John Pilger Quotes (16 Quotes)


    I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

    Democracy is not one obsessed man using the power of kings to attack another country in our name. Democracy is not siding with Ariel Sharon, a war criminal, in order to crush Palestinians. Democracy is this great event today representing the majority of the people of Great Britain.

    The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H. W. Bush didn't unseat Saddam in 1991, there's been a longing among the extreme right in the United States to finish the job. The war on terrorism has given them that opportunity.

    The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

    Official truths are often powerful illusions.


    There are fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, who appear to be in charge of the White House at the moment, but they are very different from the Christian gentlemen who ran the British Empire and believed they were doing good works around the world. These days it's about naked power.

    We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

    Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.

    Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

    I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.

    Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.

    Staff have been attacked by US marines, doctors have been shot, emergency medicines blocked. Children have been murdered in front of their families. Now imagine the same state of affairs imposed on the London hospitals that received the victims of the bombing.

    Nothing more vividly sums up the horrific situation in Iraq than what happened on Wednesday of this week when American helicopters attacked a wedding party in the west of Iraq killing 40 mostly women and children, a massacre. How long is the world going to stand for this When I say the world I'm talking about civilized humanity.

    It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.

    Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

    Today a taboo has been broken. We are the moderates. Bush and Blair are the extremists. The danger for all of us is not in Baghdad but in Washington.


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