“The worst victims, those who did not die”
“There has never been a war that did not lead to a graveyard, and anyone who starts something that does lead to a graveyard is the lowest of the low!”
“The Great Superstition (Sonnet)
Fundamentalists radicalize
children for illegal terrorism,
nationalists radicalize
children for legal terrorism,
I radicalize children for peace-n-oneness,
using only their brain and backbone,
without spilling the blood of human.
Only leeches live by guns and call it honor,
brainwashed by the witchcraft of patriotism.
Fundamentalism, nationalism, these are the real
witchcraft, still practiced by modern savages.
Teachers, coppers, politicians, civil servants,
all (most) mindlessly carry the paradigm of death.
Give me a hundred humanitarian hearts,
I'll wipe out the very concept of war.
Pack your flags with other talismans,
there is no greater superstition
than the superstition of nation.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring,
That my songs do not show me at all?
For they are a fragrance, and I am a flint and a fire,
I am an answer, they are only a call”
Source: Flame and Shadow
“Give me a hundred humanitarian hearts, I'll wipe out the very concept of war.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Fundamentalists radicalize children for illegal terrorism, nationalists radicalize children for legal terrorism, I radicalize children for peace-n-oneness... Give me a hundred humanitarian hearts, I'll wipe out the very concept of war. Pack your flags with other talismans, there is no greater superstition than the superstition of nation.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“My name is Sami, and I live in the time of the troubles. It is a time of guns and bombs. It is a time that has lasted all my life, and I am ten years old.”
Source: Sami and the Time of the Troubles: A Moving Story About a Lebanese Boy in a War-Torn City for Kids
“I find a piece of wood that looks like a gun and help Amir find one, too.
"My brother has a real gun," he says.
We run, we hide, we pretend to shoot, we pretend to die. I see my mother at a stall buying flowers, and she frowns at me. She does not like for me to play this game.”
Source: Sami and the Time of the Troubles: A Moving Story About a Lebanese Boy in a War-Torn City for Kids
“War, he realized, had a presence. On Avcırga, war was built into all things, forms and functions revolving around its grim demands. Technology was, with few exceptions, heavily armored, designed to withstand shock and heat. Buildings were entrenched and fortified to weather artillery storms and radiation bursts, to keep those who sheltered there alive through endless battles. Cities were strategically placed and designed around redundant systems. All so that casualties would be minimized when the inevitable conflict came.”
“Victory [in war] is not beautiful. Those who consider it beautiful delight in the massacre of people”
Source: Tao Te Ching