Quote: Albert Einstein
Friday, April 6th, 2007“Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.” — Albert Einstein
Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category
Quote: Henry Louis Mencken
Thursday, November 18th, 2004
“The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small
electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying
even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is
nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand,
and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all
the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre
— the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind
is a virtual vacuum.
“The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is
perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of
the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White
House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
— Henry Louis Mencken, Baltimore Evening Sun, 26 July 1920
Quote: Buddha
Friday, January 23rd, 2004
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe
in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe
in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not
believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not
believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with i
reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it
and live up to it.”
– Buddha
Quote: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sunday, January 18th, 2004
“Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the
war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war we must spread
the propaganda of peace. We must combine the fervor of the civil
rights movement with the peace movement. We must demonstrate,
teach and preach, until the very foundations of our nation are
shaken. We must work unceasingly to lift this nation that we
love to a higher destiny, to a new plateau of compassion, to
a more noble expression of humaneness.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
February 25, 1967, The Nation Institute, Los Angeles
Quote: Hermann Goering
Wednesday, January 7th, 2004
“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders
of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple
matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist 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 are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the
country to greater danger.”
– Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
