Dissident Veteran For Peace: Quotable: Control

Dissident Veteran For Peace

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." —Alexis de Tocquevile. Democracy in America, Book I, Chapter XV.

With a nod to the Most Rev. Dom Helder Camara: When I support Palestinians some call me an 'anti-Semite', when I try to explain why I stand in solidarity with Palestinians they call me a Nazi.

"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." —Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.)

"... no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end." —character of O'Brien in 1984, part 3, ch. 3 by George Orwell.

"Every prophet has realized that nobody loves you for being the enemy of their illusions. Every prophet has realized that most of us want peace at any price as long as the peace is ours and somebody else pays the price. That is why the prophet Jeremiah said, ' "Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace,' ..." —The Rev. William Sloane Coffin. "Not to Bring Peace, But a Sword."

Saturday, July 20, 2019

Quotable: Control

I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.

Source: Attributed to Baron Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild in The Independent (UK). Baron Rothschild was the father of Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild. Among other things, the elder Rothschild, in 1887, financed the notorious De Beers diamond conglomerate in Africa. The son was the Lord Rothschild to whom the infamous Balfour Declaration was addressed.

Note: Versions of this quotation are prolific on the internet. However, there are also many claims that the quote is apocryphal (see e.g. this one). I don't know the truth; however, I do know that my source is a 2004 article authored by Paul Vallely (a distinguished British journalist and editor) and published in a reputable British newspaper. Vallely could have been clearer about which Nathan Rothschild he was referring to. Nevertheless because Vallely says in the same paragraph from which the quote derives that "in 1885 he was given the hereditary title of Baron Rothschild" I conclude that he attributed the remark to Nathaniel Mayer.

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