Top 19 William Blum Quotes
#1. What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.
William Blum
#2. The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.
William Blum
#3. The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.
William Blum
#4. A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.
William Blum
#5. Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
William Blum
#6. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
William Blum
#7. You can't yadda yadda yadda nearly biting a fairy
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#8. America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
William Blum
#9. It took me years to work out the difference between net and gross. In meetings I just used to say, 'Tell me if it's good or bad news.
Richard Branson
#10. Where's the gold?" I demanded. "Don't make me unleash my sword's playlist.
Rick Riordan
#11. Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.
William Blum
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#13. The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.
William Blum
#14. Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
Alberto Manguel
#15. Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
William Blum
#16. No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.
William Blum
#17. Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?
William Blum
#18. If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.
William Blum
#19. Terror is the poor man's war, war is the rich man's terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. (#) A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can't afford an air force.
William Blum
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