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"Those who sleep in a democracy will wake up in a dictatorship." Otto Gritschneder



"If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.” Julian Assange

“defend the truth and defeat the lies” ! Biden’s inaugural address

"Assuming President Biden is being sincere, he should like the award winning journalist Julian Assange, not be persecuting him!" the website editor






"...nothing is boring except a lie.” ~ Quentin Crisp





"The time for peace is always now" quote from placard










“There is no wealth but life." John Ruskin
































"One of the chief duties of a citizen is to be a nuisance to the government of his state" Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President

















"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." Winston Churchill













































" Philosophy teaches us to doubt what we think is obvious. Propaganda, on the contrary, teaches us to accept for obvious what it would be reasonable to doubt." Aldous Huxley



















“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle














































“When politicians lie democracy dies” Marcus J Ball







“It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit” Noël Coward

















“The person that asks a question is a fool for a minute, the person who does not ask a question is a fool for life” Confucius





















Dignitaries and indignities.








“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored” Aldous Huxley


















“If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.” Tony Benn


















“You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan














“..overreaction to terrorism poses a far greater threat to our security than the terrorists themselves” Yuval Noah Harari historian in his book ‘Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow’






















“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” Albert Einstein































“Live a good honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.” Dalai Lama






































“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single teacup. So it finds a bull, gets inside its ear and starts buzzing. The bull goes wild with fear and anger, and destroys the china shop. This is what happened in the Middle East in the last decade. Islamic fundamentalists could never have toppled Saddam Hussein by themselves. Instead they enraged the USA by the 9/11 attacks, and the USA destroyed the Middle Eastern china shop for them. Now they flourish in the wreckage.” Yuval Noah Harari in his book ‘Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow’



































"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank


































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"If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied" Rudyard Kipling





























"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met." Poet W.B Yeats












"If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth." Julian Assange












"Truth never damages a cause that is just" Mahatma Gandhi




"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience." Howard Zinn









"Everything we see hides another thing" Rene Magritte
























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“Change is the only constant in life.” Heraclitus
















































































“Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.” Edmund Burke




























































































“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.” Spinoza














































“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” Aldous Huxley















"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.” Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara (1909 – 1999)



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"A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it." Albert Einstein
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