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Lewis D. Williams
lewisdwilliams@nostrplebs.com
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Aspiring Christian, author, peacemaker.
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“It took millions of people. It took people working behind the scenes; people protesting on the streets; for days, and weeks, and months, and years... And we achieved it.”
— Stella Assange
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“War exists because people wish it to exist.”
— Aldous Huxley, Ends & Means (1937)
“But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958)
“To me, what really matters, first and foremost, is the issue of war and peace. That’s always been my biggest issue. I genuinely don’t understand, from any political, ideological perspective, how that’s not the most important issue: if you’re a left-winger, and the basic, fundamental building block of your philosophy is that power dynamics can be abusive, and you want to be on the side of the people with less power [against] those who wield it over them — well, there’s no better example of that than war; if you’re a libertarian, and you care about government violating people’s rights — well, there’s no better example of that than war; and if you’re a right-winger, who cares about your nation and order, and things like this — well, there’s nothing more destructive to nations and order than war.”
— Dave Smith
“[Corporate] journalists are war criminals.”
— Julian Assange
“I don’t actually believe in the phrase ‘war crimes’. As far as I’m concerned all war is crime.”
— Peter Hitchens
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love [only] those who love you, what reward have you?”
― Matthew 5:43-46
“In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.”
― Montesquieu
“Man matures when he stops believing that politics solves his problems.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila
“Political tags ― such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth ― are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
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