Sunday, March 19, 2006

Week 10- Saying of the Week

" One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances. "

Thomas Sowell

1 comment:

Lana said...

They may be started by the middle class, but they are usually finished by the lower ones ( the American Revolution seems to be the exception to that rule, and I believe I know why, although many today would not like to hear it).