19 Quotes by Ted Smith

If the state is just the accumulated results of past conflicts, and if preservation of the state becomes the end that grounds necessity, then the fact of violence becomes a kind of law, and the law, grounded in the need to preserve what fate has established, blurs into the fact of organized violence

Divine violence expiates; it releases from guilt. It operates not by the destruction of bodies but by the destruction of the systems of laws or ethics that declare an action to be right or wrong.

We are gearing up to do a massive recruitment and deployment. We are doing some pre-deployment across the nation. Locally we have 11 people on standby and we currently have 12 people already in the South working on hurricane Katrina.

Lilly is the real McCoy, the lady herself who started the resort-type look.

Most of the computers collected for recycling here in the US end up being shipped illegally to disassembly sites in China and India,

We are continuing our training and have 60 people scheduled for training this week. We already trained 50 during the last session. Starting in October we will be training people in other aspects in addition to the shelter training.

Up to 80% of all obsolete electronics that gets collected ends up getting exported.

Sales have been soft for the last few months.

People try to recycle, but even well-intentioned efforts are not followed through.