Excerpts from the Pages of Books

"Civil disobedience is the only means of reconciling politics and morality,". From the words of the late Gandhi on the lips of Jawaharlal Nehru.....(former Prime Minister of India)... in the context of the choices for resisting British colonialism of India formerly...!

"Man's physical strength preceded the awakening of his conscience, and the growth of his muscles came before the growth of his thought"!

"There is no cause concerning humanity that my heart would consent to leave in the hand of a general" ... In the shadow of the idea of war — the idea itself — societies lose their humanity, they lose the finest parts of themselves even science, literature and thought.... Science sells itself...... in favor of war.!.. , and literature sells itself.... in favor of politics....! , and thought sells itself..... to the shackles of narrow nationalism...."!

From the sayings of...."Albert Einstein" a physicist and the author of the special and general theory of relativity

"The first lesson we learned, in the family atmosphere, was that the greatest measure of success is linked to the least amount of talk; the more we speak the more we reveal a wider expanse of our positions, and the more of our positions we reveal, the narrower become our room for maneuver and freedom of action, ..the field of money..... contains much of the field of war....., especially with regard to secrecy... and surprise..... and speed of movement....., in action or in reaction..!

From the sayings of ....John..... Rockefeller (one of the earliest billionaires, and of the oil industry and the banking industry in the United States)... ..... grandson of the world's first billionaire John Davison Rockefeller..

On 4-1-2021