Celebrate Quote by Ludwig von Mises

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

— Ludwig von Mises

For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although…

— Gwynne Dyer

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

— Kenneth Waltz

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

— Ernest Hemingway

“War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It is the…

— Thomas Paine

War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.

— Henry Giroux

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

war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as a kind…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.

— Douglas MacArthur

Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.

— Bell Hooks

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva