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 Copy Share Image
The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war. — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection. — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Chinese mercantilism is not free trade, but it is far better than American militarism. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war. We need… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
Offering hope to the German people, I said that freedom from militarism would give them the opportunity, if they would but seize… — James F. Byrnes Copy Share Image
It's really hard to have a fair discussion when you're faced with militarism, aggression, and greed. The militarists do not want dialogue.… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
“The offspring of nationalist thinking too often expresses itself in exclusionary and passively-violent legal policies, and then sadly, through militarism, which becomes… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My message to you is: build up physical strength not for aggression, not for militarism, but for becoming fighting fit, all your… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
Women do not have to embrace principles of imperialism, corporatism and militarism in order to be a feminist. There is another feminist… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I am disappointed with America. And there can be no great disappointment where there is not great love. I am disappointed with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Men can, of course, be stirred into life by being dressed up in uniforms and made to blare out chants of war.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire. — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in the current… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and… — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
“The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The entire stock of relationships which suited in war—militiae—was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace—domi. We have the measure of how… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“Nationalism and jingoism—essential corollaries of militarism—are also systemic imperatives because they divide the global working classes, and bind them to the elites… — Charles Derber Copy Share Image
The Constitutional Convention debated whether America should even have a standing army. ... They worried that a powerful military could rival civilian… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
