Budgets Quote by Michael Parenti

“Many historians have noted an interesting phenomenon in American life in the years immediately after a war. In the councils of government fierce partisanship…

— E.L. Doctorow

War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a…

— William Faulkner

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

— James Monroe

In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable…

— Arthur Ekirch

“Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on that strange…

— Winston Churchill

In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin…

— John Foster Dulles

Our [American] leaders are so socialized as to address militarized threats by acting on the basis of a militarized mentality that the deep roots…

— Richard A. Falk

In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from the state's…

— Robert Higgs

In the earlier days of history, kings and leaders went to the battlefield with their men; but today, those who determine that a nation…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Sometimes we want to engage in a war for financial reasons, for strategic reasons, for moral reasons, for all sorts of reasons, and it's…

— Rory Kennedy

With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being…

— Michael Parenti

Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist…

— Robert Thurman