Old saying Quote by David Hackworth Download Open image “The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.” — David Hackworth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Old saying Racket Shameful Taken War
“War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.” — Sean Beaudoin Copy Share Image
“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not… — Coleen Rowley Copy Share Image
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the… — Elliott Kay Copy Share Image
“Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in a capitalist society, a society that increasingly restricts the scope and credibility of appeals to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a game of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body… — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut… — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us… — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert… — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
So it's not a matter of the military lying to the press, but it's the job of the military to deny the press any… — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there. — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life. — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff! — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target. — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement… — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
The old saying is true: If you have only the Word, you dry up. If you have only the Spirit, you blow up. But… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
“Go ahead. Ask me who the father is.” He only smiled. “Do I look that stupid to you?” She pushed back her short hair… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
“There's the old saying "I felt bad because I didn't have a pair of shoes until I met a man who didn't have any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't ever compare a girl to a bulldog. You may see the side you don't want to. Now if you compare her to a… — Savannah Whalen Copy Share Image
There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what… — Sam Snead Copy Share Image
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal. — Livy Copy Share Image
My name is Nwori Joshua and I am the world's most sorrowful young man on earth and the world's biggest Jerk. I sought for… — Nwori Joshua Copy Share Image
When will you Australians learn? In America we stopped using corporal punishment, and things have never been better! The streets are safe. Old people… — Homer Simpson Copy Share Image
“Echoing right-wing racist rhetoric, liberal organizations routinely smear "illegitimate," nonpacifist resistance as senseless and the work of irrational "thugs." And yet it is precisely… — Tipu's Tiger Copy Share Image
“You know the old saying: 'one riot, one Ranger.'" The saying stemmed from a legendary event in the past. A minor fief had risen… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I mean come on. Do you know how easy it is to be famous these days? Do you have any idea? The web has… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Where are the cops when you need them? (Nick) Probably eating beignets. As the old saying goes, when seconds count, the police are just… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
