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A few thoughts to consider...

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. - Pyrrhus, 318 - 272 B.C.

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities. - Voltaire

Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see. Repetition and pride are the keys to this. To hear and to see even an obvious lie again and again and again, maybe to say it almost by reflex, and then to defend it because we have said it, and at last to embrace it because we've defended it. - Octavia Butler

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. - Mark Twain

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

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Ghandi

Life may serve you a shit sandwich, but you don't have to eat it with relish. Cristopher Hollingsworth

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one - neglect. - James D. Bryden

Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. - Hermann Goering

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. James Bryce

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. - Abigail Van Buren

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. - Hannah Arendt

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

There never was a good war or bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. - Malcolm X

When one seeks revenge he should first dig two graves. (Unknown)