Acquisition Quote by Havelock Ellis

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

— Sun Tzu

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

— Socrates

No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.

— Sun Tzu

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

— Ernest Hemingway

Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the…

— Smedley Butler

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

— Ludwig von Mises

If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements…

— Carl von Clausewitz

If you took the profit out of war, there would be no war. What the hell do you think war is? You think we…

— Jacque Fresco

If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of fixed capital…

— Marilyn Waring

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

— Kenneth Waltz

I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.

— Adolf Hitler