Phone Booth Quirk Books, 2008

Phone Booth

Quirk Books, 2008 Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed. About the quote : This was part of Springsteens introduction to his 1985 version of Edwin Starrs song War. Coercive practices that threaten our neighbors also threaten us. The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection. In this war as in others I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead. No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war. Politics is the womb in which war develops. The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes. War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu A rational army would run away. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu About the quote : Commonly known just as Montesquieu, Charles 1869-1755 was a social commentator and thinker of the French Enlightenment. The voice of never more needed than when the clamor of fife and bidding all in silence the tyrannous word of command. If a war be the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime. War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. About the quote : From The Spirit of Laws, 1748 Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat including men-from reluctant Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball. The politicians in this have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes. not really free if we cant control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant. The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests. War, n: A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a presidents popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns. War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics. The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment. In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence. After victory, you have more enemies. True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. Hell hath no fury like a non-combatant. About the quote : Quote from Among the Dead Cities, by Grayling Walker Co. , 200 War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form of equates the national honor with military victory. Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps The dangerous into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions. Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps The dangerous a defender of militarism and its ideals of war and glory. Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable. About the quote : Comment trying to convince mideast policy makers Russia, the EU and the UN to stop aid to the new Hamas Palestinian government; 1/30/0 Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms. War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.