Lydia Lunch Quotes

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

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.

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.

Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

The only way to save our empires from the encroaching of the people is to engage in war, and thus substitute national passions for social aspirations.

I am sending you out against the whites, who have invaded Zululand and driven away our cattle.

There is a time for all things—a time to preach, and a time to fight, and now is the time to fight.

What was new in the imperialism of Germany and Japan in World War II was the far more ruthless treatment of subject populations.

The South does not understand anything but the language of the gun.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

I am an apostle of violence

There can be no peace until this German spirit of Militarism is crushed.

I just want to fight the world. Fight the system. Fight everybody.

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

Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement.

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.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a country like Mexico, the President can constitute himself a despotic ruler without the slightest limitation on his power. If all this be true, war is indeed dangerous!

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

I fought for peace in the fifties.