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Anti-War Quotes of the week 1

Here are some anti-war quotes for this week.

“Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.”
—Benjamin Franklin

“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
—Hermann Goering

“Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation—it is fond of killing—patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.”
—Ambrose Bierce, Collected Works

“In all wars the object is to protect or to seize money, property and power, and there will always be wars so long as Capital rules and oppresses people.”
—Ernst Friedrich, War Against War (1924)

“I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no more war.”
—Abbie Hoffman
 

One comment on “Anti-War Quotes of the week

  1. WhyNot Feb 18,2005 6:31 am

    “I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no more war.”

    ROFLOL, hahahaha, I love this one, Jim. Yes, it’s more than funny, it reeks of truth.

    This is excellent, and I’ll try remember it.

    Thanks Jim 🙂

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