"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" ~~ M K Gandhi

WAR


"War makes the victor stupid and the vanquished vengeful." ~~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing." ~~ John Berger

"In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities happen again. Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence." ~~ Bishop Desmond Tutu

"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs." ~~ Elbert Hubbard

"Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind." ~~ George Bernard Shaw

"Irregardless of the effect of the cuts, the cuts are illegal ... because they are designed to punish civilians for the acts of militants."

- Sari Bashi, director of the Israeli human rights group Gisha, responding to plans by the Israeli Defense Ministry to cut electricity and fuel supplies to Gaza, which defended its actions with the assertion, "The minister of defense has wide discretion in regard to fighting, including waging economic warfare." (Source: The Washington Post)

I used to be a person uncommonly terrified with thunder, and it used to strike me with terror when I saw a thunder storm rising. But now, on the contrary, it rejoiced me. I felt God at the first appearance of a thunderstorm. And used to take the opportunity at such times to fix myself to view the clouds, and see the lightnings play, and hear the majestic and awful voice of God’s thunder, which often times was exceeding entertaining, leading me to sweet contemplations of my great and glorious God.

~~ Jonathan Edwards, Personal Narrative