"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." Bertrand Russell
The man who started this whole "War on Terror" has been out of the news of late. His responsibility is still unquestioned even though no evidence has been brought aganist him as yet. Sounds like he's hiding in Iran, go get him George.
posted by dav at 6:46 p.m.
"Government is the shadow cast by business over society." John Dewey
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." Milan Kundera
"The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains" Noam Chomsky
"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, and conscience, and a slavish enthralment to those in power. And as such it is recommended wherever it is preached. Patriotism is slavery." Tolstoy
