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War is the terrorism of the rich

“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”

(Sir) Peter Ustinov

2 comments on “War is the terrorism of the rich

  1. Mike
    2 September, 2007

    I’ve always loved this quote; it is so true! The mighty U.S. doesn’t realize that it had been engaged in terrorism, which it cloaks in terms of justified war. This terrorism only encourages the poor who are harmed by it, to retailiate the only way they can.

  2. Ann El Khoury
    2 September, 2007

    Thanks for coming by, Mike, and for your spot-on comment.

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This entry was posted on 28 August, 2006 by in Empire, War and Terror, International Relations, Poetry, Quotes.

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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