Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors. — James F. Byrnes 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
Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism. — Christian Lous Lange 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
Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not… — Elaine Scarry 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
“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
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
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 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
The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the… — Emma Goldman 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
“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
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
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
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
“Max had to think about these new developments. He hadn't liked getting hit by a rock--his stomach still ached from then rock… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
As the books got more and more Zionist and less and less socialist, my entire generation, at least a large percentage of… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
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
readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We mustn't start off with the idea that there's only militarism, invasions, and occupations. We really have to look: What are the… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You… — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism. — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Before we apply Joshua to our lives, we need to make sure which side of the Jordan we are living on. Militarism… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share Image