I threw families onto the street in Iraq only to come home and find families thrown onto the street in this country in this tragic, tragic and unneccesary forclosure crisis; only to wake up and realize that our real enemies are not in some distant land. But not people whose names we don’t know, and cultures we don’t understand. The enemy is people we know very well and people we can identify. The enemy is a system that wages war when it’s profitable. The enemy is the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it’s profitable; it’s the insurance companies who deny us health care when it’s profitable; it’s the banks who take away our homes when it’s profitable. Our enemies are not 5000 miles away, they are right here at home. If we organize and fight with our sisters and brothers, we can stop this war, we can stop this government, and we can create a better world.
Mike Prysner, War veteran
#492
#486
We try to shape up, my sister, it’s war
We must build a better future, it’s war
We fight for our parents, understand, it’s war
We don’t want our children to sweat blood, so it’s war
We didn’t wish it but it’s war
Mafia K’1 Fry, Guerre
#454
- I’m a soldier, not a murderer.
- These days, Pullo, is there really any difference?
Rome (TV series)
#432
This great evil. Where does it come from? How’d it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who’s doin’ this? Who’s killin’ us? Robbing us of life and light. Mockin’ us with the sight of what we might’ve known. Does our ruin benefit the earth? Does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night?
The Thin Red Line (the movie)
#386
There is a war going on for your mind
If you are thinking you are winning
Flobots, We Are Winning
#383
Such is the war that you have to sustain: a war of labour against capital; a war of liberty against authority; a war of the producer against the non-producer; a war of equality against privilege.
Pierre Joseph Proudhon
#372
We must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America?’… When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy … You begin to ask the question, ‘Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?’ … Now, when I say question the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problems of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together.
Martin Luther King
#339
Ohh, can’t anybody see
We’ve got a war to fight
Never found our way
Regardless of what they say
Portishead, Roads
#292
I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Charles Bukowski
