| The most tolerant Azerbaijani Turk / Самый толерантный азербайджанский турок |
[Oct. 9th, 2007|07:06 pm] |
Just read this...
Azay Guliyev, Azerbaijani MP as quoted by Azerbaijani news agency: I met with him in prison. My colleague Rabiyyat Aslanova and officer of our embassy were also there. Ramil Safarov with his tolerance, honor and behavior protects our country's image.
Source: RAMIL SAFAROV FASTS IN PRISON, Azeri press Agency, Azerbaijan. Oct 8 2007
Просто вникните в это...
Азербайджанское новостное агентство цитирует слова Азая Гулиева, депутата аз. парламента: Я встретился с ним в тюрьме. Там были и моя коллега Рабият Асланова и работник нашего посольства. Своей толерантностью, честью и поведением Рамиль Сафаров защищает имидж нашей страны.
Источник: RAMIL SAFAROV FASTS IN PRISON, Azeri press Agency, Azerbaijan. Oct 8 2007 |
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| Демократия в цитатах |
[Aug. 6th, 2007|12:27 pm] |
Стоит начаться дискуссии о демократии, как рано или поздно кто-то из участников беседы вспоминает известную цитату Черчилля: Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. (Демократия — худшая из форм правления, если не считать всех других уже испробованных.).
Но поскольку Черчиль не единственный известный человек, из высказавших что-либо примечательное о демократии, то хочу привести несколько менее известных цитат о демократии. Впрочем, начну опять же с Черчиля:
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H.L. MENCKE Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H.L. MENCKEN Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
HELEN KELLER
Из интервью режиссера Алана Паркера:
Неужели кто-то настолько наивен, чтобы полагать, будто один-единственный фильм способен хоть что-то изменить? Это и есть парадокс свободного общества - посреди шума и гвалта разных голосов и мнений всегда трудно услышать один какой-то конкретный голос. Если при тоталитаризме никто не может выразить свое мнение, то при демократических системах этого мнения просто никто не услышит.
Интервью журналу «Итоги», #26 (420) |
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| Ретроспектива |
[Jul. 31st, 2007|04:59 pm] |
С поразительной регулярностью собеседники из "либерального лагеря" заставляют вспоминать одно очень меткое высказывание Хелен Гиббонс, о котором я уже писал в одной из самых первых записей:
I am a great believer in letting every one have his point of view. But generally one finds that the people who boast that they are liberal and broad-minded are the most bigoted people on earth. They assert their point of view, but are unwilling to admit another's right to his.
Update: источником вдохновения послужило вот это. Очень характерно для "защитников свободы слова": трэд был заблокирован, когда ваш покорный слуга озвучил мысли, не совпадающие с генеральной линией партии и не позволил увести разговор в сторону :) |
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| Neo-Slavery |
[May. 6th, 2007|06:27 pm] |
Slavery never really ended in this country.
They just gave it another name. Employee. The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
In 1807 the British Slave Trade Act made trading in slaves illegal. However, according to The Independent slavery has not completely gone away even in today's Britain itself:Modern slavery also exists in this country: last week The Independent on Sunday revealed that up to 5,000 children are being forced to work as sex slaves here.
And there is another harsh yet IMHO well-founded opinion about how slavery continued to blossom in Africa after its official abolition:While the British are celebrating a hypocritical moral victory in the abolition of slavery they lose sight of the fact that colonialism was even worse. All the worst features of slavery were present in colonialism. And then added to it was extensive debauchery and pillage the likes of which is unparalleled in history.
Back to the quote that opens this post: as for my personal opinion, total slavery is everywhere, even in the richest countries on the planet. The modern society follows the model of the Ottoman empire, where the only person to be 100% free was the sultan himself and everyone else were considered to be his slaves. Of course, nowadays the methods of control are much softer yet the control is tighter. Because even in Ottoman empire there were regions where population didn't give much fuck about the sultan, for example, the semi-autonomous region of Zeytun in Cilicia.
Control is much softer, way less intrusive these days. No human branding with hot iron but taking fingerprints instead (with DNA stamps coming soon). No chains, but voluntary obligations that work much better than the brute force. The best slave is the one who thinks that he is a free man. |
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| A Quote |
[Jan. 7th, 2007|06:09 pm] |
I am a great believer in letting every one have his point of view. But generally one finds that the people who boast that they are liberal and broad-minded are the most bigoted people on earth. They assert their point of view, but are unwilling to admit another's right to his.
By Helen Davenport Gibbons
Recalled this thanks to a post by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) new_julfa |
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