Quotations

• >>> "These little lives are perfect, no matter how they appear to others....It is the one time that God allows us to play God, in making these little people. It is the one time that he allows us to see all the defects in our own natures (physical or temperamental) and smile as they are passed on to another. And no matter what kind of a failure each of us had been throughout life; no matter how many kids pushed us down on the playground and told us we were ugly or stupid, when we see this little son or daughter that He has given to us through the love of a spouse that we do not deserve, we know for just a few moments that we are okay, not as bad as we thought we were, not as bad as they said we were, or at least He thinks so, because he just made us all over again in the person of this little baby." Read He has my eyes by Mark Glenn...

  >>> "...racism is based on the denial of the other, its point of view, its rights, its pain, its humanity. This is what Europe and its many societies have done to the Jews for centuries, and the whole world was to suffer the consequences of such blindness. Now it seems Jewish communities in the West have internalised their newly-acquired power, as if it were a god-given right allowing them to override basic human and social criteria, and to act on the strength of power, and of the (justly) guilt-ridden Western society. Some Jewish interlocutors talk of the Palestinians as if they were the new Nazis when it is the armed might of the Zionist state that has ruled the Middle East for decades." Haim Bresheeth, an Israeli Academic. Read more...
  

  >>> "What we are watching today, I believe, is a culmination of 10-15 years of mounting barbarism of the American culture the world over, crowned by the achievements of science and technology as a major weapon of mass destruction. We are witnessing man hunt and wanton killing of the type and scale not seen since the raids on American Indian populations, by a superior technological power of inferior culture and values. We see no corrective force to restore the insanity, the self-righteousness and the lack of respect for human life (civilian and military) of another race."
  Daniel Amit, Ph.D. Univ. di Roma. Read more...
  
  >>> "You have seen the bombs landing in market places and residences where there is no military. I see daily, dozens of men, women and children, horribly wounded, maimed, mutilated and scarred for life. So many people have lost their senses from constant bombing. The electricity is gone, and food and water are running out. We are short of medicine and bandages for treating the wounded. Why has this war been imposed on us? We did not harm anyone. There were no Iraqi terrorists in those who attacked the World Trade Centre. Was it not America itself who built up Saddam Hussein?" Dr. Faruq Salaam, Baghdad National Hospital- Human Rights Foundation, April 9. More...
  
  
  >>> "President Bush in the effort to impose his war agenda on the international community has increasingly been invoking religious, even divine legitimation for his intention to disarm Iraq by force. He must be confronted by God´s concrete commandment: “Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his faithful, to those who turn to him in their hearts. Surely his salvation is at hand for those who fear him, that his glory may dwell in our land.” Our first response will, therefore, have to be an act of defiance: denouncing this misuse of religious language in order to justify an act of war violating the legal order which was developed to protect world peace." Konrad Raiser, World Council of Churches - March 21st, 03. Read full text....

   

• "Why can this President not seem to see that America's true power lies not in its will to intimidate, but in its ability to inspire?"
  Senator Robert Byrd - March 19, 03
• "No one, least of all this writer, who spent a harrowing time in Iraq under Saddam's brutal, sinister, megalo-despotism, mourns him. But in their lust to invade Iraq, the Bush administration and Tony Blair deeply discredited their own nations' moral standing, credibility, and democratic ideals by outrageously misleading their own people and whipping them into mass hysteria to justify an imperial war." Bush & Blair & The Big Lie By Eric Margolis Contributing Foreign Editor, Toronto Sun 4-21-03
  
  
• "I cannot think of another case where hatred and contempt for democracy have so openly been proclaimed, not just by the government, but also by liberal commentators and others. There is now a whole literature trying to explain why France, Germany, the so-called "old Europe", and Turkey and others are trying to undermine the United States. It is inconceivable to the pundits that they are doing so because they take democracy seriously and they think that when the overwhelming majority of a population has an opinion, a government ought to follow it." Naom Chomsky in an interview in the Indian newspaper Frontline.
  
• "Any time you've got both the pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House" - Michael Moore at the Oscars, 2003
• "Wars cannot be won, only peace can." Rev Dr. Konrad Raiser - General Secretary, WWC
• "Palestinians have the right to see the end of Israeli military occupation of their territories, occupied in 1967, and to create on them their independent state. As long as the occupation lasts, they have the right and the duty to claim their land and their freedom and to organize resistance in order to reach this goal. But we affirm again, that in this resistance, only the ways of peace can lead to peace". Patriarch Michele Sabbah of Jerusalem Read full text here..
• "Whoever decides that all peaceful means that international law has put at our disposition have been exhausted assumes a serious responsibility before God, his conscience and history."
  Declaration of the Holy See, March 18th, 2003
• "One power with a president who has no foresight and cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust."
  - Nelson Mandela, in a speech to the International Women's Forum.
• "Sometimes I think Judaism is paganism," said Maoz, referring to holy sites in general. "We sanctify stones and tombs instead of spirit." Hebrew University Prof. Moshe Maoz to New York Jewish leaders during a visit that was sponsored by the Israeli government in 2001. More...
  
• "No nation under God has that right. It violates international law. It violates God's law and the teachings of Jesus Christ . . . Iraq hasn't wronged us. . . War will only create more terrorists."
  - Bishop Talbert, addressing the Bush administration’s path toward war to remove Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. January 31, 03
• "AMERICA IS GREAT BECAUSE SHE IS GOOD, AND IF AMERICA EVER CEASES TO BE GOOD, SHE WILL CEASE TO BE GREAT." — De Tocqueville

On the 'False Reverends'

• "If people like Jerry Falwell and pat Robertson want to worship a cruel and mean spirited God, that's their business. But, I wish they would not blaspheme by calling what they practice Christianity. They don't even practice a version of Christianity. They practice some sort of Old Testament Demon Worship."
  The Two faces of Jerry Falwell
  

On Religion

• "God hates religion and loves you"
  Website: JustGod.com
  

On the war against Iraq:

• It is a "moral responsibility to avoid this war".
  Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, head of the Roman Catholic church in England and Wales, and fellow bishops