War Money Quotes

Money is behind every war, religion is but an excuse, or perhaps a justification — Brandon Sanderson

The poetry of heroism holds an irresistible appeal for people who aren't involved in a war, especially when they're making piles of money out of one. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Why is the N.F.L. so popular? The N.F.L. grew in the comfort zone after World War II. People had money and time. A popular American sport got bigger. — George Vecsey

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil. — Dustin Hoffman

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War) — Charles De Gaulle

Yet the stomach for war breeds an appetite for money. — Peter Ackroyd

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. — Ernest Hemingway,

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Just as war is waged with the blood of others, fortunes are made with other people's money. — Andre Suares

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own. — Dalton Trumbo

My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so. — Nigel Hamilton

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them. — Kevin O'Leary

They put money into attack, by calling it defence. — Craig Stone

Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The sinews of war are infinite money. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

money,war and time can change people — Nicholas Sparks

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition. — Ida Tarbell

That's how a doctor earns money, she told me. It's a war with insurance, every step of the way. — Atul Gawande

We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country. — Dick Morris

If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for. — Woody Guthrie

Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America. — Stephen Kinzer

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war! — Jonathan Safran Foer

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor. — Lenny Bruce

As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it. — Byron Dorgan

Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money. — Douglas Brinkley

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars. — Gore Vidal

Something's very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children. — Robert Kiyosaki

We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. — G W Hunt

Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war. — Aristophanes

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money. — Ted Turner

Money is the sinews of love, as of war. — George Farquhar

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war. — Carroll Quigley

You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor. — Tupac Shakur

Ideas are like money: people kill for ideas. — Marty Rubin

I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II. — Charles Schwab

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure. — Chuck Schumer

It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes. — Florence King

For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money. — Plato

They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor. — Tupac Shakur

To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money. — Gian Giacomo Trivulzio

Our means in America to control the money munching war machine, bright lit industry — Allen Ginsberg

Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds. — Kate Smith

The 3-D effects in "Star Wars" are so realistic, you can actually see George Lucas reaching from the screen and taking the money from your wallet. — Craig Ferguson

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. — Samuel Butler

To make war you need three things: one, money; two, money; and three, money. — Megan Whalen Turner

There is God only in the desert, he wanted to acknowledge that now. Outside of this there was just trade and power, money and war. — Michael Ondaatje

Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. — Clint Eastwood

When we fight wars, money is no object. When we choose peace, we ration every penny. — Joel Berg

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war. — Plutarch

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money. — Thucydides

The real origins of money are to be found in crime and recompense, war and slavery, honor, debt, and redemption. That, — David Graeber

Endless money forms the sinews of war. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

War, money and greed that is the modern heinous Trinity, and they are inseparable these days. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest. — Napoleon Bonaparte

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever ... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war. — Walter Raleigh

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war. — Moliere

War is a sinkhole that sucks money and men into it and is never filled. — Margaret George

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money. — Graham Greene

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout. — Tom Hayden

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. — Ron Paul

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies. — Grant Morrison

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted. — John Ruskin

There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning. — Warren Buffett