"Enemies are necessary
for the wheels of the US military machine to turn"
"Short, successful military adventures
are as effective as the Super Bowl
in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths."
"The major function of secrecy in Washington is to keep the U.S. people ... from knowing what the nation’s leaders are doing."
"I don't mean to abuse you with verbal violence, but you have to understand what your government and its agents are doing. They go into villages, they haul out families. With the children forced to watch they castrate the father, they peel the skin off his face, they put a grenade in his mouth and pull the pin. With the children forced to watch they gang-rape the mother, and slash her breasts off. And sometimes for variety, they make the parents watch while they do these things to the children."
"The CIA and the big corporations were, in my experience, in step with each other. Later I realized that they may argue about details of strategy - a small war here or there. However, both are vigorously committed to supporting the system."
"Taking smoothly over from the arcade games, which are nearly all violent, our society feeds its youth on the great military conditioning program of football, complete with the captain (coach), the sergeant (quarterback), and troops."
an extensive collection of monumental quotes by John Stockwell
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