Stan Goff

“People who claim, for example, that capitalism can overcome its dependence on fossil fuel have either not researched the question or they…

— Stan Goff

War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.

— Stan Goff

“If being a perfect soldier meant continuing to follow any fucking order I was given, then I would have to settle for…

— 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…

— Stan Goff

“I think we are all about to become rootless. It may be time. The soil has become poisonous.”

— 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…

— Stan Goff

“The dialectical movement of economics, politics, and military power is folding and swirling like weather. Politics is being reshaped by military failure.…

— 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…

— Stan Goff

“I’ve never actually seen the military used to any higher moral purpose. There is always the bottom line, somewhere, somehow.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Stan Goff

“The starkest reality of war is that the enemy is never really a monster, never inhuman ... Every soldier is the same…

— 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…

— Stan Goff

“Politics is economics by other means, and war is politics by other means.”

— Stan Goff

Democrat flaks jump on this like ducks on a June-bug, and in the process themselves reproduce the sick militarism of this culture…

— Stan Goff

“The academic is sharing in the bourgeois’ loot, in a hundred little ways. And the peasant understands necessity as something that transcends…

— Stan Goff

“But paranoids might have real enemies and obsessives might obsess about really important stuff.”

— Stan Goff

“So here I am, a white man telling Black children to not give white people the benefit of the doubt. It’s not…

— Stan Goff

“Race was an issue because in every assignment I have had in Special Operations, racism has been as much a part of…

— Stan Goff

“People who are under the same hegemonic-for-the-time-being power become furtive. They drop comments to test one another. They feel out levels of…

— Stan Goff

“George W. Bush committed impeachable offenses in waging war in Iraq.”

— Stan Goff

“Young professionals, I reminded myself, sympathetic as they may seem with a disarming modesty, are always necessarily invested in conservatism.”

— Stan Goff

“I felt small, like one does when the distance between stars occasionally asserts itself into your understanding, like when your own death’s…

— Stan Goff

“Uniforms standardize the way we recognize military members who outrank us, so we can avoid ass chewings for failure to refer to…

— Stan Goff