Notable Quotable 162

Dec 12, 2023

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.

- Noam Chomsky, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Crimes_Act_of_1996

God and a soldier all people adore

In time of war, but not before;

And when war is over and all things are righted,

God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.

- Author Unknown

You cannot separate peace and freedom. Because no one can be at peace unless he has freedom.

- Author Unknown

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

- Malcolm X

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

- Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

- Edmund Burke

One of the world's greatest problems is the impossibility of any person searching for the truth on any subject when they believe they already have it.

- Dave Wilbur

Little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything -- you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

- Robert A. Heinlein Author

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

- George Orwell