I worked on a photo shoot with Yoko Ono on Monday. She was really cute, nice and in AMAZING shape for being 75 years old. I poked around her website and found this interesting quote.
While I don't consider myself a pacifist, It's still interesting.
"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along wether it's a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictator. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
-Hermann Goering, Hitler's Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII
2 comments:
This quote blew my mind.... crazy stuff. I like your blog. You need to write more!
I have an older one mike but it's ooooooold and I was really an angry sad sack for a while..
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