Albert Einstein
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791 ~
Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, "War is an evil inasmuch as it produces more wicked men than it takes away." So much for the measures nature takes to lead the human race, considered as a class of animals, to her own end
Immanuel Kant
19 terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Charta onward. The terrorists have already won the political and ideological war with one terrorist act. It is mind boggling that we are that weak as a society
Rocco Galati
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living
GeneralOmar Bradley
Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake, never, for one moment, thought of their act as violence, rather, they though of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.
Gil Bailie
The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal
Mark Twain
Everything, everything in war is barbaric . . . But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
Ellen Key, 1916
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
J. Krishnamurti
"Bush's generous tax cuts have put an extra four dollars ($4.00) into my twice-monthly pay check. Meanwhile our local property taxes have increased by about $1000 this year. Our son's college tuition was raised by about 9%. My husband and I receive health care through our employer, who raised our contribution 400% this past year. My daughter who just graduated college last spring cannot find a job that pays more than $7.50 an hour. She has no health insurance, and since she can only find low paying jobs without benefits, she is unable for now to repay her college loans, so we are making those payments for her. Thank you George Bush for your tender concern for the middle class."
A real American story from Durham, NH
Abigail Van Buren
