Sitater
Jeg burde vel skrive noe i bloggen min igjen. Men, poenget er at jeg har mye å gjøre.
I løpet av denne uken har jeg skulle skrive resolusjoner til UHs omsorgsutvalg (eller rettere sagt; deler av resolusjoner). Problemet ligger i at jeg ikke har husket på å ta meg tid til å skrive kort. Au… redigeringsarbeid på gang, og selvfølgelig - skippertaksarbeid igjen. Og i tillegg har jo regjeringen gått inn for xenotransplantasjon. Og jeg må selvsagt lese hele høringsutkastet og tenke rundt det i tillegg.
Derfor, i stedet for å prøve å være original eller morsom, så tenkte jeg skulle legge ut noen sitater til mine kjære lesere. (er det noen av dere?)
Først et sitat jeg finner skremmende, og også sant. Jeg brukte det i mang en internettdebatt rundt den andre gulfkrigen (eller “Iraqi Freedom” som amerikanerene pompøst nok kalte det, vedder på at de angrer på det nå, sammen med “Freedom Fries”). Uansett, jeg var en imbitt motstander av denne tullekrigen. Og midt i min irritasjon over det hele, må det sies jeg finner litt glede i å se at det gikk akkurat slik jeg spådde for en del år siden.
Jo.. sitatet ja. Det stammer fra Nürenbergdagboken til Gustave Gilbert:
Og er en samtale mellom Hermann Göring og Gilbert (en am. etteretningsoffiser)
Göring: Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
De har ikke fått med seg Pearl Harbour, eller Vietnam. Men noe har da også Haukene i D.C. lært av historien.
Og jo, noen flere sitater:
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing ~ Edmund Burke
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself ~ Anaïs Nin
Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things ~ Epictetus
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’ ~ Winston Churchill
I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it. ‘I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the government must house me.’ They’re casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first ~ Margaret Thatcher