... the United States,
for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military
atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence, generally held by the public,
and the other of ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency
specialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations
with little notice in the national press. That allows the public to sustain its
faith in a just America, while hard-nosed security and economic interests are
still protected in secret.
-- Robert Parry
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Together we can prevent genocide from happening again. Together we can make a
better future for our children.
-- Dith
Pran |  |
| |
Land
mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed
to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are civilians, women and
children. How can arms manufacturers, weapons designers, plant managers, politicians,
who have families of their own whom they love, be so insensitive when it comes
to the suffering of other human beings?
-- José Ramos-Horta
|
Torture
has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about
the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price,
but who are the privatized torturers accountable to?
-- Arundhati
Roy |  |
 |
The
coward wretch whose hand and heart
Can bear to torture aught below,
Is ever first to quail and start
From the slightest pain or equal foe.
-- Bertrand Russell
“What the
world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a
belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin
or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer”
-- Bertrand
Russell |
"torture
is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not
save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages:
the truth is that torture makes torturers."
-- Jean Paul Sartre
 | "Strange
how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle
Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!"
-- Bertha
Von Suttner |
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