Josef Stalin

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"One death is a tragedy a million is a
statistic."
Josef Stalin
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"Look like the innocent flower, but be the
serpant under't."
Macbeth
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"One is left with the horrible feeling now that
war settles nothing that to win a war is as
disastrous as to lose one."
Agatha Christie
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"And when he gets to heaven, to Saint Peter he
will tell one more solider reporting, sir I've
served my time in hell."
F. D. Roosevelt
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"If an American is concerned only about his
nation, he will not be concerned about the
peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is
this not why nations engage in the madness of war
without the slightest sense of penitence? Is
this not why the murder of a citizen of your own
nation is a crime,
but the murder of citizens of another nation in
war is an act of heroic virtue?"
Martin Luther King
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"The sad truth is that most evil is done by
people who never make up their minds to be good
or evil. "
Hannah Arendt
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"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed
till the evil is so far advanced as to make
avoidance impossible."
Thomas Hardy
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"One of the greatest casualties of the war in
Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on
the battlefield of Vietnam."
Martin Luther King
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"Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make
his martyrdom meaningless by not committing
them?"
Jules Feiffer
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The time 2020.  The world has just been rocked
by the latest terrorist attack on New York.  A
so-called 'dirty bomb' has spread nuclear waste
over a wide area centred on Manhattan.  As many
as 20 million people may be affected. 
Meanwhile, in a co-ordinated attack on the
subway systems of London, Paris, Munich and Rome,
canisters containing deadly chemicals have been
released in crowded stations.  The toll of
casualties is expected to be in the thousands. 
Air travel is at a standstill, following a
series of highly publicized highjackings. 
Government collapses in Africa have left the
continent reeling from an outbreak of vicious
local wars.  Meanwhile, revolutions in Egypt,
Jordan, Algeria and Saudi Arabia have created a
Middle East dominated by fundamentalist regimes. 
The global economy is in a state of collapse
and, in one country after another, unemployment
is at a record high.  Throughout the West, city
centres and public spaces have become derelict
and decaying no-go zones with vagabond
populations of drug-addicts, the homeless and the
violent.  The wealthy live in gated enclaves
protected by massive, privately funded security
systems.  Hundreds of thousands die annually as
a result of freak weather conditions - droughts,
floods and typhoons - brought about be global
warming.  Pollution has made it impossible to
walk in city streets without a protective mask. 
Most commentators agree that the world is in the
midst of a new dark age.
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"Order, unity, and continuity are human
inventions, just as truly as catalogues and
encyclopedias."
Bertrand Russell
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"The love of heaven makes one heavenly."
William Shakespeare
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"We are all pencils in the hand of God."
Mother Teresa
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"An unjust peace, is better than a just war."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Thine be the glory, risen conque'ring
son, endless is the victory, thou o'er death hast
one. Angels in bright raiment, rolled the stone
away, left the folded grave-clothes, where Thy
body lay
George F. Handel
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"So God created humankind in his image."
Genesis
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"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus
had known what was hidden within him, he would
have stood humble and awe-struck before his
soul."
Kahlil Gibran
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"He has been raised, he is not here."
Mark 15. 6
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The year 2020.  Dawn breaks on a world of
global prosperity and peace.  Information
technology and high-speed communication have
doubled real incomes in the space of 20 years. 
The spread of birth control techniques has
finally removed the danger of overpopulation. 
Genetically modified crops and disease-resistant
strains have increased food production to the
point where starvation is a thing of the
past. Using the latest curricula, downloaded by
the Internet, schools in African villages have
reached the level of their Western counterparts. 
International agreements on employment, pay and
work conditions have put an end to the
sweatshops, child labour and low pay that, at the
beginning of the twenty-first century, were the
source of so much iniquity and exploitation. 
Low-cost medical treatments have brought AIDS,
TB and many other forms of disease under
control.  Genetic intervention has opened the
way to preventing hereditary illness and
disability.  Research on the human genome has
enabled doctors to later the genetic switched
responsible for aging.  Life expectancy of 120
years is no longer a rarity.  Observers agree
that humanity is in the midst of a new golden
age.
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Land of Hope and Glory?
Two scenarios, equally possible, and between
them defining what is at stake in the years
ahead.
Scenarios written by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks