Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you dont learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins. – King Abdullah II
I think theres something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real. – China Mieville
