Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
I would pay snakes to bite her.
Palahniuk, Chuck. Invisible Monsters. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.
The Union government had resorted to printing Greenbacks {619940} to finance the war. However, that left two different U. S. currencies in circulation, and speculators soon began buying one and selling the other as the Greenback ‘market’ flourished or sank with the results of each battle. This caused substantial economic dislocation in the Northern Economy and was thought to be of great help to General Lee’s war effort. Lincoln had little charity toward the speculators.
Although politics can get very rough, Rove took revenge for disagreement or what he perceived as disloyalty to an extreme that was new to the American experience. In one case, to punish an ex ambassador who had made public statements disagreeing with George W. Bush’s policy, Rove leaked the fact that the ambassador’s wife was a covert CIA agent, thus blowing her cover, ending her career, and endangering her life and the lives of some of her contacts. Rove pretended to be a devoted Christian for political image, his behavior towards opponents was far from Christian and his language as can be seen by this quote was not consonant with a religious person’s behavior.
Instructions to followers in revolting against the mulattoes
Reacting to the slogan, "Impeach Earl Warren:"
Once blood is shed in a national quarrel, reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
A number of the American soldiers refused to obey Calley's illegal order. Some helped some villagers to escape, and a helicopter pilot landed betreen Callery's men and the villagers they were shooting at, and ordered his helicopter machine gun crew to fire on the soldiers if they did back off. The soldiers stopped firing at the civillians. However, his and other reports of the massacre were covered up by the military for a few years. Mai Lai was not the only major war crime perpetrated by Americans in the Vietnam War; there had been a few others. But given the years of fighting and the many opportunities war crimes violations under orders were quite rare. The Viet Cong had many more war crimes that they perpetrated, and our South Vietnamese allies repeatedly committed war crimes against their own people.
Charles Michael Palahniuk is an American freelance journalist and novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel Fight Club, which also was made into a film of the same name, starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.
