Quotes

April 19, 2012
Khalil Gibran (April 1913)

Khalil Gibran (April 1913) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

“Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?”  - Kahlil Gibran
“If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged” -  Noam Chomsky
“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home” James Madison: US fourth president” 1751-1836
“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.” -Robert M. Hutchins
“When people ask me, ‘Why can’t labor organize the way it did in the thirties?’ the answer is simple: everything we did then is now illegal.” -  Thomas Geoghegan

 

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