Monday, May 30, 2005
For the Soldiers ~
I took these pictures in Vergas Minnesota. Summer of 2002.
I had never seen so many flags in one place and felt in awe and very patriotic. I believe honor and thankfulness and more are due to our soldiers, those both living and dead. Yet, I feel so much anger and sadness over the fact that we have all been lied to, all made to believe that this war was necessary. Though I am lacking in words I have found these quotes below to share on my blog.
"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it."
~Martin Luther quotes (German priest and scholar whose questioning of certain church practices led to the Protestant Reformation. 1483-1546)
"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own"
~Aldous Huxley quotes (English novelist and critic, 1894-1963)
"President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either."
~David Letterman quotes
"If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful"
~ C.S. Lewis quotes (British scholar and novelist. 1898-1963)
~"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both."
~Abraham Flexner quotes
"The world is full enough of hurts and mischance without wars to multiply them."
~J.R.R. Tolkien quotes (English writer and author of richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings, 1892-1973)
"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?"
~Chris Rock quotes
"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death"
~Thomas Paine quotes (English born American writer and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution. 1737-1809)
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
~George McGovern quotes (American politician. b.1922)
"Beware of the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry, [who] infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How will I know? For this I have done. And I am Julius Caesar."
~Julius Caesar quotes (Roman general and statesman, emperor of Rome, 100-44 B.C.)
¶ 5/30/2005 09:16:00 PM
I took these pictures in Vergas Minnesota. Summer of 2002.
I had never seen so many flags in one place and felt in awe and very patriotic. I believe honor and thankfulness and more are due to our soldiers, those both living and dead. Yet, I feel so much anger and sadness over the fact that we have all been lied to, all made to believe that this war was necessary. Though I am lacking in words I have found these quotes below to share on my blog.
"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it."
~Martin Luther quotes (German priest and scholar whose questioning of certain church practices led to the Protestant Reformation. 1483-1546)
"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own"
~Aldous Huxley quotes (English novelist and critic, 1894-1963)
"President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either."
~David Letterman quotes
"If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful"
~ C.S. Lewis quotes (British scholar and novelist. 1898-1963)
~"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both."
~Abraham Flexner quotes
"The world is full enough of hurts and mischance without wars to multiply them."
~J.R.R. Tolkien quotes (English writer and author of richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings, 1892-1973)
"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?"
~Chris Rock quotes
"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death"
~Thomas Paine quotes (English born American writer and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution. 1737-1809)
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
~George McGovern quotes (American politician. b.1922)
"Beware of the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry, [who] infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How will I know? For this I have done. And I am Julius Caesar."
~Julius Caesar quotes (Roman general and statesman, emperor of Rome, 100-44 B.C.)
¶ 5/30/2005 09:16:00 PM
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These are wonderful quotes. The most blood-curdling for me was the last, because of course that's what happened. I have the cold comfort of knowing that I was never taken in by this administration, however it doesn't change anything and can't alter the fact that lives have been lost and will continue to be lost because of it.
Thank-you for this post!
Thank-you for this post!
Great pix!
I can't read your blog text since you changed format, because the text font is too small and I can't enlarge it on my browser so I'm sorry I'm not commenting more fully. (It happens for some other blogs, too. Most, though, I can enlarge the text via my browser view.) Please don't change it on my account, but I wanted you to know why my comments have changed. :)
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I can't read your blog text since you changed format, because the text font is too small and I can't enlarge it on my browser so I'm sorry I'm not commenting more fully. (It happens for some other blogs, too. Most, though, I can enlarge the text via my browser view.) Please don't change it on my account, but I wanted you to know why my comments have changed. :)
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