45 Quotes About Militarism
- Author Colonel Don Wilson
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While the study of war is both fascinating and necessary for preparedness, the actual fighting should be avoided where possible.
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- Author Craig Nelson
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If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.
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- Author Mike Malloy
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Afghanistan—where empires go to die.
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- Author Michael Parenti
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Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals.
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- Author T.A. Uner
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If you can't handle the answer, then don't ask the question.
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- Author Simon Schama
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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- Author Ursula K. Le Guin
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He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No rational form of organization would serve the purpose. He simply had not understood that the purpose was to enable men with machine guns to kill unarmed men and women easily and in great quantities when told to do so. Only he still could not see where courage, or manliness, or fitness entered in.
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- Author George Washington
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...overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.
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- Author Colman McCarthy
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Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.
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