"I urge Governments to considerably reduce funds allocated to the military, not only as a disarmament issue, but also as a potential contributor to social and environmental protection and call for the holding of referenda on this issue worldwide."

-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

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“Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.”
“If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, he is severed from the Godhead. If anyone should assert that He passed through the Virgin as through a channel, and was not at once divinely and humanly formed in her (divinely, because without the intervention of a man; humanly, because in accordance with the laws of gestation), he is in like manner godless.”
“Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.”

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“Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.”
“There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror- blackened memories which I have carried so long, were never meant to be borne by the human intellect.”
“It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go to prison.”

Source : "Manager of the month" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2008.
“Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.”

Source : "The Age of Educational Romanticism". The New Criterion, May 01, 2008.
“Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”

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