“Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.” StatesAgeBehindsSovereignMilitarismProtectionism Author:Christian Lous Lange
“People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.” PeopleWorldWantKindCountryStatesWholeGovernmentNamesUnitedBehindsUnited StatesDemocracyExampleStandardsArmyChaosIraqWhole WorldAdmireDouble Standard Author:Jacob Zuma
“It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.” WayDoeHardStatesGovernmentLastsUnitedBehindsUnited StatesImagineWallExtremesDecadesSignificanceSecrecyLeaksSecretive Author:Glenn Greenwald
“Polio has not been eradicated by vaccination, it is lurking behind a redefinition and new diagnostic names like viral or aseptic meningitis.......According to one of the 1997 issues of the MMWR, there are some 30,000 to 50,000 cases of viral meningitis per year in the United States alone. That's where all those 30,000 - 50,000 cases of polio disappeared after the introduction of mass vaccination” YearsStatesNamesUnitedBehindsCasesUnited StatesIssuesMassIntroductionLurkingViralPolioVaccinationsMeningitis Author:Viera Scheibner
“It is embarrassing that the United States is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to mCommerce.” WorldStatesUnitedBehindsUnited StatesInnovationEmbarrassing Author:Braden Kelley
“I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.” StatesBehindsCallingChaosCaliforniaDivisionRecalls Author:Gray Davis
“They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.” StatesMovingPoliticalBehindsResponsibilityAcceptingPsychologicalMaturityRevolutionaryPalestinianAdolescenceVictimizationAccepting Responsibility Author:Ari Shavit
“If the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act is to ensure that all children meet state standards, then allowing large numbers of the most disadvantaged children to fall between the cracks is unacceptable.” IfsChildrenStatesFallLeftGoalNumbersBehindsStandardsCracksAllowingLeft BehindLarge NumbersDisadvantagedNo Child Left Behind Author:Roy Barnes
“Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall.” LongSoulStatesNightStarsSidesRaceBehindsGroupsMankindPagesBritishTyrannyConquerDestroyingRescueShatteredDutchBarbarismUnbrokenNorwegiansLong NightsBelgians Author:Winston Churchill
“I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time.” WayWantTryingLongStatesDreamHandsMightRunningLastsNightNextPowerfulBehindsPlansTvsLong TimeVoteElectionStudiosDebateHorribleTexasGovernorsPresidencyLast NightMikeElection DayTysonSchwarzeneggerSacramento Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of Beltway journalism. Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.” IfsWorldGivingStatesReasonDonePlayJobsOpportunitySidesWaterBehindsRepublicanTruth IsNewsEvidenceOkayHotPressesDemocratConclusionJournalismJournalistDividesConventionalColleaguesFree PressHot Water Author:Bill Moyers
“Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us imagine a youth who is seized with a passion for a woman, or a man who is swayed by a passion for his work. In both cases what lies behind them has ceased to exist and yet this state (the most unhistorical that can be imagined) is that in which every action, every great deed is conceived and accomplished.” MenStatesActionLyingOrderPassionBehindsCasesImagineYouthDeedsAtmosphereAccomplishedForgetfulnessAlone Life Author:Georg Brandes