The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own Aldous Huxley - English novelist and critic, 1894-1963 I count myself as a spiritual sister to those the US government has murdered, and I am angry at my powerlessness. - Karen Kwiatkowski The search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more important reason than that; namely, I can do something about it. So even if the U.S. was responsible for 2 percent of the violence in the world instead of the majority of it, it would be that 2 percent I would be primarily responsible for. And that is a simple ethical judgment. That is, the ethical value of ones actions depends on their anticipated and predictable consequences. It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century. - Noam Chomsky It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level? - Mark Twain
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 01:36:58 +0000
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