War Quote by Paul Virilio

“Unfortunately, by forcing more and more value off the books as the world economy turns into an information economy, the ideal of “free” information…

— Jaron Lanier

“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 the extreme edge of capitalism: an economic system so designed that it is always tipped in balance so that the mouth of…

— Patricia J. McLean

War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues…

— Ernest Hemingway

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

— Helen Keller

The economies of the future are information.

— Steve Jurvetson

“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

“(If war is an incubator for industry and weapons development, it is also a phenomenon that attracts profiteers and quacks.”

— C.J. Chivers

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.

— Wendell Berry

“The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly or indirectly,…

— Aleister Crowley

“War may be the most efficient stimulus of innovation and technological advance,”

— Jack L. Chalker

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

— Stan Goff