"A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history."

-- H. G. Wells

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“Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”

Source : William Blum (2006). “Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower”, p.162, Zed Books
“When Nikita Khrushchev wrapped himself in the bloody mantle of the Czars he broke Hungary, he broke the little Communist parties over the western world, and he broke the hearts of many honest men who had trusted a little too far, a little too long.”
“The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.”
“It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.”
“Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.”
“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
“The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.”
“I almost dropped dead the first time I heard Bob Dole say 'gay marriage' on the floor of the senate. He wasn't saying nice things, but he said it! I never thought in my lifetime I'd hear that. I just think we're moving now at warp speed. Even when we take a step back like with prop 8, we take two steps forward.”

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