The Butterfly Tattoo Where you

The Butterfly Tattoo

Where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice. Wars a brain spattering The Butterfly Tattoo splitting art. Dont talk to me about atrocities; all war is an atrocity. Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant. One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few. General William E. Odom, US Army Ret. , Its quite fun to fight em, you know. Its a hell of a hoot. Its fun to shoot some people. Ill be right up front with you, I like brawling. About the quote : Comments from 2/1/05 conference in San Diego, California. Mattis commanded troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. The essence of so-called war prosperity; it enriches some by what it The Butterfly Tattoo from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income. History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents. A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets. The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets. To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism. War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom. Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner. Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace. Men are they The Butterfly Tattoo convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being. If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.