Notable Quotable 287

Jun 05, 2024

It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable and to propagandize the American people to hate, so we will let the establishment spend any amount of money on arms.

- John Stockwell

Politicians and the media have conspired to infantilize, to dumb down, the American public. At heart, politicians don't believe that Americans can handle complex truths, and the news media, especially television news, basically agrees.

- Tom Fento

Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something, everyone must play a part, everyone got to go to work, Work for Peace.

- Gil Scott-Heron

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives...inside ourselves.

- Albert Camus

Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.

- Arundhati Roy, Public Power in the Age of Empire

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Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

- Bob Dylan

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

- Oscar Wilde

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

- Thomas Jefferson

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

- Eugene Victor Debs

You are not Christians. You are not Jews. You are not Muslims. And you certainly aren’t atheists. You all have the same god, and its name is ‘government.’ You’re all members of the most evil, insane, destructive cult in history. If there ever was a devil, the state is it. And you worship it with all your heart and soul.

- Larken Rose, The Iron Web