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"arise, O scorcher of enemies"
- Bhagavad Gita (2.3)


"If the whole people become aware, avoid violent measures and continue their civil confrontation with that, they will win. No power can stand up to people's will."
- reformist cleric Ali Akbar MOHTASHAMIPOUR, representative of Iranian pro-reform candidate Mir Hossein MOUSAVI, AP, 17 June 2009


"Two thousand years ago, a Roman Senator suggested that all slaves wear white armbands to better identify them. "No," said a wiser Senator, "If they see how many of them there are, they may revolt."


"Then the delegate from Papua New Guinea leaned into his microphone. "We seek your leadership," Kevin Conrad told the Americans. "But if for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way."
- from "Compromise reached at Bali climate talks," AP, 16 December 2007


"Well, let us hope history repeats itself, and there's a possibility that the American people will get fed up with endless war, and endless deaths coming out -- American deaths. That's all we care about. We don't care about foreigners dying. But that is getting on people's nerves. I think that he [BUSH] thinks, and many of the American people appear to think, that we're in a movie. Lousy movie, but it's just a movie. And, once the final credits run, all those dead people, who were just extras anyway, will stand up and come home, or go back to the old actors' home. It isn't a movie we're in. It's real life. And these are real dead people. And there are more and more of them, and the world won't tolerate it."
- Gore VIDAL as interviewed by Amy GOODMAN on Democracy Now!, 25 January 2005