Tash Quotes

2003-03-05T19:01:00.000Z

Tony Benn

"I've never said this before: non-violent resistance to the government will show they cannot claim to do this in our name. We should stop the buses, stop the trains, stop the schools"

Tony Benn 2003

2003-02-13T23:30:00.000Z

Hermann Goering on War

“Why of course the people don’t want war...But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship ...
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they’re being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

Hermann Goering, Nuremberg, 1946

2003-02-07T14:46:00.000Z

Eisenhower on peace

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments.
Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

2003-01-17T14:29:00.000Z

Levellers - A true sentiment

"Hang the man and flog the woman
Who stole the goose from off the common
But let the greater criminal loose
who stole the common from the goose."

Levellers

2003-01-01T12:14:00.000Z

Thought I would start the New Year with a quote, to get us going .......

Advice from Monty Python, on life

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Life of Brian - Monty Python
Eric Idle

2002-10-18T15:26:00.000Z

The Observer - Drugs Uncovered Series:

Money Problems:
"Wendy buys a gram of coke for £60.
She splits it into four equal piles.
Later, she sells each wrap to her 'friends' for £20 each.
How much does she make from the deal?"

Relating fractions to division:
"Peter invites two friends over to snort some speed.
He chops the powder into eight lines.
Each of them snorts two lines each.
They each get ______ of the speed.
How can Peter split what's left so everybody gets
one more line?"

Observer ad, for series:
Drugs and the under14's

2002-10-18T10:24:00.000Z

"In the terror trap" - What are we doing?

A couple of quotes from Timothy Garton Ash article in the Guardian this thursday...... "In the terror trap" Think it very informative, and I commend it to you.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,813115,00.html

"We've given up far to many freedoms
in order to be free".

John le Carre
[a last epiphany of spymaster George Smiley]

&

"To make this choice is to accept a risk: more liberty, less security. But the balance in this case is clear.
Erring on the other side, we would sacrifice too much liberty for too little added security.

Put it like this: I would rather take a one in 10,000 chance of being blown up by a terrorist than a one in 10 chance of having my emails read by a spook".

Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday October 17, 2002
Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,813115,00.html

2002-09-18T15:23:00.000Z

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Peter De Vries

2002-09-18T15:22:00.000Z

This is the current email 'suffix', from Undercurrents

silly man!

Paulo
Undercurrents Alternative News

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Tel +44 (0) 1865 203661
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2002-09-18T11:13:00.000Z

Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.

Edward Whymper, "Scrambles amongst the Alps"

2002-09-16T20:33:00.000Z

"I'm not against the police;
I'm just afraid of them"

Alfred Hitchcock

2002-09-10T18:55:00.000Z

The Gettysburg Address to be 're-addressed'

This is the eve of the attacks on America on the the 11th September last year.

I understand that President Bush will give a speech and will be reading The Gettysburg Address. Abraham Lincoln delivered this in the field, on November 19 1863' during the American Civil War.

Speaking as a 'part-time' Anarchist [they wont let me be a full time one!] I feel this is fitting.

I would like to remind you of its content:

2002-09-10T18:46:00.000Z

The Gettysburg Address

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

Delivered at Gettysburg Field
Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States
Nov. 19, 1863

2002-09-10T09:54:00.000Z

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject."

Winston Churchill

2002-09-06T00:11:00.000Z

On a chain of beautiful deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following people are stranded:

Two Italian men and one Italian woman
Two French men and one French woman
Two German men and one German woman
Two Greek men and one Greek woman
Two English men and one English woman
Two Bulgarian men and one Bulgarian woman
Two Japanese men and one Japanese woman
Two Chinese men and one Chinese woman
Two Irish men and one Irish woman
Two American men and one American woman
One month later, on these absolutely stunning deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following things have occurred:

One Italian man killed the other Italian man for the Italian woman.

The two French men and the French woman are living happily together in a menage a trois.

The two German men have a strict weekly schedule of alternating visits with the German woman.

The two Greek men are sleeping with each other and the Greek woman is cleaning and cooking for them.

The two English men are waiting for someone to introduce them to the English woman.

The two Bulgarian men took one look at the Bulgarian woman and started swimming to another island.

The two Japanese have faxed Tokyo and are waiting for instructions.

The two Chinese men have set up a pharmacy/liquor store/restaurant/laundry, and have gotten the woman pregnant in order to supply employees for their store.

The two Irish men divided the island into North and South and set up a distillery. They do not remember if sex is in the picture because it gets somewhat foggy after a few liters of coconut whiskey. However, they're satisfied because the English aren't having any fun.

The two American men are contemplating suicide, because the American woman will not shut up and complains relentlessly about her body, the true nature of feminism, what the sun is doing to her skin, how she can do anything they can do, the necessity of fulfillment, the equal division of household chores, how sand and palm trees make her look fat, how her last boyfriend respected her opinion and treated her nicer than they do, and how her relationship with her mother is the root cause of all her problems, and why didn't they bring a goddamn cell phone so they could call 911 and get them all rescued off this godforsaken deserted island in the middle of friggin' nowhere so she can get her nails done and go shopping...

2002-08-24T19:11:00.000Z

Further to Muphy's Law:

OTools Law which states "Murphy was an optomist".

2002-08-18T19:04:00.000Z

Politics is not a bad profession.
If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan

2002-08-04T10:39:00.000Z

Why Video Activism?

Video Activism deters police violence.

Video Activism helps to document what occurs at actions, for legal follow-up purposes.

Video Activism doesn't water-down, or alter the message of the people.

Video Activism gives the people themselves opportunities to voice their own concerns as cameras are getting cheaper and editing technology is becoming more available.

Video Activism enhances the capabality of the internet for spreading information accross borders by adding nontext content. Still images captured from video, downloadable audio and streaming video files can be made instantly available to interested people on the other side of the planet.

Video Activism is a big feature of the growing world of independent media. More and more concerned citizens, all over the world, are making their own media and by-passing the corporate-owned press with their own stories and their unique visions of a better world.

http://whisperedmedia.org/

2002-07-29T20:37:00.000Z

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoyes several times the same good things for the first time."

Friedrich Nietzche

2002-07-22T20:58:00.000Z

"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't
like them myself.
They're pretty bad.
I grieve over them on long winter evenings."

Humphry Boggart - The Big Sleep (1946)

2002-07-21T22:37:00.000Z

"A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free. "

Kahlil Gibran 1913

2002-07-19T22:04:00.000Z

"You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

Eric Hoffer - American social philosopher. (1902 - 1983)

2002-07-18T23:39:00.000Z

"I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult."

Fran Lebowitz

2002-07-18T23:38:00.000Z

"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."

Alan Turing

2002-07-18T23:37:00.000Z

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

Alvin Toffler