Re: OT - Your Comments on the recent
Re: OT - Your Comments on the recent
- Subject: Re: OT - Your Comments on the recent
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 00:49:52 -0300
At 8:29 PM -0700 16/09/01, Ed Stockly wrote:
>>Peter B.>>In the end, I fear that Walt Kelly's words (paraphrased) are too
true: "The enemy is us."
The full quote: "We have met the enemy and 'they' is us."
This famous quote from Walt Kelly is often misused, misunderstood or
paraphrased in ways that that completely alter its original meaning or
intent.
Famous or not, it came earlier from someone else, only in a slightly
different form. Before PoGo ever hit the press, Gandhi was observed
to say that "the only devils alive in the world are the ones inside
of us, and we should spend our time defeating them". That may not be
verbatim, but I've got the text here in the bookshelf and it's not
far off. And quite possibly he took them from a more ancient source.
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