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“How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals.”

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Leni Riefenstahl

German film director, renowned for her works during the Nazi era, including 'Blue Light' and 'Triumph of the Will'. more

“Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak Oil; bridges to reduce the likelihood of war and famine; bridges to avoid our selectively chosen suicide; bridges to change at least a part of energy infrastructure and consumption; bridges to becoming something better than we are or have been; bridges to non-violence. Those bridges are effectively gone.”

“Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.”

Looks Politics Politician Nettles

Book:King Henry IV, part 1. King Richard II

Source: King Henry IV, part 1. King Richard II

“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.”

Hard Seems Form Politics Principles Extremes Justify Censorship Assassination Incitement

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.”

Problem Politics White Race Solutions Red Relation Indian Manhood Crayon Extermination White Race

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.”

Children Politics Worst Abuse Commit Offence

Author:Ann Widdecombe

“For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.”

World Children Mother Politics Loses Ten Ordinary Thirds Tables Diets Salt Pregnant Third World

Author:Sheryl WuDunn

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