“There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.”
― Tony Benn
“You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace. Power to the peaceful.”
― Michael Franti
“All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
“Love is hate
War is Peace
No is Yes
And we're all free.”
― Tracy Chapman
@edgarblythe,
Trump is going to start with North Korea.
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
― Henry Kissinger
“A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Flotsam
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Isaac Asimov
@edgarblythe,
Human perception is a mystery. It has little to do with what we humans call intelligence. Most believe in one god or another without the ability to provide any evidence for them.
“A key that can open many locks is called a master key, but a lock that can be opened by many keys is a shitty lock”
― Unknown
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat
“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
― José Martí
“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
― Terry Johnson, Insignificance
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
“In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth”
― Jeremy Taylor
