James

“One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”
― Omar El Akkad

“Abstinence is forgiveness only when there is the power to punish ; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Non-Violent Resistance

“To preserve the values of the civilized world, it is necessary to set fire to a library. To blow up a mosque. To incinerate olive trees. To dress up in the lingerie of women who fled and then take pictures. To level universities. To loot jewelry, art, banks, food. To arrest children for picking vegetables. To shoot children for throwing stones. To parade the captured in their underwear. To break a man’s teeth and shove a toilet brush in his mouth. To let combat dogs loose on a man with Down syndrome and then leave him to die. Otherwise, the uncivilized world might win.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“Politicians give us orders to go to foreign countries and establish, peace, democracy, respect for human rights, etc. Falklands, Afghanistan, Iraq, Serbia, and Libya are just a few of the recent examples. The problem is that they have trained and equipped us to kill and destroy! And we are damned good at doing just that. But you cannot build democracy by dropping bombs from high altitudes or respect for human rights with cruise missiles. Too many politicians seem to believe that military forces are some sort of universal tools that can deliver the political goals governments order them to. We know better.”
― Jørgen Johansen, Social defence