> ... elitism, fascism, colonialism, racism, self-righteousness, religious bigotry and the War on Terrorism in all its aspects. Each is a different string of the same violin which, at the moment, is playing one tune -- Zionism.
In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them.
~Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
– Calgacus
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
~Donald Rumsfeld
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood...War is hell.
~General William Tecumseh Sherman
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
~Thucydides
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
~George Washington
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
~Noam Chomsky
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
~Albert Camus
That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
~Theodore Roosevelt
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