var quotes = new Array; quotes.push("
"Dialectics are powerful stuff, and being a son or a father or a brother or a husband are more than roles in Goffman and Bruner's dramaturgical manners - these are also essences of our persons, what we are beyond mere workers in an ideological state"
B.H. Holte in The Dialectics of the Self"); quotes.push("
"And what, you wondered, what would happen if all this stopped? If we realized and acted upon the realization that there is no point in our continuous process of destruction and recreation beyond the joy of destruction and recreation itself. "
B.H. Holte in Not with a Band but a Whimper"); quotes.push("
"When I am just where I once wanted to be, am I happy?"
B.H. Holte in Not with a Band but a Whimper"); quotes.push("
"Liberty in our eyes / The sound in our ears ..."
A. Neto, first Angolan President, in ‘Western Civilization’"); quotes.push("
"Righteousness if triumphant brings peace, but peace does not necessarily bring righteousness"
T. Roosevelt in a letter to H. Ford, Feb. 1916"); quotes.push("
"... But from now on let’s try to be careful when we’re around people I know. You won’t sketch them and I won’t Mace them. We’ll just try to relax and get drunk."
H. Thompson, Am. journalist, to R. Steadman in The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Deraved (1970)"); quotes.push("
"... I warned Steadman about some of the other problems we’d have to cope with. Neither of us had brought any strange illegal drugs, so we would have to get by on booze."
H. Thompson, Am. journalist, in The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Deraved (1970)"); quotes.push("
"But the breeding of humans is not so wisely supervised, particularly in a narrow Southern society where the closest kind of inbreeding is not only stylish and acceptable, but far more convenient--to the parents--than setting their offspring free to find their own mates, for their own reasons and in their own ways. (‘Goddam, did you hear about Smitty’s daughter? She went crazy in Boston last week and married a nigger!’)"
H. Thompson, Am. journalist, in The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Deraved (1970)"); quotes.push("
"One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose."
C. Baudelaire, Fr. poet, essayist and critic"); quotes.push("
"You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image: you never see your eyes unless they are dulled by the gaze they rest upon the mirror or the lens (I am interested in seeing my eyes only when they look at you)"
R. Barthes in Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes (1975)"); quotes.push("
"Only in the Third World have poets been at the heart of things: they have raised their voices against military dictatorship and colonial oppression, become symbols of resistance"
C. Brazier, reviewing A. Neto’s Sacred Hope in New Internationalist (1989)"); quotes.push("
"There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly"
H.D. Thoreau, Am. writer, in Civil Disobedience (1849)"); quotes.push("
"Getting hold of the drugs had been no problem, but the car and the tape recorder were not easy things to round up at 6:30 on a Friday afternoon in Hollywood."
H. Thompson, Am. journalist, in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)"); quotes.push("
"This is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted."
H. Thompson, Am. journalist, in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)"); quotes.push("
"When you bring an act into this town, you want to bring it heavy. Don’t waste any time with cheap shucks and misdemeanors. Go straight for the jugular. Get right into felonies"
H. Thompson, Am. journalist, in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)"); quotes.push("
"How would Horatio Alger handle this situation?"
H. Thompson, Am. journalist, in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)"); quotes.push("
"It may be that the truth of America can only be seen by a European, since he alone will discover here the perfect simulacrum - that of the immanence and material transcription of all values. The Americans, for their part, have no sense of simulation. They are themselves simulation in its most developed state, but they have no language in which to describe it, since they themselves are the model. As a result, they are the ideal material for an analysis of all the possible variants of the modern world. No more and no less in fact than were primitive societies in their day."
J. Baudrillard, Fr. sociologist, in America (1986)"); quotes.push("
"America is neither dream nor reality. It is a hyperreality It is a hyperreality because it is a Utopia which has behaved from the very beginning as though it were already achieved"
J. Baudrillard, Fr. sociologist, in America (1986)"); quotes.push("
"[I]t does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg"
T. Jefferson, Am. statesman and President"); quotes.push("
"To understand social phenomena, we have to abandon a search for causes, and seek instead to explicate ideas and practices in terms of a context of meaning"
S. Howell, Nor. anthropologist, in ‘Art and Meaning’, chapter in Myth of Primitivism (1991)"); quotes.push("
"‘Truth’ had talked to power, and the colonial state could act with confidence, based upon authoritative facts"
P. Blaiklie, anthropologist, on the use of science to legitimize political action in colonial Africa"); quotes.push("
"This subjective experience of a place that ‘ancestors have built’ can be very strong and is present wherever people have been born and raised, including Oslo. Some right, therefore, must be attributed to the racist minority; some effort must be expended on them"
B.H. Holte in What Kind of Place is Norway?"); quotes.push("
"One of the paradoxes of the Angolan conflict was that Cuban forces were given the task of defending American-owned oil installations from attacks by American-backed rebels"
M. Meredith, journalist and historian, in The State of Africa"); quotes.push("
"Superficially it was a highly civilised and modern occasion. Yet my overwhelming sensation was of being a guest at a medieval court"
M. Anstee, UN Secretary General’s Special Representative to Angola on meeting Savimbi in 1992"); quotes.push("
"Fukuyama’s utopia of the 1990s had to die twice, since the collapse of the liberal-democratic political utopia on 9/11 did not affect the economic utopia of global market capitalism; if the 2008 financial meltdown has a historical meaning then, it is as a sign of the end of the economic face of Fukuyama’s dream"
S. Zizek, Slov. philosopher and psychoanalyst, in First as Tragedy, then as Farce"); quotes.push("
"McDonald’s, blue jeans, and rock music ... It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first"
F. Zakaria, Am. journalist in The Post-American World (2009)"); quotes.push("
"It feels like a very dangerous world. But it isn’t. Your chances of dying as a consequence of organized violence of any kind are low and getting lower"
F. Zakaria, Am. journalist in The Post-American World (2009)"); quotes.push("
"The GDP of Iran is 1/68 of that of the United States, its military spending 1/110 that of the Pentagon. If this is 1938, as many conservatives argue, then Iran is Romania, not Germany"
F. Zakaria, Am. journalist in The Post-American World (2009)"); quotes.push("
"The ultimate American paranoiac fantasy is that of an individual living in a small idyllic Californian city, a consumerist paradise, who suddenly starts to suspect that the world he lives in is a fake, a spectacle staged to convince him that he lives in a real world, while all people around him are effectively actors and extras in a gigantic show"
S. Zizek, Slov. philosopher and psychoanalyst, on The Truman Show in Welcome to the Desert of the Real"); quotes.push("
"For the last five centuries, the (relative) prosperity and peace of the ‘civilized’ West was bought by the export of ruthless violence and destruction into the ‘barbarian’ Outside: the long story from the conquest of America to the slaughter in Congo"
S. Zizek, Slov. philosopher and psychoanalyst, in Welcome to the Desert of the Real"); quotes.push("
"[T]he notion that giving away money in itself has a moral value must be abolished"
B.H. Holte in Global Space (Clubmasters)"); quotes.push("
"... by conceptualizing his effort as the flip side of every effort Bush made, we can define Obama as unquestionably good"
B.H. Holte in Why Obama?"); quotes.push("
"We could say of supermodernity that it is the face of a coin whose obverse represents postmodernity: the positive of a negative"
M. Augé, Fr. anthropologist, in Non-Places"); quotes.push("
"The three figures of excess which we have employed to characterize the situation of supermodernity - overabundance of events, spatial overabundance, the individualization of references - make it possible to grasp the idea of supermodernity without ignoring its complexities and contradictions"
M. Augé, Fr. anthropologist, in Non-Places"); quotes.push("
"The inhabitant of an anthropological place does not make history; he lives in it"
M. Augé, Fr. anthropologist, in Non-Places"); quotes.push("
"For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world. A nonviolent movement could not have halted Hitler’s armies. Negotiations cannot convince al-Qaidas leaders to lay down their arms"
B. Obama, US President, in his Nobel’s Peace Prize Speech"); quotes.push("
"I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience"
H.D. Thoreau, Am. author, poet, historian and philosopher introducing his own Walden"); quotes.push("
"Overprotecing intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Culture isn’t possible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, like nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new"
US Court of Appeals Judge A. Kozinski in 2003"); quotes.push("
"The postmodern world ... is a world without a future and hence not a world for me"
B.H. Holte in Global Space (Clubmasters)"); quotes.push("
"Feminist discourse, I am suggesting, has made traditional masculine ideals seem both anachronistic, exploitative and immoral, but has failed to offer an alternative set of ideals"
B.H. Holte in The Morality of Femininity"); quotes.push("
"... the measurement of the costs of health-impairing pollution depends on the forgone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality"
L. Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, in 1991, suggesting that Western pollution be exported to poor countries"); quotes.push("
"In short a belief that a virgin can conceive and bring forth a son is one of the last lingering relics of primitive savagery"
J. Frazer, classical anthropologist, in 1910"); quotes.push("
"Hispanics embody the contradictions of a country that does not think of itself as ‘colonial’ but has colonies (Puerto Rico being one of its most painful examples), that is proud of becoming a ‘melting pot’ but divides its population into ethnic groups like cloistered units, that maintains ‘third world’ (or ‘fourth world’) inner city enclaves within a ‘first world’ country"
P. Gherovici, psychoanalyst and anthropologist in The Puerto Rican Syndrome"); quotes.push("
"The invocation of the workers’ struggle is baleful in its very innocence; it is incapable of dealing with global capitalism: the subject-production of worker and unemployed within nation-state ideologies in its Center; the increasing subtraction of the working class in the Periphery from the realization of surplus value and thus from ‘humanistic’ training in consumerism; and the large-scale presence of paracapitalist labor [...] in the Periphery"
G. Spivak, Indian philosopher and literature analyst in Can the Subaltern Speak?"); quotes.push("
"[D]eath is not only a natural fact but also a social fact. It is not only that the heart ceases to beat and the lungs to pump air in an organism, but it is also the destruction of a member of a family and kin, of a community and tribe"
E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Br. anthropologist in Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic amongthe Azande"); quotes.push("
"If a buffalo kills a man you can do nothing about it as far as the buffalo is concerned. But, though surely enough the buffalo has killed him, it would not have killed him if it had not been for the operation of witchcraft at the same time, and witchcraft is a social fact, a person"
E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Br. anthropologist in Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande"); quotes.push("
"The habit of treating named entities such as Iroquois, Greece, Persia, or the United States as fixed entries opposed to one another by stable internal architecture and external boundaries interferes with our ability to understand their mutual encounter and confrontation. In fact, this tendency has made it difficult to understand all such encounters and confrontations"
E. Wolf, Am. anthropologist introducing his own Europe and the People Without History"); quotes.push("
"But it is commonplace to observe that in the majority of cases, for ninety-five per cent of the population of under-developed countries, independece brings no immediate change"
F. Fanon, colonial-French psychiatrist and author in The Wretched of the Earth"); quotes.push("
"Talk about saving a river or protecting a forest and they say, &squo;Don’’t you believe in Progress?’ ’ To people whose land is being submerged by dam reservoirs and whose homes are being bulldozed they say, ‘D‘o you have an alternative development model?’ ’ To those who believe that a government is duty bound to provide people with basic education, healthcare and social security, they say, ‘You’re against the Market.’’ And who except a cretin could be against the Market?"
A. Roy, Indian activist"); quotes.push("
"Today, words like ‘Progress’ and ‘Development’ have become interchangeable with economic Reforms, Deregulation and Privatisation. ‘Freedom’ has come to mean choice. It has less to do with the human spirit than with different brands of deodorant. ‘‘Market’ no longer means a place where you go to buy provisions. The ‘Market’ is a de-territorialised space where faceless corporations do business, including buying and selling ‘futures’. ‘Justice’ has come to mean ‘human rights’ (and of those, as they say, ‘a few will do’)"
A. Roy, Indian activist"); quotes.push("
"Moore uses ridicule and a very selective part of history to create the myth of a fully incompetent President, as well as lies to completely distinguish himself from this metaphysical construction"
B.H. Holte on M. Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11"); quotes.push("
"He knows this and he can say it, but can he mean it? And can he understand it? He is white, European, male and middle-class - who is he to speak of suppression and marginality? Maybe he should rather speak of anonymity"
B.H. Holte"); quotes.push("
"Through ‘development,’ the state conceived a legal framework to claim the nation’s resources and make them available for foreign exploitation, thus amassing the materials through which its version of the nation could prosper"
A. L. Tsing, anthroplogist, on nationalism in 1960s Indonesia"); quotes.push("
"Gone is any official speak of egalitarian futures, work for all, or the paternal government envisoned by the various freedom movements. These ideals have given way to a spirit of deregulation"
J. & J. Comaroff, Am. anthropologists on Millennian Capitalism and neoliberalism"); quotes.push("
"Capital does not ‘flow’ from New York to Angola’s oilfields, or from Longon to Ghana’s gold mines; it hops, neatly skipping over most of what lies between"
J. Ferguson, Am. anthropologist, in Global Shadows (2006)"); quotes.push("
"In the colonies the economic substructure is also the superstructure. The cause is the consequence; you are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich. This is why Marxist analysis should always be slightly streched every time we have to do with the colonial problem"
F. Fanon, colonial-French psychiatrist and author in The Wretched of the Earth"); quotes.push("
"In fact, the settler is right when he speaks of knowing ‘them’ well. For it is the settler who has brought the native into existence and who perpetuates his existence. The settler owes the fact of his very existence, that is to say his property, to the colonial system"
F. Fanon, colonial-French psychiatrist and author in The Wretched of the Earth"); quotes.push("
"‘The last shall be first and the first last.’ Decolonication is the putting into practice of this sentence"
F. Fanon, colonial-French psychiatrist and author in The Wretched of the Earth"); quotes.push("
"National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth; whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon"
F. Fanon, colonial-French psychiatrist and author in The Wretched of the Earth"); quotes.push("
"development which meets the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs"
The Brundtland-commission’s definition of ‘sustainable development’"); quotes.push("
"Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning"
C. Geertz, Am. anthropologist in The Interpretation of Cultures (1973)"); quotes.push("
"Structural violence is violence exerted systematically - that is, indirectly - by everyone who belongs to a certain social order: hence the discomfort these ideas provoke in a moral economy still geared to pinning praise or blame on individual actors"
P. Farmer Am. anthropologist, in ‘An Anthropology of Structural Violence’ (2004)"); quotes.push("
"... not that A is B, but that A and B have something in common in relation to C"
E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Br. anthropologist, in Nuer Religion (1956)"); quotes.push("
"Erasure or distortion of history is part of the process of desocialization necessary for the emergence of hegemonic accounts of what happened and why"
P. Farmer, Am. anthropologist, in ‘An Anthropology of Structural Violence’ (2004)"); quotes.push("
"External phenomena must find their way into myths, albeit tailored to fit internal structural and narrative features"
D. Tuzin, Am. anthropologist"); quotes.push("
"On the one hand the reality of myth lies in its social function; on the other hand, once we begin to study the social function of myth, and so to reconstruct its full meaning, we are gradually led to build up the full theory of native social organization"
B. Malinowski, Polish/Br. anthropologist in Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926)"); quotes.push("
"Africa as a setting and backdrop ... eliminates the African as a human factor. Africa as a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all recognizable humanity, into which the wandering European enters at his peril. Can nobody see the preposterous and perverse arrogance in thus reducing Africa to the role of props for the break-up of one petty European mind?"
C. Achebe on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness"); quotes.push("
"Not so very long ago, the earth numbered two thousand million inhabitants: five hundred million men, and one thousand five hundred million natives"
J.P. Sartre, French philosopher, introducing Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth in 1961"); quotes.push("
"If you are going to privatize everything, why not privatize redistribution through criminal activity?"
D. Harvey, Am. geographer in ‘Neoliberalism and the City’ in 2007"); quotes.push("
"Dear Sirs,
I am.
Sincerely yours,
G. K. Chesterton"
G.K. Chesterton, Br. writer on ‘What is Wrong with the World?’"); quotes.push("
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood"
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1"); quotes.push("
"... without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty"
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 2"); quotes.push("
"Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person"
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 3"); quotes.push("
"Resources are not, they become"
E.W. Zimmerman, in 1951"); quotes.push("
"He was one of the fairest men I have ever met and that is the way he brought me up. He always told me that we’re entitled to our half of the country and the blacks are entitled to theirs"
I. Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia 1965-79, about his father"); quotes.push("
"Universals are indeed local knowledge in the sense that they cannot be understood without the benefit of historically specific cultural assumptions"
A.L. Tsing, Am. anthropologist"); quotes.push("
"I am writing this manifesto to show that we can do opposing things together"
T. Tzara, artist, in ‘Manifest DADA 1918’"); quotes.push("
"I am writing a manifest and I have nothing to declare, I still do convey some things, and I am principally opposed to manifesto, as I am opposed to princilpes"
T. Tzara, artist, in ‘Manifest DADA 1918’"); quotes.push("
"DADA means nothing"
T. Tzara, artist, in ‘Manifesoto DADA 1918’"); quotes.push("
"We are victims of tradition rather than religion"
S. Barakzai, Afghan woman and politician"); quotes.push("
"While wearing a burka I must be given the ability to contribute in my family and society"
N. Marjan, Afghan woman"); quotes.push("
"More than culture and tradition, it’s politics"
D. Kandiyoti, Afghan academic, about post-9/11 Afghanistan"); quotes.push("
"... the documents you have to produce to satifsy foreign donors"
D. Kandiyoti, Afghan academic, taking about economic aid"); quotes.push("
"And if my disclosures regarding the terrible Ujijian slavery should lead to the suppression of the East Coast slave trade, I shall regard that as a greater matter by far than the discovery of all the Nile sources together"
D. Livingstone, explorer, in the mid-1800’s"); quotes.push("
"Mosi-oa-Tunya"
Native name of the Victoria Falls, meaning ‘the smoke that thunders’"); quotes.push("
"The savage only respects force, power, boldness, and decision"
H.M. Stanley, Welsh explorer in Africa"); quotes.push("
"Next, the greatest passion of the American people is when they see little children killed. Why? Because, according to the greatest psychologists in the United States, the massacre of the innocents is the favourite theme, the one which is found in the innermost depths of their subconscious minds, since they are constantly annoyed by children, so that their libido projects itself filling the cosmic surfaces of their dreams"
S. Dali, surrealist artist, in 1966 about his painting ‘The Poetry of America’"); quotes.push("
"If Americans adore bloody orgies and the slaughter of the innocents and soft watches which run like real French Camembert when it is just right, it is because what they love most in the world are ‘dots’, or bits of data, those information bits that symbolise the discontinuity of matter. It is for that reason that all today’s Pop art is made up of information ‘dots.’"
S. Dali, surrealist artist, in 1966 about his painting ‘The Poetry of America’"); quotes.push("
"This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper"
T.S. Eliot in ‘The Hollow Men’, 1925"); quotes.push("
"The point is, if you went to Paris and dug up Debussy and said, ‘Excusez-moi Monsieur, are you an impressionist?’ he’d probably say ‘Merde!’ and go back to sleep"
S. Reich, Am. composer"); quotes.push("
"Of course I’’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’’s boring, no one listens to you!"
R. Cargill, fictional character in Simpsons the Movie"); quotes.push("
"The language of ethnic categories, and the mind-set it stems from, is terribly deceptive and misleading"
R. Kapuscinski, Pol. journalist, about African conflicts in The Shadow of the Sun"); quotes.push("
"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance"
M. Rothbard, Am. economist"); quotes.push("
"The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses"
Juvenal, Roman satirist"); quotes.push("
"No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than a chaff in a breeze"
J. Conrad, Russian/Br. novelist in Heart of Darkness"); quotes.push("
"I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can’t stand it any longer. It’s the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it"
Agent Smith, fictional character in The Matrix"); quotes.push("
"Useful idiots"
Commonly accredited V. Lenin, Soviet leader"); quotes.push("
"Imagine a world where every child eats. Where everyone votes. Where every home enjoys clean water. Where no unemployed youth picks up a weapon instead of a future"
K. Anan, Secreatary General of the UN 1997-2007"); quotes.push("
"We live in a mash-up world"
TIME, April 2007"); quotes.push("
"I am Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Put down your gun and listen to Bob Marley"
B. Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General of the UN 1992-7, to Ali-G"); quotes.push("
"Everything is related to everything else"
B. Commoner, Am. biologist, and G. Brundtland, Nor. Prime Minister in the 1980s and 90s"); quotes.push("
"If we fail against hunger and poverty, what else could bring us together?"
L.I. Lula da Silva, 39th President of Brazil"); quotes.push("
"When you’re a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I’m proud of the ones I’ve got"
R. Murdoch, media mogul"); quotes.push("
"There’s such a thing as a popular newspaper and an unpopular élite newspaper"
R. Murdoch, media mogul"); quotes.push("
"I’ve got a wider knowledge of the world/ I just can’t face another argument about the rent/ It all seems unimportant in the grander scheme of things"
Kaiser Chiefs, rock band, ‘Heat Dies Down’"); quotes.push("
"We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day, we like who we like, we hate who we hate, but we’re also easily swayed"
Kaiser Chiefs, rock band, ‘The Angry Mob’"); quotes.push("
"We’re not concerned with motives, with the higher ethics. We are concerned only with cutting down crime"
Fictional government official in A Clockwork Orange"); quotes.push("
"Just try and understand our people. If you give them a little, it’s bad; if you give them a lot, it’s also bad!"
J. Stalin, Soviet dictator, 1920’s"); quotes.push("
"In 1903 Congress passed legislation that banned immigrants who advocated the overthrow of government. Wouldn’t that include the Founding Fathers?"
B.K. Marcus, Am. radical political economist"); quotes.push("
"If you close your eyes and hope it will go away, it will: they’ll all die"
G. Clooney about the crisis in Darfur, May 2007"); quotes.push("
"The only common characteristic of all crimes is that they consist ... in acts universally disapproved of by members of each society ... crime shocks sentiments which, for a given social system, are found in all healthy consciences"
E. Durkheim, sociologist"); quotes.push("
"We must not say that an action shocks the common conscience because it is criminal, but rather that it is criminal because it shocks the common conscience"
E. Durkheim, sociologist"); quotes.push("
"One step forward, two steps back; it happens in the lives of individuals, and in the history of nations"
I. Lenin, Russian revolutionary"); quotes.push("
"If your popcorn is ready by the announced start of a program, there’s not much left when it actually starts"
A. Antonsen, Nor. comedian about TV advertising"); quotes.push("
"No one is important in Russia except the man who is speaking to me, and then only when he is speaking to me"
Tsar Paul, Tsar of Russia 1796-1801"); quotes.push("
"We devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning flash"
J. Fowles, author, in The French Lieutenant’s Woman"); quotes.push("
"With every change there’s a nostalgia for what’s gone before"
M. Jones, Br. bioarcheologist"); quotes.push("
"It’s all well for the American public to feel good about their corn feeding starving people. But do American taxplayers realize that their money is being used to fund a hugely inefficient enterprise?"
E. Clay, Overseas Development Institute"); quotes.push("
"Once you start managing nature you have to continue to manage nature, there is no use hoping that it will restore itself to a new equilibrium set up by humans"
Professor I. Jones, Aus. ocean engineer"); quotes.push("
"The percentage you’re paying to too high priced while you’re living beyond all your means. And the man in the suit has just bought a new cat from the profit he’s made on your dreams"
Traffic, Br. psychedelic band in ‘Low Spark of High Heeled Boys’"); quotes.push("
"Peace, bread, land; all power to the Soviets"
I. Lenin, Russian revolutionary in April 1917"); quotes.push("
"There are many ways in which democracy might digest justice, though the idea that only democracies are just would have the implausible implication that all but a tiny handful of societies in history have been unjust"
K. Minogue, Br. social scientist"); quotes.push("
"What is wrong with this scam? Purchasing carbon credits is an incentive to burn even more fossil fuels, since now it is done under the illusion that it’s really cost-free to the atmosphere"
C. Krauthammer, journalist, in TIME March 2007"); quotes.push("
"Afrikaners must adapt or die"
P.W. Botha, S.A. politician, in the late 1970s"); quotes.push("
"The free market is an ethical concept - not an economic one"
B.K. Marcus, Am. radical political economist"); quotes.push("
"Natives had to be made tame to the gun"
J. Kruger, S.A. politician in 1976"); quotes.push("
"A democratic society, for example, might be thought a contradiction in terms, but has come to mean a society in which everyone leads the same kind of life and disposes of similar resources. A democratic culture is one liberated from élitist standards of what constitutes beauty. Sometimes we even talk of democratizing the economy, which generally means turning factories into worker cooperatives"
K. Minogue, Br. social scientist"); quotes.push("
"Liberté, égalité, fraternité, ou la mort!"
Slogan of the French Revolution"); quotes.push("
"Salazar’s quasi-fascist Portuguese government had continued its autoritarian ways under Caetano Marcello until April 1974, when a coup d’etat brought in a new government. Realizing that it was impossible to hold on to its embarrasing and expensive African colonies, the decision was taken to disengage as quickly as possible, leaving whatever chaos ensued for someone else to sort out"
F. Welsh, Am. historian"); quotes.push("
"Europe shuld be careful when judging other civilizations"
B. Hansen, Nor. journalist"); quotes.push("
"We must destroy an old word, a vicious and corrupt word that has done much harm to this day. The word ‘feminist’ is the word indicated. That word, according to the dictionary, means ‘one who champions the rights of women.’ Since the only right, the right to earn a living has been won, the word no longer has a meaning. And a word without a meaning is a dead word, a corrupt word."
V. Woolf, Br. writer"); quotes.push("
"But how often, still, do we hear women anxiously asserting ‘I’m not a feminist, but...’ as they go on to make claims that depend upon, and would be impossible without, a feminist groundwork?"
M. Walters, Br. writer"); quotes.push("
"Feminism is nowadays just another academic subject. You can get a degree in ‘gender studies’ and that is the real kiss of death: proof, if any were needed, that feminism is no longer urgently relevant"
M. Walters, Br. writer"); quotes.push("
"I’m gonna die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to"
J. Hendrix, Am. rockstar"); quotes.push("
"Some of the anxiety that I have about categorising myself as an intellectual is to do with that very word intellectual seems to create some sort of barrier between the person being it and the audience that they’re reaching. It implies a certain degree of superiority"
A. Motion, Br. poet"); quotes.push("
"Utopia used to mean the dream society at the end of the rainbow. Today it conjures up nightmares about Stalin’s Terror and the Thousand-Year Reich, Mao’s Great Leap Forward and the killing fields of Cambodia"
K. Malik, Br. Academic"); quotes.push("
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity"
W.B. Yeats, Irish poet"); quotes.push("
"I see the roads, I see the bridges, but I cannot eat them"
M. Dioum, about poverty"); quotes.push("
"As humans, we all want revenge, but I ask myself ‘if I do it, how will that help me?’"
L. Laijian, village leader in Thailand"); quotes.push("
"I began to see, for example, that Angolans employed by an oil or diamond company tended to receive better and fairer pay plus training than if they worked, for example, in the NGO sector. In truth, I began to think that opportunities in business were much more likely to benefit and (I hate this word) empower people than the equivalent within the NGO sector"
L. Pawson, BBC journalist in Angola"); quotes.push("
"If he wished a chief could tell a man to wait simply because he was a chief. If he wished he could tell a man to wait while he idly picked his teeth, or stared day-dreaming over a valley"
A. Paton, S.A. author in Cry, the Beloved Country"); quotes.push("
"The last time the selling of pardons was prevalant - in a predecessor religion to environmentalism called Christianity - Martin Luther lost his temper and launched the Reformation"
C. Krauthammer in TIME March 2007, about CO2 permits"); quotes.push("
"No second Johannesburg is needed upon the earth. One is enough"
A. Paton, S.A. author in Cry, the Beloved Country"); quotes.push("
"Some say that poor-paid labour means a poor nation, and that better-paid labour means greater markets and greater scope for industry and manufacture. And others say that this is a danger, for better-paid labour will not only buy more but will also read more, think more, ask more, and will not be content to be for ever voiceless and inferior"
A. Paton, S.A. author in Cry, the Beloved Country"); quotes.push("
"A modern morality can only point with absolute conviction to the horrors that follow breaches of the law"
G.K. Chesterton, Br. writer"); quotes.push("
"Calling the question absurd does not make it go away. Not even silencing the questioner can make the question go away"
B.K. Marcus, Am. radical political economist"); quotes.push("
"In America, it’s bling bling, but out here it’s bling bang"
D. Archer, fictional diamond tradesman, in Blood Diamond"); quotes.push("
"Libertarian anarchists reject political means as well as political ends"
B.K. Marcus, Am. radical political economist in Violent Revolution Q&A"); quotes.push("
"I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor"
M.D. Santiago, Filipina politician"); quotes.push("
"Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet"
Agent Smith in The Matrix"); quotes.push("
"How many people out there like to drink? Drink, fight and fuck. That’s what I preach. I’m not religious, I’m not political, I don’t care what fucking Reagan does. I wanna drink, fight and fuck"
G.G. Allin, singer and troublemaker"); quotes.push("
"Fear is not the natural state of civilized people"
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese political activist"); quotes.push("
"The Dark Side of the Moon finished The Pink Floyd off once and for all. To be that successful is the aim of every group. And once you’ve cracked it, it’s all over. In hindsight, I think The Pink Floyd was finished as long ago as that"
R. Waters, guitarist of Pink Floyd"); quotes.push("
"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation"
A. Greenspan, Am. economist"); quotes.push("
"The only rights are equal rights. All else is privilege"
B.K. Marcus, Am. radical political economist"); quotes.push("
"All we’ve got is cotton and slaves, and arrogance"
R. Butler, fictional gentleman in Gone With the Wind about slavery in the South States"); quotes.push("
"A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke came out of the cliff, and that was all. No change appeared on the face of the rock. They are building a railway. The cliff was not in the way or anything; but this objectless blasting was all the work going on"
J. Conrad, Russian/Br. novelist, in Heart of Darkness. See also Not with a Bang but a Whimper."); quotes.push("
"[The Marxists] maintain that only a dictatorship, their dictatorship, of course, can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up"
M. Bakunin, Russian anarchist thinker"); quotes.push("
"Why can’t life have a lot more zero?"
Coca Cola advertisements 2006-7"); quotes.push("
"Privatization does not mean that you give state initatives to some nice person. It means that you give it to proft-seeking tyranny"
N. Chomsky, Am. linguist"); quotes.push("
"To govern well you need propaganda"
J. Goebels, Nazi and propaganda expert"); quotes.push("
"Branding is not advertising, it is production. The corporations of tomorrow do not produce goods, they brand them"
N. Klein, Am. journalist and author"); quotes.push("
"I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream. That’s my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor, and surviving"
General Kurtz, fictional character in Apocalypse Now"); quotes.push("
"What do you call assassins who accuse assassins?"
General Kurtz in Apocalypse Now"); quotes.push("
"They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force - nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the wekaness of others"
J. Conrad, Russian/Br. novelist"); quotes.push("
"Einstein, stop telling God what to do"
N. Bohr, Danish physicist, responding to Einstein’s ‘God does not play dice’"); quotes.push("
"To many people, happiness is something other people possess and which they themselves have not the neccessary means to achieve"
A. Ness, Nor. philospoher"); quotes.push("
"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions"
N. Chomsky, Am. lingust and philosopher"); quotes.push("
"If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?"
Tuco, fictional character in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"); quotes.push("
"If you ride like lightning you will crash like thunder"
Big Youth, reggae star in ‘S90 Skank’"); quotes.push("
"That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind"
Morpheus in The Matrix"); quotes.push("
"Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect; but we never had to put up a wall to keep our people in ... the wall is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the communist system"
J.F. Kennedy, Am. President"); quotes.push("
"Life has exposed our error: There was a need of a series of transitional stages to Communism"
Lenin, first Soviet ruler"); quotes.push("
"Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?"
Morpheus in The Matrix"); quotes.push("
"Neither a borrower or a lender be, for a loan oft looses both itself and a friend"
W. Shakespheare, Br. playwright and poet in Hamlet"); quotes.push("
"Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he’ll have to touch to be sure. "
Murphy’s 9th Law of Technology"); quotes.push("
"Mankind is threatened by the decline of morality of persons and states, demonstrated in the disintegration of the fundamental ideas of law and justice, in consumer egoism, the grotwh of crime, and the new international catastrophe of nationalist and political terrorism"
A. Saveoviet, Soviet scientist & Nobel Peace Price winner"); quotes.push("
"How many times does it take for us to learn? Nothing of any seriousness comes out of the UN"
C. Krauthammer, journalist, in TIME October 2006"); quotes.push("
"But are the fundamentalist terrorists, whether Christian or Muslims, true fundamentalists?"
S. Zizek, Slovenian philosopher"); quotes.push("
"There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know."
D. Rumsfeld, Am. politician"); quotes.push("
"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem"
"How does Africa change you? Almost completely. Everything is different. The climate, the landscape and the scents, but most of all, the people"
E. Lunde, Norwegian journalist in Africa from 1973"); quotes.push("
"The luminous continent"
B. Geldof, Irish rockstar, proposing an alternative to ‘The Dark Continent’"); quotes.push("
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic"
Accredited to J. Stalin, Soviet dictator"); quotes.push("
"No bread on the table, but Stalin on the wall"
Anonymous USSR citizen in 1932"); quotes.push("
"The party cannot impose its authority; it must earn it continually [... it is a] false thesis that the party is the instrument of the dictatorship of the proletariat"
New Action Programme, Czehoslovakia, 1968"); quotes.push("
"When non-violence is accepted as the law of life it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts"
M. Gandhi, S.A. and Indian pacifist"); quotes.push("
"Hippiedom is more than a choice of life style, it’s an apolitical systemicide"
C. Hollander, drug expert in 1967"); quotes.push("
"Anti-intellectual, distrustful of logic, and resentful of the American educational process, the hippie drops out - tentatively at first - in search of another, more satisfying world"
TIME, July 1967"); quotes.push("
"Many people in authority, from cops to judges to ministers, tend to treat [hippies] gently and with a measure of respect. In the end it may be that the hippies have not so much dropped out of American society as given it something to think about"
TIME, July 1967"); quotes.push("
"People want stuff"
E. Calvert, teacher, on the failure of political concepts"); quotes.push("
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination"
J. Lennon, Br. singer and songwriter"); quotes.push("
"Have you ever heard yourself move?"
R. Brautigan, poet and hippie, about LSD"); quotes.push("
"There never was a good war or bad peace"
B. Franklin, Am. Founding Father, scientist, and journalist"); quotes.push("
"Utopias are ultimately irreconcilable with human freedom. They bring up issues, fundamental issues that divide people"
J. Carey, Br. Professor of literature"); quotes.push("
"In Cyberspace, EVERYTHING is anti-copyright. Get used to it."
BLASTfamy E-Zine in April 1994"); quotes.push("
"The Rubrik’s Cube reduced my office efficiency to zero, but being a government department, no one noticed"
Br. postal engineer"); quotes.push("
"They’re locking them up today they’re throwing away the keys. I wonder who it will be tomorrow: You or me. We are all normal and we want our freedom"
Love, Am. rock group in ‘The Red Telephone’"); quotes.push("
"... former colonizers, who to a certain extent are natives too"
T. Bonnici, Brazilian literature analyst"); quotes.push("
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. To decide if life is worth living or not is answering the most basic question of philosophy. Everything else, if the world has three dimensions, if the mind should be divided into nine of twelve categories, remains details. Firstly, the basic question should be answered."
A. Camus, colonial-French author, in The Myth of Sisyfos"); quotes.push("
"Who can rightfully claim to be right? What kind of society have we created in Europe where we hardly ever have time enough? Time does not pass in Africa, it comes"
E. Lunde, Norwegian journalist in Africa from 1973"); quotes.push("
"We modernists have rebelled against the branding of war as anti-aesthetic. War is beautiful because it initiates the dreamt-of metallization of the human body"
F. Marinetti, modernist artist on WWI"); quotes.push("
"The idea that poor countries can trade their way out of poverty has become a key tenet of the aid industry. It is based on the fallacy that international regulations can make a fundamentally inequitable economic system, which favours the rich and powerful, fair to the weak and powerless"
A. Talbot, writer, about the 2005 Make Poverty History campaigns"); quotes.push("
"Marxists think we should be bossed by bureaucrats. Libertarians think we should be bossed by businessmen. Feminists don’t care which form bossing takes so long as the bosses are women"
B. Black, Am. anarchist and lawyer"); quotes.push("
"What’s so civil about war, anyways?"
Guns n’ Roses, Am. rock-band in ‘Civil War’"); quotes.push("
"Anarchist has been used as an exploitive for so long that no one knows what anarchism is anymore"
J. Bjørneboe, Norwegian radical writer"); quotes.push("
"The good humans were the true psycopaths"
J. Bjørneboe, Norwegian radical writer"); quotes.push("
"Fair for you, unfair for me"
B.H. Holte, 5 years old"); quotes.push("
"The future is what we live for. Without it we wouldn’t live, we would be dead in the past"
B.H. Holte, 2003"); quotes.push("
"When two elephants are either making love or fighting, the grass perishes. And when the Third World countries became the hotbed of stuggle, they suffered."
K. Brutents, Soviet Third World affairs specialist on the Cold War"); quotes.push("
"The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone"
H. Ibsen, Norwegian playwright, An Enemy of the People"); quotes.push("
"The strongest man in the world is he who has stood the most alone"
B.H. Holte, freely after H. Ibsen"); quotes.push("
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness."
A. Einstin, scientist"); quotes.push("
"But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white?"
R.F. Kennedy, Am. politician"); quotes.push("
"I wanted to run, but she made me crawl"
U2, Irish rock group in ‘Sweetest Thing’"); quotes.push("
"You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on"
J. Lewis, Am. comedian"); quotes.push("
"All I want to do is to be more like me and less like you"
Linkin Park, Am. nu-metal band in ‘Numb’"); quotes.push("
"You have a watch, but we have time!"
Common response to accusations of following African time"); quotes.push("
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
T. Jefferson, Am. President"); quotes.push("
"Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their voices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistakes"
W. Godwin, English anarchist"); quotes.push("
"The freedom of all is essential to my freedom"
M.A. Bakunin, Russian anarchist"); quotes.push("
"If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him"
M.A. Bakunin, Russian anarchist"); quotes.push("
"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called ‘the People’s Stick"
M.A. Bakunin, Russian anarchist"); quotes.push("
"Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love"
E. Goldmann, Am. anarhcist"); quotes.push("
"Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!"
E. Goldmann, Am. anarhcist"); quotes.push("
"Much of Africa’s potential farmland was a continously changing patchwork of mutually exclusive human and elephant occupation zones, with the elephants limiting opportunities for agricultural expansion"
J. Reader on pre-colonial Africa"); quotes.push("
"Terror only kills hundreds or thousands of people. Global warming could kill millions. We should have a war on global warming rather than the war on terror"
S. Hawking, scientist"); quotes.push("
"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewellery"
J. Lennon, singer and songwriter"); quotes.push("
"We always spoke of tomorrow. Yesterday was the dark night of colonialism, today is the suffering of war, but tomorrow will be paradise. The tommorow that never comes, an eternal today"
Pepetela, Angolan novelist"); quotes.push("
"The MPLA were like the Portuguese. They did not let the people live where they wanted"
M. Mwesenge, elderly Angolan, about independence"); quotes.push("
"We thought that independence meant the people could return to living in their traditional way. They could go back to their old [farms] There were supposed to be elections so we could choose our leaders. But in the end they never happened. Then came confusão"
M. Mwesenge, elderly Angolan"); quotes.push("
"Confusão is a state of absolute disorientation. People who have found themselves on the inside of confusão can’t comprehend what is going on around them or in themselves. Nor can they explain specifically what caused this particular case of confusão"
R. Kapuscinski, Pol. journalist on Angola in 1975"); quotes.push("
"It is impossible to give an unbiased and neutral report from a situation like that in Apartheid South Africa ... When we see injustice we have to be able to react like fellow humans to the suffering"
E. Lunde, Norwegian journalist in Africa from 1973"); quotes.push("
"The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary."
B.R. Tucker, Am. anarchist, about the state"); quotes.push("
"But that is what we do not understand, because the people never wanted the war"
M, Mwesenge, Angolan civillian, when asked if he was not tired of the war"); quotes.push("
"Angola has begun to enjoy the fruits of peace since the end of a 27-year civil war in 2002"
CIA World Fact Book 2005"); quotes.push("
"This book is not for children on morons"
W. Powell, Am. anarchist, Anarchist Cookbook"); quotes.push("
"Come, as you are. As you were. As I want you to be. As a friend."
Nirvana, Br. rockband in ‘Come as You Are’"); quotes.push("
"Careful With That Axe, Eugene"
Pink Floyd, Br. prog-rock band, title of song"); quotes.push("
"What goes up, must come down. Spinning wheel, gotta go ‘round"
Blood, Sweat & Tears, Am. rock group, ‘Spinning Wheel’"); quotes.push("
"There was an ideological change, but no practical one"
B.H. Holte in 2006, on the Russian emancipation of the serfs"); quotes.push("
"Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen"
S. Hawking, scientist, responding to Einstein’s ‘God does not play dice’"); quotes.push("
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image"
S. Hawking, scientist"); quotes.push("
"We see he universe the way it is because if it were different, we would not be here to observe it"
Anthropic principle"); quotes.push("
"If decolonization is the process of removing foreign political dominance over a country, Zimbabwe has been highly successful in this"
B.H. Holte in 2005 on Mugabe and Zimbabwe"); quotes.push("
"Earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy, which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe"
S. Hawking, scientist"); quotes.push("
"Thus does a ‘necessary evil’ become an idol. Maybe we’re stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?"
J. Sobran, Am. journalist"); quotes.push("
"Until the lion tells the story, killing lions is an heroic thing"
African proverb"); quotes.push("
"Though I am not edible says the vulture yet I nurse my eggs in the branches of a high tree because man is hard to trust"
African proverb"); quotes.push("
"Never mind if your nose is ugly, as long as you can breathe through it"
African proverb

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"Whoever comes last drinks muddy water"
African proverb"); quotes.push("
"The horror! The horror!"
J. Conrad, Russian novelist in Heart of Darkness"); quotes.push("
"Elective despotism was not what we fought for"
T. Jefferson, US President"); quotes.push("
"Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It’s the only dream you can have - to come out number one man"
A. Miller, Am. playwright in ‘Death of a Salesman’"); quotes.push("
"Democracy is not the multiplication of ignorant opinions"
B. Webb, Br. socialist"); quotes.push("
"Their lives are bigger than any big idea"
U2, Irish rock band in ‘Peace on Earth’"); quotes.push("
"Former Portuguese colonialists still wax nostalgic at the mention of its name [Angola], and if this beautiful country of bright and friendly people ever does stablilise, it’s sure to become a favoured destination"
‘Africa on a Shoesting’, Lonely Planet, 2001"); quotes.push("
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing"
G. Orwell, English novelist, in Animal Farm"); quotes.push("
"War is peace. Freedom in slavery. Ignorance is strength"
G. Orwell, English novelist"); quotes.push("
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever"
G. Orwell, English novelist"); quotes.push("
"If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too"
Sting, English rock singer and songwriter"); quotes.push("
"You become a monster, so the monster will not break you"
U2, Irish rock group in ‘Peace on Earth’"); quotes.push("
"I get excited about the future, you know The Edge is from the future, he’s come back from the future to tell us it’ll be OK"
Bono, Irish rock star, introducing band members in Oslo, Norway, in 2005"); quotes.push("
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left"
B. Russell, Br. philosopher and mathematician"); quotes.push("
"When the Middle East is ablaze, oil prices near record highs, the American economy cooling and the climate warming, it is hard to get excited about the beaching of trade talks. After all, globalisation is unstoppable"
Leader of The Economist in July 2006"); quotes.push("
"We were aiming at the moon, we were shooting at the stars/ but the kids were just shooting at the busses and the cars"
Modest Mouse, Am. rock band in ‘Bury me with it’"); quotes.push("
"A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves"
German proverb"); quotes.push("
"If the frog tells you that the crocodile is dead, do not doubt it"
Ghanaian proverb"); quotes.push("
"The world is the totality of facts, not of things"
L. Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher"); quotes.push("
"Words form the thread on which we string our experiences"
A. Huxley, novelist"); quotes.push("
"You gave me something that I didn’t have, but had no use"
Foo Fighters, Am. rock group in ‘Best of You’"); quotes.push("
"A small boy scrubs the latest model of BMW convertible to a shine for a few Kwanzas, leaving behind puddles that breed the mosquitoes that may infect him with malaria and cost him his life"
K. Reed, Am. visitor in Angola in the 1990s"); quotes.push("
"Angola, from Afro-Stalinism to Petro-Diamond Capitalism"
T. Hodges, writer, title of book"); quotes.push("
"You can raise a child to be moral. You can raise a child to be well-behaved. You can’t do both"
B.K. Marcus, Am. radical political economist"); quotes.push("
"Angola: The Anatomy of an Oil State"
T. Hodges, writer, title of book"); quotes.push("
"The Destruction of a Nation: United States’ Policy Towards Angola since 1945"
G. Wright, title of book"); quotes.push("
"If journalists cannot be trusted to keep confidences, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press"
J. Miller, journalist and CIA leakage acused"); quotes.push("
"Physics as we know it, will be over in six months"
M. Born, physicist and Nobel prize winner, in 1928"); var randnum = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length) document.write(quotes[randnum]); document.write(". Quote " + randnum + " of " + quotes.length + "
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