Elie Ducommun Quotes

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Spain stooped on South America, like a vulture on its prey. Everything was force. Territories were acquired by fire and sword. Cities were destroyed by fire and sword. Hundreds of thousands of human beings fell by fire and sword. Even conversion to Christianity was attempted by fire and sword.

They make a desert and call it peace.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

All empires are created of blood and fire.

For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

Man’s greatest good fortune is to chase and defeat his enemies, take all his goods, leave his older women weeping, ride his horses, and use the bodies of his younger women at night.

There is no nation on earth that wasn’t built on a conquest.

The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the destruction of brick and mortar.

When the white man turns tyrant [colonialism], it is his own freedom he destroys.

I will not rest until I take Athens and burned it to the ground.

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