“Imperialism is an institution under which one nation
asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or
resources of another people. ~ John T. Flynn
“We could not leave them to themselves - they were unfit for
self-government - and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse
than Spain's
was ... there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to
educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them.” ~U.S. President
William McKinley, 1899, speaking about the Filipino people. (He proceeded to
slaughter a lot of them.)
“If a country develops an economic system that is based on
how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of fixed capital investment that are
apparent are tied up in armaments, and if that country is a major exporter of
arms, and its industrial fabric is dependent on them, then it would be in that
country's interests to ensure that it always had a market. It is not an
exaggeration to say that it is clearly in the interests of the world’s leading
arms exporters to make sure that there is always a war going on somewhere.” ~
Marilyn Waring (Source: Documentary 'Who's Counting', based on her book
‘Counting for Nothing’)
“War is the suicide of humanity because it kills the heart
and kills love.” ~ Pope Francis
“The notion of a 'humanitarian war' would have rang in the
ears of the drafters of the UN Charter as nothing short of Hitlerian, because
it was precisely the justification used by Hitler himself for the invasion of
Poland just six years earlier.” ~ Michael Mandel
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically
bound to the starless midnight of racism and war, that the bright daybreak of
peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.” ~ Danielle Wolfe
“The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so
that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been
established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the
god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction.
Today there is a “NO” which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak:
the “NO” to war.” ~ Subcomandante Marcos - Source: No to war, 2/16/03
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