Friday 29th of March 2024

famous quotes and three idiots....

war stupid

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. — George Orwell

Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.  — General Smedley Butler

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.  — W. L. George

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.  — Mary Roberts Rinehart

...Violence as a way of gaining power...is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security...  — Alfred Adler

It is far easier to make war than peace.  — Georges Clemenceau

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.  — Issac Asimov

War remains the decisive human failure.  — John Kenneth Galbraith

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.  — Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.  — Noam Chomsky 

We have met the enemy and he is us.  — Walt Kelly

 

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. — Benjamin Franklin

 

 

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. — Benjamin Franklin

 

 

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. — Benjamin Franklin 

 

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. — JohnAdams 

 

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Our enemies... never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. — George W. Bush (idiot numero uno)

 

I've made it up...

In the toon above, I have made up the quote said by our propaganda master, Mr Murdoch...  But I am old enough to read what he has been concocting since he became news kingpin. War sells. War is all about profits. And Uncle Rupe is about selling more papers... Uncle Rupe supports war. Tony Abbott is an idiot... Add 2 and 2 and you have a result...

more quotes...

fraser

the shameless turd steals quotes from chifley...

 

The spirit of Chifley, the humble visionary whose optimistic belief in peace was a beacon of hope, is to be cynically stolen by the present reality of a man who thrives on conflict and aggression, writes Mungo MacCallum.

The minor earth tremor you detected around Bathurst cemetery last week was Ben Chifley turning in his grave as Tony Abbott invoked his memory (though not his name).

Abbott appropriated Labor's most memorable image, the light on the hill, in Labor's most respected venue, the United Nations General Assembly, to celebrate his pawing at the ground to Washington to give the OK for Australian war planes to bomb Iraq. The man has no shame.

It was only last week in the same city that our Prime Minister publicly gave his finger to most of the world by very publicly rejecting the invitation to participate in the UN secretary-general's Climate Summit. His office, he said, was too busy attending to affairs in Canberra, presumably to do with preparations for the Great Humanitarian War.

read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-29/maccallum-the-cheek-of-abbott-channelling-chifley/5776484