‘Contextomy’ refers to the selective excerptingof words from their original linguistic contextin a way that distorts the source’s intendedmeaning, a practice commonly referred to as ‘quoting outof context’. Contextomy is employed incontemporary mass media to promote products,defame public figures and misappropriate rhetoric. A contextomizedquotation not only prompts audiences to forma false impression of the source’s intentions,but can contaminate subsequent interpretation of the quote when it is restored to its original context. -Matthew S. McGlone
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise." -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1923.
"Simply knowing you're an object of propaganda is not enough, in itself, to armor one against the appeals of propaganda. That's really the message of 1984...everybody's aware that the propaganda is ongoing --that's what doublethink is, that's what the concept of doublethink means: with one part of your mind you can see that it's just a crock, and you don't fall for it, but with the other part of that same mind, you adhere blindly to it." -Mark Miller, Johns Hopkins University.
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the down-stairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of a half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur - what if it had been driven off of or its tires spiked? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt. If .... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ...We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward. -Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1973, p.13.
“Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.” -Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society.
“We must sacrifice our civil liberties.” -Brent Scowcroft, in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
“If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.” -President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993.
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” -C.S. Lewis
“One of the shrewdest ways for human predators to conquer their stronger victims is to steadily convince them with propaganda that they're still free...” -Dr. N.A. Scott
"It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free -to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation, wants him to think,feel and act…The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is avictim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective." -Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, 1958.
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." -David Rockefeller
"The Treaty of Rome, which brought the Common Market into being, was nurtured at Bilderberg meetings." -George McGhee, former US Ambassador to West Germany.
“... the powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.” -Prof. Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, 1966.
“We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...that we forget about reality.” -President Bill Clinton, quoted in USA Today, March 11, 1993, Page 2A.
"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all." - John Maynard Keynes
“There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record." -Carroll Quigley, Georgetown University history professor, in Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, 1966, p.950
“If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors. One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor -- backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.” -Michael Parenti
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” -James Madison, 1788.
"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of state and corporate power." -Benito Mussolini
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood." -James Madison, Federalist Paper #62
"We have 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationship which will allow us to maintain this position of disparity...We should cease to talk about the raising of living standards, human rights and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better." -George Kennan, State Department Director of Policy Planning, 1948.
"The intelligence agencies have a long list of things they want done. They've been waiting for an event to justify them." -Morton H. Halperin, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, September 16, 2001.
"A new Pearl Harbor would be helpful in the imperial effort to control the vast petroleum reserves of central Asia." -Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard
"It is so important to understand that one of the primary means of immobilizing the American people politically today is to hold them in a state of confusion in which anything can be believed but nothing can be known, nothing of significance, that is. And the American people are more than willing to be held in this state because to know the truth- as opposed to only believe the truth- is to face an awful terror and to be no longer able to evade responsibility. It is precisely in moving from belief to knowledge that the citizen moves from irresponsibility to responsibility, from helplessness and hopelessness to action, with the ultimate aim of being empowered and confident in one's rational powers." -E. Martin Schotz, History will not absolve us: Orwellian Control, public denial, and the murder of President Kennedy.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -William Colby, former director of the CIA.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -Herbert Spencer, the man who coined the phrase 'survival of the fittest'.
"Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity." -William Wordsworth
"Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home. Each is an aspect of the other...For the major mode of acculturation, the direct shaping of one culture by another through which civilization develops, has been conquest." -Stanley Diamond
"What people are interested in is not always what is to their interest; the troubles they are aware of are not always the ones that beset them...It is not only that people can be unconscious of their situations; they are often falsely conscious of them." -C. Wright Mills
"The average citizen is the world's most efficient censor. His own mind is the greatest barrier between him and the facts. His own 'logic-proof compartments', his own absolutism are the obstacles which prevent him from seeing in terms of experience and thought rather than in terms of group reaction." -Edward L. Bernays
"He who molds public opinion is more powerful than he who makes the laws." -Abraham Lincoln
"The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth." -G. C. Lichtenberg
"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true." -Demosthenes
"It goes against our nature to believe the worst, to assume that we are being deceived, or to be always on guard against such deception. Every power seeker...knows this implicitly." -Larry Abraham
"It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true." -Henry Kissinger
"The poison and pollution in our environment affects how clearly we see things. We need to use our intelligence and organize our consciousness and our perceptions of reality. This is hard work, but it must be done. We are in an evolutionary reality. We are never given something we can't handle. It's about activating the thinking process, about the real value of our ability to think. I say don't believe anything the corporations hand us, whether it is TV, ads or the news as they tell us it is. I am a human, a member of a tribe, not a subject for corporate mining and exploitation. I don't trust their corporate 'democracy'. We humans must think for ourselves. That's what we need to give to the next generation." -John Trudell
"Men, in order to do evil, must first believe what they are doing is good." -Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"Yeah, I was in the old Executive Office Building for those meetings, at one time or another all of us were. BP, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, Shell, Exxon-Mobil, U.S. Oil and Gas...but only the top managers, the CEs were purposely kept away. That was the red flag, the 'plausible deniable' factor. All of us knew what was at stake, we'd seen the reports coming out of the Caspian Basin, all of which added a sense of urgency to Cheney's plan. Rumsfeld showed us SAT images of the oil fields while Wolfowitz did most of the selling, some nonsense about how our workers would be safe, how they'd be embraced, all the while pushing us for timetables on how long it would take us to get the oil flowing again, as if we had a crystal ball. The Brown and Root guys had detailed maps of Iraq's energy infrastructure, you could tell they'd been in it with the CIA lady from the beginning. It was one big circle jerk, and I just kept nodding, wondering what the hell we were doing here, I mean the Bushies had just taken office, and the scenario they outlined, no one actually believed it would happen. Five months later the planes struck the Twin Towers and everyone knew. The Senate Hearings that followed...what a joke. I mean, no one was even placed under oath." -Anonymous Oil Executive, on Vice President Dick Cheney's secret Energy Task Force meetings.
"The most important thing for us is to find Osama bin Laden. It's our number-one priority, and we will not rest until we find him." -George W. Bush, September 13, 2001.
"I don't know where he is [bin Laden]. I have no idea, and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." -George W. Bush, March 13, 2002.
"Therefore, I have asked Vice President Cheney to oversee the development of a coordinated national effort so that we may do the very best possible job of protecting our people from catastrophic harm." -George W. Bush, altering a long-standing protocol by placing the vice president in charge of all federal programs and agencies dealing with terrorism. May 8, 2001.
"Oil is too important to be left to the Arabs." -Henry Kissenger
"The American way of life is not negotiable." -Vice President Dick Cheney
"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather push." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
"You've just got to trust us. We are honorable men." -Richard Helms, CIA Director, 1971.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." -Sinclair Lewis
"It's not the people who vote that counts; It's the people who count the votes." -Joseph Stalin
"Within the next half-century, it will be essential for the human species to have fully operational a flexibly designed, broadly equitable, and internationally coordinated set of initiatives focused on reducing the then-current world population by at least 80 percent." -J. Kenneth Smail, Professor of Anthropology, May 1995.
"There are no permanent allies and no permanent enemies-just permanent interests." -Lord Palmerston, Nineteenth-century British leader.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. -Alexander Fraser Tytler, The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic, 1776.
"The president has the power to seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, call reserve forces amounting to 2.5 million men to duty, institute martial law, seize and control all means of transportation, regulate all private enterprise, restrict travel, and in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all Americans. Most of these laws remain a potential source of virtually unlimited power for a president should he choose to activate them. It is possible that some future president could exercise this vast authority in an attempt to place the United States under authoritarian rule. While the danger of a dictatorship arising through legal means may seem remote to us today, recent history records Hitler seizing control through the use of the emergency powers provisions contained in the laws of the Weimar Republic." -Senators Frank Church and Charles McMathias, September 30, 1973.
"If the development of civilization has such a far-reaching similarity to the development of the individual and if it employs the same methods, may we not be justified in reaching the diagnosis that, under the influence of cultural urges, some civilizations, or some epochs of civilization- possibly the whole of mankind- have become 'neurotic'? -Sigmund Freud
"We have internalized our masters, which is a well-known psychological response to trauma. When faced with overwhelming terror, the human mind splits, with part of itself modeling itself after the oppressor. This is an act of appeasement: 'Look,' the mind says in effect, 'I am like you, so do not harm me.' As a result of the civilizing process, together with this psychological defense mechanism known as 'identification with the aggressor,' we now hear the alien voices of the various representatives of civilization in our heads. Because of these alien ego-identifications we no longer hear our own tribal/primal voice." - Glenn Parton, The Machine in Our Heads.
"Possibly the most important source of life on this planet is the thin film of topsoil....The soil depth and its richness is a basic standard of health of the living planet....The life of the earth is fundamentally predicated upon the soil. If there is no soil, there is no life as we know it...The soil is maintained by its vegetative cover and its optimal, balanced health, this cover is the natural climax ecosystem. If one can accept these few simple principles then we have established a basis of communication upon which we may proceed. Anyone who cannot accept these principles must demonstrate that the world works in some other way." -William H. Koetke
“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses...There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism...I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism....I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.” -Major General Smedly Butler, 1933.
"What would those who are so ready to derisively exclaim 'Conspiracy Theory' have us believe? That people with enormous fortunes and or high political positions do not have greater opportunity than the ordinary citizen to get what they want? That men and women who spend most of their adult lives seeking to obtain or retain money and influence do so only in order to abstain from employing the advantages these confer? That those with wealth and power are inhibited by some mysterious force from making use of their wealth and power to accomplish their purpose? That the rich and well-placed refuse to cooperate with each other in pursuit of common political/economic goals? If in fact there is one thing that characterizes those at the top it is their readiness to organize amongst themselves to secure their desires. No other group in society ever comes close in this regard." -Frank Kofsky, Harry S. Truman and the 1948 War Scare.
"In March of 1915 the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, ship building, and powder interests and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world in the United States and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and a sufficient number of them controlled generally the policy of the daily press of the United States. These 12 men worked the problem out by selecting 179 newspapers and they began, by an elimination process, to retain only those neccessary for the purpose of controlling the general policy of the daily press throughout the country. They found it was only neccessary to purchase the control of 23 of the greatest papers. The 25 papers were agreed upon; emisaries were sent to purchase the policy, national and international, of these papers; an agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarisim, financial policies and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers. This contract is in existence today and continues to this present time and it accounts for the news columns of the daily press of the country focusing on military matters and military preparedness." -Testimony of Congressman Oscar Callaway, 2nd Session of the 64th Congress, February 1917.
"The wily Shafts of state, those Juggler's tricks Which we call deep Design and Politicks (As in a Theatre the Ignorant Fry, Because the Cords escape their Eye Wonder to see the Motions Fly)... Methinks, when you expose the Scene, Down the ill-organ'd Engines fall; Off fly the Visards and discover all, How plain I see thro' the Deceit! How shallow! And how Gross the Cheat! Look where the Pully's tied Above! Oh, what poor Engines move The Thoughts of Monarchs, and Design of States, What pretty Motives rule their Fates!.. Away the frighted Peasants fly, Scar'd at th' unheard-of Prodigy... Lo, it appears! See, how they tremble! How they quake! -Jonathan Swift, Ode to the Honorable Sir William Temple, 1689.
“History will be kind to us because I plan to write it.” -Winston Churchill
"One of the first things I was taught in teacher's college is to control the classroom by creating the illusion of choice. The trick is to present the class with two or more ideas (it's best if you can deceive them into thinking they came up with the idea themselves-which is very easy to do) and then lead them to believe this means they exert some kind of control over what goes on in the classroom. In reality you, the authority figure, intend for both ideas to be covered eventually. So it doesn't matter which they choose, it matters that they think they have a choice." -Heather, quoted in Adbusters, ??
"In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the government of Oceania itself, 'just to keep the people frightened.'" -George Orwell, 1984, p.127.
"If the periodicity of the past prevails, a major sustained creedal passion period will occur in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century. The oscillations among the responses could intensify in such a way as to threaten, to destroy both ideals and institutions. Yet the continued presence of deeply felt moralistic sentiments among major groups in American society could continue to ensure weak and divided government, devoid of authority and unable to deal satisfactorily with the economic, social and foreign challenges confronting the nation. Intensification of this conflict between history and progress could give rise to increasing frustration and increasingly violent oscillations between moralism and cynicism. This situation could lead to a two-phase dialectic involving intensified efforts to reform government, followed by intensified frustration when those efforts produce not progress in a liberal- democratic direction, but obstacles to meeting perceived functional needs. The weakening of government in an effort to reform it could lead eventually to strong demands for the replacement of the weakened and ineffective institutions by more authoritarian structures more effectively designed to meet historical needs. Given the perversity of reform, moralistic extremism in the pursuit of liberal democracy could generate a strong tide toward authoritarian efficiency." -Professor Samuel Huntington, American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony, 1981, p.232.
"The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue is not whether there will be famine but how many people will actually die." -Catherine Bertini, former Executive Director, U.N. World Food Programme.
"...advanced forms of biological warfare that can target specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool." -Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces, and Resources For a New Century, 2000; Project for a New American Century.
"We insist on reserving the right to bomb niggers." -David Lloyd George, Lloyd George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson, 1971, p. 259.
"I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it." Madeleine Albright, responding to a question regarding the death of half a million children as a result of sanctions against Iraq.
"I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people...and in as much as they cannot so live while they do remain together, there must be a position of superior and inferior; and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race." -Abraham Lincoln, 1858.
"All societies divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are rich and the well-born; the other the masses of people. And however often it is said that the voice of the people is the voice of God, it is not true in fact. The people are forever turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right." -Alexander Hamilton
"The food crisis appeared to explode overnight, reinforcing fears that there are just too many people in the world. But according to the FAO, with record grain harvests in 2007, there is more than enough food in the world to feed everyone—at least 1.5 times current demand. In fact, over the last 20 years, food production has risen steadily at over 2.0% a year, while the rate of population growth has dropped to 1.14% a year. Population is not outstripping food supply. “We’re seeing more people hungry and at greater numbers than before,” says World Hunger Program’s executive director Josette Sheeran, “There is food on the shelves but people are priced out of the market.” -Eric Holt-Gimenez and Loren Peabody, From Food Rebellions to Food Sovereignty: Urgent call to fix a broken food system, Institute for Food and Development Policy, May 16, 2008.
"To deal with this problem [increasing population and decreasing food supplies] it will be necessary to find ways of preventing an increase in world population. If this is to be done otherwise than by wars, pestilence, and famines, it will demand a powerful international authority. This authority should deal out the world's food to the various nations in proportion to their population at the time of the establishment of the authority. If any nation subsequently increased its population it should not on that account receive any more food. The motive for not increasing population would therefore be very compelling. What method of preventing an increase might be preferred should be left to each state to decide." -Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science of Society, 1952.
"Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics." -Frederick Henry Osborn, The Future of Human Heredity, 1968.
"...even if successful, voluntary family planning programs cannot be expected to resolve the world population dilemma. Even in the more developed countries, and notably in the United States, surveys show couples desiring more children than are necessary for replacement... Thus we cannot rely on the self-interested choices of individual couples to met society's needs. The only acceptable goal is zero rate of growth because any rate of growth continued long enough leads to astronomical figures. Given existing preferences in family size, governments must go beyond voluntary family planning. To achieve zero rate of population growth governments will have to do more than cajole; they will have to coerce...The logical target for legal and institutional pressures is the family: pressures to postpone marriages; economic pressures and inducements for married women to work outside the home; provision of free abortions for all women requesting them; downgrading of familial roles in comparison with extrafamilial roles; and restriction of housing and consumer goods... Such institutional changes supply motivation for family limitation and the provision of free abortions affords a means. The implications of such major institutional changes go far beyond population control. The family is the basic social unit of society and its major institution for the socialization of the children... to impose more drastic changes on a large scale implies many risks, not least to the regime that undertakes them. The price for this type of population control may well be the institution of a totalitarian regime." -Frank Notestein, The Problem of Population Control, 1969.
"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?" - Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme
"Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex." -Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835.
“To be governed is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be, at every operation and at every transaction, taxed, stamped, registered, numbered, counted, noted, measured, assessed, authorized, licensed, admonished, prevented, forbidden, corrected, reformed, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, fleeced, drilled, extorted from, exploited, monopolized, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at slightest resistance and first word of complaint, to be sacrificed, betrayed, harassed, repressed, disarmed, hunted down, clubbed, abused, fined, sold, and, to crown it all, to be outraged, ridiculed, mocked, derided, dishonored. THAT is government; that is its justice, that's its morality.” -Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
"A viable political substitute for war must posit a generalized external menace to each society of a nature and degree sufficient to require the organization and acceptance of political authority." -Report from Iron Mountain, On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace, 1967.
