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“You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.”

~David Lloyd George

“One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”

~Agatha Christie

“Were civilians killed? Possibly. If they were killed, it was because they were in the vicinity of a military target.”

~Lieutenant Colonel Dave Lapan at the Pentagon, who was asked about civilians killed in Afghanistan.

“The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians.”

~Harry Truman after the bombing of Hiroshima

“The claim that smart bombs and technology now enable pinpoint bombing is very much a fraud. They discovered after the Gulf War that 93 percent of the bombs turned out not to be so-called smart bombs and the “smart” bombs often missed their targets. Overall, 70 percent of our bombs missed their targets.”

~Howard Zinn

“Democracy isn’t [about] falling in line behind the president. Democracy is for people to think independently, be skeptical of government, look around and try to find out what’s going on. And if they find out that government is deceiving them, to speak out as loudly as they can. That’s democracy.”

~Howard Zinn

“Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country, for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria.”

~Howard Zinn

“We’re likely to experience more restrictions on our personal freedom than has ever been the case in our country.”

~Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor after visiting “ground zero” in New York

“Imagine what that $350 billion that we spend every year on being a military superpower could do to help people, to combat AIDS, to feed people, to immunize people. We could use the great wealth that would be freed up by no longer being a military power to pay for free health care for all, affordable housing for all, and helping people in other parts of the world.”

~Howard Zinn

“A recent report by the World Health Organization calculated that for $101 billion a year in basic medical research and treatment, 8 million lives could be saved annually in the poorer countries of the world. Spending money on basic health would help in making us more secure. Bombing is not making us more secure.”

~Howard Zinn

“To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.”

~Michael Servetus

“The exceeding brightness of military glory—that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood—that serpent’s eye, that charms to destroy…”

~Abraham Lincoln, January 12, 1848 speech against the war with Mexico

“Disinformation, in order to be effective, must be 90% accurate.”

~Peter Dale Scott

“One of the primary means of immobilizing the American people politically today is to hold them in a state of confusion in which anything can be believed and nothing can be known… nothing of significance, that is.”

~E. Martin Schotz

“There’s fool’s gold because there’s real gold.”

~13th-century Persian poet Rumi

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

~Nietzsche

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.”

~Thomas Pynchon, Jr.

“It’s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”

~Henry Kissinger (famous American war criminal)

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”

~Bertrand Russell

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

~Abraham Lincoln

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”

~Charles Darwin (1809-1882) 1871

“Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: They called it opportunity.”

~Bill Gates

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality, this is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

~Martin Luther King

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”

~Abraham Lincoln

“A time comes when silence is betrayal”

~Martin Luther King”

“Don’t hate the media, become the media.”

~Jello Biafra

“If you control the oil, you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.”

~Henry Kissinger

“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

~Winston Churchill

“Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.”

~Project For The New American Century, Rebuilding America’s Defenses, Page 51. September 2000. Co-Signed by: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, Lewis Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, and William Kristol amongst others.

“Why do I do this? Why do I think it is so important to speak out? Because freedom isn’t free and silence is consent.”

~Unknown

“Infinite love is the only truth, everything else is illusion.”

~Unknown

“The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.”

~Vissaeus

“It does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. The war is waged by the ruling group against its subjects, and its object is not victory, but to keep the very structure of society in tact.”

~George Orwell