Military command Quote 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…

— 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 being a…

— 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…

— 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 us to…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

“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

“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

“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