Breaking silence Quote by Martin Luther

I think I was unprepared for war.

— George W. Bush

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

— Aminatta Forna

“It seemed as if many times in history, when things were not so good economically or politically, the political class turned to war as…

— William Struse

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

— Barbara Kingsolver

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

— John Pilger

The war sometimes places the rich and the poor alike as unwanted animals, facing the common pit.

— Mariana Fulger

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

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all…

— Eduardo Galeano

“They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this.”

— Philippa Gregory

“War is always far worse on the poor than the rich. Always.”

— Lopez Lomong

“It’s a silent war that hits the poor hardest but also hammers the middle class. Its victims, for the most part, lack economic power,…

— Cathy O'Neil