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> [“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 to be rigorous. It is easier to talk trash than it is to practice the humility…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/it-s-always-easier-to-pretend-you-know-something-than-it-is-to-learn/)

[Stan Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-goff/)

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## More by Stan Goff

> [“People who claim, for example, that capitalism can overcome its dependence on fossil fuel have either not researched the question or they are on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/people-who-claim-for-example-that-capitalism-can-overcome-its/)

[Stan Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-goff/)

> [War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/war-technology-is-science-in-the-service-of-obscene-anatomical/)

[Stan Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-goff/)

> [“If being a perfect soldier meant continuing to follow any fucking order I was given, then I would have to settle for being a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/if-being-a-perfect-soldier-meant-continuing-to-follow-any-fucking/)

[Stan Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-goff/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/the-point-is-that-when-one-is-dealing-with-a-too-powerful-for-the/)

[Stan Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-goff/)

> [“I think we are all about to become rootless. It may be time. The soil has become poisonous.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/i-think-we-are-all-about-to-become-rootless-it-may-be-time-the-soil/)

[Stan Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-goff/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/it-s-the-same-hope-we-have-to-hold-for-humanity-that-we-can-transform/)

[Stan Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-goff/)

> [“The dialectical movement of economics, politics, and military power is folding and swirling like weather. Politics is being reshaped by military failure. Military failure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/the-dialectical-movement-of-economics-politics-and-military-power-is/)

[Stan Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-goff/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/that-sounds-stupid-but-people-have-to-remember-that-being-raised-a/)

[Stan Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-goff/)

> [“I’ve never actually seen the military used to any higher moral purpose. There is always the bottom line, somewhere, somehow.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/i-ve-never-actually-seen-the-military-used-to-any-higher-moral/)

[Stan Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-goff/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/the-appearance-of-precision-and-order-are-so-important-to-military/)

[Stan Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-goff/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/it-s-always-easier-to-pretend-you-know-something-than-it-is-to-learn/)

[Stan Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-goff/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/racism-if-you-look-closely-is-about-profit-the-whole-system-was-built/)

[Stan Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-goff/)

> [“The starkest reality of war is that the enemy is never really a monster, never inhuman ... Every soldier is the same fallible breed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/the-starkest-reality-of-war-is-that-the-enemy-is-never-really-a/)

[Stan Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-goff/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/there-s-a-trendy-phrase-making-the-rounds-among-intellectuals-these/)

[Stan Goff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-goff/)

> [“Politics is economics by other means, and war is politics by other means.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-goff/politics-is-economics-by-other-means-and-war-is-politics-by-other/)

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