War made the state, and the state made war
“Collective violence has flowed regularly out of the central political processes of western countries... The oppressed have struck in the name of justice, the privileged in the name of order, the in...”
“We have to examine the extent to which we export poverty to other societies. When we decide that we will import products from China that are produced by people earning less than a dollar an hour, a...”
“But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?”
“A single strand appeared to unite these conflicts, and that was the advancement of a small coterie's concept of American interests in the guise of the fight against terrorism... I recognized that i...”
“He was the future he was a perfect picture of the future and they were afraid to let anyone see what the future was like. Already they were looking ahead they were figuring the future and somewhere...”
“War is what happens when language fails.”
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”