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. . . INTERESTED(ING) You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. --Dale Carnegie (1888—1955) American writer and lecturer. The fortunate man, in my opinion, is he to whom the gods have granted the power either to do something which is worth recording or to write what is worth reading; and most fortunate of all is the man who can do both. -- letter from Pliny the Younger to Tacitus {Pliny the Younger or Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (62—c.115) Roman senator and author of a famous collection of letters. Tacitus [or Publius Cornelius Tacitus or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus] (c.55—c.117), Roman orator, lawyer, senator, and historian} ----- piquant (adj.) 1. Spicy or savory: having a flavor, taste, or smell that is spicy or savory, often with a slightly tart or bitter edge to it. 2. Sharply stimulating or provocative: refreshingly interesting, stimulating, or provocative sapid (adj.) 1: Having taste or flavor, esp. an agreeable taste. 2: Pleasing to the mind; interesting. Related: savory Derived: sapidity, n.; sapidness, n.  ;void(0)) INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS . . see: "DIPLOMACY" see: "FOREIGN POLICY" see "THE HUMAN RACE" for other related links National security is primarily defined in terms of reputation for having more power than all other nations and a willingness to use it. --Richard J. Barnet (1929—2004) American author and political activist. _Roots of War_ [1971] [Winston Churchill] does not talk the language of the 20th century but that of the 18th. He is still fighting Blenheim all over again. His only answer to a difficult situation is to send a gun-boat. --Aneurin Bevan (1897—1960) British Labour politician. Speech at Labour party conference, Scarborough, England [2 October 1951]. Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world. Frankly, it is the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. --Omar Bradley (1893—1981) American general. In testimony to the Senate Committee on the Armed Services [1951]. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. --Alexander Hamilton (1755or57—1804) New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention, major author of the _Federalist Papers_, and first secretary of the Treasury of the United States [1789-1795]. In Garry Wills _Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man_[1969]. _New World Order: International Organization, International Law, International Cooperation_ --Frederick Charles Hicks (1875—1956) [Title of 1920 book.] Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. Inaugural address [4 March 1801]. The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. --Stanley Kubrick (1928—1999) American film director. In "Guardian" [5 Jene 1963]. The public is bored by foreign affairs until a crisis arises; and . . . then it is guided by feelings rather than by thoughts. --Harold Nicolson (1886—1968) English diplomat, politician, and writer. _The Evolution of Diplomacy_ [1954], ch. 4 We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow. --Lord Palmerston [Henry John Temple] (1784—1865) British politician. Speech, House of Commons [1 March 1848]. - Over the course of the succeeding decades, as the laws of war — or, as they came to be known, international humanitarian law — evolved and expanded, the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] became the legally recognized guardian of these regulations. And yet, the paradox of the success of the Red Cross movement, the advance of international law, and, after World War II, the worldwide diffusion of the concept of human rights and new authority for it, is that all these developments coincide not with a new era in which Kant's perpetual peace was ushered in, but rather with the hideous course of the twentieth century itself. No century has had better norms and worse realities. In the period from the signing of the first Geneva Convention and the subsequent conferences of 1899 and 1907 in The Hague, to the outbreak of World War I, the rights of individuals in wartime were expanded, "aggressive force" was outlawed, and protections for civilians were expanded. Then came the mass slaughter in the trenches of World War I and the Armenian genocide to make a mockery of all that. In the aftermath of that war, in a Europe shocked by the toll exacted by gas attacks, another Hague conference outlawed the use of poison gas and other forms of chemical and biological warfare. Three years later, the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed war itself. Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first allow to set international legal norms. Nine years later, the Japanese army was murdering Chinese civilians by the hundreds of thousands in Nanking. Four years after that, the Germans put in motion the Final Solution. Four years after that, twenty million Russians were dead and Europe was in ruins. --David Rieff, _A Bed For the Night, Humanitarianism In Crisis_ - We have learned that we cannot live alone, in peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away … We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community. --Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882—1945) American Democratic statesman and President [1933—1945]. 4th Inaugural Address [1945]. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from Nation to Nation. --George Washington (1732—1799) American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution [1775—1783] and first president of the United States [1789—1797]. Farewell Address [17 September 1796]. ----- comity [KOM-uh-tee], noun: 1. A state of mutual harmony, friendship, and respect, especially between or among nations or people; civility. 2. The courteous recognition by one nation of the laws and institutions of another. 3. The group of nations observing international comity. ;void(0)) INTERNET . . see "COMMUNICATION" for related links And all the puppets in this digital jail They're runnin' around in a frenzy In search of the Holy Grail. They're havin' virtual sex. They're eatin' virtual food. No wonder these puppets Are always in a lousy mood. --Laurie Anderson - Picture this scenario: It's 8 p.m. on a weekday night, and your twelve-old child suddenly remembers that he has a major school report on the Spanish-American War due tomorrow. He needs to do some research, but the library is closed. No problem! Your cyber- savvy youngster simply turns on your computer, activates your modem, logs on to the Internet - the evolutionary 'Information Superhighway' and, in a matter of minutes, is exchanging pictures of naked women with other youngsters all over North America. --Dave Barry (1947- ) American humorist, _Dave Barry in Cyberspace_ [1996] A common criticism of the Internet is that it is dominated by the crude, the uninformed, the immature, the smug, the untalented, the repetitious, the pathetic, the hostile, the deluded, the self- righteous, and the shrill. This criticism overlooks the fact that the Internet also offers - for the savvy individual who knows where to look - the tasteless and the borderline insane. --Dave Barry (1947- ) American humorist, _Dave Barry in Cyberspace_ [1996] - Writers of the past had absinthe, whiskey, or heroin. I have Google. I go there intending to stay five minutes and next thing I know, seven hours have passed, I've written 43 words, and all I have to show for it is that I know the titles of every episode of The Nanny and the Professor. --Michael Chabon Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger. --E.M.(Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970) English novelist, _Howards End_ [1910] I think when people get on the Internet their common sense may be weakened if not suspended. --Charles Harwood Enthusiasm for a medium that keeps you away from human beings strikes me as worrying. That you would rather live in an unreal time and space, with unreal people who don't even give their names - you can say whatever you like, you can be whoever you like - means that people aren't anyone, they become more and more unreal. --Ian Hislop (1960- ) British satirist, on Channel Four TV [19 March 1996] Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'. --Keven Kwaku Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing. --Randy K. Milholland The Internet is as persistent as it is potent, an indelible and uncontainable presence in the culture. In fact, the Internet isn't separate from the culture at all; it *is* the culture. All the trash, flotsam and spillage of our society gets its moment there, where the tiniest obsession has its spot on the shelf, right next to Bach and charity and sunsets. The Internet lets a million flowers bloom, and a million weeds. --Daniel Okrent, "Raising Kids Online", _TIME_ (magazine) [10 May 1999] People who use computers to communicate, form friendships that sometimes form the basis of communities, but you have to be careful to not mistake the tool for the task and think that just writing words on a screen is the same thing as real community. --Harold Rheingold It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. --Mike Royko (1932—1997) American journalist. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. --William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, _All's Well That Ends Well_ [1602-1604], Act IV, Scene III, Line 83 We've now invented the ultimate tool for keeping the sads busy: the internet. But behind all the techno-babble about cyberspace and hyper-text and virtual worlds, behind all the promises of total immersion in a parallel universe, there's a boring reality: a bunch of screeching modems, lost jobs, and boring computer-nerds getting all excited over a glorified telephone exchange. I'm sick of the spurious claims devotees make for the internet, and I'm particularly sick of the internerds. --Janet Street-Porter (1946- ), British broadcaster and programme-maker: Without Walls: J'Accuse - Technonerds (Channel 4) [19 March 1996] That brief flash of flesh (Janis Jackson) has become the most searched for event in Lycos' history. Before this week, the leading search term over a one-day period was "September 11". Although it is very difficult to compare searches for the two events, it looks like the Super Bowl halftime show was the equal of September 11 when it comes to Internet attention. That is, to put it bluntly, mind-blowing. --Aaron Schatz, Lycos 50 Daily Report [4 Feb 2004] ^ I had been keen to hear what people thought politically. Those whom I had met did not talk about the subject, didn't seem to want to talk about it. It seemed to me partly caution and partly a lack of interest, but strong opinions were just not stated. One storekeeper did admit to me that he had to do business with both sides and could not permit himself the luxury of an opinion. He was a graying man in a little gray store, a crossroads place where I stopped for a box of dog biscuits and a can of pipe tobacco. This man, this store, might have been anywhere in the nation, but actually it was back in Minnesota. The man had a kind of gray wistful twinkle in his eyes as though he remembered humor when it was not against the law, so that I dared go out on a limb. I said, 'It looks then as though the natural contentiousness of people had died. But I don't believe that. It'll just take another channel. Can you think,sir, of what that channel might be?' 'You mean where will they bust out?' 'Where do they bust out?' I was not wrong, the twinkle was there, the precious, humorous twinkle. 'Well, sir,' he said, 'we've got a murder now and then, or we can read about them. Then we've got the World Series. You can raise a wind any time over the Pirates or the Yankees, but I guess the best of all is we've got the Russians.' 'Feelings pretty strong there?' 'Oh, sure! Hardly a day goes by somebody doesn't take a belt at the Russians.' For some reason he was getting a little easier, even permitted himself a chuckle that could have turned to throat-clearing if he saw a bad reaction from me. I asked, 'Anybody know any Russians around here?' And now he went all out and laughed. 'Course not. That's why they're valuable. Nobody can find fault with you if you take out after the Russians.' 'Because we're not doing business with them?' He picked up a cheese knife from the counter and carefully ran his thumb along the edge and laid the knife down. 'Maybe that's it. By George, maybe that's it. We're not doing business.' 'You think then we might be using the Russians as an outlet for something else, for other things.' 'I didn't think that at all, sir, but I bet I'm going to. Why, I remember when people took everything out on Mr Roosevelt. Andy Larsen got red in the face about Roosevelt one time when his hens got the croup. Yes, sir,' he said with growing enthusiasm,'those Russians got quite a load to carry. Man has a fight with his wife, he belts the Russians.' 'Maybe everybody needs Russians. I'll bet even in Russia they need Russians. Maybe they call it Americans.' --John Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968) American novelist, _Travels With Charley_ [1962] ^ Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from -- self- righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time. --Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_ - She wore a purple leisure suit All stained with coffee grounds Her hair was bleached, her skin was grey She weighed two hundred pounds Between her flaccid lips she held A hand-rolled cigarette Was this my faithless Flora? The Lily of the Net. And when she saw my stricken face A sigh escaped her breast She took my trembling hand in hers And tearfully confessed The picture was her daughter A twelve-year old nymphet I was betrayed by Flora The Lily of the Net. Come all you ramblin gamblin men Who lurk both night and day Don't trust a gal from AOL Whatever she may say I'd rather have my fantasies I wish I'd never met That false deluding Flora The Lily of the Net. --Holly Tannen - Within the last seven days, Google has altered and augmented my perceptions of tulips, mind control, Japanese platform shoes, violent African dictatorships, 3-D high-definition wallpaper, spicy chicken dishes, tiled hot tubs, biological image-processing schemes, chihuahua hygiene, and many more critical topics. Clearly, thanks to Google, I am not the man I was seven days ago. --Garry Trudeau (1948- ) American cartoonist We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce The Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. --Robert Wilensky, Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, speech at a 1996 conference - The Internet is a shallow and unreliable electronic repository of dirty pictures, inaccurate rumors, bad spelling and worse grammar, inhabited largely by people with no demonstrable social skills. --The Chronicle of Higher Education [4 November 1997] ^^ Trevor Tasker's steamy online romance took a turn for the worse when he flew to the US to marry his cyber girlfriend. Instead of the 30-year-old beauty he was expecting, Tasker, 27, was greeted at the airport by 65-year-old Wynema Shumate, who weighs 20 stone. Worse, when she took him back to her flat, he discovered that she kept the dead body of a former flatmate in her freezer. Shumate has been jailed, and Tasker has vowed never to go online again. --_The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_ [2005] Introduced by Edward Leeson, "Love and Marriage" ^^ This e-mail has been printed on paper treated with a deadly Chinese poison - using herbs so deadly that it will do you no good to wash your hands. As soon as you opened this e-mail you became infected. Unless you take the special antidote, you will die a horrible and lingering death within five hours. Said antidote will be e-mailed to you upon my receiving $50,000 in wired funds. Hurry! --anonymous prank -- TOPICAL Not surprisingly, many of the same millions who call Bush dumb consider Bill Clinton the White House's most brilliant occupant. ... Indeed, the zeitgeist was not surprised when the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton, Pennsylvania, led by Dr. Werner R. Lovenstein and Professor Patricia F. Dilliams, released its study ranking the IQs of every president over the last 50 years and found that first among them, with a 182, was Bill Clinton. He was followed, in order, by Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Franklin Roosevelt (so much for 50 years). As for the dumbest chief executives, they were, in descending order, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and--brace yourself--his son, the current president, whose 91 charts in at exactly half of Clinton's. The results were so alarming--ohmygod, our president is a complete doofus!--they were forwarded via e-mail tens of millions of times, from one concerned citizen to another, and impelled Garry Trudeau to compose a Doonesbury strip around Bush's low "intelligence quota." Just one problem. There is no Lovenstein Institute, no Dr. Lovenstein, no Professor Dilliams. That the Internet ruse spread so quickly, without anyone bothering to immediately verify the results (it was "a fact too good to check," as they say at the New York Times), frankly explains more about our culture than it does about our president. --Joel Engel, "Too Smart To Be So Dumb", http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/730avutr.asp ---- GOVERNMENT WEBSITES FOR KIDS http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/index.html http://bensguide.gpo.gov/ EDUCATIONAL GAMES FOR KIDS http://www.funbrain.com/spellroo/ NASA WEBSITE FOR KIDS http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/ ASTRONOMY FOR KIDS http://www.kidscom.com/adventure/iplanet/iplanetarium.html CAREERS FOR KIDS http://www.bls.gov/k12/reading05.htm BEDTIME STORIES FOR KIDS http://the-office.com/bedtime-story/indexmain.htm NURSERY RHYMES http://trmg.designwest.com/TRMG1.html . . see: "ANTI-AMERICANISM" see: "ANTI-SEMITISM" see: "BIGOTRY" see: "NARROW-MINDEDNESS" see: "PREJUDICE" see: "RACISM" see: "OPINION" see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. --W. C. Fields [William Claude Dunkenfield] (1880-1946) American comedian ^^ [D]uring the First World War, suppression went far beyond anything the war could possibly justify. An outburst of anti-German feeling sometimes took absurd forms: sauerkraut became "liberty cabbage" on some menus, and some people even wanted to call German measles "liberty measles." There were schools that dropped German from the curriculum; the New York Times applauded this idea, and recommended Spanish instead, or perhaps French, which was "more cosmopolitan and urbane." Four county councils in Missouri banned anybody from speaking German on the telephone; and some towns tried to banish it on the streets. The town of Potsdam, Missouri, changed its name to Pershing. The language of Goethe and Schiller survived this onslaught; other forms of xenophobia had more serious results. In a burst of fervor, Congress passed an Espionage Act in 1917. The law understandably imposed severe penalties on people who passed secrets to the enemy. But it also made it a crime to "willfully make or convey false reports or false statements" with the aim of interfering with the "operation or success of the military or naval forces" of the country, or to "promote the success of its enemies"; or to try to foment "insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty" among the armed forces; or to "willfully obstruct the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States." The Trading with the Enemy Act (1917) did what the title suggested; but it also provided that nothing could be published or printed "in any foreign language" about the government of the United States, "or of any nation engaged in the present war, its politics, [or] international relations," unless a full translation was lodged with the postmaster general. These provisions were barely discussed in the sometimes heated debates over the Espionage Act and the rest of the legislative package; in practice, they proved to be pregnant with trouble for anybody who fell short of 100 percent red-blooded patriotism, and in particular, for Americans of the left-wing persuasion. The war generated heat and paranoia. The government found it easy to smear speech that opposed the war or denounced capitalism or the like as dangerous talk which interfered with the war effort. The Sedition Act of 1918 was another truly drastic statute. Under this law, it was a crime to spread "false statements" that might hinder the war effort, obstruct the sale of bonds, or incite mutiny and disloyalty in the army. The act also criminalized saying, printing, or writing any "disloyal, profane, scurrilous or abusive language" about the government, the Constitution, the flag, the army, the uniform; or saying anything that would bring the government or the Constitution "into contempt, scorn, contumely, or disrepute." Anything written which violated the act was "nonmailable," and could not be sent through the post. In short, only total jingoism was acceptable - or legal. German-Americans in some parts of the country had a particularly tough time. In front-line South Dakota - a state with a large German population - zealous officials raided the offices of a German-language newspaper, the Deutscher Herold, where they found some truly dastardly objects, including a paperweight with an image of the kaiser. The editor, Conrad Kornmann, was charged with espionage, mostly because of a private letter he wrote to a friend, in which he was lukewarm about the war, to say the least. That this was an attack on vital war interests or the armed forces was totally absurd, but a jury found Kornmann guilty. The appeal court reversed; still, Kornmann's life was a shambles. South Dakota was not the only state in danger. Rumors flew about in remote Montana of German spies poised to invade from Canada. Local "liberty" or "defense" committees rounded up "slackers," reds, Wobblies, and other bad elements; Montana whipped itself into a froth and conducted a major witch-hunt. In Illinois, a Granite City man got two years in Fort Leavenworth for shooting off his mouth in a saloon - to the effect that he liked the kaiser, and would fight for him. In 1918 the Rev. John Fontana, a Lutheran minister in Salem, North Dakota, a German community, went on trial for violating the Espionage Act by obstructing the draft and fomenting insubordination. The evidence was flimsy, to say the least - some testimony that Fontana was unenthusiastic about the war, refused to buy liberty bonds, and prayed for the "old Fatherland." In wartime, the prosecutor said, "the unbridled tongue is more dangerous than the arms of the enemy, more stealthy than the submarine," The jury convicted him. The judge fulminated against Fontana for not putting away his German soul; he criticized immigrants in general ("these thousands of little islands of foreigners"), and sentenced Fontana to three years in Leavenworth. On appeal, the case was reversed - but it seems incredible, today, that it was brought in the first place. --Lawrence M. Friedman _American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002] Ch. 5 "Race Relations and Civil Liberties" pp. 138-140 ^^ ^^ There was no "liberty cabbage" during the Second World War, and nobody tried to kick Goethe, Schiller, and Beethoven out of public life. Still, the fate of the West Coast Japanese reminds us that there was plenty of bigotry afoot. The passions of the war gave cover to some spectacular incidents of intolerance. Among the worst victims were members of Jehovah's Witnesses. This was a small but fervent band, very active in trying to spread the word of God, as they saw it. Witnesses went from door to door, selling or giving away their literature, especially their organ, The Watchtower. Witnesses also refused to salute the flag: they considered the flag salute rank idolatry. This behavior threw American Legionnaires and other superpatriots into an utter frenzy. It lent credence to the ridiculous claim that the Witnesses were fifth columnists, spies, Nazi sympathizers. The flag salute issue came to the Supreme Court in 1940, in Minersville School District v. Gobitis. In a small town in Pennsylvania, three students, children of Witnesses, refused to salute the flag and were summarily expelled from school. Felix Frankfurter, writing for the majority, upheld the expulsion; only Justice Stone dissented. The flag, Frankfurter said, "is the symbol of ... national unity." "Religious convictions" do not excuse a citizen from the "discharge of political responsibilities" if these "convictions ... contradict the relevant concerns of society." Frankfurter also was willing to give the legislature a great deal of deference in matters of "educational policy." The world was in flames as Frankfurter wrote; and he was, in a sense, carried away. He personally meant no harm to the Witnesses. But the decision gave a green light to small-town chauvinists; dozens of riots and mob actions against the hapless Witnesses followed. Local law enforcement officers stood by, or actively pitched in, as mobs beat and harassed Witnesses, or even tortured them. In Rockville, Maryland, a crowd sacked the Witnesses' meeting hall. In one particularly gruesome incident, a Witness in Nebraska was castrated. In many communities, the American Legion egged on or led the rioters. The American Civil Liberties Union, on the other side, fought gamely for the rights of the Witnesses; the ACLU lobbied, cajoled, and litigated in an attempt, often unsuccessful, to safeguard the rights of this group. The battle was waged in state courts as well as federal courts; on the whole, the Witnesses and the ACLU did better in state courts than in federal courts, at least at first. The persecution was pervasive: Witnesses lost their jobs at the height of the hysteria, were hectored out of towns, and arrested on trumped-up charges, or on paranoid claims of insurrection and sedition. The courts, to their credit, sometimes granted injunctions and overturned groundless arrests. Witnesses were also persecuted for their refusal to fight in "manmade" wars. Even though the text of the law clearly respected the rights of conscientious objectors, and exempted ministers from service altogether, about four thousand Witnesses went to jail for violating the draft laws. Even after the war was over, more than a thousand Witnesses stayed in prison for crimes against the Selective Service Act. --Lawrence M. Friedman _American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002] Ch. 10 "Race Relations and Civil Rights" pp. 282-283 ^^ ^^ [T]here was McCarthyism before McCarthy. The House Un-American Activities Committee had been established in 1938. The Smith Act - a strong anticommunist law - was passed in 1940. The Second World War had hardly ended when the cold war began. Truman instituted a federal loyalty program in 1946, and strengthened it in 1947. [. . . ] Now an epidemic of witch-hunting, paranoia, and political grandstanding infected the whole country. States and local governments got into the act. Fifteen states passed laws in 1949 against subversive activities; forty-four jurisdictions had laws by 1955 to punish sedition, criminal anarchy, criminal syndicalism, advocating the overthrow of the government, and so on. Some of these laws were incredibly draconian: in Michigan subversives could be imprisoned for life; in Tennessee the death penalty was theoretically possible for anybody who dared advocate the violent overthrow of the United States government. Many states outlawed the Communist Party. New Hampshire's attorney general, Louis C. Wyman, was a particularly notorious zealot, out to get Marxists, fellow travelers, "dupes," and "apologists" for the communists. A number of states created committees and commissions to carry out investigations (essentially witch-hunts), searching for radicals secreted in the nodes of business, government, and academia. Washington State, Illinois, California, and Maryland had legislative committees especially keen on ferreting out reds. Ohio was another state with an Un-American Activities Commission. After all, as a congressman from Ohio warned, there were 1,300 actual Communists in Ohio; and consequently there "can be no real peace or security ... for Communism is the devil's own instrument of hatred, war, chaos and ruin." --Lawrence M. Friedman _American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002] Ch. 10 "Race Relations and Civil Rights" pp. 331-332 ^^ Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule, in "Young India" [2 February 1921] The highest result of education is tolerance. --Helen Keller (1880-1968) American author and educator who was blind and deaf I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! --Tom Lehrer (1928- ) American songwriter and satirist I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them. --Steve Martin (1945- ) American comedian and actor There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations; they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon. --John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher and social reformer, _On Liberty_ [1859] Ch. 3, "Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being" No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded. --Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) Indian statesman. I hate people who are intolerant. --Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) Canadian teacher and author. In this nonjudgmental era, the accusation of hypocrisy is about the only acceptable judgement call. Today, hypocrisy appears to be the only universally recognized sin, not even infidelity, lying, cheating or addiction are considered as reprehensible. We as a society have caved in, dumbed down our expectations and morality, and called it tolerance and freedom. Anyone who dares defend standards risk relentless attacks to find some flaw or inconsistency that can be used against him to nullify the message. The "hypocrite" epithet is hurled at those who are unafraid to make judgements based on standards by people who have no standards. --Dr. Laura Schlessinger (1947- ) American radio host Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home. --Harold E. Stassen (1907-2001) Governor of Minnesota [1939-1943] who campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination nine times There are those among us that live in rooms of experience that you and I can never enter. --John Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968) American novelist No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen. --Wendell Wilkie (1892-1944) American lawyer and the Republican nominee for the 1940 presidential election (won by FDR) . . see "THE MIND" for related links Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift. --Minna Thomas Antrim (1861-1950) American writer and epigrammist In poker, as in life, intuition can be a valuable attribute, but temper it with thought and logic. And don't follow it blindly. If you persist in doing so, magicians will fool you, con men will swindle you, and good poker players will take your money. --Lou Krieger Author of books about poker Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. --Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish playwright and poet end page | IDAHO - IDIOTS | IDLENESS - IMMATURITY | IMMIGRATION & IMMORALITY | IMMORTALITY - IMPOSTORS | IMPRESSIONABLE - INDECISION | INDEPENDENCE - INDIANA | INDIFFERENCE - INDIVIDUALITY | INDOCTRINATION - INFORMATION | INGRATITUDE - INNOVATION | INNUENDO - INSPIRATION | INSULTS - INTENTIONS | INTERESTED(ING) - INTUITION | INVENTIONS - ITCHING | JACKSON - JOGGING | JOHNSON (LYNDON) - JOY | JOURNALISM | JUDGE (TO) - JUSTICE | | H | I - J | K - L | M | N - O | P - Q | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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