Militarism Quotes
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Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.
— Petra Kelly
Only Americans can hurt America.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Chinese mercantilism is not free trade, but it is far better than American militarism.
— Ilana Mercer
Afghanistan - where empires go to die.
— Mike Malloy
It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.
— Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence
No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.
— W.E. Woodward
Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.
— David T. Dellinger
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
Military men are the scourges of the world.
— Guy De Maupassant
Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.
— Abraham Lincoln
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
— Rachel Maddow
Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.
— Christina, Queen Of Sweden
German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.
— James F. Byrnes
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
— Charles Edward Montague
Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.
— George Will
A nations path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and that militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.
— Fareed Zakaria
Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.
— Christian Lous Lange
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
— Jeannette Rankin
Militarism ... is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.
— Helen Keller
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
— Herbert Spencer
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.
— Eugene V. Debs
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.
— Arundhati Roy
Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.
— Emma Goldman
Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.
— William Mulock
Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
— Rosa Parks
Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie.
— Brian Spellman
You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders
— Woodrow Wilson
Before we apply Joshua to our lives, we need to make sure which side of the Jordan we are living on. Militarism invites God's wrath.
— Preston Sprinkle
War makes persons special, peoples cheap.
— Brian Spellman
Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
When he won, it proved that God was on his side. When he didn't win, it meant that God wanted him to try harder.
— P.J. Sullivan
I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Pacifism is the transitory luxury of a people whose security has been earned by the bravery and militarism of earlier generations.
— Bruce Thornton
The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.
— Emma Goldman
War grows out of ordinary human nature.
— Bertrand Russell
If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.
— Craig Nelson
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
— Karl Liebknecht
No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.
— A.J. Muste
The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
— Simon Schama