Civilization Quote by Abraham Flexner

“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough…

— Abraham Flexner

As a rich country, we can, in some sense, "afford" the war. But spending money on the war means that we are not spending…

— Joseph Stiglitz

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind…

— Arthur Henderson

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

— Kenneth Waltz

As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us…

— Byron Dorgan

We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and…

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

— Ron Paul

Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since…

— Daniel Berrigan

With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

— Plato

War is a specific product of civilization.

— Lewis Mumford

I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower