John Pilger Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.

  John Pilger

  Children, War, Support

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

• The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.

  John Pilger

  Dream, War, Party

  "Breaking the great Australian silence". John Pilger's speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of the Sydney Peace Prize, johnpilger.com. November 5, 2009.

• During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

  John Pilger

  War, America, People

  "Blair has made Britain a target". www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2001.

• There is no war on terrorism; it is the great game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.

  John Pilger

  War, Games, Differences

  "The great charade". www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2002.

• There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

  John Pilger

  War, Terror, War On Terror

• The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H.W. Bush didn't unseat Saddam in 1991, there's been a longing among the extreme right in the United States to finish the job. The war on terrorism has given them that opportunity. Even though the logic is convoluted and fraudulent, it appears they are going to go ahead and finish the job.

  John Pilger

  Jobs, War, Opportunity

  Source: progressive.org

• Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. When you have someone like Cheney who talks about "endless war" or war that might last fifty years, he could be Big Brother. You have Bush incessantly going on about the evil ones.

  John Pilger

  Brother, War, Writing

  Source: progressive.org

• This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we dont try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war... our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

  John Pilger

  Song, Children, Clever

  John Pilger (2003). “The New Rulers of the World”, p.10, Verso

• Bill Clinton kept funding Star Wars. He took the biggest military budget to Congress in history. He routinely bombed Iraq, and he kept the barbaric sanctions in place. He's really played his part. The George W. Bush gang has taken it just a little further.

  John Pilger

  Stars, Military, War

  Source: progressive.org

• Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

  John Pilger

  War, Reading, Two

• Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

  John Pilger

  War, Vietnam, Experiments

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