Economic system Quote by Patricia J. McLean

“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the…

— Smedley Butler

“War is fought over futile and feudal things. War is not about ideology, no matter how artfully framed, but it’s simply about power and…

— Jarod Kintz

Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.

— Bell Hooks

“War is a nation’s way of eating.”

— Will Durant

War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they…

— Bell Hooks

“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 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

“Why does it take a war to produce jobs; [why does it take a war to produce] the resources to get an economy moving?”

— Ehsan Masood

“War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery…

— Alasdair Gray

“Politics is economics by other means, and war is politics by other means.”

— Stan Goff

“War is the currency of political power.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“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