There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Category Archive: 1922
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don’t you think?
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.
I wouldn’t mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.