Arms Quote by Douglas MacArthur

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

— Douglas MacArthur

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in…

— Norman Thomas

The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when…

— Maude Royden

“Governments often keep their populace in permanent states of vigilance or anxiety against foreign enemies as a control mechanism—the politics of fear.”

— Graham E. Fuller

Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations.

— Henry Giroux

When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.

— Anonymous

“The arms industry and its powerful political friends have forged a parallel political universe that largely insulates itself against the influence or judgement of…

— Andrew Feinstein

“Our experience of the governments of the world, our knowledge of the weapons at their disposal, and our awareness of our own limitations justify…

— David Dellinger

The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest.

— Jill Stein

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

— Seneca the Younger

“The insensitivity of the military mind is the result of fearing the worst and acting on the basis of worst case scenarios. It is…

— Rikhi Jaipal