QUOTES

 

"Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in

sex. Make them superficial, destroy their ruggedness.Get control of all

means of publicity and thereby: Get the peoples' mind off their

government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and

plays, and other trivialities. Divide the people into hostile groups by

constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance. Destroy

the peoples faith in their natural leaders by holding up the latter to

ridicule, contempt and obloquy. Always preach true democracy but seize

power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible. Encourage government

extravagance, destroy its credit, produce fear with rising prices,

inflation and general discontent. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital

industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a soft and lenient

attitude on the part of government towards such disorders. By specious

argument cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues: honesty,

sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness. Cause the

registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of

confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless." Vladimir

Ilich Lenin

 

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare

statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion

of credit.... In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to

protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe

store of value.... Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the "hidden"

confiscation of wealth.... [Gold] stands as a protector of property

rights. 1966 Alan Greenspan

 

"...the only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another

United States: We can't let other countries have the same number of

cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to

stop these Third World countries right where they are. And it is

important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don't suffer

economically by virtue of our stopping them." Michael Oppenheimer,

Environmental Defense Fund

 

"Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs." John Davis,

editor of Earth First! Journal

 

"There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine . . . been

here 4 1/2 billion years. We've been here, what, a 100,000 years, maybe

200,000. And we've only been engaged in heavy industry a little over 200

years. 200 years versus 4 1/2 billion. And we have the conceit to think

that somehow we're a threat? The planet isn't going away. We are."

George Carlin

 

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation

of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

Thomas Jefferson

 

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge

to rule." H. L.Mencken

 

"Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are

carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . . Their lies will catch up to

them. We need endless Chernobyl reminders." Ralph Nader

 

Cannibalism is a "radical but realistic solution to the problem of

overpopulation." Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995

 

"'Protecting the Environment' is a ruse. The goal is the political and

economic subjugation of most men by the few, under the guise of

preserving nature." J. H. Robbins

 

"The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly

inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite." M. N. Rothbard

 

Global Sustainability requires: "the deliberate quest of poverty . . .

reduced resource consumption . . . and set levels of mortality control."

Professor Maurice King

 

"Allowing the EPA to condone continued use of a chemical whenever the

benefits outweighs the risks is absolutely anathema to the environmental

community." Janet Hathaway, Natural Resources Defense Council

 

The Environmentalist's Dream is an Egalitarian Society based on:

rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the

food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of

resources much more equally. Aaron Wildavsky

 

"A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no

scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect." Richard Benedict,

State Dept. employee working on assignment from the Conservation

Foundation

 

"Giving society cheap, abundant energy . . . would be the equivalent of

giving an idiot child a machine gun." Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University

 

"The secret to David McTaggart's (early officer in Greenpeace) success

is the secret to Greenpeace's success: It doesn't matter what is true .

. . . it only matters what people believe is true . . . . You are what

the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth, and a

myth-generating machine." Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace

 

". . . a year is about one-fifth of the time we have left if we are

going to preserve any kind of quality in our world." Garrett de Bell

(1970)

 

"The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated

that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases

it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency."

Pope John Paul I

 

"The move toward controlling less and less pollution at greater and

greater expense --until you are spending everything to control nothing

-- is one of the big water quality problems we are facing in the

future." Ernest Rosenberg

 

"Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would

be little short of disastrous for us to discover the source of clean,

cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it." Amory

Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute

 

". . . the Planning Commission must say 'no' to development . . .

Austin, Texas, is showing us about land use . . . . " Judge Armstrong,

Kentucky County

 

"It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being

forced to pay the cost." M. N. Rothbard

 

"We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of

global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing -- in terms of

economic policy and environmental policy." Timothy Wirth, former U.S.

Senator (D-Colorado)

 

"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a

day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and

pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrations),

too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to

slavery." Thomas Jefferson

 

"We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists

and their projects . . . We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt

dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and

return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently

settled land." David Foreman, Earth First!

 

". . . There is no such thing in America as an independent press . . .

We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes . . . Our

talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other

men. We are intellectual prostitutes." John Swinton, former New York

Times Chief of Staff

 

"We have the opportunity to avoid choices like nuclear power which will

come back to haunt us 30 years from now." Russell Peterson, National

Audubon Society President

 

". . . The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence

over the needs and desires of humans." Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands

Project

 

". . . as radical environmentalists, we can see AIDS not as a problem,

but as a necessary solution." Miss Ann Thropy (pseudonym), Earth First!

Journal

 

"The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a

good thing . . . This is not to say that the rise of human civilization

is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much

help to the world in the long run." Economist editorial

 

"I suspect that the politicians and businessmen who are jumping on the

environment bandwagon don't have the slightest idea of what they are

getting into. They are talking about emission control devices on

automobiles, while we are talking about bans on automobiles." Dennis

Hayes, Earth Day Agenda (1970)

 

"The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that

of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of

nation-states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to

all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider

inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security." Pranab

Mukherjee, India's Minister of Commerce, Earth Times, 15 October 1994

 

"It's (the prospect of cheap fusion energy) the worst thing that could

happen to the planet." Jeremy Rifkin

 

"No case for expensive policies for safeguarding species can be made

without more extensive analysis." Endangered Species Blueprint, National

Wilderness Institute

 

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed --

and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an

endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

 

H. L. Mencken

 

"If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a

killer virus to lower human population levels." Prince Phillip, World

Wildlife Fund

 

"They want timid, helpless people who are anxious to get in touch with

their inner child, enter twelve-step programs, and run to the government

with every little problem." Clark Stooksbury

 

". . . Our production and consumption is not sustainable . . . Agenda 21

is to be implemented . . . The Texas Sustainable Energy Development

Council will develop the Texas Plan . . . The money will come from

milking the utilities and redirecting oil overcharge funds . . . . "

Commissioner Karl Rabago, Texas Public Utilities Commission

 

"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized

civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that

about?" Maurice Strong, Head of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro

 

"Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless

drive for placing 'the new elite' at the top of a new hierarchy of

power." M. N. Rothbard

 

"Pure guesswork has become the basis of a forecast that has been

published in newspapers to be read and understood as a scientific

statement." Endangered Species Blueprint, National Wilderness Institute

 

"Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must

destroy the Judeo-Christian Religious tradition." Peter Singer, the

"Father of Animal Rights"

 

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under

the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the

socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation,

without knowing how it happened." Norman Thomas, former U.S. Socialist

Presidential Candidate

 

"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per

day." Dr. Jacques Cousteau

 

"I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important

part in balancing ecosystems." John Davis, editor of Earth First!

Journal

 

"We reject the idea of private property." Peter Berle, President of the

National Audubon Society

 

"Measured on virtually any scale, the world is in worse shape than it

was 20 years ago."Dennis Hayes, Chairman of Earth Day 1990

 

"The world has cancer, and the cancer is man." A. Gregg, Mankind at the

Turning Point

 

"People are the cause of all the problems; we have too many of them; we

need to get rid of some of them, and this (ban of DDT) is as good a way

as any." Charles Wurster, Environmental Defense Fund

 

"This is a political game. It has nothing to do with science. It has

nothing to do with health and safety." Sherry Neddick, Greenpeace

 

"Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the

freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in

the process . . . Capitalism is destroying the earth." Helen Caldicott,

Union of Concerned Scientists

 

"The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights . .

." Ayn Rand

 

"Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion." Murray Rothbard

 

"No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the

people." Lysander Spooner

 

"The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it

dangerous to work and safe to loaf." Thomas Sowell

 

"The three branches of government . . . are not, in any sense,

'branches' since that would imply that there is something they are all

attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks." P. J.

O'Rourke