“The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act ofblatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.”

“The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.”

“Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.”

“A person acts according to the knowledge internalized in his heart.”

“It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.) ”

“The 1.8 million child deaths each year related to clean water and sanitation dwarf the casualities associated with violent conflict. No act of terrorism generates economic devastation on the scale of the crisis in water and sanitation. Yet the issue barely registers on the international agenda.”