Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

(Update) This was still up 2 days later!) The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
~Marie Beyle

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics...~Simone Weil

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
~Senator Robert M. La Follette