"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
- George Washington -
"It is part of the general pattern of misguided
policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which
was bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and
nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
-General Douglas MacArthur, Speech, May 15, 1951 -
"War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible,
that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,'
like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness,
wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder."
- Alexander Berkman -
"The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle,
but to make them long for it."
- Louis Simpson -
Nothing
is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus -
It is
when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
- Eric Hoffer -
You see
what power is -- holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it
to them!
- Amy Tan -
One of
the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these
days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding
fathers used in
the great struggle for independence:
- Charles A. Beard -
"This so-called ill
treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread
everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed .
were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses
committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid
violent hands on the detainees."
Rudolf Hess, the SS commandant at Auschwitz.
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism
that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it
or says it."
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
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"War creates peace like hate creates love"
David L. Wilson
