"With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology……" — Howard Zinn
"With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral. This is true even when a war is considered "just," because it is fought against a tyrant, against an aggressor, to correct a stolen boundary."
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154 Quotes by Howard Zinn
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They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
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I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different…
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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history…
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Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the…
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you…
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If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the…
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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved…
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -…
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...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in…
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...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
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I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or…
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War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's…
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More Aggressor Quotes
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The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights.…
— Ronald Reagan
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity;…
— Thomas Aquinas
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war…
— Harold Lasswell
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Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.
— Saddam Hussein
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I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that,…
— Dominic Monaghan
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world.…
— Mark Twain
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While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or…
— Benjamin Tucker
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