Interesting Quotes

“We may be in the early stages of a new social movement for which democratisation of the media will be a central focus of discussion, activism and reconstruction." Noam Chomsky.

• 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,

• “Small groups who meet and meditate or do ritual together can generate a sense of peace and calm, of community and openness, and they are a wonderful antidote to the energies of distrust and conflict that abound at present, with all the threats of war and terrorism. In a trusting and effortless way - not anxious or deluded by feelings of a 'mission to save the world' - such work really does help.”
  Philip Carr-Gomm
• He who saves one life, it is as if he has saved the entire world.
  The Talmud
• " The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." J. Edgar Hoover.
  
• "Who would Jesus bomb?"
  
• “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
  -- George Orwell
  
• Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the
  future you want. -Alice Walker
  
• “ 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.”

Senate Floor Speech by US Senator Robert Byrd, Wednesday, February 12, 2003

• 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 (see full article The Psychological Underpinnings of War)

• "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

• Is there a link between al Qaeda and Iraq? Look at CNN and MSNBC or any of the corporate media, you can see the women in Iraq going around with their bare faces hanging out. Do you think Osama bin Laden approves of that? Iraq’s a very westernised country. They have no connection with al Qaeda at all. They are on opposite poles in the Moslem world. All these attempts to link them to al Qaeda are like trying to link the pope to Jerry Falwell. They are in the same general racket but they disagree with each other on every point of doctrine. There’s no real connection between Iraq and al Qaeda. That’s just the smoke screen they are putting up. It's the oil. Everything is oil until the oil runs out, and then they’ll find something else to fight over.
  Robert Anton Wilson

• “We may be in the early stages of a new social movement for which democratisation of the media will be a central focus of discussion, activism and reconstruction." Noam Chomsky.