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Peace and othering

This quote is from Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk. It is the preface in the Vietnamese version of his book “No man is an island”. Violence rests on the assumption … Continue reading

29 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

War is the terrorism of the rich

“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.” (Sir) Peter Ustinov

28 August, 2006 · 2 Comments

Zinn: On Civil OBEDIENCE

Nice quote from Howard Zinn here: “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates … Continue reading

25 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Rules of conduct in western media on I-P

Anon. – forwarded by a friend — if anyone might know to whom I may acknowledge as the author of this, drop me a line. BTW, we know that most … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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