Shadrach meshach and abednego song

Shadrach meshach and abednego song

Emphasis on military prowess is an indication of philosophical poverty. Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide. About the quote : from his book Under Fire: The Story of a Squad 1 Barbusse lived from 1873-1 There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. Its not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true. What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify. About the quote : from page 303 of his book, Diplomacy It is for us to refuse loyalty when injustice holds sway. It is shadrach meshach and abednego song youth who must inherit the tribulation, the are the aftermath of war. Old men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. The people can always be brought to the bidding of the them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own. About the quote : Hesse 1877-1962 was a philosophical writer, best known for his work Siddartha. In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with mens lives should not pay with their own. I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule and both commonly succeed, and are right. When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. Force without judgement falls on its own weight. During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. How can you make a war on terror if war itself is terrorism? There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. Historically, the most terrible things-war, genocide and slavery-have resulted from obedience, not disobedience. Its more humane to cure your enemies than to kill them. Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice Suspicion must always fall on those who attempt to silence their opponents. Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills. It is not only the living who are killed in war. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. About the quote : The character Salvor Hardin speaks these words in Asimovs Foundation. We believed ourselves watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained shadrach meshach and abednego song against our own madmen. I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. We cloak ourselves in cold indifference to the unnecessary suffering of others-even when we cause it. About the quote : The Boston Globe, 9/21/04 We carefully nurture a spirit of detachment toward the wars we pay for.