To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people. — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself? — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
George, your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq.… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
It was a failure of citizenship of the American people that the Bush cabal was allowed to invade Iraq. Thus, every U.S.… — Dahr Jamail Copy Share Image
“Udžbenik "Geografija za nepismene" izlazi dnevno, kao novine, Narod mora biti u toku šta mu je od jutros Domovina, a šta više… — Đorđe Balašević Copy Share Image
Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Razmišljam i ja ponekad o svom poreklu, naravno, ali pritom ne vidim bogomolje, simbole, ni šarene pantljike folklora kojima se kite konji… — Đorđe Balašević Copy Share Image
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one… — Robert Parry Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image