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Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
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War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists…
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In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.
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The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
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We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge.…
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No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.
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The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw…
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The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove…
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War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video…
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The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.
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There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.
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We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute,…
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I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that…
— Jeremy Scahill
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...jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of…
— Noam Chomsky
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The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism…
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I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make…
— Peter Berg
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Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.
— Claire Danes
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Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status…
— Claire Danes
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I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so…
— Steven Morrissey
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When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins…
— Noam Chomsky
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My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag…
— Katha Pollitt
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America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love…
— Charles M. Blow
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