Saturday, July 29, 2006
JULY 28 2006 - TONY BLAIR
"IT IS BETTER TO RIDE THE TIGERS BACK, THAN LET IT RIP YOUR THROAT OUT"
(Source : "Murdoch set to back Blair - for a place in his boardroom" by Andrew Grice, The Independent (UK), 29 July 2006)
(Source : "Murdoch set to back Blair - for a place in his boardroom" by Andrew Grice, The Independent (UK), 29 July 2006)
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
JULY 27 2006 - THOMAS WOODROW WILSON (1856 - 1925) - US PRESIDENT
"LIBERTY HAS NEVER COME FROM GOVERNMENT;
LIBERTY HAS ALWAYS COME FROM THE SUBJECTS OF GOVERNMENT.
THE HISTORY OF LIBERTY IS THE HISTORY OF RESISTANCE.
THE HISTORY OF LIBERTY IS THE HISTORY OF THE LIMITATION OF GOVERNMENT POWER, NOT THE INCREASE OF IT."
LIBERTY HAS ALWAYS COME FROM THE SUBJECTS OF GOVERNMENT.
THE HISTORY OF LIBERTY IS THE HISTORY OF RESISTANCE.
THE HISTORY OF LIBERTY IS THE HISTORY OF THE LIMITATION OF GOVERNMENT POWER, NOT THE INCREASE OF IT."
JULY 26 2006 - ALDOUS HUXLEY
"MAN COMES TO ADORE THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT UNDO THEIR CAPACITIES TO THINK"
JULY 25 2006 - GEORGE ORWELL
"OMISSION IS THE GREATEST FORM OF LIE"
Sunday, July 23, 2006
JULY 24 2006 - ELLEN WHEELER WILCOX
"TO SIN BY SILENCE WHEN WE SHOULD PROTEST MAKES COWARDS OUT OF MEN"
JULY 23 2006 - RUSSIAN PROVERB
"ALL ARE NOT COOKS THAT WALK WITH LONG KNIVES"
JULY 22 2006 - EMILE DE ANTONIO (1920 - 1989)
" 'RADICAL' HAS A VERY DECENT LATIN ROOT - IT MEANS 'THE BASIS'.
A RADICAL SOLUTION IS NOT A CRAZY SOLUTION, BUT A ROOT SOLUTION; A SOLUTION THAT GOES TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER.
THE UNITED STATES IS IN NEED OF A RADICAL SOLUTION."
A RADICAL SOLUTION IS NOT A CRAZY SOLUTION, BUT A ROOT SOLUTION; A SOLUTION THAT GOES TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER.
THE UNITED STATES IS IN NEED OF A RADICAL SOLUTION."
Friday, July 21, 2006
JULY 21 2006 - GEORGE ORWELL
"Stephen Spender said to me recently, 'Don't you feel that at any time during the last ten years you have been able to foretell events better than, say, the Cabinet ?'
"Where I feel that people like us understand the situation better than so-called experts is not in any power to foretell specific events but to grasp what kind of world we are living in.
"At any rate, I have known since about 1931 (Spender says he has known since 1929) that the future must be catastrophic."
(Orwell's Diary : 8 June 1941)
"Where I feel that people like us understand the situation better than so-called experts is not in any power to foretell specific events but to grasp what kind of world we are living in.
"At any rate, I have known since about 1931 (Spender says he has known since 1929) that the future must be catastrophic."
(Orwell's Diary : 8 June 1941)
JULY 20 2006 - TIM RAW
"THE REAL PROBLEM WITH HORSHAM DISTRICT COUNCIL IS, IT SEEMS, THERE'S ONE RULE FOR ITSELF AND A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ONE FOR THE REST OF US."
(West Sussex County Times, July 21 2006)
(West Sussex County Times, July 21 2006)
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
JULY 19 2006 - ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT
"THE TEMPO OF OUR TIMES IS SUCH THAT OUR OPINIONS ARE NOT KEYED TO HISTORY, BUT TO HEADLINES."
("As He Saw It" by Elliott Roosevelt - Foreword by Eleanor Roosevelt - Duall, Sloan & Pearce 1946)
("As He Saw It" by Elliott Roosevelt - Foreword by Eleanor Roosevelt - Duall, Sloan & Pearce 1946)
Saturday, July 15, 2006
JULY 18 2006 - HOWARD ZINN
"THE TRUE MEANING OF A PATRIOT IS SOMEONE WHO SUPPORTS A COUNTRY'S IDEALS, NOT NECESSARILY ITS GOVERNMENT...THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DID NOT, AS THEY WERE LED TO BELIEVE, DIE FOR THEIR COUNTRY; THEY DIED FOR THEIR GOVERNMENT."
JULY 17 2006 - LT. GEN. GREG NEWBOLD
"MY SINCERE VIEW IS THAT THE COMMITMENT OF OUR FORCES, TO THIS FIGHT, WAS DONE WITH A CASUALNESS AND SWAGGER THAT ARE THE SPECIAL PROVINCE OF THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER HAD TO EXECUTE THESE MISSIONS...OR BURY THE RESULTS."
JULY 16 2006 - ERICH FROMM
"ANOTHER HELPFUL ATTITUDE IS ONE OF DEEP DISTRUST.
SINCE MOST OF WHAT WE HEAR IS EITHER PLAINLY UNTRUE, OR HALF-TRUE AND HALF-DISTORTED; AND SINCE MOST OF WHAT WE READ IN THE NEWSPAPERS IS DISTORTED INTERPRETATIONS SERVED AS FACTS; IT IS BY FAR THE BEST PLAN TO START OUT WITH RADICAL SCEPTICISM, AND THE ASSUMPTION THAT MOST OF WHAT ONE HEARS IS LIKELY TO BE A LIE, OR A DISTORTION."
('The Art of Being' by Erich Fromm - 1992)
SINCE MOST OF WHAT WE HEAR IS EITHER PLAINLY UNTRUE, OR HALF-TRUE AND HALF-DISTORTED; AND SINCE MOST OF WHAT WE READ IN THE NEWSPAPERS IS DISTORTED INTERPRETATIONS SERVED AS FACTS; IT IS BY FAR THE BEST PLAN TO START OUT WITH RADICAL SCEPTICISM, AND THE ASSUMPTION THAT MOST OF WHAT ONE HEARS IS LIKELY TO BE A LIE, OR A DISTORTION."
('The Art of Being' by Erich Fromm - 1992)
Thursday, July 13, 2006
JULY 15 2006 - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792 - 1822)
"THE SPIRIT THAT LIFTS THE SLAVE BEFORE HIS LORD
STALKS THROUGH THE CAPITALS OF ARMED KINGS,
AND SPREADS HIS ENSIGN IN THE WILDERNESS..."
STALKS THROUGH THE CAPITALS OF ARMED KINGS,
AND SPREADS HIS ENSIGN IN THE WILDERNESS..."
JULY 14 2006 - ANEURIN BEVAN (1897 - 1960)
"I AM HEARTILY SICKENED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY LABOUR PARTY. IT IS ROTTEN THROUGH AND THROUGH, CORRUPT, FULL OF PATRONAGE AND SEEKING AFTER PATRONAGE, UNPRINCIPLED...IT ISN'T REALLY A SOCIALIST PARTY AT ALL."
JULY 13 2006 - R. H. TAWNEY (1880 - 1962)
"DEMOCRACY IS UNSTABLE AS A POLITICAL SYSTEM, AS LONG AS IT REMAINS A POLITICAL SYSTEM AND NOTHING MORE, INSTEAD OF BEING, AS IT SHOULD BE, NOT ONLY A FORM OF GOVERNMENT, BUT A TYPE OF SOCIETY - AND A MANNER OF LIFE WHICH IS IN HARMONY WITH THAT TYPE."
JULY 12 2006 - THOMAS J. WATSON (FOUNDER OF IBM)
"FOLLOW THE PATH OF THE UNSAFE, INDEPENDENT THINKER.
EXPOSE YOUR IDEAS TO THE DANGERS OF CONTROVERSY.
SPEAK YOUR MIND
AND FEAR LESS THE LABEL OF 'CRACKPOT'
THAN THE STIGMA OF CONFORMITY.
AND ON ISSUES THAT SEEM IMPORTANT TO YOU,
STAND UP AND BE COUNTED
AT ANY COST."
EXPOSE YOUR IDEAS TO THE DANGERS OF CONTROVERSY.
SPEAK YOUR MIND
AND FEAR LESS THE LABEL OF 'CRACKPOT'
THAN THE STIGMA OF CONFORMITY.
AND ON ISSUES THAT SEEM IMPORTANT TO YOU,
STAND UP AND BE COUNTED
AT ANY COST."
JULY 11 2006 - PAUL FOOT (1937 - 2004)
"AS LONG AGO AS 1938, PROFESSOR TAWNEY ARGUED THAT THERE WAS AN ESSENTIAL CONTRADICTION BETWEEN CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRACY, AND THAT UNLESS ELECTED LABOUR GOVERNMENTS CHALLENGED CAPITALISM, AND TOOK CONTROL OF IT, CAPITALISM WOULD COUNTER-ATTACK - AND THE CHIEF CASUALTY WOULD BE DEMOCRACY."
JULY 10 2006 - ZINEDINE ZIDANE (FRENCH FOOTBALLER)
"MY ACTION WAS UNFORGIVABLE, BUT I'M SAYING TO YOU THAT THE PERSON WHO COMMITTED THE PROVOCATION SHOULD ALSO BE PUNISHED."
(Zidane - after being sent off for head-butting Marco Materazzi in the World Cup Final)
(Zidane - after being sent off for head-butting Marco Materazzi in the World Cup Final)
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
JULY 9 2006 - SIR BERNARD CRICK (BIOGRAPHER AND POLITICAL THEORIST)
"POLITICS IS ETHICS DONE IN PUBLIC."
JULY 8 2006 - MARCO MATERAZZI (ITALIAN FOOTBALLER)
"I DID NOT CALL HIM A TERRORIST"
(Zidane sent off for head-butting Materazzi in World Cup Final)
(Zidane sent off for head-butting Materazzi in World Cup Final)
Friday, July 07, 2006
JULY 7 2006 - CLLR JEAN BURNHAM (HORSHAM DISTRICT COUNCIL)
"IF WE JUST ALWAYS DID WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTED US TO DO ALL THE TIME, THEN WE WOULD BE IN TROUBLE."
Thursday, July 06, 2006
JULY 6 2006 - ALAN ALDA (US ACTOR - M.A.S.H.)
"MAYBE THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO BUT LET LIFE CURL UP AND DISAPPEAR LIKE AN OLD PHOTOGRAPH. OR, MAYBE, I CAN GET IT BACK. MAYBE IMAGINATION GETS IT BACK. PERHAPS PLAY MAKES IT BREATHE AGAIN."
"Never Have Your Dog Stuffed" by Alan Alda (Actor in M.A.S.H.)
"Never Have Your Dog Stuffed" by Alan Alda (Actor in M.A.S.H.)
Monday, July 03, 2006
JULY 5 2006 - PIERRE PROUDHON (1809 - 1865)
"PROPERTY IS THEFT"
JULY 4 2006 - TOMMY SHERIDAN OF SCOTLAND
"THE RUPERT MURDOCH EMPIRE IS THE MOST POWERFUL AND REACTIONARY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BOSS CLASS ON THE PLANET."
Sunday, July 02, 2006
JULY 3 2006 - T. YHIP OF GUYANA
"PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW BETTER EQUATE GOOD WRITING WITH LONG WORDS AND SENTENCES. THE RESULT IS AUTHOR INTRUSION WHICH DISTRACTS FROM THE INTENDED MEANING OF THE PASSAGE."
("Simple writing is not simplistic" by T. Yhip, Stabroek News, Georgetown, Guyana)
("Simple writing is not simplistic" by T. Yhip, Stabroek News, Georgetown, Guyana)
Saturday, July 01, 2006
JULY 2 2006 - FRENCH MAXIM
"CHERCHEZ LA MONNAIE"
JULY 1 2006 - THE SARAH PAYNE DAY - SARAH PAYNE (1992 - 2000)
"JULY I - THE ONE DAY GUARANTEED TO ENVELOP HER MOTHER, SARA, IN GRIEF"
(6 years ago today - July 1 - Sarah Payne vanished. Remembered in our thoughts and prayers)
(6 years ago today - July 1 - Sarah Payne vanished. Remembered in our thoughts and prayers)
JUNE 30 2006 - BENJAMIN DISRAELI (1804 - 1881), 1ST EARL OF BEACONSFIELD.
"TWO NATIONS; BETWEEN WHOM THERE IS NO INTERCOURSE OR NO SYMPATHY; WHO ARE AS IGNORANT OF EACH OTHER'S HABITS, THOUGHTS, AND FEELINGS, AS IF THEY WERE DWELLERS IN DIFFERENT ZONES, OR INHABITANTS OF DIFFERENT PLANETS; WHO ARE FORMED BY A DIFFERENT BREEDING, ARE FED BY A DIFFERENT FOOD, ARE ORDERED BY DIFFERENT MANNERS, AND ARE NOT GOVERNED BY THE SAME LAWS.......THE RICH AND THE POOR."
