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"One
grain of intelligence can overcome
the world and all its temptations"
-- Rebbe Nachman
"If
you believe that you can damage,
believe you can fix." --
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
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The
following quote has been widely
distributed on the Net and attributed
to Julius Caesar:
Beware
the leader who bangs the drums
of war in order to whip the
citizenry into a patriotic fervor,
for patriotism is indeed a double-edged
sword. It both emboldens the
blood, just as it narrows the
mind.
And
when the drums of war have reached
a fever pitch and the blood
boils with hate and the mind
has closed, the leader will
have no need in seizing the
rights of the citizenry. Rather,
the citizenry, infused with
fear and blinded by patriotism,
will offer up all of their rights
unto the leader and gladly so.
How
do I know? For this is what
I have done. And I am Caesar.
Note:
There is no proof that Caesar
or anyone other than somone
from the 20th Century wrote
this .... In todays age we hear,
"I am willing to give up
rights if it will make me safer...."
Nonetheless are we safer from
the likes of Hilter and Terrorism
more in the 21st century. |
