“Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.”
Source: The Underground Railroad
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Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi against Including Jews in Dialogue between Religions http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/94.htm May 2004.
Diaglogue among religions with Jews

"The New Timer"
Song lyrics, The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)

canular refers to hoaxes, humorous deceptions.
The Paris Review interview (1984)
Context: You know, the Cathars believed that the world was not created by God but by a demon who had stolen a few technological secrets from Him and made this world — which is why it doesn’t work. I don’t share this heresy. I’m too afraid! But I put it in a play called This Extraordinary Brothel, in which the protagonist doesn’t talk at all. There is a revolution, everybody kills everybody else, and he doesn’t understand. But at the very end, he speaks for the first time. He points his finger towards the sky and shakes it at God, saying, “You rogue! You little rogue!” and he bursts out laughing. He understands that the world is an enormous farce, a canular played by God against man, and that he has to play God’s game and laugh about it.

"No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery" (1854) essay http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/185/civil-rights-and-conflict-in-the-united-states-selected-speeches/5061/no-compromise-with-the-evil-of-slavery-speech-1854/

As quoted in "Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview" in Rolling Stone (3 December 2003) http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/5939600
2000s
"Alice Shrugged," http://www.bigheadpress.com/lneilsmith/?p=51 18 December 2008.