“The academic is sharing in the bourgeois’ loot, in a hundred little ways. And the peasant understands necessity as something that transcends mortality. To be in community with that peasant, the Chapel Hill academic will have to commit class suicide.” — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“I felt small, like one does when the distance between stars occasionally asserts itself into your understanding, like when your own death’s inevitability leaps in front of you in the middle of the night when you get up to pee.” — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“People who claim, for example, that capitalism can overcome its dependence on fossil fuel have either not researched the question or they are on… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism. — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“If being a perfect soldier meant continuing to follow any fucking order I was given, then I would have to settle for being a… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“The point is that when one is dealing with a too-powerful-for-the-present force, pragmatism demands one bite one's lip, play the game, and become very… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“I think we are all about to become rootless. It may be time. The soil has become poisonous.” — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“It's the same hope we have to hold for humanity—that we can transform our roles, roles constructed like so many doors for us to… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“The dialectical movement of economics, politics, and military power is folding and swirling like weather. Politics is being reshaped by military failure. Military failure… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“That sounds stupid, but people have to remember that being raised a white male in the U.S.in the fifties and sixties, for most of… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“I’ve never actually seen the military used to any higher moral purpose. There is always the bottom line, somewhere, somehow.” — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“The appearance of precision and order are so important to military commanders because they are generally idiots who couldn’t plan a decent cocktail party,… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“It's always easier to pretend you know something than it is to learn about it. It's always easier to be cute than it is… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“Racism—if you look closely—is about profit. The whole system was built on it. War—if you look closely—is about profit. Poverty, which is not, and… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“The starkest reality of war is that the enemy is never really a monster, never inhuman ... Every soldier is the same fallible breed… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“There’s a trendy phrase making the rounds among intellectuals these days: compassion fatigue. We’ve just grown so tired of caring so much about the… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“Politics is economics by other means, and war is politics by other means.” — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
