The U.S. spends more on military than the next 7 highest spenders combined.
A nation that continues
year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs
of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You know, we
live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably
little discussion about how much it might cost, even though the costs almost
inevitably end up being orders of magnitude larger than anybody projected at
the outcome. But when you have a discussion about whether or not we can assist
people who are suffering, then suddenly we come very, you know, cost-conscious.
― Andrew Bacevich
Imperialism is
the factor in American policy, not just since 1898, but in fact long before it
when we were expanding across this continent and taking away Indian lands
in order to enlarge the territory of the United States. We have been an
imperial power and an expansionist power for a very long time.
― Howard Zinn
Although most
Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in
their names, all are likely to pay a steep price - individually and
collectively - for their nation's continued efforts to dominate the global
scene.
― Chalmers Johnson
I
really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of
war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week,
war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video
war game.
― Amy Goodman
America
will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and loose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
― Abraham Lincoln
We
often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would
reduce their weapon arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into
the weapons, we see our own minds- our own prejudices, fears and ignorance.
Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the roots
of bombs are still there, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will
make new bombs. To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the
hearts of men and women. To prepare for war, to give millions of men and women
the opportunity to practice killing day and night in their hearts, is to plant
millions of seeds of violence, anger, frustration, and fear that will be passed
on for generations to come.
― Thích
Nhất Hạnh
Who among us
has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our
children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible
of crimes... reach the light of day?
― Amy Goodman
Unthinking
respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
― Albert Einstein
War
and peace start in the human heart - and whether that heart is open or whether
that heart closes has global implications.
― Pema Chödrön
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