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Re: Famous Quotations

Postby Anonymizer » Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:41 pm

shadylady 2010-07-04:
Here's a good one:
It is better that 10 guilty persons escape than 1 innocent suffer?
-Sir William Blackstone

I think our society looks at it the other way around. Even the way we deal with Afghanistan violates this simple concept. There would be no need for the Innocence Project if our legal system actually believed in the presumption of innocence and balanced judicial decisions using the above quote!
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Re: Famous Quotations

Postby Anonymizer » Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:44 pm

wildrose 2010-07-11:
Speak Truth To Power
In 1955, the Committee published Speak Truth to Power: A Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence. Focused on the Cold War, the 71-page pamphlet asserted that it sought "to give practical demonstration to the effectiveness of love in human relations." It was widely commented on in the press, both secular and religious, and proved to be a major statement of Christian pacifism.

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Re: Famous Quotations

Postby Anonymizer » Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:45 pm

MojaveMike 2010-07-12:
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
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Re: Famous Quotations

Postby Anonymizer » Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:47 pm

shadylady 2010-07-13:
FAMOUS LAST WORDS:
"Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub." - Conrad N. Hilton, the man behind the Hilton Hotel Empire
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MORE DEATHBED WITTICISMS: http://www.asylum.com/2010/07/12/funniest-last-words-voltaire-oscar-wilde-jack-daniels-gandhi-hegel-hilton/
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Re: Famous Quotations

Postby Anonymizer » Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:51 pm

wildrose 2010-12-04:
Behavior and Intentions
Ian Percy: We judge others by their behavior, while we judge ourselves by our intentions.
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I came across that quote in an article about bullying. I posted a comment about that article in a thread about bullying, but I really like the quote and so I'm posting a comment here also!
There's a great quote, apparently by Ian Percy that "we judge others by their behavior, while we judge ourselves by our intentions." It's really accurate, and highlights the difficulty of having empathy in such situations. People never think that they are in the wrong -- and since they can't readily understand or know the thought process and intentions of others, it often leads to them thinking the worst. If there were better ways to get people to at least recognize that others might also have good intentions, it could at least limit the negative impact of some interactions. Such fights and misunderstandings will never go away. It's probably wishful thinking to even imagine they can be decreased even slightly. But calling them "cyberbullying" and outlawing jerky behavior or doing silly costumed song-and-dances isn't going to help matters at all.

LINK: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101129/02594512038/rethinking-bullying-kids-dont-see-it-as-bullying.shtml
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Re: Famous Quotations

Postby Anonymizer » Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:01 pm


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Re: Famous Quotations

Postby Anonymizer » Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:23 am

Dwight D. Eisenhower - January 17, 1961:
On January 17, 1961, in a nationally televised speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses the American people for the last time as president. Expressing ideas that seem prophetic in retrospect, Eisenhower offered his fears and hopes for the future, warning against the unfettered growth of the "military-industrial complex," as he coined it, and calling for diplomacy, restraint, and compassion in dealing with future crises with the Soviet Union.

Probably the most prophetic quote of any American politician. Unfortunately this country has done a disastrously poor job of heeding this warning.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

Also watch part two after watching part one:
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Re: Famous Quotations

Postby Anonymizer » Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:59 am

cactuspete wrote:Dwight D. Eisenhower - January 17, 1961:
On January 17, 1961, in a nationally televised speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses the American people for the last time as president. Expressing ideas that seem prophetic in retrospect, Eisenhower offered his fears and hopes for the future, warning against the unfettered growth of the "military-industrial complex," as he coined it, and calling for diplomacy, restraint, and compassion in dealing with future crises with the Soviet Union.

Probably the most prophetic quote of any American politician. Unfortunately this country has done a disastrously poor job of heeding this warning.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

Also watch part two after watching part one:

That was one wake up call that this country missed! Corporations have such firm control of policy in this country that the will of the people is pretty much irrelevant and on those rare occasions where the people attempt to exert their will, they are easily confused by the media propaganda machine that will quickly and effortlessly convince them that what's good for corporations is also good for them. For instance, Fox News has confused its viewers (mostly teabaggers) to the point that poor working class and lower middle class people actually support policies that are the opposite of what is in their own best interest. It's amazing that if you point this out to any of these sadly duped individuals that they'll get indignant and accuse you of being anti-American!
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Re: Famous Quotations

Postby Anonymizer » Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:01 pm

Warfare state: US stays course
More on the Military Industrial Complex.
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Re: Famous Quotations

Postby Anonymizer » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:38 am

Ike's Warning Of Military Expansion, 50 Years Later
It's too bad that our leaders didn't listen more carefully to Eisenhower's speech. The situation has gotten a lot worse in the last fifty years. It seems like our country is addicted to unnecessary military conflicts/interventions. The number of people who have been murdered by our country is inexcusable. It's almost like our leaders fantasize themselves as Superman going around the world and ridding it of evil. The problem is that we are the evil 90% of the time. That wasn't the case in World War II, but it has become more and more true ever since then. The invasion of Iraq was not much different than what Hitler did during World War II. The only difference is that a large portion of our population actually believes (or at least believed at the time) that it was a good thing to invade a defenseless nation that posed no realistic threat to our nation.
"Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of ploughshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions."

LINK: http://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942244/ikes-warning-of-military-expansion-50-years-later
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Re: Famous Quotations

Postby Anonymizer » Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:35 am

FREEDOM OF SPEECH:
The First Amendment ensures that "if there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein," as Justice Robert Jackson wrote in the 1943 case West Virginia v. Barnette.

Here's what the First Amendment actually says:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
— The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

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Re: Famous Quotations

Postby Anonymizer » Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:51 pm

Friedrich Nietzsche wrote:Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

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