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"If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." George Orwell, was a former BBC employee and author of ‘Animal Farm’ (1945), ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (1949) and other political works. These words now sound ironic, on the wall behind the Orwell statue outside Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the BBC, now that the BBC is censoring the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza from its so called 'news' to avoid upsetting the Israeli perpetrators!




“If you feel pain. You are alive. But, if you feel the pain of others, you’re human” Leo Tolstoy




“Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it” Hannah Arendt





"Peace Is The Only Battle Worth Waging" Albert Camus




Number of Journalists killed in wars:

Vietnam War: 63 journalists in 20 years
World War II: 67 journalists in 7 years
Gaza: 176 journalists in 10 month




“The only way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.” Omar Bradley (1893 – 1981) 5-Star General in the U.S. Army.



“Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love." Julian Assange



“Truth, ultimately, is all we have.” Julian Assange




"in court, the US government admitted that there is not a single person anywhere that they could produce that was actually harmed by these publications.” - US lawyer Barry Pollock




“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Dr. Martin Luther King, 1963




“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” Nelson Mandela 4th December 1997




"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Albert Einstein





"all truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer





"The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice" Paul Robeson








“To be an enemy of America can be dangerous. But to be a friend is fatal” Henry Kissinger








“The only way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.” Omar Bradley (1893 – 1981)
(5-Star General in the U.S. Army and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1953)








"The only long-term future of the human race is Peace. If it's not, we won't be here." ~ Yoko Ono








“That which we can only maintain by force we should try to do without.” Quentin Crisp








"Those who sleep in a democracy will wake up in a dictatorship." Otto Gritschneder








"If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.” Julian Assange

“defend the truth and defeat the lies” ! Biden’s inaugural address

"Assuming President Biden is being sincere, he should like the award winning journalist Julian Assange, not be persecuting him!" the website editor





"...nothing is boring except a lie.” ~ Quentin Crisp



"The time for peace is always now" quote from placard







“Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.” Albert Camus, Nobel Prize 1957 Acceptance Speech









"To Love is a right higher than Constitution or laws!” Victoria C. Woodhull








“There is no wealth but life." John Ruskin





"We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books." David Graham Du Bois







“War is a game played by maniacs who kill each other. Locate the man who profits by war and strip him of his profits—war will end.” Woody Guthrie





"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." George Orwell















"One of the chief duties of a citizen is to be a nuisance to the government of his state" Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President
















"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." Winston Churchill
















"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely..." Lord Acton (1834–1902)


























" Philosophy teaches us to doubt what we think is obvious. Propaganda, on the contrary, teaches us to accept for obvious what it would be reasonable to doubt." Aldous Huxley



















“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle






































“the banality of evil” Hannah Arendt







“When politicians lie democracy dies” Marcus J Ball








“It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit” Noël Coward

















“The person that asks a question is a fool for a minute, the person who does not ask a question is a fool for life” Confucius





















Dignitaries and indignities.








“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored” Aldous Huxley


















“If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.” Tony Benn


















“You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan














“..overreaction to terrorism poses a far greater threat to our security than the terrorists themselves” Yuval Noah Harari historian in his book ‘Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow’






















“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” Albert Einstein































“Live a good honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.” Dalai Lama






































“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single teacup. So it finds a bull, gets inside its ear and starts buzzing. The bull goes wild with fear and anger, and destroys the china shop. This is what happened in the Middle East in the last decade. Islamic fundamentalists could never have toppled Saddam Hussein by themselves. Instead they enraged the USA by the 9/11 attacks, and the USA destroyed the Middle Eastern china shop for them. Now they flourish in the wreckage.” Yuval Noah Harari in his book ‘Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow’



































"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank


































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“When you get tired go faster.” David McBride




















"If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied" Rudyard Kipling





























"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met." Poet W.B Yeats












"If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth." Julian Assange












"Truth never damages a cause that is just" Mahatma Gandhi




"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience." Howard Zinn









"Everything we see hides another thing" Rene Magritte
























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“Change is the only constant in life.” Heraclitus
















































































“Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.” Edmund Burke




































“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free,” Benedict Spinoza 1656























































“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.” Spinoza














































“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” Aldous Huxley















"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.” Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara (1909 – 1999)



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"A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it." Albert Einstein
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