Here are the answers our daily Who Said..? quiz for July 2010 :

“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied… but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.” – John Berger

Here are the answers our daily Who Said..? quiz :

“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 1872 – The Poet at the Breakfast Table

“I sit on a man’s back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.” – Leo Tolstoy 1886, Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence

“Muad’Dib could indeed see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet cannot see without light. If you are on the floor of a valley, you cannot see beyond your valley. Just so, Muad’Dib could not always choose to look across the mysterious terrain. He tells us that a single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future.” – Princess Irulan, from Arrakis Awakening

“Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.” – Sam Rayburn (1882-1961)

“Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.” – Austin O’Malley (1858-1932)

“When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already…What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.” – Adolf Hitler, on Public Education, speech in November 1933

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953, a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors

“A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” – James Madison – 1822

“When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to “hope” at all. We simply do the work.” – Derrick Jensen 2005, in Endgame Volume I: The Problem of Civilization, p.330

“To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.” – Theodore Roosevelt’s 1912 Platform of the Progressive Party

“And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes.” – William Jennings Bryan – Speech at Madison Square Garden, New York, 30 August 1906, at a reception welcoming Bryan on his return from a year’s trip around the world.

“There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.” – Franklin P. Adams (1881 – 1960)

“There will soon be useful quotes right here.” – Namke von Federlein – 2010