Quotes about Militarism

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Sir Edward Grey echoed this: More than one true thing may be said about the causes of the war, but the statement that co — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a — W.E.B. Du Bois
Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious be — Dave Eggers, The Wild Things
War grows out of ordinary human nature. — Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic. — Jeannette Rankin
Max had to think about these new developments. He hadn't liked getting hit by a rock--his stomach still ached from then — Dave Eggers, The Wild Things
What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong? — Manuel Azaña
Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress a — Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament. — David T. Dellinger
The entire stock of relationships which suited in war—militiae—was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace—domi. — Bertrand De Jouvenel, Sovereignty
When we comprehend how few wars have ever been fought for the sake of justice or the people; how personal spite, the amb — Rauschenbusch Walter 1861-1918
We could see in our own country as late as the 1960's and 1970's how good Christian and Jewish men, the pillars of our s — William L. Shirer
Yet I now ask of you—are you marauders or are you servants? Do you give power to others, or do you hoard it? Do you figh — Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Blades
You are wrong,” says the man. His voice is low and resonant. The metal walls of the dome, all the knives and swords and — Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Blades
No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible. — W.E. Woodward
If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war. — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians. — Colman McCarthy
The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
This is why militarism is a feminist issue, why rape is an environmental issue, why environmental destruction is a peace — Lierre Keith, The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
It is a pervasive condition of empires that they affect great swathes of the planet without the empire's populace being — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor