Kim Il-sung

“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history”. –Kim Il-sung

Karl Barth

“Man as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and striving are all in vain”. –Karl Barth

William Westmoreland

“When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves”. –William Westmoreland

Harold Pinter

“US foreign policy could be defined as follows: kiss my ass or I’ll kick your head in”. –Harold Pinter

Stig Dagerman

“I come to understand what purity is: it means to feel something so wholeheartedly that it shrivels up all doubts, all cowardice and all considerations within one”. –Stig Dagerman

Learned Hand

“For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not”. –Learned Hand

Walter Lippmann

“A State is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and dis-establish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate habits, and to censor opinions. The modern State claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and democrats”. –Walter Lippmann

Martin Niemöller

“We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced — and remain convinced now — that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world”. –Martin Niemöller

Dean Acheson

“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies”. –Dean Acheson