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"And as I was looking at those towers that were destroyed in Lebanon, it occurred to me that we have to punish the transgressor with the same, and that we had to destroy the towers in America, so that they taste what we tasted and they stop killing our women and children."
- Osama Bin Laden

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/bin.laden.transcript/index.html

I'm just making his motive clear.

"When Tarquin the Proud was asked what the best mode of governing a conquered city,he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden."
-Livy

"Great, then, is the shame of God, if he refuses release Finn from such shackles. For if God Himself were in any pain or difficulty, Finn would redeem him with silver or gold, or through fighting and battle, until he was victorious!"
- Oisin

Criticism of Christianity is as old as Christianity itself.

"It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs."
- Aristotle

"'Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live' — on that great noon, let this be our last will."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

If politics is BS, and your favorite subject is politics, what does that say about you?

I am the warmth of hearth on cold winter nights.
I am the shade screening you from the hot summer sun.
My fruits and restoring drinks quench your thirst as you journey onward.
I am the beam that holds your house;
The door of your homestead;
The bed on which you lie,
And the timber that builds your boat.
I am the handle of your hoe,the wood of your cradle,and the shell of your coffin.

-sign on a tree in Madrid Spain

"Whether you wish to admit it or not, when you approve, morally, of the bombing of foreign targets by the U.S. military, you are approving of acts morally equivalent to the bombing in Oklahoma City."
- Timothy McVeigh

There is a reaper who's name is death,
And with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.

Henry W. Longfellow

And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death.
He had come like a thief in the night.
And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.
And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay.
And the flames of the tripods expired.
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

- Edgar Allan Poe

The way is sacred;you cannot own it.
He who would own it would destroy it.
He who would hold it would lose it.

You will find,therefore,that
Sometimes things are ahead.
And sometimes they are behind.

Sometimes there will be strength and
Sometimes there will be weakness,
Thus the sage avoids extremes,
Indulgence,
And complacency.

Chinese Proverb

'keep them in the public houses and out of the libraries'

Winston Churchill, on the working class

“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”

Bertolt Brecht

Mumon's Poem
Hundreds of flowers in spring,
The moon in Autumn,
A cool breeze in summer,
And snow in winter;
If there is no vain cloud in your mind
For you it is a good season.

You tell me then that I must perish,
Like the flowers that I cherish.
Nothing remaining of my name,
Nothing remembered of my fame?
But the gardens I planted still are young-
The songs I sang will still be sung!

Huexotzin
Prince of Texcoco
Circa 1484