And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music --- Friedrich Nietzsche
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“He is not famous. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on this earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. Yet it may be that the way of life he has chosen for himself may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.” -Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
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"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." --Samuel Adams
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"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." -- Albert Einstein
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" Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. "-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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" History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. "-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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" Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. "-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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" Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. "-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"The greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my own government."-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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" Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it. "-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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" Martin Luther King is the most notorious liar in the country."-- J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI 1924-1972
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"Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media." --Ralph McGehee [Former CIA analyst & Author]
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"We [the U.S.] has over 200 incidents in which we have put our troops into other countries to force them to our will."-- John Stockwell, former CIA official
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"I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in '47, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo. " -- Harry S Truman (1961)
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"History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."-- Ambrose Bierce, American writer, 1842-1914
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"If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you." --Oscar Wilde
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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. --Winston Churchill
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In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. --Voltaire (1764)
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. --Pericles (430 B.C.)
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"When the governing class isn't chosen for quality it is chosen for material wealth : this always means decadence, the lowest stage a society can reach." LINDBERGH, CHARLES. 20th c. American aviator, writer.
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"He who allows oppression, shares the crime." Erasmus Darwin
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"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." Tacitus
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"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for." --Thomas Jefferson
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"I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime." --Albert Einstein, 1947
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"The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated over and over." -- Adolph Hitler
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" Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the (U.S.) media."-- Noam Chomsky
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"Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th.." --President Bush, speaking to the United Nations.
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"I will never apologize for the United States of America - I don't care what the facts are." --President George Bush 1988
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"We need a common enemy to unite us." -- Condoleeza Rice, March 2000
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"The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." —Constitution of the United States
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"To announce that there must be NO criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President Right or Wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is Morally treasonable to the American Public." Former Republican President, Theodore Roosevelt
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"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
--Albert Einstein
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"If Blair and Bush are up for the peace prize Guiliani, Bin Laden, Kissinger & Sharon can't be far behind. I wish they'd change the name of the award to something like "merchants of death prize" or "best mass murders award" or "guy that made the most bucks for killing the most poor people, most cruelly prize" Then everybody would start cheering for their favorite. How about "best liar who says, "What Me Murder? " It's a shame Hitler is not still alive (though he probably wouldn't win)." -- William Putney
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"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak." --Michel de Montaigne
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"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine
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"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass
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"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."--Marcus Aurelius
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" "Who watches the watchmen?" -- Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
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Vulgas vult decepi - the (common) people wish to be decieved. -- Phaedrus
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"Authoritarian government required to speak, is silent...Representative government required to speak, LIES with impunity". -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." --Samuel Adams
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“The citizen who sees his society’s democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.” --Mark Twain
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"The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy." --Ramsey Clark [Former U.S. Attorney General under President Lyndon Johnson]
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"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." --Woodrow Wilson [U.S. President during World War I]
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"By way of deception, thou shalt do war."--Motto of the Mossad
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"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda."-- General Douglas MacArthur
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"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear-kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it ..."-- General Douglas MacArthur, 1957
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"All warfare is based on deception."-- Sun Tzu, The Art Of War
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"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."-- George Orwell, writer
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"The men who possess real power in this country have no intention of ending the cold war."-- Albert Einstein
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An English Plea For Peace With The American Colonies

My Lords, this ruinous and ignominious situation, where we cannot act with success, nor suffer with honour, calls upon us to remonstrate in the strongest and loudest language of truth, to rescue the ear of Majesty from the delusions which surround it. You cannot, I venture to say, you cannot conquer America.

What is your present situation there? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much. You may swell every expense, and strain every effort, still more extravagantly; accumulate every assistance you can beg or borrow; traffic and barter with every pitiful German Prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign country: your efforts are forever vain and impotent-doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies, to overrun them with the sordid sons of rapine and of plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty! IF I WERE AN AMERICAN, AS I AM AN ENGLISHMAN, WHILE A FOREIGN TROOP WAS LANDED IN MY COUNTRY, I NEVER WOULD LAY DOWN MY ARMS -Never! Never! Never!: William Pitt - - November 18th 1777
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"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
-- Johann W. von Goethe

1. Drive a tank.
2. Blow something up with a tank.
3. Watch the sun rise from the pyramids in Giza.
4. Visit all 88 temples in Shikoku on foot.
5. Try Habu Sake.
6. Travel to Venice by orient express.
7. See Verdi's La Traviata
8. Learn to play Chopin, Mozart and Satie on piano by memory.
9. Go sailing again with my Dad, this time with a few bottles of good Scotch.
10. Live in an old greek-revival style house.
11. Learn to scuba dive.
12. Get lost somewhere in Africa, and end up in India.
13. Finally get a bottle of Kalashnikov vodka.
14. Have lunch with David Bowie, and talk about something besides music.
15. Learn Cantonese, Hindi, Russian, Italian, maybe Spanish, and improve my Japanese. Learn to read Latin, Hebrew, Greek, Chinese character and Heiroglyph better.
16. Own a VW Thing. Spray paint it gray and black camouflage. It must be convertible so I can wave to the old ladies.
17. Make something that someone might consider their favorite thing.

"Who is Nag?" said he, "I am Nag."

"The great God Brahm put his mark upon all our people, when the first cobra spread his hood to keep the sun off Brahm as he slept. Look, and be afraid..."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book




"Homage to the snakes which ever move around the Earth
And in the sky and in heaven.
Homage to the snakes which are in the arrows of magicians
And of tree spirits, and which lie in holes.
Homage to those snakes which are in the brightness of heaven
Which are in the rays of the sun; which have made their abode in the waters."

-translated from the Atharva Veda