“You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism. — Christian Lous Lange 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
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
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
She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a… — Bella Abzug 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
[On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues,… — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and… — James F. Byrnes Copy Share Image
Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover,… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
“I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within the sound of bugles. To… — George Orwell 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
The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have… — Gerda Lerner 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
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
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
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
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
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
In order to fight militarism under Hillary Clinton or under Donald Trump, it's very important that we cast a vote on behalf… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
It is high time that the American people should remember a few home truths, and that we should refuse to become partners… — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
Our young people will learn more about the cult of militarism in this short and accurate book by Joel Andreas than they… — Blase Bonpane Copy Share Image
I support this proposal and agree with this great and important initiative to abolish militarism and war. I will continue to speak… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
“...overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the… — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only… — Clare Boothe Luce 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
“Communism is a judgment on our failure to make democracy real and to follow through on the revolutions that we initiated. Our… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every… — Dalai Lama 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
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