“Setting mandatory targets for biofuels before we are aware of their full impact is madness. Not only are biofuels pushing up food prices, but they are also linked to human rights abuses and land-grabs from the poor.”

Phil Bloomer, Director of Policy at Oxfam

“If we want to save our planet earth, to save life, to save mankind, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.”

Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, speaking through an interpreter at the UN headquarters in New York.

Note: I wouldn’t go this far, but it is provocative. We need more outspoken non-aligned leaders like Morales. Perhaps we do need to put an end to the un-regulated capitalist system, though…

If any question why we died
Tell them, because our fathers lied

-Rudyard Kipling

Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president.

-Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School

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… 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.

-Herman Goering