“What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire machine guns from a helicopter at Vietnamese huts, with a light flashing when a hit is scored? What can one say about a country where such an idea can even be considered? You have to weep for this country.” – Noam Chomsky on the U.S. war against Vietnam …

“As with the movement to end the war on Vietnam, we will have to fight on many fronts: supporting counter-recruitment, confronting government and military officials about the human costs of this war and the lies they use to justify it, exposing war profiteers, encouraging and protecting soldiers who speak out and who resist their orders or service, working with veteran groups such as Iraq Veterans Against the War and military families’ groups like Gold Star …

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“Over the past two decades every issue I have been engaged in as an ecological activist and organic intellectual has revealed that what the industrial economy calls “growth” is really a form of theft from nature and people.” – Vandana Shiva …

From the introduction of “War is a Force that Gives us Meaning,”

“The only antidote to ward off self destruction and the indiscriminate use of force is humility and, ultimately compassion” – Chris Hedges
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“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time” – Karl Marx

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“Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual’s body.” — Thomas Szasz

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“Because they don’t teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools were, in reality, democratic, there would be no need to bombard students with platitudes about democracy. They would simply act and behave democratically, and we know this does not happen. The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.” …

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72% of US troops in Iraq think the US should exit the country within the next year, and over 25% think the US should exit immediately. French poet Paul Valery once defined war in this manner: “War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other” …

“Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires…. But what history really shows is that today’s empire is tomorrow’s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.” …

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“When a country–particularly “a democracy”–goes to war, the passive consent of the governed lubricates the machinery of slaughter. Silence is a key form of cooperation, but the war-making system does not insist on quietude or agreement. Mere passivity and self-restraint will suffice to keep the missiles flying, the bombs exploding and the faraway people dying. ” — Norman Solomon
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