MORE WAR QUOTES
(source: Robert Anton Wilson--COSMIC TRIGGER, VOL. 2)

"In 1932, Standard Oil struck oil in the British protectorate of Bahrein
in the Persian Gulf and all the major powers began decades of covert and
overt struggle to control that region, of which the current culmination,
as I write this (1991), includes George Bush Jr. (George II) owning most
of the oil in Bahrein and George Bush Sr. (George I) declaring that the
U.S. has a 'moral' imperative to police that area. Today (1991), American
missiles are raining on Iraq and Iraqi missiles are bombarding Israel.
(The American missiles are 'good' because they only kill 'bad' people; the
Iraqi missiles are 'bad' because they kill 'good' people. Understand? I am
writing about the Planet of the [Naked] Apes.)"--r.a.w. (w/addendums by
yours truly)

"Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to
kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his
ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?"--Blaise
Pascal

"The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rape
and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny
imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally
capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoid people
while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or land mines."--John
T. Flynn, AS WE GO MARCHING

"How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One
man must not kill. If he does, it is murder. But a state or nation may
kill as many as they please, and it is not murder...Only get enough people
to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly
innocent. But how many does it take?"--Adin Ballou

"One of the amusing by-products of war is its pricking of the fundamental
democratic delusion. For years Homo Boobus stalks the Earth
vaingloriously, flapping his wings over his God-given rights, his
inalienable freedom, his sublime equality to his masters. Then of a sudden
he is thrust into a training camp and discovers that he is a slave after
all--that even his life is not his own."--H.L. Mencken, MINORITY REPORT

"Obedience to the law is freedom."--Sign over the stockade at Fort Dix

"Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development. After all, at
five we all wanted to be generals."--Sir Peter Ustinov
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"--the "Great" and
"Powerful" "Wizard" of Oz

"A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is
the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever
entered into the head of man."--Daniel Webster, speech in the House
ofRepresentatives, January 14, 1814

"Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
I.F. Stone

"There is many a boy here who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is
all hell."--General William Tecumseh Sherman

"Government is an association of men (and women) who do violence to the
rest of us."--Leo Tolstoy

"If one wants to recognize effortlessly the essence of politics, let one
reflect upon the fact that it was a Hitler who was ableto make the world
hold its breath for many years. The fact thatHitler was a political genius
unmasks the nature of politics ingeneral as no other fact can."--Wilhelm
Reich, THE MASS PSYCHO-
LOGY OF FASCISM

"there are no righteous wars"--Ezra Pound

"Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace"--Harry Elmer Barnes, historian

"Coercion is the central principle of government."--Lord Armstrong

"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these they misname Empire, and where
they make a desert, they call it peace."--Calgacus

"War is a crime. Ask the infantry. Ask the dead."--Ernest Hemingway

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government
had better get out of their way and let them have it."--Dwight David
Eisenhower

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