“We shall never witness the dawn of peace till we break our trance of arms.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“A world that justifies arms race as necessary evil, rightfully deserves all the evil of war it is racked with.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“If I survived this time , I will be the one i always dreamed to be,”
“Any planet that confuses guns with gallantry is a planet of apes.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“When the last barbwire is banned from life, passports become buspass and apes become human.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“The only thing worse than being incinerated by your enemies is being incinerated by your friends!”
“What a thrilling world this could be if only we would never again have to indulge the brutal sin of war-making . . . Instead of wasting our energies in hostility and our wealth on weaponry, we could send art to the moon, exalt our Pasternaks instead of isolating them. We could feed and house and clothe everyone forever; lick cancer in a week; harness the sun's energy; learn a few languages; talk, travel, grow, and love.
[ -- Leonard Bernstein's closing remarks following his 1959 Moscow concert program telecast nationwide in the United States]”
Source: Leonard Bernstein: American Original
“Patriotism 101: How To Murder Like A Pro (Sonnet 2445)
Murder is an art,
if you do it properly
you can not only get away,
but actually be praised for it.
First and foremost,
lock your brain and heart up
in the cupboard, you don't need them,
and join a military kennel, oops, I mean academy,
spend all your conscious days and nights
finding reasons to hate those beyond the border,
and you don't need to search hard, because
since you've already abandoned civilized senses,
your animal instincts would take over, and deliver
you the enemy as per the government requirement -
you just need to make sure that, never for a second
you must let the human in you take charge, because
if it does, that's the end of all patriotic glory.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Every time I hear a government insist on developing weapons that could massacre millions in self-defense, I start wondering who the real terrorists are!”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Either Border or Human
(Sonnet 2506)
In a planet of apes,
if you want power and control,
all you have to do is sell fear -
sell fear, blood, rage, the lot -
if you are in politics sell fear,
if you are in religion sell hate,
if you are in cinema sell rage,
but never call them by their real name,
always package it in modern language,
package bloodshed as patriotism,
package fanaticism as tradition,
package derangement as righteousness.
That's enough ape talk, now hear the human speak:
there is no place for nationalism in science,
there is no place for fanaticism in holiness,
there is no place for hate-commerce in arts,
there is no place for borders in consciousness.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot