Into the battle the soldier marches To slay the evil enemy on the field But it is not the enemy who is evil His sworn enemy is a young child Noam Chomsky: “Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population …
I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark. In winter trenches, cowed and glum, With crumps and lice and lack of rum, He put a bullet through his brain. No one spoke of him again. You smug-faced …
Who has ever known a lifetime of peace? Peace is only a pause in a cruel world of war In the lifetime of us all There will always be more
Image by Anas Al Sharif This is not a war This is execution This is the final push To exterminate people who have been displaced, imprisoned, abused, and tortured for years. This is not just a crime against the Palestinians, this is a crime against humanity. Who is going to be next? Politicians who support …
War starts with a lie and finishes with untold suffering. The suffering is irrelevant to war profiteers.
There is a particular detachment from the plight of people who live in countries far away from me that I have experienced. I suppose it is partly to shield myself from the sadness of it all, and also accepting there is nothing I can do about innocent civilians being bombed. I met a delightful young …
The settlers landed on the faraway planet of Yeonizfaox. They proceeded to enforce their religion on the inhabitants. “But we have always managed to survive without worshipping anyone.” “You have to worship our god before you can become civilised.” “But we have always lived in peace and harmony.” More settlers arrived. “Forget that god, ours is …
Stop Trident National Demonstration Assemble 12 noon • Saturday 27 February 2016 • Marble Arch, London “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Albert Einstein Link
“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.” Abraham Flexner (1866 – 1959)
“In war, truth is the first casualty.” Aeschylus
“There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.” Charles de Secondat
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Plato
“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.” George Orwell
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” ― Warren Buffett
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. Herodotus (484 BC – 430 BC)
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?” Mahatma Gandhi
“Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a …
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley
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