The Last Emperor All war represents a failure of diplomacy

The Last Emperor

All war represents a failure of diplomacy. Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion. That meddling in other peoples conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. In modern war there is no such thing as victor and is only a loser, and the loser is mankind. U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary General If you kill one person you are a murderer. If you kill ten people you are a monster. If you kill ten thousand you are a national hero. No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for is agreeable to those who are strangers to it. Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly or the other must go. About the quote : Brittain was a British WWII-era anti-area-bombing activist. Quote from Among the Dead Cities, by Grayling Walker Co. , 200 Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a The Last Emperor village. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. To the wicked, everything serves as pretext. All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. A standing army is a standing menace to liberty. The time has The Last Emperor to stop beating our heads The Last Emperor stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race. War is the only game in which both sides lose. We have met the enemy and he is us. About the quote : Cartoonist, notably of Pogo. lived 1913-1 Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war. The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. William Colby, former CIA director Wars a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable. If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. About the quote : Supreme Court Justice Douglas lived 1898-19 Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. The greatest crime since World War II has been US foreign policy. About the quote : William Ramsey Clark was US Attorney General under Lyndon B. Johnson O, it is excellent To have a giants strength! But it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. About the quote : from Measure for Measure, Act II, Scn.