Delicate social and political problems cannot be bombed out of existence. By dropping bombs and firing missiles, the US only spreads these festering problems. Violence can be likened to a virus; the more you bombard it, the more it spreads. (James Bill and Rebecca Bill Chavez – Middle East Journal – Autumn 2002) (Source) - Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky

…what bothers people who want to strike at the US is not what we do internally and how much freedom we have, but what we do externally. What angers them are the troops we’ve stationed in Saudi Arabia, the enormous economic and military support we give Israel, our maintenance of sanctions against Iraq, which have devastated the country and hurt so many people. (Terrorism and War by Howard Zinn)

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. (Malcolm X)

It is the competitive pursuit of the riches of the world by the wealthy, that is the cause of all the poverty within the world. (Dean Fraser)

When it comes to dealing with greed, one thing which is quite characteristic is that although it arises from the desire to obtain something, it is not satisfied by obtaining it. Therefore, it becomes limitless or boundless, and that leads to trouble. (The Dalai Lama)

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. (Herman Melville)

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry. (Jimmy Carter)

Poverty is the worst form of violence. (Mahatma Gandhi)

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. (Jane Addams)

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men. (Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich)

…unless the social, political, and economic conditions that spawned Al Qaeda and other associated groups are addressed, the US and its allies in Western Europe and elsewhere will continue to be targeted by Islamist terrorists. (Sumit Ganguly) (Source) - Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky

…the United States should, for its own self-protection, expand efforts to reduce the pathology of hatred before it mutates into even greater danger… [seeking to reverse] conditions that breed violence and terrorism. (Philip Wilcox – US Ambassador at Large for Counterterrorism 1994-97) (Source) - Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky

When you see Bumsfelt, Bush, Little Boy Blair, Plunkett and others on TV, they are presented as so reasonable, it is easy to forget that these people are mass murderers. In the laws of our humanity, our spirituality, you are not allowed to drop a bomb on a village just because you want their oil. (Stuart Wilde) - www.stuartwilde.com

If you wish to be brothers, let the weaponry fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive armaments. (Pope Paul VI 1897-1978 Pope from 1963-1978)

[Terrorism] is not a conflict of peoples; but it is a conflict of leaders. It is a conflict of those who would seek to control and govern the planet as opposed to those who would come together in collective manners. As long as your leaders see the differences in other leaders in other countries and do not find similarities, there will be conflict, because they all are quite sure they are doing what God would have them do. That which you call God does not ask of humans to kill one another. That which you call God does not give the right to interrupt the life stream of one man for the success of another. (El Morya through Tuieta) (Source: Sedona Journal of Emergence February 2004) - www.sedonajournal.com

...to answer George W. Bush's plaintive question, "Why do they hate us?" - they do not hate us, but rather the policies of our government... the US supports corrupt and brutal governments and is opposing political and economic progress in order to protect it's interests in oil... the mass of the [Middle East] population have never agreed that the wealth of the region should be drained to the West and local collaborators, rather than serving domestic needs...

An Egyptian writer added that "living in a country with an atrocious human right record that also happens to be strategically vital to US interest is an illuminating lesson in moral hypocrisy and political double standards. Terrorism is a reaction to the injustice in the regions domestic policies, inflicted in large part by the US. (Source) - Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky

Defense analyst Harlan Ullman warned that a country that is specifically threatened, like Iran, “might hurry it’s nuclear weapons program after seeing the United States lead an assault on Iraq,” therefore, providing a pretext for an invasion of Iran, in a self-fulfilling prophecy. (Source) - Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians. (David Lee Roth, American Rock Musician)

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. (James F. Cooper, 1789-1851 American Novelist)

Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945 Thirty-second President of the USA)

It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own. (Malcolm Forbes)

In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers. (Myriam Miedzian, American Actor)

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? (Alexis De Tocqueville, 1805-1859 French Social Philosopher)

There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work. (Edward Atkinson, 1827-1905 American Business Inventor of Automatic Sprinklers)

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill. (Hari Dass Baba)

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means. (Karl Von Clausewitz, 1780-1831 Prussian General)

Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator. (Eisenhower)

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. (Seneca, 4 BC - 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher)

All oppression creates a state of war. (Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986 French Novelist Essayist)

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. (Krishnamurti)