably
invest more energy and political capital in institutions that enable
their power to be exercised. Once they are members of an elite club,
countries are reluctant to lose that power or see it diluted by opening
to new members. This explains why proposals for reform always encounter
stiff resistance. And that is why broad acceptance of the principle of
democratization has translated into so little progress at the level of
specific proposals. -- UNDP on the IMF, World Bank, UN Security Council
and WTOUNDP: Human Development Report 2002, p. 113
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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life. -- Indian Proverb
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. --
William Ralph Inge
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Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is
surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human
being can be guilty. -- William Ralph Inge
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our
distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they
were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human
form. -- William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922
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Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you
know that there would be an American Air-Bottling Association? And don't
you know they would allow thousands and millions to die if they could not
pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is. --
Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon
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It used to be if a bird had a severe contamination, you condemned the
sucker. But nowadays my own supervising inspector says, There can be
no more bad birds on your tally. You've had to many. -- A seven year
poultry inspector
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Would you like to go to pasture with a chicken, cut him up, then drop
him into a fresh manure pile, and eat him? That's what the project is
like coming from chicken plants today. -- Chicken Inspector
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Barnett and Muller interviewed a large number of the Chief Executive
Officers (CEOs) of these corporations and quote them frequently. These
corporate visionaries made no secret of their perspective and
ambitions. The authors conclude from their first-hand research that
"the world's leading corporate managers now see the nation-state,
once the mid-wife of the Industrial Revolution, as the chief obstacle
to planetary development." (p. 18) Quoting these high placed corporate
chieftains, they report that the nation state is seen as "a very old
fashioned idea and badly adapted to our present complex world." --
Initiative & Referendum Institute.
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The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to
governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political
killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world. --
Amnesty International, [United States of America - Rights for All
October 1998],
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Let us put our heads together and see what life we will make for our
children. -- Tatanka Iotanka (Sitting Bull, Lakota Leader)
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I often jokingly say that most restaurants' idea of a "vegetarian meal"
is a cheese omlet. The reason why this is funny is that there is nothing
about a cheese omlet that is vegetarian. Think what you like, but it is
not only not vegan, but it is also not vegetarian. The root of the word
"vegetarian" comes from the same root as "vegetation", which means,
"plants". Vegetarian is a plant-based diet. Eggs and cheese do not
come from plants, they come from anumals. The reason why this sticker
("Suitable for Vegetarians") is so insulting is that it *looks like*
a product claim, but it isn't. What it is, in fact, it is some sort of
attempt at mind control.... They can and should make accurate claims
about what is in their product, as well as avoid telling me how they
define a "vegetarian person". I don't give a damn what they think
vegetarians should or should not eat. They are a corporation that was
chartered to manufacture food, not to tell me about myself. They are
making what appears to be a product claim: "This is a vegetarian product"
(which it isn't), but instead are telling me "It's OK for vegetarians to
eat eggs". This is an opinion which I don't share, and I really consider
this the worst kind of propaganda there is: misdirection to exploit
some class in order to take their money. It is deception, bordering on
fraud. -- ip4noman, comment on vegdot.org, "Suitable for Vegetarians"
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If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught,
we would believe what they believe. -- A sign inside a church in Northern
Ireland, explaining the origin of intolerance and hate
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It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. -- Irish Proverb
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And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into
pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more. -- Isaiah 2:4
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And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you:
yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of
blood. -- Isaiah 1:15
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Every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made
low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it
together; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. -- Isaiah 40:4-5
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He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man. -- Isaiah 66:3
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He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man... -- Isaiah 66:3
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He that slayeth an ox is as he that killeth a human. -- Isaiah, (Bible)
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He that slayeth an ox is as he that slayeth a man. -- Isaiah
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In that day the wolf and the lamb will lie down together, and the leopard
and goats will be at peace. Calves and fat cattle will be safe among
lions, and the little child shall lead them all. The cows will graze
among bears; cubs and calves will lie down together, and lions will
eat grass like the cows... Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy
mountain, for as the waters fill the sea, so shall the earth be full of
the knowledge of the Lord." -- Isaiah 11:6-10
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The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
and a little child shall lead them. -- Isaiah 11:6
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They will hammer their swords into plowblades and their spears into
pruning shears. Nations will never fight against each other, and they
will never train for war again. -- Isaiah 2:4 (God's Word Version)
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To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? Saith
the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed
beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of
he goats. -- Isaiah 1:11
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This is one of the few places where it all belongs to us. It's our deal.
These people in power are just people we've hired to drive this bus for
a while. But it's our bus and we get to decide where it goes. -- Molly
Ivans, "Bushwhacked", on David Barsamian's Alternative Radio, March 2004.
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As Lou Dubose and I conclude, if you must eat while Republicans control
both the White House and Congress, you may want to consider becoming a
vegetarian. -- Molly Ivins
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When I was little I shot a squirrel with my beebee gun. As I watched
him die I felt bad about what I'd done. -- Marlo J
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If the War on Drugs is about morals and ethics, let's make it a Volunteer
Army. See who keeps fighting, and who starts a hemp farm. -- jabber.
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Profit is the reason. [...] Someone has to enforce all those anti-drug
laws. Someone has to prosecute all those cases, and defend all those
'criminals'. Someone has to guard them in prison, and someone better
build more prisons soon since they're all so over-crowded. All the
people fighting the War on Drugs get paid to do their jobs. Most of them
get paid with Tax Dollars, and if they were not needed, they'd be broke
and unemployed. All of them. The cops, the lawyers, the DA's office,
the whole DEA, the Drug Tsar. It's a cartel big enough to warrant a
RICO Art investigation. If you're not part of the solution, you stand
to make a fortune in perpetuating the problem. If the War on Drugs is
about morals and ethics, let's make it a Volunteer Army. See who keeps
fighting, and who starts a hemp farm. -- Jabber, quoted on kuro5hin.org
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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman,
the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the
environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian,
the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt. -- Rev. Jesse
Jackson, speaking July 17, 1984, at the Democratic National Convention
in San Francisco
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They no longer use bullets and ropes. They use the World Bank and the
IMF. -- Jesse Jackson
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I spoke often in Congress against the war in Vietnam, and commented on
congresspersons hiding from the reality of war by saying 'many eat the
meat but few go to the slaughterhouse'. I said it so often I became a
vegetarian. -- Rep. Andrew Jacobs, formerly of Indianapolis
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I spoke often in Congress against the war in Vietnam... and commented
on Congresspersons hiding from the reality of war by saying 'many eat
the meat but few go to the slaughterhouse'. I said it so often I became
a vegetarian. -- Rep. Andrew Jacobs, formerly of Indianapolis
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I know hundreds of people who have spent years and thousands of dollars
on tests looking for ulcers or spastic bowels. I tell them to lay off
all dairy products for two weeks. The results are usually so striking
that it changes thier lives. -- David Jacobs
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In America, censorship may often hide in the face of a fired person,
whose perspective may not be in accord with those who own the enterprise,
or those who influence the owners. Every journalist learns on which side
his bread is buttered, and s/he either accepts this form of status quo,
or learns how to abide by this unwritten edict. For in a capitalist state,
organized under the illusion of freedom of the press, the power to compel
compliance lies not in some faceless, anonymous board of state censors
(at least, not anymore) but in the power of the purse. The terror that
grips the very vitals of the journalist is that weilded by the owners:
the power to fire. In a state where capital is the measure of one's
worth, joblessness sends shivers down the spines of the mighty. Thus
does capital discipline its wordsmiths; thus do the rulers control the
scribes. -- Mumia Abu Jamal, Words from an Outcast of the Fourth Estate,
All Things Censored
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The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the
nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled;
the hyprocracy of the nation must be exposed. And its crimes against God
and man must be proclaimed and denounced. There is not a nation on this
earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people
of these United States at this very hour. -- Mumia Abu Jamal
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The major media like its racist projections is to be rejected, not
consumed, for your very patronage gives it life. -- Mumia Abu Jamal,
"Media is the Mirage" All Things Censored AK Press
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And goodness is the harvest that is produced from the seeds the
peacemakers plant in peace. -- James 3:18
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But the wisdom from above is pure, first of all; it is also peaceful,
gentle and friendly; it is full of compassion and produces a harvest of
good deals,; it is free from prejudice and hypocrisy. -- James 3:17
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices. -- William James
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference
with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do
not assume to interfere by violence with ours. -- William James
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Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind. --
Gerald Jampolsky
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a
nightmare. -- Japanese Proverb
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I don't like rare meat. I don't like to be reminded of the blood. -- JBO
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A strict observance of the laws is doubtless one of the highest duties
of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of
self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher
obligation. To lose our country by scrupulous adherence of written law,
would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all
those who are enjoying them with us.... -- Thomas Jefferson
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed
corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a
trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. --
Thomas Jefferson, People's Bicentennial Commission, The Voices of the
American Revolution
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied
corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of
strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. -- Thomas Jefferson
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I tremble for my species when I reflect that God is just. -- Thomas
Jefferson
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It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice. --
Thomas Jefferson
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish
we may be permitted to pursue it. -- Thomas Jefferson
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on occasion that I
wish it to be always kept alive...What country can preserve its liberties
if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve
the spirit of resistance. -- Thomas Jefferson
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong;
and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. -- Thomas Jefferson
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
and were endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that
among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to
secure these rights, governments are created among men and derive their
just powers from the consent of the governed. And when any government
becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to
alter or abolish it. -- Thomas Jefferson, on the right to revolution,
Declaration of Independence
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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their
own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their
notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights. -- Thomas Jefferson,
to Richard Price, January 8, 1789
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[T]he newly rising Banking institutions and moneyed corporations would
destroy the freedoms won in the American revolution, becoming the
foundation of a single and splendid government of aristocracy if given
a free hand. -- Thomas Jefferson, quoted in Alex Carey's book "Taking
the Risk Out of Democracy; Corporate Propaganda vs. Freedom and Liberty"
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The potential Iraq war is an attempt to impose a certain order not just
on Iraq but on the world. This is an attempt to gain control before
things go awry. Awry, that is, for the former twentieth century order,
which has much to lose. There is a strange death-urge hidden within this
control agenda too: being unsoundly based, an Iraq war risks creating
major setbacks for American superpower credibility - just as lack of
success can undermine its bewitching appearance of invincibility. An
unconscious urge to fail hides behind the assertions of America's
hawks. This self-destruct program risks pulling the rest of us down
with it. We must thank George Bush and Saddam Hussein for their efforts:
their medieval feud pushes the world into confronting important issues,
including armaments, arms trading and military aid, plus the modern war
addiction suffered by politicians, generals, terrorists and all of us.
After 1989, when the Wall came tumbling down, everyone wanted war to go
away - but it won't unless peace and disarmament are strongly asserted. --
Palden Jenkins, The Psychological Underpinnings of War
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A society is a healthy society only to the degree that it exhibits
anarchistic traits. -- Jens Bjørneboe
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Any zoo-keeper will tell you that he feeds his primates (the gorilla,
great-apes, chimps, etc.) on fruits, nuts, and vegetables, and that
they will not eat the flesh of animals. -- Dr. Bernard Jensen, Ph.D.,
Food Healing for Man, 1993
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I have only some initials to say: NAFTA; GATT; WTO; IMF. Strike, the
CEO's and polititcians say, and instead of bringing foreign workers to
the factory, we'll simply move the factory to the foreign workers. And if
the foreign workers strike, so will the death squads. -- Derrick Jensen,
"The Culture of Make Believe"
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We can no longer have everything we want, but we can be more than we
imagined. -- Howard Jerome
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"Everything is connected to everything else" is often called the First
Law of Ecology. Helping human society to prosper in the 21st century
requires that we recognize the importance of living in balance with our
physical environment and treating each other with dignity and equity. --
Michael Jessen, Zero Waste Services
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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. --
Jesus, Matthew 5:9
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Kill neither men, nor beasts, nor yet your food which goes into your
mouth. For if you eat living food, the same will quicken you, but if
you kill your food, the dead food will kill you also. For life comes
only from life, and death comes always from death. For everything which
kills your food, kills your bodies also... And your bodies become what
your foods are, even as your spirits, likewise, become what your thoughts
are. -- Jesus, The Essene Gospel of John
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Whatsoever you have done to these the least of my brethren you have done
unto me. -- Jesus
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Would that even today you knew the things which make for peace. -- Jesus,
Luke 19:42.
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[Ours] needs to be an inclusive citizens' movement that looks beyond the
reach of existing peace and anti-war organizations. What's needed is a
commitment to civility and persuasion, a reaching out to all citizens
no matter where they stand on other issues. -- Marty Jezer
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Hunters are to the arms industry what smokers are to the tobacco
industry. Smokers get a nicotine rush. Hunters get an adrenalin rush
from killing a living being. (This does not include those hunters who
kill only to feed their families or themselves.) -- Jim R.
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It started pretty much all to do with animal-related issues, John went
on to explain of his decision to become a vegetarian. It was just a
guilt thing. I'm the kind of person, as soon as I get something in my
head, I feel guilty about it, so I did it to get peace of mind and then
once I was vegetarian, I started to doubt whether I should be consuming
any animal products at all, so I did the whole thing. -- Daniel Johns,
of Silverchair (MTV News Web site)
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I believe the profligate waste of our resources on irrelevant weapons
systems and the Asian economic meltdown, as well as the continuous
trail of military 'accidents' and of terrorist attacks on American
installations and embassies, are all portents of a twenty-first century
crisis in America's empire, an empire based on the projection of military
power to every corner of the world and on the use of American capital and
markets to force global economic integration on our terms, at whatever
costs to others. -- Chalmers Johnson, Blowback
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The greatest danger we have now is militarism in America. We have this
huge, overpowering, unbelievably expensive military establishment...
Seasoned U.S. Ieaders have warned against the threat of a huge military
establishment to the liberty of our citizens. I fear that from this
we are going to get even more militarism. That is, more and more
functions-including domestic police functions-will be transferred from
civilian institutions to the military, and the military will have ever
greater authority in our society. -- Chalmers Johnson, author - Blowback,
In These Times magazine
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There never was a war at arms that was not merely the extension of a
preceding war of commerce grown fiercer until the weapons of commerce
seemed no longer sufficiently deadly. -- Hugh Johnson, U S General
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[L]isten to me, Mr. Ambassador, fuck your Parliament and your
Constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. If these two
fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the
elephant's trunk, whacked good.... We pay a lot of good American dollars
to the Greeks, Mr. Ambassador. If your Prime Minister gives me talk
about Democracy, Parliament and Constitutions, he, his Parliament and
his Constitution may not last very long. -- President Lyndon Johnson, to
a Greek Ambassador. During one of the perennial disputes between Greece
and Turkey over Cyprus, which was now spilling over onto NATO, President
Johnson summoned the Greek ambassador to tell him of Washington's
"solution". The ambassador protested that it would be unacceptable to
the Greek parliament and contrary to the Greek constitution.
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Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them
without shame. How can they still hold their heads high among human
beings? -- Samuel Johnson (author and lexicographer)
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To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. --
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
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Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and
those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this
agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope
for the environment, and thee is no hope for ourselves. -- Jon Wynne-Tyson
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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again --
Franklin P. Jones
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Mother Earth does not read government documents. -- Gina Jones, API
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There must be amidst all the confusions of the hour a tried and
undisturbed remnant of persons who will not become purveyors of coercion
and violence, who are ready to stand alone, if it is necessary, for the
way of peace and love among men. -- Rufus Jones, 1940
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A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That
is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is,
a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these
spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves. -- E. Stanley Jones
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When Mr. Bush became Governor in 1995, the average number of executions
per year was 7.6. Mr. Bush succeeded in quadrupling this to a magnificent
31.6 per year. He must have had the terrible chore of personally signing
over 150 death warrants while he was Governor. I suppose the advantage
of killing Iraqis is that you don't have to sign a piece of paper for
every one of them. Just one quick scribble and - bingo! You can kill a
hundred thousand and no questions asked! What's more, nobody is going to
quibble about some of them being mentally retarded or juveniles, which
is what happened to George W. Bush when he was Governor of Texas. --
Terry Jones, UK Observer, 3/9/03
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[W]e condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We
hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakeable
rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made
throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives. --
June Jordan
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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of
meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many
things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see
something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make
the battlefield the test of excellence. -- James Joyce, (1882-1941),
Irish author. repr. in Critical Writings, sct. 12, eds. Ellsworth Mason
and Richard Ellmann (1959).
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At the base of the eyelash lives an invisible mite. Ask not what your
mite can do for you.. but what you can do for your mite. And remember:
mite is right. -- JR
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Theodore Roosevelt is not remembered for the many bears he killed, but
for the bear cub he saved. She wandered into camp after her mother had
been killed.. his party lifted their guns and he interceded. -- Arthur
Schlesinger Jr, on NPR
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which
we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful
means. -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
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GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all
the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways. Now let's
make them pay for the cleanup. -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr (NPR Oct 22 97)
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It won't be leather. I love animals, so it will probably be pleather or
some other animal-friendly material. -- Ashley Judd, On her costume in
Catwoman, the next Batman sequel
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During my medical education at the University of Basel I found
vivisection horrible, barbarous, and above all unnecessary. -- Carl
G. Jung (psychologist)
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The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience
legitimate suffering. -- Carl Jung
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below
the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us,
'Something is out of tune.' -- Carl Jung
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. -- Carl Gustav Jung
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more. -- Franz Kafka,
while admiring fish in an aquarium
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore. -- Franz Kafka
(novelist)
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that
is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but
perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. --
Franz Kafka
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You can't eat your friends and have them too. -- Franz Kafka
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Weapons of mass destruction, like atomic bombs, connot combat the strength
of non-violence. -- A P J Abdul Kalam, President of India, May 30, 2003
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Henry Kissinger was asked by Leonid Brezhnev to join him in hunting boar
and declined saying "I do not enjoy killing animals". -- Marvin Kalb, CBS
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I believe that animal industries will eventually be forced by public
pressure to divest from all of the other industries thay have invaded.
Then we will be able to lead a 100% pure vegan existence. But until then,
I am satisfied with the knowledge that I am doing everything I possibly
can to remove products of suffering from my life. If an alternative
exists, I do whatever it takes to find it and use it, and if none exists,
I go without whenever possible. I have come to realize that, although it
is not yet possible in our society to be totally pure in every single
way, that impossibility does not negate the significance of the honest
attempt to live a purely vegan life. That attempt, in itself, sets a
truly important example of nonviolence and leads the way to a better
world. -- Shari Kalina
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Veganism is a choice that positively impacts so many aspects of our world,
not only the animals, the environment, and physical human health, but also
the whole spiritual and ethical state of our society. A single person's
decision to change and practice a truly compassionate and nonviolent
lifestyle touches so many other lives and sets such a wonderful example
for building a gentler, more peaceful and ethical world, a world with
less suffering, oppression, violence, and pain. -- Shari Kalina
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If [man] is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness
towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his
dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of
animals. -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
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The concept of a law of nations as a right to make war does not really
mean anything, because it is then a law of deciding what is right by
unilateral maxims through force and not by universally valid public laws
which restrict the freedom of each one. The only conceivable meaning
of such a law of nations might be that it serves men right who are so
inclined that they should destroy each other and thus find perpetual
peace in the vast grave that swallows both the atrocities and their
perpetrators. For states in their relation to each other, there cannot
be any reasonable way out of the lawless condition which entails only
war except that they, like individual men, should give up their savage
(lawless) freedom, adjust themselves to the constraints of public law,
and thus establish a continuously growing state consisting of various
nations (civitas gentium), which will ultimately include all the nations
of the world. -- Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace, 1795
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We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. -- Immanuel
Kant (1724-1804) German philosopher
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Our grandchildren will ask us one day: Where were you during the
Holocaust of the animals? What did you do against these horrifying
crimes? We won't be able to offer the same excuse for the second time,
that we didn't know. -- Dr. Helmut Kaplan
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It is time we demand an end to the misguided and abusive concept of
animal ownership. The first step on this long, but just, road would
be ending the concept of pet ownership. -- Elliot Katz, President,
In Defense of Animals, Spring 1997
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The need for control and the addictive quest for dominance is a universal
quest aimed at avoiding the inner void. Because of its scope, and because
it forms the unhealthy addictions, it has won itself the label as the
Master Addiction. -- Philip Kavanaugh, Magnificent Addiction
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Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all
peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time. -- Sam Keen
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[W]e have not seen such systematic distortion of intelligence, such
manipulation of American opinion, since the War in Vietnam. -- John
Brady Keisling, Career US Diplomat, resignation letter, 27-Feb-2003
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Ordinarily, I wouldn't point out spelling errors, but in this
case, "passivist" and "pacifist" would be opposites. -- Keith
(bki98gry248k.ab.hsia.telus.net), in vegsource.com's pacifism forum
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I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still
I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do. --
Helen Keller
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the
understanding which bringeth peace. -- Helen Keller
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do
the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not
safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring
adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller
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It's nice to eat a meal and not have to worry about what your food
may have died of. -- Harvey Kellog, M.D., originator of ready-to-eat
breakfast cereals
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A dead cow or sheep lying in the pasture is recognized as carrion. The
same sort of carcass dressed and hung up in a butchers stall passes as
food. -- J. H. Kellogg
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How can you eat anything with eyes!? -- Will Kellogg (creator, Kellogg's
Corn Flakes)
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The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self-
and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics
means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship
Earth. ... In a world struggling in violence and dishonesty, the further
development of non-violence not only as a philosophy but as a way of
life, as a force on the streets, in the market squares, outside the
missile bases, inside the chemical plants and inside the war industry
becomes one of the most urgent priorities. . .. The suffering people
of this world must come together to take control of their lives, to
wrest political power from their present masters pushing them towards
destruction. The Earth has been mistreated and only by restoring a
balance, only by living with the Earth, only by emphasizsing knowledge
and expertise towards soft energies and soft technology for people
and for life, can we overcome the patriarchal ego. -- Petra Kelly,
(1947-1992), founder of the German Green Party
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We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the ... solemn
injunction "If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with
the unthinkable." -- Petra Kelly, (1947-1992), founder of the German
Green Party
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Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor
blame. -- Thomas á Kempis
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We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its'
population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and
resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern
of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of
disparity. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the
luxury of altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to talk about
such vague and unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of living
standards and democratisation. The day is not far off when we are going
to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered
by idealistic slogans, the better. -- George Kennan, former Head of the
US State Department Policy Planning Staff, 24th February 1948
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We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its'
population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and
the peoples of Asia. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object
of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a
pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of
disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so,
we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and
our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate
national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford
today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction. [....] We should
cease to talk about such vague and - for the far East - unreal objectives
as human rights, the raising of living standards and democratisation. The
day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power
concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the
better. -- George Kennan, former Head of the US State Department Policy
Planning Staff, Document PPS23, 24th February 1948, describing policy
objectives as regards the Far East, though similar attitudes prevailed
in most of the State Department as regards the rest of the world. Indeed
Kennan, considered 'liberal' in his thinking was later fired.
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We have about 60% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its'
population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and
resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern
of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of
disparity. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the
luxury of altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to talk about
such vague and unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of living
standards and democratisation. The day is not far off when we are going
to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered
by idealistic slogans, the better. -- George Kennan, former Head of the US
State Department Policy Planning Staff, Document PPS23, 24th February 1948
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We should cease to talk about vague and... unreal objectives such as
human rights, the raising of the living standard and democratization. The
day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power
concepts... -- George Kennan, Director of Policy Planning U.S. State
Department, 1948
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Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged,
ultimately leads to war. -- John F. Kennedy
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Compromise does not mean cowardice. -- John F. Kennedy
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the
few who are rich. -- John F. Kennedy
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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War
will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys
the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. -- John
F. Kennedy
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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing
opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. --
John F. Kennedy
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution
inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy
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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector
enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. --
John D. Kennedy
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What kind of peace do I mean and what kind of peace do I want. Not a
"pax americana" developed by weapons of war to be used as peace... our
most basic common link is that we all share the same land, breath the
same air, cherish our children's future, and that we are all mortal. --
John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Strategy of Peace, June 10, 1963;
assasinated Nov. 22, 1963
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What kind of peace do I mean and what kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax
Americana forced on the world by American weapons of war, not the peace of
the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace
- the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living - and the kind
that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and build a better life
for their children - not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men
and women - not merely peace in our time but peace in all time. -- John
F. Kennedy, Strategy of Peace, June 10, 1963; assasinated Nov. 22, 1963
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World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his
neighbor, it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance,
submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. -- John
F. Kennedy
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The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the
point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation
to tolerate speech. -- Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155
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Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can
do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and
violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can
work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those
acts will be written the history of a generation. -- Robert F. Kennedy
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -- Robert
F. Kennedy
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The future is not completely beyond our control. It is the work of our
own hands. -- Robert F. Kennedy
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Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can
do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and
violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can
work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those
acts will be written the history of a generation. -- Robert F Kennedy
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The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of
the people. -- Frank Kent
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[S]ee the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums
refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production
and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that
crap they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets,
cars,...and general junk you finally always see a week later in the
garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce,
consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack
revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering
around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children
laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier,
all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear
in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange
unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and
to all living creatures. -- Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, 1958
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[T]he only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live,
mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn,
like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the
stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody
goes "Awww!" -- Jack Kerouac
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If peace ... only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no
wars. -- Sophie Kerr
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Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies
from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value
of what our troops defend and how we best defend our troops. We will
ask questions and we will defend our democracy. -- Sen. John F. Kerry,
D-Mass., March 2002 speech
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As I've often told Ginsberg, you can't blame the President for the state
of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians
to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come
up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches
hold. -- Ken Kesey, 1935-2001
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If everyone were satisfied, no one would buy the new thing because
no one would want it. The ore wouldn't be mined; timber wouldn't be
cut. Almost immediately hard times would be upon us. You must accept
this reasonable dissatisfaction with what you have and buy the new thing,
or accept hard times. You can have your choice. -- Charles F. Kettering,
General Director of Research Laboratories at General Motors, "Keep the
Consumer Dissatisfied," Nation's Business, January 1929
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We should all be concerned about the future because we have to spend
the rest of our lives there. -- Francis Kettering
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Everything, everything in war is barbaric ... But the worst barbarity
of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which
individually they would revolt with their whole being. -- Ellen Key, 1916
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The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one
with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human. --
Ellen Key, 1916
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A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a
hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. -- Ken Keyes, Jr.,
quoted in Catholic Digest, June 2000
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for
the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. --
John Maynard Keynes
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A lot of Americans still recognize that dissenters are the real defenders
of freedom. -- Bill Keys, school board member, Madison Wisconsin
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The philosophy behind vivisection, the sacrifice of creatures we regard
as 'inferior' beings, differs little from that behind the concentration
camp or the slave trader. -- Aga Khan (Prince Sadruddin) (1933- )
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I acknowledge that all animals have a sparkle of God in them. We are
equal beings. -- Samantha Khury
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I enjoyed [Jackass: The Movie] up to the point when they started
swimming with the whale sharks. I was laughing my ass off the entire
movie, louder than anyone else in the theatre, and then they did this
thing where they swim with the whale sharks that were in a giant netted
compound somewhere, and I thought that was kinda idiotic in a bad
way. It's funny when those guys are beating the shit out of each other
and humiliating each other, because they're theatrical and charismatic,
but to bring animals, especially whale sharks, into it kinda pissed me
off. They lost me at that point, I went from being elated to wanting to
talk to somebody about it. -- Anthony Kiedis, (Kerrang Yearbook)
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World peace is us....We are each walking agents of the vision of peace
we carry inside us. -- Kathleen Vande Kieft
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Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates
a one trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with
'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.' -- Craig Kilborn
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President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war
with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling,
'I know you're there, pick up, pick up. -- Craig Kilborn
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The dragonfly can eat 400 to 500 mosquitos a day.. which is a more
natural solution than insecticides. -- Bruce Kilby, quoting from a Beacon
Journal article
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Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality. --
Dexter Scott King (son of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.) Vegetarian Times,
Oct. 95
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And I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out
against it, not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart and
above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as
the moral example of the world. I speak out against this war because
I am disappointed with America. There can be no great disappointment
where there is no great love. For those who say to me, "stick to civil
rights", I have another answer. That is that I've fought too long and too
hard now against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my
moral concerns. I'm not going to do that. Others can do what they want to
do. That's their business. Other civil rights leaders for various reasons
refuse or can't take a stand or have to go along with the administration,
that's their business! But I must say tonight that I know that justice
is indivisible; injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. --
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Beyond Vietnam" speech at the Riverside Church
in New York City on April 4 , 1967.
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And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign
investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military
might to protect them. -- Martin Luther King, Jr, from "Where Do We Go
From Here?"
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And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe,
nor political, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience
tells him that it is right. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?'. Expediency asks the question,
'Is it polite?'. Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?.' But
conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'. And there comes a point when
one must take a position that is neither safe, nor polite, nor popular,
but one must take it because one's conscience tells him or her that it
is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr
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Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question:
is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience
asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must
take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular-but one
must take it because it is right. One has a moral responsibility to
disobey unjust laws-an unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with
the moral law. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as His divine
messianic force to be - a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has
a way of standing before the nations with judgment, and it seems that
I can hear God saying to America: "You are too arrogant! If you don't
change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power --
Martin Luther King, Jr., Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded
by the oppressed. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final
word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger
than evil triumphant. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence
of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly
to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own
government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation
and a press that would praise you when you say, "Be nonviolent toward
Jim Clark," but will curse and damn you when you say, "Be nonviolent
toward little brown Vietnamese children!" There is something wrong with
that press.... -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Ebenezer Baptist Church on
April 30, 1967
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I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of
the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the
greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. --
Martin Luther King, Jr, from "Beyond Vietnam"
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I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely
disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the
regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the
stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku
Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order"
than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence
of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who
constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't
agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels
he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the
myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more
convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is
more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. --
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from the Birmingham Jail," 1963
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I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy
of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial
justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self. --
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast
at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my
own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative
to stop it must be ours. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
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I'd like someone to mention the day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried
to give his life serving others. I'd like somebody to say that day, that
Martin Luther King tried to love somebody. I want you to say that day,
that I tried to be right on the war question. I want you to be able to
say that day, that I did try to feed the hungry ... I want you to say
that I tried to love and serve humanity. Yes, if you want to say that
I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; say that I
was a drum major for peace; I was a drum major for righteousness ... I
want to leave a committed life behind. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I'm convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world
revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of
values.... When machines and computers, profit motives and property
rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets
of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being
conquered.... -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Ebenezer Baptist Church on
April 30, 1967
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If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle,
unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night
of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless
reign of meaningless chaos. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
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If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle,
unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night
of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless
reign of meaningless chaos. -- Martin Luther King, Jr, from "The Most
Durable Power"
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. --
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Nations are caught up with the drum major instinct. "I must be first." "I
must be supreme." "Our nation must rule the world." And I am sad to say
that the nation in which we live is the supreme culprit. -- Martin Luther
King, Jr, from "The Drum Major Instinct"
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of
our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without
resorting to opression and violence, man must evolve for all human
conflict a method that rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The
foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, 12-11-64,
accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace
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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but
also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so
appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process,
and our victory will be a double victory. -- Martin Luther King
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which
we arrive at that goal. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which
we arrive at that goal. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of
God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose
land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture
is being subverted. I speak for the poor of America who are paying
the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption
in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it
stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the
leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The
initiative to stop it must be ours. -- Martin Luther King, Apr 4 1967,
Riverside Church NYC
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The choice before us is chaos or community. -- Martin Luther King
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The choice today is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is
either nonviolence or nonexistence. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked [on the Jericho
Road] was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the
good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man,
what will happen to him?' -- Martin Luther King
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The greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my own government. --
Martin Luther King Jr., 1967
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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in
times of great moral conflict. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we
live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided
missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor
chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The time is always right to do right -- Martin Luther King, Madison,
NJ 02/05/64
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The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of
comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and
controversy. -- Martin Luther King
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing
evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but
you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence
you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence
merely increases hate.... Returning violence for violence multiples
violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate; only love can do that. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the
American spirit -- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
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There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe
nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells
him it is right. I believe today that there is a need for all people of
goodwill to come with a massive act of conscience and say in the words
of the old Negro spiritual, "We ain't goin' study war no more." --
Martin Luther King, Jr, from "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution"
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These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the
moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to
survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on
the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest. --
Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967
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To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more
effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the
society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult
for Government to quell it by superior force. -- Martin Luther King,
Jr., Atlanta speech 8/15/67
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin at a beggar; it comes
to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. --
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and
immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in
destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone
blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent
rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than
convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than
love. It destrous community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves
society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating
itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the
destroyers. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
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We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the
altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the
ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of
nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military
defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual
death. -- Martin Luther King, Apr 4 1967, Riverside Church NYC
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We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is
to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our
investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against
guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has
taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and
pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment. --
Martin Luther King, Jr, 1967A Time to Break the Silence, speech given
at Riverside Church New York City April 4, 1967
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We have no honourable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is
to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our
investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against
guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has
taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and
pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment. --
Martin Luther King, Jr. [A Time to Break the Silence speech given at
Riverside Church New York City April 4, 1967],
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We have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words
and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good
people. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We must find an alternative to violence. The eye-for-an-eye philosophy
leaves everyone blind. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. --
Martin Luther King
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We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and
militarism are all tied together. You can't really get rid of one without
getting rid of the others. The whole structure of American life must be
changed. -- Martin Luther King, 1967 speech
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We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was
'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was
'illegal.' -- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963
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Were all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a
single garment of destiny. And whatever affects one directly, affects
all indirectly. John Donne coined it years ago and placed it in graphic
terms: "No man is an island entirely of itself, every man is a piece of
the continent, a part of the main." And then he goes on toward the end
to say: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I'm involved in Mankind;
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for
thee." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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While the anti-poverty program is cautiously initiated, zealously
supervised and valuated for immediate results, billions are liberally
expended for this ill-considered war.... Curtailment of free speech is
rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids
criticism of the government when the nation is at war.... Nothing can
be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the
vicious effort to silence dissenters. -- Martin Luther King, Jr, from
"The Casualties of the War in Vietnam"
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Can't we just all get along? -- Rodney King
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Codi: "So you think we all just have animal dreams. We can't think of
anything to dream except our ordinary lives." Loyd: "Only if you have
an ordinary life. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet
life." -- Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me
in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. --
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our
whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. -- Barbara Kingsolver,
Animal Dreams
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For the record, as a vegan, I oppose all forms of violence. Killing is
killing. Furthermore, I feel it is impossible to separate the disregard
with which we treat our environment from the indifference and even
aggression with which we treat those who are different from ourselves,
wherever they come from, whatever their circumstances. If we don't start
connecting the dots, we will blithely go on our way destroying out of
ignorance AND malice. -- John Kinsella, To The Editor of Island Literary
Journal (Tasmania)
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I am no longer interested in writing overviews of national poetics -
old, new, emergent or otherwise. I see all such structures as being
complicit in the construction of national identities that inevitably
destroy liberty and equality. The machine of the state has many guises,
and the poetry industry is one of them. ... I am interested in bringing
attention to tension and conflict behind the face of pleasantness -
to highlight the injustices to indigenous peoples and the racisms and
misogyny that prop up the Australian government, its bureaucracy, and
those capitalist enterprises that support it. I wish to highlight the
injustices to animals as well as humans, and to work towards halting the
destruction of the environment. As a vegan living in a world that's a
killing meat-making machine, I have to adjust my dialogue constantly,
and the same applies to talking about nation. -- John Kinsella, anarchist
vegan poet
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I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist
due to the irresponsibility of its people. -- Henry Kissinger, about
the Chilean election of Salvador Allende in 1970
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The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its'
determination to continue to be a world power. -- Henry Kissinger,
in April 1975
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The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its'
determination to continue to be a world power. -- Henry Kissinger,
post-Vietnam blues, as quoted in The Washington Post, April 1975
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The illegal we can do right now; the unconstitutional will take a little
longer. -- Henry Kissinger
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It is the most important, life-affirming movement on this planet, and
it's a privilege to be part of it. -- Dr Klaper, VegSource Conference 2002
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All red meat contains saturated fat. There is no such thing as truly
lean meat. Trimming away the edge ring of fat around a steak really
does not lower the fat content significantly. People who have red meat
(trimmed or untrimmed) as a regular feature of their diets suffer in
far greater numbers from heart attacks and strokes. -- Michael Klaper,
M.D., Medical Director, EarthSave Foundation, Santa Cruz, California
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I cannot think of a single way that being vegan has not changed my
life. From my professional career, to my personal relationships, to
my view of the physical univers and my role in it, becoming vegan has
created a validity, a focus, a compass guide, and a gold standard for
my entire life's journey. -- Michael Klaper
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It is said that once you look behind the curtain, you cannot pretend
you do not know what is behind the curtain. Behind the curtain marked
VEGAN in my mind are the eyes of all the animals of the world, and
all the unborn souls to come, each watching my every choice and every
action. My love for them leaves me no choice but to be vegan, from
momement to moment, decision after decision, as the years go by. As
our society's exploitative use of animals becomes more evident, I must
acknowledge them and align my actions accordingly. I have parted the
curtain wide, and now there is no pretending that I do not know; there
is no going back. I have been an orthodox vegan for the past sixteen
years and cannot conceive of continuing my life span on this earth in
any other manner. -- Michael Klaper
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My single greatest challenge is to remain centered and loving in an
overwhelmingly nonvegan world. In today's world, cruelty and exploitation
of other beings - human and non-human alike - are accepted, practiced,
and profited from by most every institution of society - from commerce
and science to education and entertainment. Unfortunately, the vast
majority of Homo sapiens are either unaware of the cruelty or accept it
as unavoidable and even normal. -- Michael Klaper
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The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs'
milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk. -- Michael Klaper, MD, author of
Vegan Nutrition: Pure & Simple
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The very saddest sound in all my memory was burned into my awareness at
age five on my uncle's dairy farm in Wisconsin. A cow had given birth
to a beautiful male calf. The mother was allowed to nurse her calf but
for a single night. On the second day after birth, my uncle took the
calf from the mother and placed him in the veal pen in the barn, only
ten yards away, in plain view of the mother. The mother cow could see
her infant, smell him, hear him, but could not touch him, comfort him,
or nurse him. The heartrending bellows that she poured forth, minute
after minute, hour after hour, for five long days, were excruciating to
listen to. They are the most poignant and painful auditory memories I
carry in my brain. Since that age, whenever I hear anyone postulate that
animals cannot really feel emotions, I need only to replay that tortutous
sound in my memory of that mother cow crying her bovine heart out to her
infant. Mother's love knows no species barriers, and I believe that all
people who are vegans in ther hearts and souls know that to be true. --
Michael Klaper
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There is strong medical evidence that complete freedom from eating
animal flesh or cow's milk products is a gateway to optimal nutritional
health. -- Dr. Michael Klaper
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More than a third of the journalists recently polled by The Pew Research
Center for the People & the Press said news that would hurt the financial
interests of a news organization often or sometimes goes unreported,
while 29 percent admitted the same about stories that could adversely
affect advertisers. -- Jeffrey Klein, It's the Ratings Stupid, Brill's
Content, September, 2000, p. 64.
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This is perhaps branding's cruelest irony: most manufacturers and
retailers begin by seeking out authentic scenes, important causes
and cherished public events so that these things will infuse their
brands with meaning. Such gestures are frequently motivated by genuine
admiration and generosity. Too often, however, the expansive nature of
the branding process ends up causing the event to be usurped, creating
the quintessential lose-lose situation. -- Naomi Klein, No Logo
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When I feel like playing, they are always willing to play; they never go
through mood swings. If I'm in a bad mood after a game, I know my dogs
will always bring me up. -- Adrian Klemm, New England Patriots offensive
lineman, On his dogs (USA Today)
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It has been very difficult overcoming the years and years of
indroctrination and cultural socialization which told me that eating the
flesh of animals was a good thing and that detachment from the emotional
lives of animals and nature in general is desirable. I still strugle
to catch myself repeating some of the common antianimal cliches, like
"I ate like a pig", or "She is dumb as a cow", or "Kill two birds with
one stone". -- Brian Klocke
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When I was very young, we butchered chickens. I also participated in
hunting and trapping as a farm kid. It has been difficult coming to
terms with some of the violence I committed toward animals. I am the
only vegetarian and vegan in my immediate family, and I know of only
one other vegetarian (not vegan) in the group of more than a hundred
first cousins I am related to. ... My becoming vegan was very difficult
for my family to handle.... At first, I did everything I could to not
bring up the subject of veganism. When I was asked why I was vegan and
I explained a few of my reasons, including compassion for animals,
my family immediately became defensive. It was as if I had rejected
their very livelihood and the values that they had instilled in me. --
Brian Klocke, in the Vegan Sourcebook
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Doctors who speak out in favour of vivisection do not deserve any
recognition in society, all the more so since their brutality is apparent
not only during such experiments, but also in their practical medical
lives. They are mostly men who stop at nothing in order to satisfy their
ruthless and unfeeling lust for honours and gain. -- Dr. Hugo Knecht,
Ear, Nose, Throat and Chest Specialist, Linz, October 5, 1909
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Doctors who speak out in favour of vivisection do not deserve any
recognition in society, all the more so since their brutality is apparent
not only during such experiments, but also in their practical medical
lives. They are mostly men who stop at nothing in order to satisfy their
ruthless and unfeeling lust for honours and gain. -- Dr. med. Hugo Knecht,
Ear, Nose, Throat and Chest Specialist, Linz, October 5, 1909
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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with
a mosquito in the room. -- Anita Koddick
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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different
mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get
along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable. --
J. Martin Kohe
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Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects
more than any other action you might take. -- Former Surgeon General
C. Everett Koop
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Giving up flesh was easy; I became vegetarian in a single day. But
becoming vegan has continued to be a process. -- Maureen Koplow
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There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying creature on two wings,
but they are people like unto you. -- The Koran
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There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying creature on two wings,
but they are people like unto you. -- The Koran (sacred scripture
of Islam)
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According to Mahbub ul Haq, "To address poverty, economic growth
is not an option: it is an imperative." He expresses concern for
the environment, but in the end argues that the needs of people must
take precedence over the needs of the environment. A proponent of the
People-Centered Consensus would note that because our very lives depend on
the environment, a healthy environment is one of the most fundamental of
human needs. Furthermore, sustained economic growth in a finite eco-system
is an impossibility. In contrast to Haq's imperative, they would more
likely say "To address poverty in a world with a finite eco-system, a
reallocation of control of the earth's environmental resources from the
rich, whose consumption is often extravagant and wasteful, to the poor,
who are struggling to obtain basic livelihoods, is not an option: it
is an imperative." -- David Korten, Sustainable Development Strategies:
The People-Centered Consensus, May 17, 1994
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An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has
mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the
erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses
commonly exacerbate. -- David Korten
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Contrary to its claims, capitalism is the mortal enemy of democracy and
the market. Its relationship to democracy and the market economy is much
the same as the relationship of a cancer to the body whose life energies
it expropriates. Cancer is a pathology that occurs when an otherwise
healthy cell forgets that it is a part of the body and begins to pursue
its own unlimited growth without regard to the consequences for the
whole. The growth of the cancerous cells deprives the healthy cells of
nourishment and ultimately kills both the body and itself. Capitalism
does much the same to the societies it infests. -- David Korten, Life
After Capitalism
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Ironically we must conclude that the victory of global capitalism is
not a victory of the market as much as it is a victory for central
planning. Capitalism has simply shifted the planning function from
governments which at least in theory are accountable to all citizens
to corporations which are even in theory accountable only to their
shareholders. -- David Korten
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Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously
regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To
destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an
act of collective insanity, which makes capitalism a mental, as well as
physical pathology. -- David Korten
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Our existing global economy creates islands of power and privilege in
a large sea of poverty. The fortunate hoard and squander resources on
frivolous consumption, while others are denied a basic means of living.
Furthermore, those who control the creation and allocation of money
use this power to generate speculative profits. These profits increase
the claims of the speculators to the wealth created through the labor
and creative effort of others - while contributing nothing in return to
the wealth creation process. -- David Korten, The Post-Corporate World,
YES! magazine, Spring 1999
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Schools should be declared advertising-free zones, administration
of public schools should remain a public-sector function, and
corporate-sponsored teaching modules should be banned from the classroom
use under the ban on in-school advertising. -- David Korten, When
Corporations Rule the World, p312
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System theorists, who concern themselves with understanding the dynamics
of complex, self-regulating systems, would say that the economic system
is providing these decision-makers with positive feedback-rewarding them
for decisions that upset the system's dynamic equilibrium and cause the
system to oscillate out of control, risking eventual collapse. Stable
systems depend on negative feedback signals that provide incentives to
correct errant behavior and move the system back toward equillibrium. --
David Korten, When Corporations Rule the World, page 115
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To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our 'garbage index' -
that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not
be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities
must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable
resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's
permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials
may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that
assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system. --
David Korten
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To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace
the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions
that honor life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper
role as servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step
to a new level of species consciousness and function. -- David Korten
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[A] substantial narrowing of the rich-poor gap is likely to be required
as a key element of any negotiations to reduce the scale of the human
enterprise. Poor nations have little incentive to cooperate in maintaining
the lifestyles of the rich while they remain mired in poverty. --
David Korten
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[T]he economy internal to a corporation is centrally planned and directed
by top management, not to serve the whole of the society on which its
existence depends, but rather to maximize the capture and flow of money
to its top managers and shareholders. -- David Korten, The Post-Corporate
World, in YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, Spring 1999
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[T]he global corporation, which is programmed by its internal structures
to respond to the incessant demand of financial markets to seek its
own unlimited growth, behaves much like a cancerous tumor. -- David
Korten, The Post-Corporate World, in YES! A Journal of Positive Futures,
Spring 1999
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[T]he more environmentally burdensome ways of meeting a given need
are generally those that contribute most to the gross national product
(GNP). For example, driving a mile in a car contributes more to the GNP
than riding a mile on a bicycle. Turning on an air conditioner adds more
that opening a window. Relying on processed packaged foods adds more
than using natural foods purchased in bulk in reusable containers. We
might say the GNP, technically a measure of the rate at which money
moves through an economy, might also be described as a measure of the
rate at which we are turning resources into garbage. -- David Korten,
When Corporations Rule the World
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[T]he more environmentally burdensome ways of meeting a given need are
generally those that contribute most to the gross national product (GNP).
For example, driving a mile in a car contributes more to GNP than riding
a mile on a bicycle. Turning on an air-conditioner adds more than opening
a window. Relying on processed packaged food adds more than using natural
foods purchased in bulk in reusable containers. We might say that GNP,
technically a measure at which money is flowing through the economy,
might also be described as a measure of the rate at which we are turning
resources into garbage. -- David Korten, When Corporations Rule the World
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Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically,
voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute
money to send poor kids to summer camp, feel benevolent. We're not nazis;
we're nice people. We read sophisticated books. We go to church. We go
to synagogue. Meanwhile, we put other people's children into an economic
and environmental death zone. We make it hard for them to get out. We
strip the place bare of amenities. And we sit back and say to ourselves,
"Well, I hope that they don't kill each other off. But if they do,
it's not my fault." -- Jonathan Kozol, educator and author
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The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize
profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our
own kind. -- Jonathan Kozol (author)
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists
and believe these lies when they see them in print. -- Karl Kraus,
Die letzte Nacht, 1918
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and
believe these lies when they see them in print. -- Karl Kraus
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War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next,
the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the
satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise
at everyone's being worse off. -- Karl Kraus (1874-1936)
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War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then,
one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised
that everyone has lost. -- Karl Kraus
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Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude
of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost
everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion
and hate, wars and class antagonisms. -- J. Krishnamurti
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It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society. --
J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986)
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Americans point fingers at other countries for allowing Afghanistan to
become a terrorist haven, but it was Americans who abandoned the Afghans
to the feuding factions whom they had armed and whose fundamentalist
Islamic passions they had ignited. -- Nicholas D. Kristof (New York Times,
Dec. 8, 2001)
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It is only those who do nothing who make no mistakes. -- Peter Kropotkin
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And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as
some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils,
plants and animals, of which we are a part. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
(naturalist and essayist)
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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him
a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a
sportsman. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man, we call him a
vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God, we call him
a sportsman... How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and
yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass
of fur and feathers is beyond my comprehension. -- Joseph Wood Krutch,
naturalist and essayist (1893-1970)
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I will tell you this, that the pace of this campaign is such, traveling
sometimes 11,000 miles in a week, I couldn't do it if I didn't watch my
diet and my diet is an essential part of my health and who I am and the
energy that I have, my clarity... I don't really tell anyone else how
they should eat. I want to make sure those farmers in Iowa are getting
a fair price on all their crops and on their hogs and everything else
they sell. For myself, I just find that... having careful attention to
what I eat has worked for me.... Broccoli will be welcomed in my White
House and so will vegetarians. -- Rep. Denis Kucinich, when asked if he
will be the first vegetarian President of the United States, interviewed
by Bob Edwards on NPR's Morning Edition: May 14, 2003
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[I am] one of the few vegans in Congress, a dietary decision [I credit]
not only with improving [my] health, but in deepening [my] belief in
the sacredness of all species. -- Rep. Denis Kucinich, from his web site
(originally written in the third person)
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We have reached a moment in our country's history where it is urgent
thatpeople everywhere speak out as president of his or her own life,
to protect the peace of the nation and world within and without. We
should speak outand caution leaders who generate fear through talk of
the endless war or the final conflict. We should appeal to our leaders to
consider that their ownbellicose thoughts, words and deeds are reshaping
consciousness and can have an adverse effect on our nation. Because when
one person thinks: fight! heor she finds a fight. One faction thinks:
war! and starts a war. One nation thinks: nuclear! and approaches the
abyss. And what of one nation which thinks peace, and seeks peace? --
Dennis Kucinich, vegan US Congressman D-Ohio and presidential candidate,
March 2003
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Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from
despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from
war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe. --
Satish Kumar ("Prayer for Peace")
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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore
only when its recipient has no power. Humanity's true moral test, its
fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its
attitude toward those who are at tis mercy: animals. And in this respect,
humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental
that all others stem from it. -- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness
of Being
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We train our young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders
won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes. Why? Because it's
obscene! -- Col. Kurtz, Apoclypse Now
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Nearly every assassination for years past has been attributed to
Anarchists. It is a wonder they were not charged with the killing of
Lincoln, Garfield, Harrison and others. Indeed, President McKinley's
death was certainly taxed to Anarchism Nevertheless, the assassin of
McKinley-Leon Czolgosz-was a Republican who voted at Repiblican primaries
(and no doubt was insane). These facts come to me by letter from Peter
Witt, City Clerk of Cleveland while Tom L. Johnson was mayor. 'Czolgosz
was not an Anarchist,' writes Mr. Witt. 'To charge that he was is
simply ridiculous. In politics he was a Republican, and as such voted
at the Republican primaries for several years. This fact I brought out
shortly after the assassination by going over the election records. These
records have since been destroyed, not because of what they contained,
but to make room for later ones. His father and brother voted at the
same primaries.' This ought to forever silence the criminal charge
that Anarchism was responsible for the assassination of McKinley. But
it probably will not. This kind of a lie dies hard. -- Jo Labadie,
in Anarchism: genuine and Asinine, 1925, printed by himslef in his
shop, Bubbling Waters, Wixom, Michigan, Quoted in the The Match! no.93
(Winter 1998-99)
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The alarming development and aggressiveness of great capitalists and
corporations, unless unchecked, will inevitably lead to the pauperization
and hopeless degradation of the toiling masses. It is imperative, if
we desire to enjoy the full blessings of life, that a check be placed
upon unjust accumulation and the power for evil of aggregated wealth. --
Constitution of the Knights of Labor, 1869
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence. -- Jean de LaFontaine
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A little girl of seventeen in a mental hospital told me she was terrified
because the Atom Bomb was inside her. That is a delusion. The statesmen
of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are
far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality' than many of
the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is affixed. -- R.D. Laing
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Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste
to our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch
them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brain-washing their
dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet
fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high
IQs if possible. -- R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience
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The 'normally' alienated person, by reason of the fact that he acts
more or less like everyone else, is taken to be sane... The condition of
alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's
mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal
man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and
thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their
fellow normal men in the last fifty years. -- R.D. Laing, The Politics
of Experience
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I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana
will come later. There is not much hurry. If in day to day life you lead
a good life, honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness,
then automatically it will lead to Nirvana. -- Dalai Lama
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It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family,
a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very
crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just
the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion. --
Dalai Lama, Associated Press, 5/14/01
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. -- Dalai Lama
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The solution to the population problem is, more monks. -- Dalai Lama,
Quoted from Let the MountainsTalk, Let the Rivers Run
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