Quotations

'Here's a direct quote: "If I said what I know about both candidates, they'd have to cancel the election." That's what Jeffrey told me in 2016.' Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein's brother, speaking to The New York Post 1 January, 2025

‘The trick is to survive success. Anyone can survive failure’ Tony Bennett

"If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan." Eddie Izzard

“Losers, like autodidacts, always have wider knowledge than winners, if you want to win you must know only one thing and don’t waste time knowing them all, the pleasure of erudition is reserved for losers. The more things one knows, the more things didn’t go the right way. " Umberto Eco

“..entitled domination and the astonishing savagery of spite, state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder. These are facts. They need to be faced. So for the sake of clarity, let’s name it. The inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch. I’m here to name it without hesitation or doubt in my mind, and to lend my unwavering solidarity to all those who recognise the unacceptable complacency of our greed-addicted governments who make nice with planet wreckers and war criminals, wherever they come from.” British actress Tilda Swinton at the Berlin film festival, avoiding naming anything clearly.

"Andiatorocte is the title of a volume of poems by the Rev. Clarence Walworth, of Albany, N. Y. It is a word borrowed from the Indians, and should, we think, be returned to them as soon as possible." Oscar Wilde in a book review in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1899, 2 years after he left Reading Gaol.

'The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.' Otto von Bismarck

Tulsi Gabbard

@TulsiGabbard

This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden Admin/NATO had simply acknowledged Russia’s legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraine’s becoming a member of NATO, which would mean US/NATO forces right on Russia’s border

Feb 24, 2022

“Thatcher could sort of bend the system to some of the
things she wanted to do, but she never took on the
permanent civil service. Major was obviously completely hopeless. Once Blair came in then in lots of ways the official system really took over. The Tories never really understood what happened and never wanted to grapple with it. They were in office but never actually in power.” Dominic Cummings, The Sunday Times, February 9 2025


'According to US experts, almost 900,000 people were killed during wars unleashed by the United States after 2001, and over 38 million became refugees. Please note, we did not invent these statistics; it is the Americans who are providing them. They are now simply trying to erase all this from the memory of humankind, and they are pretending that all this never happened. However, no one in the world has forgotten this or will ever forget it. None of them cares about human casualties and tragedies because many trillions of dollars are at stake, of course.' Vladmir Putin in February 2023. I am no admirer or defender of Putin but he was right.


“The best thing the United States can do to rebuild Gaza and to promote peace in the Middle East is to stop funding Israel’s occupation and blockade of Gaza.” Ron Paul


'History is like a Ferris wheel. The Jews in 1948 believed that expelling Arabs from their homes would buy them quiet within the borders of their new state. Fast-forward 77 years later – it didn't. Deportation did not bring security then, and will not bring it now, even though it may bring some real estate. I'd ask if there was anyone who wanted to live on top of a mass grave, but if this didn't bother anyone in Tantura, it may not deter anyone in Gaza either.' Hanin Majadli in Ha'aretz, February 9, 2025