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If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad
— Smedley Butler
Faultfinding without suggestions for improvement is a waste of time.
— Ralph C. Smedley
Happiness can be measured by each heartbeat.
— Craig Smedley
A speech without a specific purpose is like a journey without a destination.
— Ralph C. Smedley
We learn best in moments of enjoyment
— Ralph C. Smedley
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
— Smedley Butler
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
— Smedley Butler
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
— Smedley Butler
I think it's a good idea to always question authority, but don't judge, have empathy towards your fellow man.
— Bobby Blaze Smedley
Agnes Smedley also knows what the century knows: that we become what is done to us.
— Vivian Gornick
I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human.
— Agnes Smedley
No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
— Agnes Smedley
Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
— Agnes Smedley
Real communication is impossible without listening.
— Ralph C. Smedley
But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
— Agnes Smedley
Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.
— Smedley Butler
We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.
— Smedley Butler
The contrast between good and evil fades by diluting the essence of one or the other.
— Craig Smedley
It's hard to tread lightly when you continue to accumulate.
— Craig Smedley
I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
— Agnes Smedley
When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
— Agnes Smedley
What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.
— Agnes Smedley
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.
— Smedley Butler
One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians.
— Smedley Butler
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
— Smedley Butler
The unprepared speaker has a right to be afraid.
— Ralph C. Smedley
War is just a racket ... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
— Smedley Butler
I hate female men.
— Agnes Smedley
In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army.
— Smedley D. Butler
Your eyes show you only what is in front of you; you must close them to see all other places.
— Craig Smedley
Only those who have walked barefoot on gravel will appreciate soft sand beneath their feet.
— Craig Smedley
The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.
— Smedley Butler
Tis but a gentle step from fading light to darkness, but a plunge for those who brightly burn.
— Craig Smedley
Why would science ever recognize God; that would make [them] accountable for their crimes against [him]. — Craig Smedley
Understanding comes through communication, and through communication we find the way to peace.
— Ralph C. Smedley
To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
— Agnes Smedley
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
— Smedley Butler
Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
— Agnes Smedley
There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
— Agnes Smedley
It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country ... but the profits ... skyrocket ...
— Smedley Butler
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
— Agnes Smedley
I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
— Agnes Smedley
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
— Agnes Smedley
We must take the profit out of war.
— Smedley Butler