Kevin Bluer

“Hunger is certainly a good sauce.”
― Joan Druett, Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

“A central problem with the idea that wars are needed to combat evil is that there is nothing more evil than war. War causes more suffering and death than anything war can be used to combat.”
― David Swanson, War Is A Lie

“In selling the War on Iraq, it became important to stress that Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons, and equally important to avoid the fact that he had done so with U.S. assistance. George Orwell wrote in 1948, “Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labor, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral color when it is committed by ‘our’ side.…The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”1”
― David Swanson, War Is A Lie

“We must all take on faith the stories of our birth, for though we are in them, we are not yet present.”
― Esi Edugyan, Washington Black