WIST Quotations Has Moved!Nov 17

A quotation from Wendell Berry

Supporters of the war are constantly asking those who oppose it: Why don’t you deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side? The answer, so far as I am concerned, is that I do deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side. But I am responsible for the wrongs and atrocities committed by our side.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky

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Speech (1968-02-10), "A Statement Against the War in Vietnam," Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of Kentucky - Berry, Wendell | WIST Quotations

Supporters of the war are constantly asking those who oppose it: Why don't you deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side? The answer, so far as I am concerned, is that I do deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side. But I am responsible…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 31

A quotation from Orwell

But what impressed me then, and has impressed me ever since, is that atrocities are believed in or disbelieved in solely on grounds of political predilection. Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 2, New Road (1943-06)

More info about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/80109/

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jul 29, 2025

A quotation from Lincoln

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy, and from positive enmity, among strangers, as nations, or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1859-09-30), Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee

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Steve Dustcircle 🌹May 9, 2025

They Called It #Faith. It Was Actually #Control.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BPEF_O-GXs

#manipulation #atheist #usversusthem #gods

They Called It Faith. It Was Actually Control.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!May 2, 2025

A quotation from Will Rogers

All you would have to do to make some men Atheists is just to tell them that the Lord belonged to the opposition Political Party. After that they could never see any good in Him.

Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1925-03-29), “Weekly Article”

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/76493/

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WIST Quotations moves again!Oct 31, 2024

A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:

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Of one man in especial, beyond any one else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one sh…
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https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/72738/

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WIST Quotations moves again!Apr 16, 2024

A quotation from Rogers, Will:

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A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.
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https://wist.info/rogers-will/68596/

#quote #quotes #quotation #fanatic #opposition #othering #usversusthem

Radio broadcast (1930-06-08) - Rogers, Will | WIST Quotations

A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.

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WIST Quotations moves again!Dec 28, 2023

A quotation from Russell, Bertrand:

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Well, it is part of our emotional apparatus that we are liable to both love and hate, and we like to exercise them. We love our compatriots and we hate foreigners. Of course, we love our compatriots only when we’re thinking of foreigners. When we’ve forgotten foreigners, we don’t love them so much.
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https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/65824/

#quote #quotes #quotation #foreigners #hate #humannature #love #othering #tribalism #UsVersusThem

Interview by Woodrow Wyatt, BBC TV (1959) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST Quotations

Well, it is part of our emotional apparatus that we are liable to both love and hate, and we like to exercise them. We love our compatriots and we hate foreigners. Of course, we love our compatriots only when we're thinking of foreigners. When we've forgotten foreigners, we don't love…

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Many Colors, Maybe MovedJun 13, 2020

Are people really going “you have to be vehemently with us, and fully 100% on-board, in agreement, involved, and actively fighting with us; or you're against us and we will ban you from our spaces”?

Seriously?

Putting aside that this is an obvious instance of senseless #UsVersusThem…consider, for a moment, that /you/ are now /dividing us./ There are /many/ creatures who are ostensibly “on your side”, and maybe even want to help, but may not have the time, resources, or spoons to fight at the level you insist. By othering them and putting up walls between you and them, *you are dividing us.* You're fragmenting the community into smaller groups, which will be more easily fought by those you consider to be your primary enemy. *It is in your own interest to not make these divisions.*

Dick Smiths Fair Go SupportersJun 7, 2020

#InstitutionalRacism goes back a long way, as we all know.

This documentary highlights a number of ways in which #theWest have exploited #fear of #theOther to commit heinous #atrocities, even against their own people.

https://invidio.us/watch?v=8ObvK4NR_LI

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JFK to 911 Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick

Authoritatively written and narrated by Francis Richard Conolly, the film begins its labyrinthine tale during the era of World War I, when the wealthiest and most powerful figures of industry discovere