Bodling on Nostr: "To allow governments to pour more and more billions into weapons that almost ...

"To allow governments to pour more and more billions into weapons that almost immediately become obsolete, thereby necessitating more billions for newer and bigger weapons, is one of the most colossal injustices in the long history of man. While we are doing this, two-thirds of the world is starving, or living in conditions of subhuman destitution."

Merton, Thomas. "Peace: a Religious Responsibility." (1962) in _Selected Essays_. Edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O'Connell. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2013, p. 139.

Just as relevant as when #Merton wrote this back in 1962!