07-11-09, 01:08 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Lahore
Age: 24
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While browsing some forums I found this quote. Thought I should share it with you guys.
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Originally Posted by Bertrand Russell
"The only thing more important to rich people than money, property, and social privileges is getting more money, property, and social privileges. In their minds, the primary functions of the government are: (1) To protect their property, (2) To help them get more money and property, and (3) To pass laws which protect their social privileges, including their influence over the government.
When nations go to war, they are almost always protecting economic interests or promoting economic ambitions. Politicians use military force when they can’t get what they want by more secret means. What politicians tell us are “national interests” are, in truth, the interests of the rich people who put them into office. Most of the hardships of war are borne by ordinary people whose children are soldiers while rich people get richer from wars, even using the money of ordinary people to get richer through government sales of war bonds. Politicians claim that war is about ideology, but that is all eyewash to persuade ordinary people that they should sacrifice their lives for the economic interests of the rich and their pet politicians. Profit is the only real “ideology” behind war."
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world -the unreasonable man persists in adapting the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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