Beej :: Chintan 2 Chinta 2 Chita

03:02 PM 08/01/2004 :: ...chintan baiThak turned into chinta baiThak, by 2009 it will be a chita baitak. Both RSS BJP outlawed or marginalized... the opposition namely the BJP, boycotting the parliament and its standing committees, no problem... its raather good that the menial-lumpen giving away their rights & returning 2 street where people of india have thrown them onto... is govt., doing the same 2 them what they did 2 tehelka and its financiers...

Dubya's evil U-turn on Kyoto Protocol

12:40 AM 07/29/2004 :: United democratic hse is good news and demise of Dubya the Village Idot... US should reverse course on Kyoto Protocol, and penalize itself and 2 make up time, commit more immediate cut down on US polluting emission... say it will cut down in half less the time agreed upon... Global Warming confirmed, Alaska is an example... US really really messing up the world resources.

Where is Asian Common Market

12:49 PM 07/24/2004 :: South Asia is progressing very slow, rest of the globe has already established regional co-operation and common markets & common currency... Saarc should include China as well... a common market of these 8 nations will gr8ly transform the living standard of the huge huge people as consumers.

New movies announced by ABV Corp., Viruddh and Versus will sure be hits... need of the hour... angry old man doin Rajni. The honouring of social activist a gr8 idea... more such efforts, even literary honours/awards of various hindi & Urdu & english poetry... shouldn't be there vaziifas 4 us guys... c'mon guys!!!

04:49 AM 07/24/2004 :: IndiaTV is included rather late in me cableTV pool, good packaging, pretty & good 'representative' faces, Urdu is not excluded, but am sure muslim & other Urdu audience wud be pleased and prefer it as a credible source compared 2 other 'hindu' channels... include 10 minute bulletins of Bengali & Punjaabii and half an hour sign language one 4 huge noombers of deaf & dumb.

Democracy :: Rule of The Majority?!?

Around 30th April '04 posted... "02:35 PM 04/30/2004 :: proof how 200+ millions 'minority' is marginalized... Garnier/L'Orel, ColorSoft/Godrej, and almost all FMCGs do not just include the Urdu on its packaging... nor user manual has urdu while 6-8 languages included... Indian State itself seems anti-muslim, anti-Urdu so far... t is calling upon all Urdu activist 2 make posters and ask urdu speakers/loovers [720 million plus] cutting across all communities 2 prefer products using Urdu. Local shops preferred if it has Urdu on its signboard..." Tehriik-e-baqa-e-Urdu has printed posters asking Urdu speaking consumers 2 prefer products which include their language...

06:39 PM 07/22/2004 :: ah the bad losers now resorting gimmickry... hidden backstage manipulation of the NDA admn in the Jhaarkhand in the Shibu Soren issue... the opposition is not conceding dekho dunayaawaaloN... see the people of the planet the far right fascist here not conceding defeat in the last general election... time 4 CBI sleuths 2 knock on their doors... the menial-lumpen of the indian polity should understand that INC tally improved b'coz of its constructive opposition in the last Lower Hse... and their wud decline 4 all this chaos, and holding parliament 4 ransom.

03:37 PM 07/20/2004 :: Indian songs not featured on Paakistaanii FM Radio, reports Bhaartiya media, as if Indian Radio playing their songs... 3 Hindu religious channels namely Aastha, Samskaar, & Saadhna r on... but no Qtv on, an islamic channel, proof how muslim r marginalized in the so called 'biggest democracy'... duh! Look @ their representation ratio in any sphere... politics 2 education, pvt., 2 govt., jobs... media 2 everything else... major cities has Ptv on but in me hometown it is on only during Ramaazaan.

Unregulated Cable-cabal

2 video channels has grown into 8-9, through ownership changing hands or merger, all morning these video channels play pagan heathen prayers... cableTV is run by lumpen street hoodlums or desi daaru thekedaars or political henchmen... the channels 2 include in the network is arbitary... It's mandatory 2 carry a local community channel in the USA, here no FCC like institution 2 regulate like the USA... District ADMN., shud play a supervisory role so that all communities r catered fairly...

02:11 PM 07/18/2004 :: Sri Krishna report implementation NCP & INC promised in their state election manifestoes... they seem to taking voters 4 granted... wonder what explanation or pretension these 2 secular parties do this time round?!?

05:06 AM 07/18/2004 :: Bambywood movies are turning mediocre & ghaasleTii by the day... jaahil rustic kiddos have taken over... people who can't spell & rhyme GHadar or GHaayab making movies... lol... watched li'l bit of Diiwaar & shaadii ke Laddoo. They kept calling Bhaarat Hindustaan hindustaan in Diiwaar, while official name 4 this lands is Bha'rat... and Indian state should discourage this misnomening the 'pavitrabhumii'... which gives wrong notions 2 the audience as if this land belongs to the hindoos only. No wonder the movies r bombed at the box-office in dozens! Beej lumpen doin a training session 4 its lampaT MPs, it ain't no use... these gobarchhaaps got no future whatsoever, and menial-lampaTs daydreaming 2 return in power sometime in future. Wonder how much funds they stole... must be in 5-10 million crores?!? wonder if revenue guys r digging them up... or is it the miliibhagat with the rest of the biraadari?!?

Endless Wastage of Resources ::

01:15 PM 07/17/2004 :: 90 school kids charred in Tamilnaadu, what a tragic loss... but real culprits r "the most debased of pimps" pumping endless moolah on defense, 65k crores to 77k crores... while majority of their people either starve or malnourished... schools and hospitals without basic necessities... ah most 'tribal' roofing replacement ordered in Tamilland... wonder how much wud it cost nationwide? 77k crores?!? :)... what a poor mallichland & what a fookin' waste of resources! none of them lining up there or even the political parties calling 4 immidiate govts., orders to INSPECT/SUPERVISE ALL schools nationwide ASAP and start fixing the flaws, since enuff regulations r there but not implemented...

09:07 AM 07/16/2004 :: Not just Godhra should be investigated truthfully but '84 anti-Siikh riots as well... aamof all post independence riots shud be investigated thoroughly... many occasion RSS found some role in it... than ban them good! last general election CPIM talked about re-investigation of the Maha'atma assassination... and tathagat called 4 probe of all the attempts made upon him... Last when MMS the PM sayeth RSS' hand in anti-Siikh riots and them 'dahshatgards' threatened him a legal action... MMS chickened out and took back that... now as a PM i hope he is free enuff 2 say what he wants... Sushma in UH shouting her question on AIDS... she rhymed mariiz as mariij more than 2 counts and gariib instead of gHariib... proof that she is rustic & not properly educated.

ah Orissa RSS slapped charges of child molestation of some dalit boy... and RSS responded that it is a design 2 malign them! wonder what good a reputation a fanatic 'militant' organization charged of key founder & father of the nation Bhaarat possibly have! Study hate speech laws round the globe and adopt & incorporate them ASAP... also segregating religion from the affairs of state... Indian state recognize URDU as a primary national language, drive new publications and channels... All out promotion, U gotta make up so much neglect of the past.

01:07 PM 07/15/2004 :: So much halla gulla over strip search of Georgi paggal. The accused of BaRoda dynamite case... farcicle socialist revolutionary! if American jaahils strip searchin u is no surprise. Laalu announces another investigation of Godhra... which certainly was a part of sanghii danga design, their desperate attempt 2 polarize Gujarat, after loosing 10 years of static vote share of 33% to 19% in UP... But this INC lead govt., is too slow 2 act. Why not the Moadii govt., sacked. Him at the helm justice is not possible. And 2500 people butchered the most gory, hateful way. If no adequate representation 2 minorities in politics, media, education, govt., & private jobs availed ASAP... this lands may have 10-12 muslim nations born in 10-20 years flat...

Not just his butt kicked amply but this ugly repulsive x-canteen bhaTyaara shud be sacked, arrested and tried ASAP... RSS going back to its roots and lies & deception is fine, they need to be outlawed, and they wud indeed provide reasons 4 the ban... AaDvaaNii already called 4 toeing RSS line & reverting to Tutwa or something. Its like 10 kgs of weight tied to ur feet n u try 2 win a 100 meter sprint. No rains in MP & Gujraat a delight, the stupid voters needed to be punished 4 the stupidity of electing menial-lumpen gobarcchaaps. past 10-12 years of messing up of Indian polity... these menial-lumpen shud be punished and punished good.

Primary Education v/s Higher education

01:35 PM 07/08/2004 :: ...2% cess 4 education is not good enuff [will take a year 2 work] but even b4 that, first u say it is all 4 primary education & not higher education 4 clever forward castes urbun baboons... and why not no white paper on Primary Education, announced so far. 770K million Rs 4 defense is sheer stupidity & madness, what a fookin' waste of moolah!!! [explains chronic malnutrition] 440k million Rs just in salaries... get rid of half the staff, VRS or something. They can be accommodated in Co-ops 2 panchaayats 2 schools 2 self employment...

07:41 AM 07/07/2004 :: Upon asking Laalu responds on first walkout/boycott by the opposition of the Railway Budget, Laalu :: "they r goin' 2 the roads where people of India has thrown them..." ABV says INC dividing the nation! nah Mr V u r merely 5.5 million approax, INC will have this many numbers of youth joining soon enuff. Khandit/disintegrate ur lot did by raising xenophobic foreign origin issue... that sows the seeds 4 disintegration of this country into north & south, eventually DraviR wud say V r the actual resident of this lands and U Aryan had come from foreign lands... this country will pay dearly 4 all ur misdeeds. Now Arunachal 2 exit from beej fold. Wonder if BJP bag even one seat... and how cud a 'tainted party' raise an issue of 'tainted' ministers.

07:01 PM 07/03/2004 :: ABV asks MMS govt., 2 apologize!!! acchha! even VK Shaastrii very innocently ask, is it a cime 2 be member O the RSS? even Fazal, the MH Governor defending RSS. NOW the Govt., must say that RSS has been banned more than 2-3 times... Also govt., should be prepared 4 all their out of power activities, danga engineering 2 show their power & control over people. Arjun Sher & Shivraaj Paatil 2 INC generals 2 wipe out this social menace.

04:14 PM 07/02/2004 :: 4 chaddi governors kickassed... good riddance! [even me laundryman delighted, wondered when Puk_Puk Saavarkar photo removed from central hall] me wonder when ABV, LKA & Moadii will be booked 4 crime against humanity?!? RSS banned! [that KaNwal Sibal signed pact with USA shud be upturned which shields the rulers of charges of crime against humanity & War crimes...

It's raining a little right now but normal monsoon in the Narbada valley will be on if all this displacement injustices stopped. All sanghiis who took oath 2 [pretendingly] guard the 'secular' constitution of India [which these menial-lumpen so apparently detest & now talking of constitution every next day]... so in a way they broke the RSS oath of commitment 2 convert this multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-lingual nation into a 'hindu' raashtra... [not just 2 encroach on minorities' rights [as Indian state 2 Nehruites has been doin' all along] but 2 deny them citizens rights... as the chaddi leaders articulated on record so often] so won't be surprised if fringe elements within the rightwinger lampaTs demand 2 re-christened into their fanaticism... Aaj Tak reporting on sacking of these 4 lampaT governors, even Iraq live coverage with Arabic translation was good.

Loan Sharks & Increasing Farmer Suicides

02:11 PM 07/01/2004 :: MMS the PM in Aandhra, visiting debt trapped farmers la Loan Sharks... why not all their debt transferred 2 Banks. Believe the new state govt., has differed all payments on such high interests loans for 6 months or so. Ceiling on obscene interest rates of soodkHors by incorporating some law... why MMS didn't say a word about unregulated loan sharks... has any NGO surveying above aspect of private/small financiers. Above 2½ - 3 taka [30 - 36% PA] shud be made illegal. Still no rains... may be it's the height of the dams on the Narmada!?! try lowering it & it may rain abundant...

Revealing Quotes :: Mass-Media Deception

Nationalism 'Measles of Mankind' InIt!?! ::

01:01 AM 07/01/2004 :: In the wake of regular patriotism of ndtv and the rest. Even Jaaved/Farhaan AkHtar making a patriotic movie 'Lakshya'... a few quotes follows... Please put them to good use ::

"Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation and maintenance of the power of the national state—that is, the mainstay of all the priveleges of the exploiters throughout the nation." —Mikhail Bakunin, Letters to a Frenchman

"The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take punishment and prison and remain steadfast—that is a man of courage. The fellow whom you taunt as a 'slacker' because he refuses to turn murderer—he needs courage. But do you need much courage just to obey orders, to do as you are told and to fall in line with thousands of others to the tune of general approval and the Star Spangled Banner?" —Alexander Berkman, What Is Communist Anarchism?

"War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder." —Alexander Berkman, What Is Communist Anarchism?

"PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors." — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first." — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"Every patriot believes his country better than any other country... In its active manifestation—it is fond of killing—patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive... Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part... Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone." —Ambrose Bierce, Collected Works

"In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock." —Randolph Bourne, The State

"There is, of course, in the feeling toward the State a large element of pure filial mysticism. The sense of insecurity, the desire for protection, sends one's desire back to the father and mother, with whom is associated the earliest feeling of protection. It is not for nothing that one's State is still thought of as Fatherland or Motherland, that one's relations towards it is conceived in terms of family affection. The war [World War I] has shown that nowhere under the shock of danger have these primitive childlike attitudes failed to assert themselves again, as much in this country as anywhere. If we have not the intense father-sense of the German who worships his Vaterland, at least in Uncle Sam we have a symbol of protecting, kindly authority . . . A people at war have become in the most literal sense obedient, respectful, trustful children again, full of that naive faith in the all-wisdom and all-power of the adult who takes care of them, imposes his mild but necessary rule upon them and to whom they lose their responsibility and anxieties. In this recrudescence of the child, there is great comfort, and a certain influx of power. On most people the strain of being an independent adult weighs heavily . . ." —Randolph Bourne, The State

"The trouble is that when American dollars earn only six percent over here, they get restless and go overseas to get 100 percent. The flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

"I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to defend some lousy investment of the bankers. We should fight only for the defense of our home and the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

"There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It had its 'finger men' to point out enemies, its 'muscle men' to destroy enemies, its 'brain men' to plan war preparations and a 'Big Boss' — supernationalistic capitalism.

"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active service in the country's most agile military force, the Marines. I served in all ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

"I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

"Thus I helped make Mexico, and especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. "I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the raping of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers and Co. in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras 'right' for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

"During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, and promotion. Looking back on it, I feel that I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents." —Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler (former Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps), Common Sense, November 1935

"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace." —Calgacus

"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other." —Thomas Carlyle

"These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or half-witted hatred, moving the world with the strength of their arms, and getting their heads knocked together in the name of God, the king, or the stock exchange—immortal, dreaming, hopeless asses, who surrender their reason to the care of a shining puppet, and persuade some toy to carry their lives in his purse." —Stephen Crane, quoted by Jack London in People of the Abyss

"Not only do . . . rulers keep many millions of men whose only trade is war, but these must be supported in worse than useless idleness by the labor of the poor. Still other millions are trained to war and are ever ready to answer to their master's call, to desert their homes and trades and offer up their lives to satisfy the vain ambitions of the ruler of the state. Millions more must give their strength and lives to build forts and ships, make guns and cannon and all the modern implements of war. Apart from any moral question of the right of man to slay his fellow man, all this great burden rests upon the poor. The vast expense of war comes from the production of the land and must serve to weaken and impair its industrial strength." —Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

"Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts." —Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

" Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on Earth." —Eugene V. Debs, Speech, June 16, 1918

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." —Albert Einstein (attributed)

"The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines." —John T. Flynn, As We Go Marching

"No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be no lack of poets and preachers and essayists and philosophers to invent the necessary reasons and gild the infamy with righteousness. To this righteousness there is, of course, never an adequate reply. Thus a war to end poverty becomes an unanswerable enterprise. For who can decently be for poverty? To even debate whether the war will end poverty becomes an exhibition of ugly pragmatism and the sign of an ignoble mind." —John T. Flynn, As We Go Marching

"The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty—all these are washed away by war. The greatest hero is the one who kills the most people. Glamorous exploits in successful lying and mass stealing and heroic vengeance are rewarded with decorations and public acclaim. You cannot, when the war is proclaimed, pull a switch and turn the community from the moral code of peace to that of war and then, when the armistice is signed, pull a nother switch and reconnect the whole society with its old moral regulations again. Thousands of people of all ranks who have found a relish in the morals of war come back to you with these rudimentary instincts controlling their behavior while thousands of others, trapped in a sort of no man's land between these two moralities, come back to you poisoned by cynicism." —John T. Flynn, As We Go Marching

"In all wars the object is to protect or to seize money, property and power, and there will always be wars so long as Capital rules and oppresses people." —Ernst Friedrich, War Against War (1924)

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." —Hermann Goering (attributed)

"Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all others. The inhabitants of the other spots reason like manner, of course . . ." —Emma Goldman, Patriotism

"[Y]ou will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . ." —Oliver Goldsmith

"I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no more war." —Abbie Hoffman

"War is as much a punishment to the punisher as it is to the sufferer." —Thomas Jefferson

"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure." —Lyndon B Johnson

"YOUNG MEN: The lowest aim in your life is to become a soldier. The good soldier never tries to distinguish right from wrong. He never thinks; never reasons; he only obeys. If he is ordered to fire on his fellow citizens, on his friends, on his neighbors, on his relatives, he obeys without hesitation. If he is ordered to fire down a crowded street when the poor are clamoring for bread, he obeys and see the grey hairs of age stained with red and the life tide gushing from the breasts of women, feeling neither remorse nor sympathy. If he is ordered off as a firing squad to execute a hero or benefactor, he fires without hesitation, though he knows the bullet will pierce the noblest heart that ever beat in human breast.

"A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldier—it is a depth beneath which we cannot go." — Jack London

"They talk about conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetery." —Rep. Meyer London, Speech in House of Representatives, April 25, 1917

"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." —General Douglas MacArthur, Speech, May 15, 1951

"War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing.

"When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?" —Guy de Maupassant, Sur l'Eau

"Is a young man bound to serve his country in war? In addition to his legal duty there is perhaps also a moral duty, but it is very obscure. What is called his country is only its government and that government consists merely of professional politicians, a parasitical and anti-social class of men. They never sacrifice themselves for their country. They make all wars, but very few of them ever die in one. If it is the duty of a young man to serve his country under all circumstances then it is equally the duty of an enemy young man to serve his. Thus we come to a moral contradiction and absurdity so obvious that even clergymen and editorial writers sometimes notice it." —H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

"Every monarch keeps on a war footing all the troops which he might need in case his people were in danger of being exterminated, and this state of tension, of all against all, is called peace." —Montesquieu

"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarreled with him?" —Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves

"The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things. True enough, they suffer most from a war, but it is their apathy, craving for authiryt, etc., that is most responsible for making wars possible. It follows of necessity from this responsibility that the working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are capable of establishing lasting peace." —Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

"Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any given time. In World War I it was the munitions industrialists; in World War II it was the psychopathic generals who were said to be guilty. This is passing the buck. The responsibility for wars falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for they have all the necessary means to avert war in their own hands. In part by their apathy, in part by their passivity, and in part actively, these same masses of people make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anyone else. To stress this guilt on the part of the masses of people, to hold them solely responsible, means to take them seriously. On the other hand, to commiserate masses of people as victims, means to treat them as small, helpless children. The former is the attitude held by genuine freedom fighters; the latter that attitude held by power-thirsty politicians." —Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority." —Arthur Schopenhauer, Aphorisms

"A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner." —George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade." —Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab

"Obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame, A mechanized automoton." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab

"The militarists say that 'fighting is instinctive' and that 'you cannot change the real character of men by any intellectual process.' If this is true, the case is still not hopeless, as some think, for there are animals and men without this 'fighting instinct,' that do not kill each other; there is a possibility that those with the 'fighting instinct' will succeed in exterminating each other, and permit those without to breed a better race." —Charles T. Sprading, Freedom and Its Fundamentals

"Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the glory; nothing to mitigate their weary waiting and watching for the loved ones who return no more." —Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years and More

"The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world." —Norman Thomas, Address to the League for Industrial Democracy

"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery." —Leo Tolstoy, Christianity and Patriotism

"Men who can undertake to fulfill with unquestioning submission all that is decreed by men they do not know... cannot be rational; and the governments—that is, the men wielding such power—can still less be reasonable. They cannot but misuse such insensate and terrible power and cannot but be crazed by wielding it. For this reason peace between nations cannot be attained by this reasonable method of conventions and arbitrations so long as that submission of the peoples to governments, which is always irrational and pernicious, still continues. But the subjection of men to government will always continue as long as patriotism exists, for every ruling power rests on patriotism—on the readiness of men to submit to power..." —Leo Tolstoy, Christianity and Patriotism

"To destroy governmental violence only one thing is needed: it is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism which alone supports that instrument of violence is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and above all is immoral. It is a rude feeling because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict. It is a harmful feeling because it disturbs advantageous and joyous peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which power may fall and does fall into the hands of the worst men. It is a disgraceful feeling because it turns man not merely into a slave but into a fighting cock, a bull, or a gladiator, who wastes his strength and his life for objects which are not his own, but his government's. It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a song of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience." —Leo Tolstoy, Patriotism and Government

"[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man—of the chief human property, rational freedom—and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities." —Leo Tolstoy, Patriotism and Government

"It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity." —Benjamin Tucker, Liberty, May 22, 1886

"Whether the mask is labelled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battlelines, which is not so much our enemy as our brother's enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this Apparatus, and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others." — Simone Weil, Politics, Spring 1945

"The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all . . . Since the directing apparatus hqs no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death—the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people." —Simone Weil, Politics, 1945

"Once lead this people into war and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight you must be brutal and ruthless and the spirit of ruthless will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street." —Woodrow Wilson (five days prior to asking Congress to declare war on Germany in 1917).