Source: Journey to the End of the Night (1932), Chapter 4
“The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.”
Jeff Cooper in Guns & Ammo magazine, April 1991.
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Howard Zinn
(1922–2010) author and historian
Rawstory.com Interview (9 September 2005) http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Zinn_interview_part_two_Same_arguments_made_in_Vietnam_made_0909.html, which compares U.S. wars in Iraq and Vietnam
Context: I would encourage people to look around them in their community and find an organization that is doing something that they believe in, even if that organization has only five people, or ten people, or twenty people, or a hundred people. And to look at history and understand that when change takes place it takes place as a result of large, large numbers of people doing little things unbeknownst to one another. And that history is very important for people to not get discouraged. Because if you look at history you see the way the labor movement was able to achieve things when it stuck to its guns, when it organized, when it resisted. Black people were able to change their condition when they fought back and when they organized. Same thing with the movement against the war in Vietnam, and the women's movement. History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.
Paul Glover
(1947) Community organizer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; American politician
http://issuu.com/planetdrumfoundation/docs/17_exploring_urban_frontiers (“Los Angeles: A History of the Future”) ,Planet Drum Review 1982-12-14
Source: A Letter to a Hindu (1908), I
Winston S. Churchill
(1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in Horsham (23 July 1936), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Prophet of Truth: Winston S. Churchill, 1922–1939 (London: Minerva, 1990), p. 768
The 1930s
“Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?”
Herb Caen
(1916–1997) American newspaper columnist
Winokur, Jon. The Portable Curmudgeon, p. 174. http://books.google.com/books?id=V0DUAXBkf_0C Plume, 1992. ISBN 0452266688
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Gulzarilal Nanda
(1898–1998) Prime Minister of India
A.R. Kidwai in: Prime Minister of India Acting http://gulzarilalnandafoundation.com/nanda-itihas.html, Gulzarilal Nanda Foundation.
“Beware
At war
Or at peace,
More people die
Of unenlightened self-interest
Than of any other disease”
Octavia E. Butler
(1947–2006) American science fiction writer
“Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.”
Robert Anton Wilson
(1932–2007) American author and polymath
Hugh Crane a.k.a. Cagliostro the Great, in Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy : The Trick Top Hat (1979)
Context: There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely free. If everybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled — by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.
