Memorial Day
“War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.” ~Chris Hedges
“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” ~Albert Einstein
“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” ~ Albert Einstein
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” ~Howard Zinn
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.” ~ Dwight Eisenhower
“War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.” ~Charles Evans Hughes
“The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.” ~Louis Simpson
“Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.” ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.” ~André Gide
“War is fear cloaked in courage.” ~William Westmoreland
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” ~Thomas Mann
“War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.” ~Alexander Berkman
“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out… and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel…. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for “the universal brotherhood of man” – with his mouth.” ~Mark Twain
“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” ~Albert Einstein
“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.” ~JFK
