QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Abraham Lincoln, Chris Hedges, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mark Twain, Pope John Paul II, Noam Chomsky, Charles Eliot Norton, Maximilien Robespierre, Mahatma Gandhi, Dorothy Thompson, Ramman Kenoun, Congressman Ron Paul, Thomas Paine, Tacitus<, Voltaire, .

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
  ~Abraham Lincoln
  
  
• War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.
  ~Chris Hedges
  
  

• Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.
  ~Friedrich Nietzsche
  
  
• Why, the Government is merely...a temporary servant...Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
  ~Mark Twain
  
  
• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war...
  ~Pope John Paul II
  
  
• There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.
  ~Noam Chomsky
  
  
• If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
  ~Charles Eliot Norton
  
  
• One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.
  ~Maximilien Robespierre
  
  
• Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
  ~Mahatma Gandhi
  
  
• It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
  ~Dorothy Thompson
  
  
• Humanity is quite a unique species, since it is the only one with the means to wipe itself out.
  ~Ramman Kenoun
  
  
• Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
  ~Congressman Ron Paul
  
  
• An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
  ~Thomas Paine
  
  
• The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
  ~Tacitus
  
  
• Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
  ~Voltaire
  
  
• The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
  ~Chris Hedges
  
  

 

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