Chalmers Johnson Quotes

#1. Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Plutarch

#2. Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.

Chalmers Johnson

#3. Who would want him? he asks himself. Certainly not Ahana, who's funny, bright and so beautiful that it hurts.

Durjoy Datta

#4. A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

Chalmers Johnson

#5. An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep price-individua lly and collectively-fo r their nation's continued efforts to dominate the global scene.

Chalmers Johnson

#7. When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

Chalmers Johnson

#8. The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.

Chalmers Johnson

#9. I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.

Louise Hay

#10. When in doubt as to what you should do, err on the side of 'giving.

Tony Cleaver

#11. It's a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV.

Andrew Flintoff

#12. Rather than turning the page, it's much easier to just throw the book away.

Anthony Liccione

#13. Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.

Jorge Luis Borges

#14. Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.

Chalmers Johnson

#15. The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

Chalmers Johnson