"Instead of ending U.S. military aid to the 23rd wealthiest country to use for its consistent violations of international law and human rights, we see the Obama administration escalating the annual amount of aid, so that Israel will now start each year with almost $4 billion, with $3.8 billion a year of military aid coming from our tax money to support its military, without any restrictions on how it makes - how it uses that money, what weapons in the U.S. it's able to buy."

-- Phyllis Bennis

#Country Quotes #Military Quotes #Rights Quotes

“PHP is rarely the bottleneck.”

Source : "PHP Performance" Talk in San Francisco, talks.php.net. July 29, 2010.
“If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.”

Source : Jessica Day George (2011). “Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow”, p.205, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Most one-run games are lost, not won.”
“In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need new ways of assessing the latter. There are people who will continue to write nineteenth-century novels in the early twenty-first, and even win major prizes for them, but that's not very interesting, intellectually or emotionally.”
“I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?”
“The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.”

Source : FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Apr 28, 2014
“Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?”
“The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.”

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