- "The
welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of
tyrants, and it provides the
further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience."
Albert Camus
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"The Roots of Violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge
without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity,
worship without sacrifice, politics without principles."
Mahatma
Gandhi
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"We should never forget that everything
Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom
fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal.' " Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Once a government is committed to the
principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and
that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a
source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone
lives in fear." Harry S.
Truman
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"Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it." Albert Einstein
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These quotes were culled
by the Information Clearing House, and made available on
their daily newsletter of Nov. 25, 2004, Nov. 21, 2004, and Dec. 7,
2004. http://207.44.245.159
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"Fascism should more appropriately be called
Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate
power." Benito Mussolini
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"We're not a democracy. It's a terrible
misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us
that. In reality we're a plutocracy: a government by the
wealthy." Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney
General
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"The real threat to the life of the nation,
in the sense of a people living in accordance
with its traditional laws and political values, comes not from terrorism but
from laws such as these." Lord Hoffman, Britain's Highest Court, who ruled
against indefinite detention of terror
suspects.