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matthew 19:16-24:
16 now behold, one came and said to him, "good teacher, what good thing shall i do that i may have eternal life?" |
12 then jesus went into the temple of god and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who sold doves. |
44 now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, |
52 he hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. |
"we are: against the international order of death, against the globalization of war and armaments. against dictatorships, against authoritarianism, against repression. against the politics of economic liberalization, against hunger, against poverty, against robbery, against corruption. against patriarchy, against xenophobia, against discrimination, against racism, against crime, against the destruction of the environment. against militarism. against stupidity, against lies, against ignorance. against slavery, against intolerance, against injustice. against marginalization, against forgetfulness. against neoliberlism. |
| - subcomandante marcos |
"we are men and women for whom "country," "democracy," "liberty," and "justice" should be—besides grand and noble words—a reality for the mexican nation. for us, it is shameful to live without reaching that goal. to die fighting for it is an honor." |
| - subcomandante marcos |
"history shows that the doors to a peaceful change and to a violent change—to peace and to war—are inversely linked; when one is closed, the other opens. by closing the door to a peaceful transition to democracy, you opened the heavy portal to war." |
| - subcomandante marcos |
"why do they fear us? why so much hate for so few and so small a group? because we have defied them, and the worst part about defiance is that it establishes a precedent." |
| - subcomandante marcos |
"the indigenous communities suffer not only the "serious privations, injustices, and lack of opportunity" that you point out. they also suffer a serious illness that, little by little, begins to affect the rest of the population: rebellion. while your government lasts, you will be witness to this." |
| - subcomandante marcos |
"we are men and women, children and old people, who have recuperated, together with the word dignity, the conviction that human beings should struggle to be free if they are slaves, and once free, should struggle so that other human beings also can be free." |
| - subcomandante marcos |
"marcos is a homosexual in san francisco, a black in south africa, an asian in europe, a chicano in san ysidro, an anarchist in spain, a palestinian in israel, a mayan indian in the streets of san cristobal, a gang member in neza, a rocker in the national university, a jew in germany, an ombudsman in the defense ministry, a communist in the post-cold war era, an artist without gallery or portfolio, a pacifist in bosnia, a housewife alone on saturday night in any neighborhood in any city in mexico, a striker in the c.t.m., a reporter writing filler stories for the back pages, a single woman on the metro at 10 pm, a peasant without land, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student, a dissident amid free market economics, a writer without books or readers, and, of course, a zapatista in the mountains of southeast mexico. so marcos is a human being—any human being—in this world. marcos is all the exploited, marginalized, and oppressed minorities, resisting and saying, 'enough!'" |
| - subcomandante marcos |
"chiapas loses blood through many veins: through oil and gas ducts, electric lines, railways; through bank accounts, trucks, vans, boats, and planes; through clandestine paths, gaps, and forest trails. this land continues to pay tribute to the imperialists: petroleum, electricity, cattle, money, coffee, banana, honey, corn, cacao, tobacco, sugar, soy, melon, sorghum, mamey, mango, tamarind, avocado, and chiapaneco blood all flow as a result of the thousand teeth sunk into the throat of the mexican southeast. these raw materials, thousands of millions of tons of them, flow to mexican ports, railroads, air and truck transportation centers. from there they are sent to different parts of the world—the united states, canada, holland, germany, italy, japan—but all to fulfill one same destiny: to feed imperialism. since the beginning, the fee that capitalism imposes on the southeastern part of the country makes chiapas ooze blood and mud." |
| - subcomandante marcos |
"the great world power has not yet found the weapon to destroy dreams." |
| - subcomandante marcos |
"if you are refering to the cost of zapatista dignity, know that there is not enough money in the entire nation to come close to its price. don't deceive yourself into thinking that our cry—"everything for everyone, nothing for ourselves"—is a passing fancy, or a deceit to cover up our ambition for power. the zapatistas don't have a price, because dignity does not have a price." |
| - subcomandante marcos |
"know that a bed is only a pretext for love; that a tune is only an adornment to dance; and that nationalism is mearely a circumstantial accident for struggle." |
| - subcomandante marcos |
"cut from the inverse side, a mirror ceases to be a mirror and becomes a glass. |
| - subcomandante marcos |
"neoliberalism doesn't run many countries into one country; it turns each country into many countries." |
| - subcomandante marcos |
"should we ask for pardon from those who deny us the right and capacity to govern ourselves? from those who don't respect our customs or our culture and who ask us for identification papers and obedience to a law whose existence and moral basis we don't accept? from those who oppress us, torture us, assassinate us, disappear us for the grave 'crime' of wanting a piece of land, not too big and not too small, but just a simple piece of land on which we can grow something to fill our stomachs?" |
| - subcomandante marcos |
"cry for the gods, cry for the people, cry for the land that was taken away, and then yet you'll find hawaii." |
| - israel kamakawiwoole |
"today is the worst day of the rest of your life." |
| - chuck palahniuk |
"laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendsip, and it is far the best ending for one." |
| - oscar wilde |
"the route you abandoned is always the path that you probably should be upon." |
| - the weakerthans |
"there's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. what is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. they don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. they shit them away. dumb fuckers. they concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. their minds are full of cotton. they swallow god without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. their brains are stuffed with cotton. they look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. play them the great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. most people's deaths are a sham. there's nothing left to die." |
| - charles bukowski |
"a day without fun is a day that eats shit." |
| - hunter s. thompson |
"i tell you: one must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star!" |
| - friedrich nietzsche |
"i was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. chaucer is dead, spencer is dead, so is milton, so is shakespeare, and i'm not feeling so well myself." |
| - mark twain |
"no one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death." |
| - william s. burroughs |
"truth sucks. fuck truth. style is more important—how you do each and every little thing." |
| - charles bukowski |
"the passion for destruction is a creative passion." |
| - mikhail bakunin |
"education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." |
| - oscar wilde |
"life's too short to make another's shorter." |
| - propagandhi |
"find out what you're afraid of and go live there." |
| - chuck palahniuk |
"we're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! that alone should make us love each other but it doesn't." |
| - charles bukowski |
"and whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive." |
| - matthew 21:22 |
"a new commandment i give to you, that you love one another; as i have loved you, that you also love one another." |
| - john 13:34 |
"in the name of god, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you." |
| - leo tolstoy |
"you have enemies? good. that means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." |
| - winston churchill |
"never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." |
| - napoleon bonaparte |
"man has been studied more carefully than any other animal, and yet there is the greatest possible diversity amongst capable judges whether he should be classed as a single species or race, or as two (virey), as three (jacquinot), as four (kant), five (blumenbach), six (buffon), seven (hunter), eight (agassiz), eleven (pickering), fifteen (bory st. vincent), sixteen (desmoulins), twenty-two (morton), sixty (crawfurd), or as sixty-three, according to burke. this diversity of judgment does not prove that the races ought not to be ranked as species, but it shews that they graduate into each other, and that it is hardly possible to discover clear distinctive characters between them." |
| - charles darwin |
"i believe in the brotherhood of man, but i don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. i believe in treating people right, but i'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment." |
| - malcolm x |
"the thing that worries me about the computer age is the fact that people know so much about you. it's an incredible invasion of privacy. i heard this weird rumor on the internet about how the military are funding this great big research project, and basically they believe that in the future, the balance of power won't be determined by who has the most nuclear weapons, but by who has all the information. i'm not afraid of being taken over by computers though, because the thing is, computers cannot resist. you can always smash 'em up, and they're totally defenseless. all we need are more people with hammers." |
| - thom york |
"the stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future." |
| - napoleon bonaparte |
"i tried sex once with a woman—it was overrated. i tried sex once with a man—it was very painful." |
| - salvador dali |
"in le subconscious you fuck ugly people, never beautiful, because la libido always desires something repulsive." |
| - salvador dali |
"at the age of six years i wanted to be a chef. at the age of seven i wanted to be napoleon. my ambitions have continued to grow at the same rate ever since." |
| - salvador dali |
"every generalization is dangerous, especially this one." |
| - mark twain |
"the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning." |
| - mark twain |
"when i was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant i could hardly stand to have the old man around. but when i got to be twenty-one, i was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." |
| - mark twain |
"i don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." |
| - mark twain |
"the only reason why god created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey." |
| - mark twain |
"the trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." |
| - mark twain |
"be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery." |
| - malcolm x |
"when did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?" |
| - chuck palahniuk |
"your heart is my pinata." |
| - chuck palahniuk |
"anarchism is a part of human nature, communism its logical extension." |
| - nestor makhno |
"the anarchists are simply unterrified jeffersonian democrats. they believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all." |
| - benjamin tucker |
"anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation." |
| - alexander berkman |
"everything for everyone, nothing for ourselves." |
| - e.z.l.n. |
"anarchism is 'stateless socialism.'" |
| - mikhail bakunin |
"it's time to stop singing and start swinging." |
| - malcolm x |
"so it is basically, blatantly obvious, and in fact, fucking common sense, that when people are forced to live in shit, under your conditions, crime will undoubtedly spread." |
| - conflict |
"liberals can be way worse, because while conservatives and liberals essentially act the same, liberals obscure their vile ways behind a bunch of feel-good bullshit. i prefer honest enemies to disingenuous 'allies' any day." |
| - some random person on livejournal |
"i prefer to die on my feet, rather than live on my knees." |
| - emiliano zapata |
"fascism is capitalism in decay." |
| - vladimir lenin |
"if i were the president, i could stop terrorist attacks against the united states in a few days. permanently. i would first apologize—very publicly and very sincerely—to all the widows and orphans, the impoverished and the tortured, and all the many millions of other victims of american imperialism. then i would announce that america's global military interventions have come to an end. i would then inform israel that it is no longer the 51st state of the union but—oddly enough—a foreign country. then i would reduce the military budget by at least 90 percent and use the savings to pay reparations to the victims and repair the damage from the many american bombings, invasions and sanctions. there would be enough money. one year of our military budget is equal to more than $20,000 per hour for every hour since jesus christ was born. that's one year. that's what i'd do on my first three days in the white house. |
| - william blum |
"the liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual." |
| - mikhail bakunin |
"the people in power will not disappear voluntarily; giving flowers to cops just isn't going to work. this thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. they only way i like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window." |
| - william s. burroughs |
"america's religion is capitalism. america's language is money." |
| - immortal technique |
"let's sit down and talk about the revolution and stuff." |
| - atari teenage riot |
"anarchism is democracy without the government." |
| - david graber |
"you hate america, don't you?" she said. |
| - kurt vonnegut |
"oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them, so what good are they?" |
| - ammon hennacy |
"anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law." |
| - henry david thoreau |
"i can no longer obey; i have tasted command, and i cannot give it up." |
| - napoleon bonaparte |
"he asked me did i feel any white men had ever done anything for the black man in america. i told him, 'yes, i can think of two. hitler, and stalin. the black man in america couldn't get a decent factory job until hitler put so much pressure on the white man. and then stalin kept up the pressure—" |
| - malcolm x |
"the measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not." |
| - joseph sobran |
"i was tried here in this room for murder and i was convicted of anarchy. i protest against being sentenced to death, because i have not been found guilty of murder. i have been tried for murder, but i have been convicted because i am an anarchist. if the ruling classes think that by hanging us, hanging a few anarchists, they can crush out anarchy, they will be badly mistaken, because the anarchist loves his principles more than his life. an anarchist is always ready to die for his principles." |
| - adolph fischer |
"when a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'whose?'" |
| - don marquis |
"you can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution." |
| - fred hampton |
"to sum up what we mean by the term 'communism,' communism is primarily the tendency towards human community, which, in the various forms in which it has expressed itself in course of human history, has always been the search for a world where there will exist neither laws, nor property, nor the state, nor discrimination which divides people, nor wealth which distinguishes some people from others, nor power which oppresses some of them. therefore to be a communist is first and foremost to consider that the greatest wealth lies in human relationships and that all the rest flows from this." |
| - the communist tendency in history |
"we stand for the maintenance of private property... we shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order." |
| - adolf hitler |
"timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty." |
| - thomas jefferson |
"if you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. maybe it'll make everyone think of how crazy war is, and while they're thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them." |
| - jack handey |
"fascism is a religion. the twentieth century will be known in history as the century of fascism." |
| - benito mussolini |
"the freedom of all is essential to my freedom." |
| - mikhail bakunin |
"when we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope." |
| - joseph stalin |
"anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary." |
| - mikhail bakunin |
"freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it." |
| - mikhail bakunin |
"when the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the people's stick.'" |
| - mikhail bakunin |
"war is god's way of teaching americans geography." |
| - ambrose bierce |
"first god created idiots, this was for practice. then he made congress." |
| - mark twain |
"there are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. both combatants know what's in store for the loser. we are ready to end fascism once and for all." |
| - durruti |
"we are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us." |
| - malcolm x |
"you can't have capitalism without racism." |
| - malcolm x |
"usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. they just cry over their condition. but when they get angry, they bring about a change." |
| - malcolm x |
"i don't call it violence when it's self-defense, i call it intelligence." |
| - malcolm x |
"i believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. i believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. i believe that there will be that kind of clash but i don't think it will be based on the color of the skin." |
| - malcolm x |
"we declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence... by any means necessary." |
| - malcolm x |
"if you don't stand up for something, you'll fall for anything." |
| - malcolm x |
"we have to go through a real revolution in our thinking and no longer think of the united states as needing to be a superpower. sweden is not worried about terrorists. denmark, holland, new zealand. there are a lot of places in the world not worried about terrorists. they don't have their troops everywhere; they don't have their naval vessels everywhere; they're not bothering other people; they're not intervening. they don't have a record of massive military destruction and intervention. let's be a more modest nation. |
| - howard zinn |
"in war, the evil of the means is certain and the achievement of the end, however important, is always uncertain. that is, war always sets off a chain of events that are unpredictable. for instance, in world war ii, you could not be certain that you would defeat fascism. you might be fairly certain that you could defeat hitler and mussolini; but you could not be certain that you would be doing away with all the elements of fascism, with militarism, racism, imperialism, and violence. in fact, after 50 million deaths, that did not happen." |
| - howard zinn |
"we have to point out the immediate danger that the united states, having run out of targets in afghanistan, is considering military action against iraq. people in the bush administration are also talking about waging wars in other countries like somalia and syria. i notice they don't mention turkey or saudi arabia. there is a precise division between who we bomb and who we don't bomb. the division has nothing to do with which countries may be harboring terrorists. the division has only to do with which countries we don't control yet. the countries that we control, like turkey and saudi arabia, can harbor as many terrorists as they want. we will look elsewhere." |
| - howard zinn |
"the simple exercise of the first amendment, of saying that we should be able to criticize our government, is enough to put you on lynne cheney's list. i think that should be brought to more people's attention because i think americans are sensitive to invasions of free speech. unfortunately, they are most aroused when it's directed at american citizens rather than only at muslims or immigrants." |
| - howard zinn |
"for bush to call us 'a peaceful nation' means forgetting an enormous amount of history. now, maybe that history is too much for bush to take in, but even a small part of it would be enough to suggest that we have not been a peaceful nation. in fact, it is safe to say that since world war ii, there has not been a more warlike nation in the world than the united states. |
| - howard zinn |
"to me, this idea that 'you mustn't criticize your government and you must fall in line behind the president' is really a great danger to the very democracy that bush claims we are defending by going to war. |
| - howard zinn |
"both the lies and the truth have been handed down by the church." |
| - leo tolstoy |
"i know men and i tell you that jesus christ is no mere man. between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. alexander, caesar, charlemagne, and i founded empires. but on what did we rest the creations of our genius? upon force. jesus christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for him." |
| - napoleon bonaparte |
"then ye look at that fuckin book, that fuckin bible. plenty ay thaim in the fuckin nick. dinnae ken how any cunt kin read that shite; doth this, begat that, it's no even the the queen's fuckin english. but they tell ays thit the bible says thit god made man in ehs ain image. so ah take that as meaning that no tae try tae be like god wid be a fuckin big insult tae the cunt, that's the wey ah see it." |
| - napoleon bonaparte |
"the sword is mightier than the pen." |
| - me |
the hawaiian sovereignty organization that has occupied the mauka lawn of iolani palace during daylight hours on weekdays since last wednesday now has a permit to do so through friday. |
"a sickening feeling of loss hangs over me. it's easy to love, or for that matter hate, somebody in their absence, somebody we don't really know and i'm an expert at that." |
| - irvine welsh |
a hawaiian sovereignty group yesterday spent a second day peacefully occupying the mauka lawn of iolani palace, claiming once again to be the legitimate government of hawaii. |
a hawaiian sovereignty group occupied the grounds of iolani palace, locked the gates and blocked non-hawaiians from entering for about eight hours yesterday to protest the u.s.-backed overthrow of the hawaiian government more than a century ago. |
all gates and entrances to iolani palace were locked and guarded yesterday by members of a hawaiian sovereignty group called the hawaiian kingdom government. the takeover began yesterday around 5:30 a.m. |
mahealani kahau, center right, spokeswoman and head of the so-called hawaiian kingdom government denies a man access to a common walkway across the palace grounds after the group took over the government property to use as its headquarters. kahau is pointing to a sign on an iron gate blocking the entrance, which states: warning no trespassing, hawaii kingdom government. this is the law, she told daniel pelt, the visitor at the gate. pelt responded: all of you against one haole boy? what is all of this aggression? kahau answered that the authorities knew of the group's takeover and agreed with it. then he left. |
mahealani kahau is surrounded by her bodyguards as she patrols the grounds of iolani palace. about 30 members of her group took over the palace grounds earlier in the day. group members say they do not recognize the state or federal government. a docent named gladys, far right, joined the group. she said she had worked at the palace for 15 years and welcomed the takeover and wondered why it had taken so long. |
visitors with reservations to tour the palace waited outside the locked gates, unable to enter. |
mahealani kahau talked with honolulu police chief boise correa after her group took over the grounds of iolani palace. correa would not tell the media what they had spoken about and said the palace grounds were not his jurisdiction, but that of the state. |
mahealani kahau talks with kippen de alba chu, executive director of iolani palace. |
tourists from california with reservations to tour the palace are kept from entering the palace grounds by a member of the so-called hawaiian kingdom government. |
richard kinney, a hawaiian sovereignty supporter, carries an upside down hawaiian flag on the grounds of iolani palace, in support of the hawaiian kingdom government. |