Entry 155

It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Henry Kissinger

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

George Orwell

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

Alexander Pope

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Benjamin Disraeli

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

Benjamin Franklin

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Bernard M. Baruch

In this war – as in others – I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead.

Butler Shaffer

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

General Douglas MacArthur

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

George Orwell


We have met the enemy and he is us.

Walt Kelly