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We are god's given children. As such, we are entitled to kill the entire world, even the Earth. god damn it, we are Americans!

America the beautiful...if only Ray Charles knew...

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
--James Baldwin

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
--General Omar Bradley

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, and conscience, and a slavish enthralment to those in power. And as such it is recommended wherever it is preached. Patriotism is slavery.
--Tolstoy

Attempting to solve problems using the tools, techniques and thoughts which create them is silly.
--Milo Clark

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
--Alexis de Tocqueville

Reactionary concepts plus revolutionary emotion result in fascist mentality.
--Wilhem Reich

Be the change that you want to see in the world.

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