QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, George W. Bush, Francis John McConnell, Thomas Paine, Gerard K. O'Neill, George Orwell, Frank Kent, Mikhail Gofman, Kahlil Gibran, Ramman Kenoun, Groucho Marx, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Albert Camus, Scott Ritter, Thomas della Peruta, Harry Emerson Fosdick.

• Our nation is somewhat sad, but we’re angry. There’s a certain level of blood lust, but we won’t let it drive our reaction. We’re steady, clear-eyed and patient, but pretty soon we’ll have to start displaying scalps.
  ~George W. Bush
  
  
• We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.
  ~Francis John McConnell
  
  

• That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...
  ~Thomas Paine
  
  
• Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.
  ~Gerard K. O'Neill
  
  
• War is a way of shattering to pieces...materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and...too intelligent.
  ~George Orwell
  
  
• The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.
  ~Frank Kent
  
  
• One day the end of the world will come as a result of a 'justified' war.
  ~Mikhail Gofman, Antiwar.com reader
  
  
• Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer?
  ~Kahlil Gibran
  
  
• War is not a word, it's an acronym for "Wasting Another's Resources."
  ~Ramman Kenoun
  
  
• Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
  ~Groucho Marx
  
  
• Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
  ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  
  
• It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
  ~Albert Camus
  
  
• We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause...
  ~Scott Ritter
  
  
• Our children are not born to hate, they are raised to hate.
  ~Thomas della Peruta
  
  
• I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses...
  ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
  
  

 

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