Can I Quote You On That?

This is what I do when I'm too lazy to comment on the current American shit show and have no other ideas.

“War itself is the enemy of the human race.” – Howard Zinn (Historian, activist, 1922 – 2010, USA)
	“There is but one evil, war. All the other proclaimed evils such as hate, greed, discrimination, and jealousy are only sub-categories of it.” – José Barreiro (Journalist, writer, activist, 1948 – present, Cuba and USA)
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." – Dante Alighieri (Poet, writer, and philosopher, 1265 – 1321, Italy)
	"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." – John Kenneth Galbraith (Economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual, 1908 – 2006, Canadian-American)
"Politics have no relation to morals." – Niccolo Machiavelli (Diplomat, philosopher, author, historian, 1469 – 1527, Italy)
	"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." – Aesop (Fabulist, 620 BCE – 564 BCE, Greece)
"Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free." – Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (Politician, journalist, 1963 - present, Mongolia)
	"It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments." – Aung San Suu Kyi (Politician, diplomat, author, political activist, 1945 - Present)
"One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity" – Salman Rushdie (Novelist, 1947 - Present, India)
	"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material." – Susan Sontag (Novelist, 1947 - Present, India)
"Before Donald Trump, the Republican Party was a majority conservative party with a white nationalist fringe. Now it's a white nationalist party with a conservative fringe." – Max Boot (Novelist, 1969 - Present, Russian-American)
	"Donald Trump has had several foreign wives. It turns out that there really are jobs Americans won't do." – Mitt Romney (Businessman, politician, 1947 - Present, America)
"When you hear Donald Trump say 'America First,' that was a Klan slogan from the early 1900s. Trump simply resurrected it. It's a clear example of his racist attitude." – Ron Stallworth (Businessman, politician, 1947 - Present, America)
	"If anyone's going to bring about mass extinction, it'll be Donald Trump." – Nikki Glaser (Comedian, actor, television host, 1984 - Present, America)

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